Apple Announces iPad Air 2 with Thinner Profile, Touch ID, and A8X Processor

[JOSE891]

Where did you get this information from?

Australian and New Zealand Apple store says pre ordered start on 10/18 and its 9/10PM over there 10/17.

 

[CD3660]

Australian and New Zealand Apple store says pre ordered start on 10/18 and its 9/10PM over there 10/17.

So what happened to the convention that pre-orders start at midnight Pacific time (PDT)?

 

[terkans]

Australian and New Zealand Apple store says pre ordered start on 10/18 and its 9/10PM over there 10/17.

Good spot.
To further elaborate that, the Japanese Apple store also says October 18, and it's only about 18:00 there, so that would mean at least 6 hours to go.

 

[McFreggle]

Where did you get this information from?

It's an educated guess.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20116976#post20116976

 

[XMZ-250]

Although the iPad Air 2 is great being 6.1mm thin, touch ID, and improved camera. I still don't have any regrets upgrading my iPad 2 to iPad Air 1, I still enjoy typing a 10-digit passcode.

 

[Gutwrench]

Apple Store just went down.

 

[sshambles]

Did they demonstrate the anti=reflectivity? Does it really make a difference (and does it make the screen darker though)?

Yes they did, and yes it does.
Anti-reflective coating on my iMac works superbly.

 

[WLS]

I'm kinda surprised that the iPad mini never got the A8 processor bump. Whats with that. With the exception of touch ID, gold colour option, the mini hasn't changed.

At least they kept the mute button.
Yea it's really crazy that they didn't bump up the mini3 to an A8. That fact alone will cost them a lot of sales. I would have gone for it but as it is now the mini2 is the better choice.

 

[jimmirehman]

did anyone else get the impression that Phil Schiller just didn't want to be there.

 

[recoil80]

did anyone else get the impression that Phil Schiller just didn't want to be there.

Why do you think that?

 

[sahnjuro]

so underwhelming

just hold on to my iPad mini (1st gen)… and keep using iOS 7

unless one gets iPad Air 2, whole iPhone and iPad models are so underspeced on memory

sigh...

 

[TechGod]

how much ram?

2gb.

 

[garya73]

Disappointed at the lack of NFC.

Though the ram bump is nice.