The first | the new iPad Air experience: the standard M1 with a bloody version is Apple's biggest killer

新 iPad Air，M1 Inside。

And it is also a bloody M1, and the high-end MacBook Air, MacBook Pro on the same one, at this time, the M1 MacBook Air users do not know whether it shed two lines of tears?

新 iPad Air，iPad Air Outside。

With the exception of the M1, the others are basically similar to the previous generation of iPad Air, the only differences are the front camera and the body color.

The same right-angled edge design style, the same 12MP single camera, the same four-sided equal-width border, the same face ID, the same side Touch ID.

Perhaps Apple also realized that the design style was too similar, just like last year's youthful and colorful iPad mini, and the new iPad Air also followed the past.

Remember in the iPad mini video, we said "the iPad mini is a small iPad Air".

In the new generation of iPad Air, the iPad mini is anti-customer-oriented, and it can finally shout "It is the enlarged iPad mini."

Family design, a bit wonderful.

The 12-megapixel camera in front of the new iPad Air can be said to be the iPad Pro, which supports the character center function under the support of the new generation of neural network engine of the M1 chip.

It's just that it lacks the TrueDepth camera, and it also lacks the function of animated expressions and me-like expressions, so in the gif above, you can only see me who has been in the vicissitudes of the draft, not a cute dog head.

Oh, for the appearance, the new iPad Air has two subtle beginnings, one is the back of the Apple Logo, directly printed with the word iPad Air, to see the big, the next generation of iPad Pro will be the same.

It seems that the iPad Pro is more suitable for heavy gamers, provided that you are used to holding a large screen, or a six-fingered player.

Make fun of it, don't take it seriously.

However, the detail of the printed font reminds me of the MacBook series, and Apple is also emphasizing the distinction between Air and Pro on the iPad, Air is biased towards ordinary consumers, and the Pro is professional.

As for soCs for other mobile platforms, the new iPad Air is silent.

As the saying goes, whether your next computer is an iPad or a Mac, it's M-chip.

The use of family chips is a bit top.

After getting the new iPad Air, I immediately went through the process, one was GeekBench, and the other was Miha You Bench.

Thanks to the full-blood version of M1, the CPU is 1679 single-core, multi-core is 7179, and the GPU score is 21296, which is almost on par with the Mac equipped with M1 chip.

In Miha's Bench "Original God", the special effects are fully open, whether it is the picture details, shadow lighting effects, or the smoothness of the game, it can be said that it is comparable to the AAA masterpiece.

At this time, I finally understood what is called the perfect operation of "Original God", the frame rate is just one of many indicators, the picture rendering accuracy, the level of picture quality is also very important.

Previously, when we tested the iPad Pro, many games failed to support the M1 chip, resulting in iPad Pro performing poorly in the game.

In less than two years, this situation has greatly improved, "Original God", "Peace Elite", "League of Legends" and many other national mobile games have been adapted, basically providing high-brush options, but unfortunately the screen of the new iPad Air still has a 60Hz limit.

As for productivity, the usb-C interface of the new iPad Air is the same as the specifications of the previous generation, charging, transferring data, and extending the display in one, but the speed is not as fast as the 40Gbps of thunderbolt 4.

But from another angle, you also save 949 pieces of a Thunderbolt 4 cable.

Back to the present, the same built-in M1 chip, directly close to the distance between the new iPad Air and the iPad Pro, it seems that their positioning overlaps?

In addition, I used iMovie to connect two 1080p 50-minute episodes and exported them to the original specifications, which eventually took 17 minutes. (The cut is about 12 minutes.) ）

In fact, about the performance of M1, we have seen as early as the Mac, iPad Pro, it has an excellent energy consumption ratio, but also has a high enough upper limit.

In the few days of using iPad Air, for the performance release of M1, I may use it as the lower limit of M1 use.

Like the positioning of macBook Air, the new iPad Air is also a product for the general consumer population in the iPad camp, and the addition of the M1 chip has greatly extended the life cycle of these two products.

Time is extended, in another three or five years, in the face of various needs of the new era, perhaps the iPad Air of the M1 chip will have a larger stage and carry more demand.

On the surface, it is basically the difference between a Promotion screen, but for a tablet, the difference between a screen directly affects the way the two are used in your hands and mine.

The new iPad Air without high brushes is more suitable for people who consume content, such as me.

The new iPad Air is like a golden oil in my hands, brushing the B station, chatting about WeChat, playing games, reading books, and occasionally calling out memos to record.

I'm well aware of its need to fill in some of the trivial hours and replace smartphones in some scenarios. As for productivity, it is mostly used for emergency response, checking information, code words and so on.

ProMotion's screen does bring a great experience, but in my content-based way of use, it is not a necessity, even at 60Hz of the new iPad Air, I rarely miss the idea of 120Hz high brush.

In turn, pro-pro-enabled iPad Pro is more suitable for creative, creator-oriented use. The high-brush screen will have delicate brush strokes with apple pencil.

Before I got my hands on the new iPad Air, I struggled with its positioning and how it should exist in my life and work.

But after getting started, the new iPad Air can almost seamlessly integrate, but this is not due to the credit of M1 Inside, but the shape of the iPad Air Outside determines that it is still a device that is biased towards content consumption.

As for productivity, or precisely for creative work, precision painting, etc., the new iPad Air can also bear it, but it is a little overshoot.