![]() The Air has a 30.2Wh rechargeable battery, and Apple reckons this is good for around 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing. But for almost all of us the iPad Air’s excellent performance will be more than enough, and offers plenty of future-proofing. ![]() ![]() If you’re a creative professional looking to use the most demanding video and image processing apps, or a gamer with an eye on the most graphically advanced titles, then you might be advised to plump for an A12Z device. Performance was admittedly not comparable to the iPad Pro 11in, which was streets ahead throughout, but in most of the tests the Air was able to beat the 2017 Pro convincingly. To evaluate graphical processing power we use the GFXBench Metal app, and here again I saw a huge step up in performance from the iPad 9.7in and playable frame rates right up to the hardest benchmarks. For cost reasons the 20 iPad 9.7in models both have unlaminated screens, which bend inwards very slightly when pressed and feel a bit cheap. iPad Pro 11in (2020): 247.6 x 178.5 x 5.9mm 471g/473gĪ less immediately obvious change – but one I’m very happy to report – is the restoration of the laminated screen.Note that the 11in iPad Pro is 5.9mm, so this isn’t the slimmest mid-size tablet on Apple’s books – although it is the lightest. In other words, this is a compromise between the triple ideals of low price, familiarity, and optimum design.Ī bezel tweak can only achieve so much, and to accommodate the bigger screen the Air has been made taller and a little wider than the prior 2018 iPad, although the far slimmer profile (6.1mm, down from 7.5mm) means it’s actually 13-14g lighter. But the Home button remains – whereas the 2018 Pro models ditched the Home button (and Touch ID, replaced by Face ID), which made possible an almost all-screen design. So the bezels around the edge have shrunk slightly, enabling a higher screen-to-body ratio and allowing Apple to squeeze in a noticeably larger display without bulking out the chassis too much. ![]()
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