M3 iPad Air reviews: Same great Air as before, better Magic Keyboard
The one thing that is new for the iPad Air this year is the Apple M3 chip packed inside, which brings Apple’s midrange tablet that much closer to the iPad Pro on the “basically a computer” scale.
It’s thinner and lighter than the old iPad Air keyboard, has a row of useful function keys and the trackpad is a bit bigger. These aren’t major changes, but they are enough to make me much happier with the keyboard experience this year. It doesn’t have a few niceties you’ll find on the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard, though: The top case is smooth plastic rather than aluminum, the keys aren’t backlit and the trackpad has a physical click rather than haptic feedback. However, this keyboard is also $30 cheaper than the one it replaces.
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Apple’s modern iPad Air design lives up to its namesake, with a feathery aluminum frame that was much more comfortable to carry in my backpack than the MacBook Pro I typically lug around. Its quartet of color options aren’t the most exciting but this continues to be a sleek, understated tablet that won’t raise any eyebrows when you’re using it in the wild.
This thing really, really should support Face ID. Touch ID always made more sense to me on phones, which you typically hold the same way all the time, than on a tablet where notions of “bottom” and “top” are ever-changing. On the Face ID iPad Pro, you hardly ever need the power button; just tap the screen, and it wakes up and unlocks.
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In terms of day-to-day “design is how you use it” features, Face ID is the Pro upgrade I most want to see come to the Air.The tablet’s 12-megapixel webcam is reliable, and comes with Apple’s Center Stage feature that can center you in frame even as you move. Sure, my selfies were a bit pixelated upon zooming in, but when I’m FaceTiming with my family or dialing in to a conference call, no one’s going to be nitpicking those things. Same goes for the iPad Air’s speakers and microphones, which allowed me to yap with coworkers over Zoom without issue.
When playing a looped 4K video on our battery test, the latest iPad Air survived for a solid 10 hours and 10 minutes — almost exactly on par with Apple’s own 10-hour estimate. It also fared well in real world use, allowing me to get through a workday’s worth of writing, emailing, video conferencing and web browsing while still having more than 20% in the tank the next morning.
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