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iPad Air vs. iPad (and iPad Pro): How to Decide?

iPad Air vs. iPad (and iPad Pro): How to Decide?
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The iPad Air accounts for 23% of iPad sales (the pro models lead with 43% of unit sales)

The iPad remains the second-biggest product in the Apple product universe. It sits between the biggest (iPhone) and the original (Macs). This week Apple announced an update of one of the four model families – iPad Air.

CPU benchmarks for M4 iPad Air show comparable scores to M4 iPad Pro

The iPad Air with M4 isn't going to have identical performance to the iPad Pro, and Geekbench scores have confirmed how that shows up in the spec sheet.
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Apple's Midrange iPad Gets an M4 Chip Bump, Arriving March 11

If you're shopping for a midrange iPad, Apple has an update to the Air that just arrived. And it makes the high-end iPad Pro released last fall maybe feel a little less necessary. The new iPad Air is available for preorder on Wednesday, March 4, arriving on March 11.

Apple Updated the Wrong iPad

Commentary: The iPad Air just got a chip bump. Meanwhile, the most affordable iPad remains cut off from AI and is another year older.

Performance anxiety: iPad Air M4 chip is binned, has only three performance cores

The M4 chip used in the new iPad Air does not have the same performance as the iPad Pro version, thanks to core count changes.