Now if only the idiots at Apple would put back the 3.5mm audio jack.
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Next-Generation iPad Air With Spec Bump Reportedly in Development
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I doubt the Air 6 will get a Pro-motion display as much as id like it to. It will be the usual incremental update, so M2 chip and its standard 8GB RAM, and likely the horizontal front camera like the iPad 10. 128 GB base storage would be ideal, but i got a feeling it will still be 64GB. Also maybe the pencil hover feature and thats it. Same price.
I don't think either of us can definitively define the Air vs Pro life cycle. Absent the iPhone and Apple Watch, I can't think of any Apple product that is on a very specific time table. On average, I do agree the iPad Pro typically sees updates every 18 months, but the Air has had refresh cycles both under 12 months and as long as 30 months. The Mini has seen release cycles as short as 12 months and as long as 30 months.
All this said, interestingly enough, it's pretty uncommon for Apple to refresh the Pro, Air and Mini all at the same time. So it does make you think that one product will be refreshed this fall and then the rest next year.
I don't think so, but we'll soon know if I am right or not (and the air 1-2 don't matter, back then it was a different line, with no pro or budget iPad).
It must feel so awful to pay Gurman money for this garbage "newsletter". A lot of people are so embarrassed by his "claims" that they feel the need to write about what he has to say.
I’m not sure I understand the potential desire to switch to an M2 Air with ProMotion when you already have an M2 Pro with ProMotion. Do you have the 12.9” model and would prefer a smaller screen?
I have the Air 4 and a Mini 6. Both work well. I’d consider upgrading the Air to a larger display, but even then, I don’t think it would be practical for my use cases.
Maybe the next Pro will have something appealing about it to make me want it. We’ll see. I’m more curious about the Vision Pro than any iPad upgrade.
I currently have a couple of M2 iPad Pros 2TB. I used to upgrade every release, but for the first time I may skip the 2024 iPad Pros. The ones I have are way overpowered. I don't see the purpose anymore. It would have to be a really new feature for me to bite again.
Hardly an unpopular opinion. This sentiment has been shared before and is quite common. I would agree… the upcoming interface improvements for stage manager that make the pros and air more Mac are like are part of changing that.
Honestly, only the available storage amounts separates the models, with the Pros going up to 2TB. Maybe RAM too, though few apps use 12 or 16GB of RAM.
So I don't have to throw away the few dozen Lightning charging cables I have and buy USC-B ones?
When you say “regular”, are we talking about the non-laminated, extra reflective display? Or the display of the Air and Mini?
64 GB of storage on an M-series device should be banned. It’s so criminally low.
Look, I know there’s a lot of people who do stuff in the cloud but if it’s on the cloud, it’s not using the specs on the iPad.
So if you do most of your work in the cloud, why buy an M1 or M2 Air or Pro?
Yea it’s like reporting tomorrow will happen. “ This just in at MacRumors!! A historically reliable analyst Ming Xi NoDuh of Technically Correct technology consortium who has been correct in the past gave us insider information that TOMORROW WILL HAPPEN. Now he has been wrong in the past about JFK rising from the dead but usually has a solid record reporting to MacRumors because they work closely with the calendar. News only made possible by MacRumors “
I mean…. Really guys.
What’s the next thing from MacRumors? Apples updating the iPhone?
They will just tell us, “ but wont you guys want to put it in a case?
I don’t know about all of you but the iPad and iPhone are works of technological art. My devices are always in a clear case.
A product red iPad Air or mini would be beautiful.
64GB of memory costs what, $4 to put on the device?
They are already making millions and millions of selling us the same thing over and over again. 64GB of storage is like having an 8GB iPhone all over again.
I can never decide if I want the mini or the 13 inch Pro. I always get the big Pro in the end though, so I guess I always can decide. I wish the 13 inch Pro could fold in half into a 6.5 inch mini...
"work in the cloud"? "do stuff in the cloud"? "on the cloud"? What does that mean? Storage, be it local on the device or in the cloud via cloud storage is a choice. I'm not sure what "work in the cloud" is? Could you give an example?
Apple makes millions and millions selling gullible consumers on upgrades on ridiculously under-equipped base model hardware and charging 100x their cost (and magnitudes more than market price). THAT's how they become a $3T company and keep their shareholders happy.
Watch profits fall the day Apple starts equipping their iPhones and iPads and MacBooks with decent amounts of memory and storage so that people don't have to pay $200 for a $20 upgrade.
And also so much better screen quality🙂
Did use a iPad 5th Gen before my Pro 2020, and the non laminated and non
antireflective screen was something that i wasn’t fond of.
And the screen quality itself was better on the Pro.
So I switched after 2 years.
The screen is what you looking at all day, so for me it’s important that the screen is of good quality. I take lower performance and a good screen any day of the week, instead of the opposite. But that’s me.
Air updates usually coincide with Mini updates. If this remains true, I’m excited for an updated Mini (RAM boost and no jelly scroll.)