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Some iPad Air 5 Users Complain About Creaking and Build Quality Downgrade
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As opposed to a metaphorical tank?
A glass tank that requires proprietary connectors sounds like an asinine idea.
Perhaps you meant a fish tank?
I might have noticed on my Air5 if not that I slip my iPads directly from the plastic into a basic case.
We have 4 iPads in our house and the Air feels on par with the rest of them.
We have 4 iPads in our house and the Air feels on par with the rest of them.
So multiple people saying the same thing is a reach….?This is a reach. My iPad Air is amazing. And love the blue!?
It’s not built like a literal tank ?
My M1 MacBook Air is also creaky too really annoying.
No one is disputing that you love your iPad Air 5. But how can you know that the people who have reported the issue are not being truthful and accurate?This is a reach. My iPad Air is amazing. And love the blue!
Not excusing poor build quality here, but I have to bemoan the fact that now we’re probably going to have to endure, yet again, someone coming up with some “clever” whatever-gate, and the resultant flood of trolls using the term at every possible opportunity for the next few weeks. Apple, please step up your build quality and QA, if only for making it such that none of us have to hear another “-gate” again…please…
ipad mini 6.3 mm and ipad air 6.1 mm kinda similiar abit. We thinking to upgrade since our ipad mini 5 battery getting seem faster.. ouch and crack screen a bit and sometimes the screen flicker like crazy. It maybe the end of life(EOL)
2 years hmm i would said sad quality and i need a 3 year warranty in the future.
I assumed that the Air 5 would be lighter than the Air 4 as a result, but after looking up the comparisons on Apple.com, the Air line has actually gotten heavier with each generation.
Seems the last few iPad releases have had their fair share of QC issues and/or design quirks.
iPad Pro 12-inch: Mini LED blooming
iPad mini 6: Jelly scroll
iPad Air 5: Apparent lower build quality
The basic iPad however seems to be the least problematic most likely due to it’s dated yet tried and tested design. The irony being it’s the cheapest one of the lot.
iPad Pro 12-inch: Mini LED blooming
iPad mini 6: Jelly scroll
iPad Air 5: Apparent lower build quality
The basic iPad however seems to be the least problematic most likely due to it’s dated yet tried and tested design. The irony being it’s the cheapest one of the lot.
My Mom just got the M1 and I noticed it while setting up her iPad. I can feel the enclosure around the Apple logo slightly creaking and I can feel it slightly pushing inward with a normal grip.
Bucket of chum in the water alert!
Another race to the bottom with juvenile burns.
Another race to the bottom with juvenile burns.
My 12.9” M1 iPad Pro has a creak too just below the camera. No display issues though so I don’t care. Hopefully this isn’t wide spread, that would suck.
It’s because they are now hiring people not based on skill level, everything is going down hill recently
That's what you get with recycled aluminium.
Here’s a tip for everyone. Don’t watch those reviews and watch the other tech YouTubers who have to wait till launch day to receive the devices THEY PAY FOR WITH THEIR OWN MONEY.
The “top” tech people on YouTube are pretty horrible now just making fancy videos that give very little information because they’re all sellouts. People like MKBHD are Justine are so damn arrogant now. It’s all this tech-lifestyle BS.
Don’t you know, it’s only the Apple apologists’ anecdotal evidence that matters! Welcome to MacRumors ?
The traffic report said there was an accident on I-95 yesterday, but my car doesn’t have a scratch, so it must not have happened. /s
Yep!!You think MKBHD is gonna risk losing making six figures per video that gets 5-10 million views??? HELL NO!
This happens with every Apple product release. If I'd listened to naysayers, I wouldn't own the iPad Mini 6 -- but I bought one and use it every day and consider it the best iPad I've ever owned. But YMMV, and that's what a return period is for.
If this is true, this is a review-gate. Early reviewers getting the device from the manufacturers are not longer independent reviewers.
Guess I’ll cancel my Genius Bar appointment over the issue, since it’s not just me…I’d have rather paid a little more to get something that doesn’t flex and creak.
*Sigh* News like this makes me wish that the folks behind Procreate would create a PC version so I could just get a Surface Pro and be done with iPads.
I really wanted the Mini 6 but won’t bother due to the jelly scroll, and now this Air 5 build quality.
Sheesh Apple.
I really wanted the Mini 6 but won’t bother due to the jelly scroll, and now this Air 5 build quality.
Sheesh Apple.
just curious when you've bought yours?
Mine was end of 2020, its solid. I wonder if in late manufacturing they cut some corners (likely)