Advanced it last week Tim cookwithout specifying a date, and today the announcement has arrived through a press release sent to the media and the incorporation of the new devices to their website, already available to book and that will begin to be sent next day 12. It is a renewal of half of the iPad range along with that of one of its accessories. The graceful have been the iPad, iPad Air And the Magic Keyboard for the latter. Let’s look at the news.
New iPad, cheaper, but without Apple Intelligence
The most affordable iPad is updated in its eleventh generation with new processor, storage options, colors and a slightly larger screen. However, He runs out of such an important novelty in Apple’s latest products such as Apple Intelligence.
In any case, it offers an improvement in performance of the 30 % about its predecessor and 50 % About the ninth generation. The screen 0.1 inches grow to round the 11 and storage, in its minimum configuration, rises 64 to 128 GBwith options of 256 and 512 GB. The colors are blue, pink, yellow and silver, and the price starts from the € 399which really is its most relevant novelty. The 2022 iPad was released, with 64 GB of storage, for € 579.
iPad Air, with M3 chip
The new iPad Air arrives without even a year of the last one, launched in May 2024. The main argument of the sixth generation of the iPad Air is The jump to the M3 processor, replacing the M2. According to Apple, the M3 practically doubles the performance of the M1 (present on the fourth generation iPad Air launched in 2022) and triples that of the soc A14 Bionic that mounted the 2020 iPad Air.
One of its main improvements is Graphic performance. Thanks to M3, the iPad Air now has access to new features such as Ray layouta very demanding section for GPUs. I quadruples the performance of the M1 rendering graphics, always according to Apple, and also its Neural Engine it’s a 60 % Faster, which makes it one of the best Apple Intelligence processors.
As to FUNCTIONS OF IAthe new iPad Air includes writing tools, image playground, genmoji, smarter interactions with Siri and Chatgpt integration into the Apple assistant, among others.
Unlike the iPad, does not reduce price but it does not increase it either. The model of 11 inches part of € 699 and that of 13 inches from € 949.
Magic Keyboard for iPad Air
Apple has also launched a new ‘magic keyboard’ for the iPad Air. The redesigned magic keyboard has A larger glass trackpada new row with 14 function keys and a design With floating support to incline the iPadmagnetically attached, at several vision angles. The Magic Keyboard for the iPad Air de 11 inches has a price of € 329 and for the 13 inches of € 349.