iPad Air 4 and iPad 8 first impressions: Making sense of Apple's newest iPads By CNET

Guess, what everyone it's iPad time apple just announced two new iPads, the iPad Air, technically the iPad Air 4 and the iPad, which is the iPad 8th generation. Now those also are accompanied by the iPad Pro that apple updated back in March. That's a lot of iPads, and you probably already bought your iPad for school or for work, because it's already the middle of September, let's try to calm down and figure out what these new iPads are about. Now, let's turn our attention to iPad apple did release these iPads pretty late. I would have preferred that they'd come out, maybe mid-summer, but here they are, and they're really kind of about spec bumps, but let's break them down the one you're going to see on apple's webpage. The fancy iPad is the iPad Air, 4 or iPad Air, as they call it now.

It's replacing an iPad Air that was released last year. Apple treats the iPad Air kind of like a slightly step-down version of the iPad Pro it's a middle range product, but it has a new a14 processor that is a brand-new chip that apple probably is debuting on the next iPhone. But it's coming out on this first, it looks really fast. Technically, the iPad Pro processor from the spring is even faster, but it looks very able to do a lot of stuff. It also has a 10.9 inch display, and it doesn't have face ID. Instead, it has a touch I'd button.

That's off on the side, it's on the power button, which is something that other phones and tablets have, but Apple hasn't experimented with. Yet the iPad Air 4 cost 600 to start, which is not cheap, and it gets more expensive if you consider all the other add-ons that you're probably going to want to get. For instance, 600 gets you 64 gigabytes of storage, that's okay, the one that has 256 gigabytes of storage is 750. If you want to add the cellular option, that's 130, and I would think you would want the pencil which it supports, that Apple Pencil too, that snaps on the side that's an extra hundred something dollars, and then the keyboard support apple has a fantastic keyboard. The magic keyboard that I reviewed with the iPad Pro has fantastic key feel it has a trackpad.

That's several hundred dollars, so you could be busting into a thousand dollar territory for this, making it a really luxury choice. If you're shopping for a really nice iPad for yourself, you could save some money off the iPad Pro and go with this, but if you're shopping for a kit or someone else, you're going to want the other option, the iPad, or now it's the 8th, gen iPad- is that one that you find on sale all the time it's the 300 or less iPad. That's stuck around and keeps adding new processors. Last year it had the a10 processor, which was getting long in the tooth. Now it has an a12 processor.

That's a lot better! That's I think exactly where you'd want to be nothing else in this. Has really changed, it does have a faster charger in the box, which is nice and the rest of it is what you'd expect you still want to pay up. I think because 32 gigabytes of storage comes in the 329 model, which is not a lot and 128 gigabytes is what you get on the 429 model, and since you can't expand the storage, I would go with the 429. But again you probably already bought an iPad for your kid because they're already in school. What do you do well take a breath because the good news is that iPads don't really change all that much year over year, in the sense that they have a long shelf life? They tend to support software for a while.

I bought an iPad before a new iPad came out, and it turned out to be just fine, but if you have been waiting, and you've been waiting to dive in and thinking about which one to get, I would think about that entry level iPad for just about anyone. The iPad Air sounds very promising, but we haven't tested it yet the iPad Pro. I don't really know who that's for the iPad Pro is a couple of extra nice features, but it now seems like an iPad for someone with a very large pocketbook who just likes to get the very nice thing. I think the iPad Air 4 now seems like the top-end iPad to shoot for, but we're going to have a full review on all these when we get our hands on them, which isn't now, but hopefully it's soon.

Source : CNET