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The Guide to Meraki Switches for Small Business Networks
30 Aug, 2025
£1188.29 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At £990 ex-VAT, the MacBook Air 15" with an M4 chip (16GB/256GB) is a surprisingly sensible buy **if** you want a quiet, cool, long-battery work laptop that just behaves well day-to-day. This is the kind of machine that suits busy office teams, consultants, and knowledge workers who live in the browser, Office/Google docs, Slack/Teams, light design, and a bit of coding. The 15-inch Air is also a sweet spot for people who find the smaller Air/13" panels cramped—more real estate for spreadsheets and reports without moving up to “proper” heavier kit.
That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly for every business use case. **256GB** is the part that tends to bite once you start storing projects, caches, and media, and Macs don’t always make “easy upgrades” later if you’re tight on disk. If your staff are doing heavier creative workflows, running multiple large apps at once, or need lots of local storage, you’ll feel constrained faster than with machines that offer more headroom. Also worth noting: for a UK B2B IT reseller client, this is great where you value management simplicity and reliability—but it’s not the value choice if you’re trying to maximize raw upgrade flexibility per pound.

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 21TB - Copilot+ PC - 180-degree hinge design - AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO - 350 / up to 5 GHz - Win 11 Pro - Radeon 860M - 16 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD TCG Opal Encryption 2, NVMe - 14" IPS 1920 x 1200 - Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth - black - kbd: UK - with 1 Year Lenovo Premier Support, CO2 Offset 0.5 ton (2nd Gen)

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 21NX - Aura Edition - AI PC - 180-degree hinge design - Intel Core Ultra 7 - 255U / up to 5.2 GHz - Evo - Win 11 Pro - Intel Graphics - 16 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD TCG Opal Encryption 2, NVMe, Performance - 14" IPS 1920 x 1200 - Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth - 4G/5G upgradable - black paint - kbd: UK - with 3 Years Lenovo Premier Support, CO2 Offset 0.5 ton (2nd Gen)

Lenovo
Lenovo V15 G4 AMN 82YU - 180-degree hinge design - AMD Ryzen 5 - 7520U / up to 4.3 GHz - Win 11 Pro - Radeon 610M - 16 GB RAM - 256 GB SSD NVMe - 15.6" TN 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) - Gigabit Ethernet - Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth - business black - kbd: UK

Asus
ASUS ExpertBook B3 Flip B3402FV-EC582XA - Flip design - Intel Core 5 - 120U / up to 5 GHz - Win 11 Pro Education - Intel Graphics - 8 GB RAM - 256 GB SSD NVMe - 14" touchscreen 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) - Gigabit Ethernet - Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth - star black - with 1 year ASUS ZenCare
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