Apple released the iPad Air 5 tablet in the early morning of March 9, the processor was upgraded to the M1 chip, the National Bank of China priced at 4399 yuan, March 11 is the opening of pre-sale tonight, March 18 officially shipped.
Whether you're buying an iPad for the first time or want to upgrade your tablet, it's not too late to decide after watching these advantages and disadvantages of the iPad Air 5.
Let's start with 3 advantages.
The iPad Air is equipped with M1 and has a huge increase in performance
When running apps and working that require extremely high performance, the M1 is highly energy efficient and has a strong battery life. Compared with the previous generation of iPad Air, the CPU performance is increased by 60%, and the graphics processor can be increased by up to 2 times.
Editing 4K video, 3D design, and large mobile games, this iPad Air can handle it perfectly.
5G networks and unlimited possibilities for scalability
If you have a lot of outdoor use of the iPad, you can choose the version with cellular network. With the 5G network, the peak network speed of the iPad Air can reach up to 3.5Gbps, and the domestic 5G may be a bit emasculated, and the signal is still quite fast. When using Wi-Fi indoors, there is also Wi-Fi 6 technology support, which can provide more convenience when the network is needed.
The usb-C interface bandwidth of the iPad Air 5 is now increased to 10Gbps, which is 2 times higher than the previous generation, and the transfer of photos and videos is faster. Not only that, but you can also use this interface through the Greenlink docking station, one port to multiple ports, U disks, portable hard disks, camera memory cards can be used, and even you can cast the screen to the monitor to use the iPad.
iPadOS 15 unleashes more productivity
iPad OS 15.4 and macOS 12.3 will be released this two-week week, and with universal controls, you can seamlessly switch between Mac and iPad with a mouse and keyboard without any setup. You can also drag and drop content back and forth between devices, such as using the Apple Pencil to draw a picture on your iPad and dragging the picture to your Mac's Keynote as a slideshow.
The multitasking experience is more intuitive, easier to find when using functions such as split-screen browsing and side pull, and the functions are richer than before, and more functions can be felt on the real machine.
Let me tell you two regrets.
60Hz visual perception is not good
The iPad Air 5 is equipped with a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display, and although it has 3.8 million display pixels, 500 nits of brightness, P3 wide color gamut and other excellent qualities, its screen refresh rate is only 60Hz.
This may not be acceptable to users who are accustomed to high screen swiping. When you brush Weibo or web pages, the fluency of 120Hz high brush scrolling is still very different from 60Hz, the mobile phone is fine, and this sense of gap on the big screen will be more obvious.
Pricing is hard to pick
The 64GB (without cellular network) version starts at 4399 yuan, and the 128G costs 5499 yuan, and the price of the latter has surpassed the iPad Pro. Apple's knife method is too precise, if you want to spend less money on memory, you can consider the docking station solution I said above, and connect a mobile hard disk.
Of course, this is not a problem with the product itself, all blame the cook (Cook) for being too chicken thief!
After reading several advantages and disadvantages of the new iPad Air, do you think you can buy it?