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Apple Launches New 10.5-Inch iPad Air With A12 Bionic Chip and Apple Pencil Support, Starts at $499
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And yes!!! It has a 3.5 mm jack! Just when I thought that Apple killed iPad as music production machine!
Pigs do fly, after all.
Yes that 3.5mm jack is needed for music production!! I have 2018 iPad Pro with no jack and the small latency with bluetooth stops everything!! I never thought I'd miss the headphone jack!
Not good comparisons. Cars not only look rather/radically different between model runs but also using the year is rather universal/standard when comparing car models.
iPads/MacBooks are not named by years but also they look rather alike. And people frequently get confused comparing their (2012) MacBook Pro to their (2016) MacBook Pro without a cheat sheet or having to look things up first.
We’re not talking about buying apples in a grocery market where you can walk in the store and ask for a honeycrisp apple and not need to care to know a vintage/year.
If that's true it's planned obsolescence. Memory costs nothing (my mid-level phone has 8GB).
256GB is perfect for me. I can upload lots of movies, my entire music library, my entire photos library and still have plenty until the day they start offering 512GB in the non-pro models.
I am glad the specs are not all too different than those of my iPad Air 2. 2 speakers - I already have an external bluetooth speaker. I welcome the bigger screen (though I’d have been even happier with a “budget” 13” iPad). I am not crazy about the pencil and the keyboard, that keyboard looks funny.
Would get one on Day 1.
How long does your amazing phone with 8GB of RAM get software updates?
A year, or two, if you are lucky?
*That’s* planned obsolescence.
You forgot to mention China, Macau and Mexico, which will get the new iPads just a week later than the initial launch countries.
Apple today introduced an all-new iPad Air with a 10.5-inch Retina display, A12 Bionic chip, and first-generation Apple Pencil support.
The new iPad Air is a lower-cost replacement for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro, which was priced from $649 prior to being discontinued today.
The new iPad Air is available to order on Apple.com starting today with 64GB and 256GB storage. Apple Store and reseller availability will begin next week. Prices start at $499 for Wi-Fi models and $629 for Wi-Fi + Cellular models in the United States.
Initial launch countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE, the UK, and the US.
More countries and regions will follow "soon," including Colombia, Greece, India, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey.
Apple also introduced a new iPad mini with the A12 Bionic chip and first-generation Apple Pencil support. The 9.7-inch iPad was not updated today.
Article Link: Apple Launches New 10.5-Inch iPad Air With A12 Bionic Chip and Apple Pencil Support, Starts at $499
From apple's press release:
- The new iPad models are available to order starting today from apple.com and in the Apple Store app in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE, UK and US. Starting next week, the new iPad models will be available in those countries and regions, as well as in China (Wi-Fi models only), Macau (Wi-Fi models only) and Mexico with more countries and regions to follow soon, including Colombia, Greece, India, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand (Wi-Fi models only) and Turkey.
I did it in just the nick of time
Glad those people from there are not coming out of the wood work and glad I didn't get a offer from someone from there.
WTF?
You invested in an iPad Pro for music and don’t even own an I/O interface? You’d be the first person I ever heard of that didn’t.
This is great. Affordable entry level iPads with as much of the latest tech as possible. These are fantastic mid-range machines. And the mini finally got an upgrade.
Credit where credit is due.
I hope that we similar things happening with the iPhone range too.
Credit where credit is due.
I hope that we similar things happening with the iPhone range too.
Works great. You can listen to headphones, connect instruments to your iOS device for recording and more with a single I/O interface.
I suspect the new iPad Air would have 4 GB in RAM since it has almost the exact same design and features as the 2nd gen 10.5" iPad Pro from last year except for the 4 speaker audio.
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Where is it stamped on an iPad so that 4 years later one can easily know it’s a “2019 iPad Air 2” vs a “201? iPad Air 2?” Why should the customer be expected to memorize what model/year it is, or be required to lookup a designator like A1xx that’s barely legible on the back of the iPad, assuming you have one of each to look at? What’s wrong with iPad Air 3? Too “it just works” for today’s Apple?
Is the year/model stamped somewhere on MacBooks or other laptops?
What was she doing with it? We have an iPad mini 2 and the only major problem we have is that the lightning connector doesn’t easily accept cables anymore so it is difficult to charge.Just ordered the new Mini. That is perfect size for my daughter. She had the mini4 but it was starting to become really slow when using it since a while. That will improve greatly
Not every car undergoes a redesign each year. I’ve owned a 2012 and 2015 Elantra, and aside from the colour the two cars were indistinguishable inside and out.
I don't think you know what "exact" means. The 2019 Air only has 2 speakers and no "pro-motion" 120hz screen. I doubt it has 4GB of RAM. That's currently in Pro territory, especially not at that price.
Once again, it’s typical for people to know and say their car years when speaking of their car. Commercials speak of “2019 Ford Explorer.” The year is a typically used differentiator. Not so for minimalist Apple.
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Stereo speakers means it still has only two, though, as opposed to the four speakers on iPad Pros so no real improvement there for the new Air.
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Audio over lightning sounds fine, I have tried it. However he says he has the latest iPad Pro and that one replaced the lightning port with a USB-C so for him it's actually audio over USB-C and not too many USB-C headphones or audio cables exist in the market yet.
I agree. Wouldn't it cost Apple more money to limit the RAM to 2GB rather than use the standard 3GB that Apple is already mass producing for the iPhone Xr A12?
If it is about differentiation between the Air and the Pro, Apple can simply make some of the new iOS13 features only available on Pro models.
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My point too was it’s difficult to easily differentiate MacBook pros vs other pros easily, and now MBAirs vs MBAirs. Could be the same issue for PCs if makers keep calling theirs the “Acer 290x” (made up model since I don’t follow PCs) that look largely similar over a decade+ run.
Yeah sorry I hadn't realized about the pro-motion 120 Hz screen when I made that comment (though I did mention the 2 vs 4 speakers). But everything else is the same on both the new Air and the 2nd gen Pro so I still think the Air would have 4 GB in RAM. Every flagship has had it for two years, it was just about time for the entry level iPads to catch up.