- The 11 and 13 inch iPad Air tablets get the M3
- This adds the care of the new magic keyboard
- Price unchanged from the latest models
Not even 24 hours after Tim Cook was teasing, “there is something in the air”, Apple has just done its manager of the new generation of iPad Air. With obtaining the M3 chip, it is always available in several fun colors and now supports the “ New ” Magic keyboard, which was initially launched alongside the iPad Pro M4.
Now, this is a fairly early refreshment for the iPad Air, given that it was upgraded to the M2 chip and a refreshing design on May 7, 2024. However, it is clearly popular in the range and now gets an even more powerful chip to make all kinds of tasks even more fluid.
It is always available in a size of 11 or 13 inch, allowing you to choose what best suits your needs, and there is no price increase from year to year. The 11 -inch model starts at $ 599 / £ 599 / $ 999 at, while the 13 inch is $ 799 / £ 799 £ / $ 1,349 at, both start at 128 GB of storage and are available in blue, purple, starry light or space gray.
Screens are always liquid retina displays, which means no dynamic OLED as on the iPad Pro. However, they offer a dynamic and clear experience with an anti -reflective coating standard. They also support the range of wide colors P3 and the true tone, which will automatically adjust the color temperature to your space. It is very pleasant to have, and since it always supports the Apple Crayer Pro, you can hover on the screen to see what impact could have a pen before you get started.
What the M3 means
Regarding the M3 chip, it is a processor with 8 cores – divided between 4 performances, 4 efficiency nuclei, a 9 -core GPU with a tracing of rays accelerated by the support equipment and a 16 -core neural engine. In addition, Apple even confirmed that the new iPad Air shipped with 8 GB of RAM out of the box. It is enough to say that this should be a lot of power for daily performance in iPados 18, for the multitasking experience of the stage manager and for the features of Apple Intelligence. Remember that the iPad Air with M2 was not to be outdone, but it should further remove the device.
The iPad Air always sticks to an ID tactile sensor cooked in the power button for authentication or easy unlocking, but it keeps the 12 -megapixel front camera on the horizontal point, which means that this device is better used in landscape mode.
And that is why inaugurate a brand new magic keyboard for the iPad Air has so much meaning. It is always the same area and in fact, compatible behind with the M2 iPad Air, but Apple has placed in a larger trackpad and 14 keys of function at the top. Think of the quick keys for brightness, reading, microphone and volume.
Another welcome change is that the USB-C passing now supports faster load, but we don’t yet know how it has an impact on data speeds. Always a victory, however! It is also a little cheaper at $ 269 / £ 269 / $ 399 AU for the 11 -inch iPad Air and a little more at $ 319 / £ 299 /499 for the 13 inch, but it only comes white.
True to the old smart keyboards and to each magic keyboard that Apple has offered, you will not have to worry about loading this accessory or an annoying torque process because it has an integrated intelligent connector. Interestingly, the basic iPad is always the only model supporting the magic keyboard in two parts, so it sticks to the floating design here on iPad air.
Riding the iPad Air on the back is always a 12 megapixel camera to take photos or videos. Regarding this refreshment, it is roughly focused on giving the iPad Air even more margin and better performance in all areas graceful of the M3 chip. In the press release, Apple calls for its performance gains not on the iPad Air powered by M2 but on older models – promising up to twice as quickly than the M1 iPad Air and a three and a half time jump faster than the Bionic A14 model.
We are going to go on foot and test the new iPad Air with M3 as soon as we can, but for the moment, if you are sold, it is ready to pre -order right now and will officially launch us on March 12. But if you hoped for one more thing, Apple also gave the entry-level iPad a little specification, but perhaps the most important the price.
