The new iPad Air from Apple that will arrive in stores this Friday is a tablet halfway between the basic model and the Pro version, whose main claim is the power of the M1 chip -it is the first time that it reaches the Air- and as a major drawback the low capacity of storage.
The power of M1 is presented as an alternative to work with photo or video editing programs -even more so now that Adobe Photoshop has been optimized for iPad-, as well as for some of the most common activities on tablets such as watching movies and other videos or play video games online.
Priced at $599 for the version that connects to WiFi, the new Air offers the cheapest gateway in the company’s entire lineup to the in-house M1 microprocessor, announced in 2020 and receiving a very high rating. well received by users on Mac computers and on the iPad Pro.
For users who want to connect their tablet to the high-speed 5G network, the connectivity version of the new iPad Air costs an additional $150.
The sleek modern design, in the usual Apple vein, and the screen is worse than the Pro, but still offers good image quality, more than enough for most users, especially those who don’t use the tablet professionally.
The main problem is capacity, since the cheap version of the new Air comes equipped with only 64 Gigabytes, a figure even lower than that of the iPhone 13 mini and likely to run out of space as soon as the user downloads content or takes several photos. and videos in high resolution.
There is the option to buy the iPad Air with 256GB of storage, but then the price already jumps to $749, which puts it just $50 off the much more complete iPad Pro, and makes it hard to justify the Air’s added value.
The new Air incorporates the popular “center stage” tool in the front camera that keeps the interlocutor always within the frame during a video call.
It also improves USB-C transmission speeds, has a full day’s battery life, and is available in pink, purple, blue, gray and cream.