{"video_id":"aJWDUfXc9So","title":"They upgraded more than I thought - iPad Air M4","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2026-04-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":714,"segments":[{"start_s":1.92,"end_s":8.8,"text":"It's another iPad. It's the iPad Air M4.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.0,"end_s":12.48,"text":"It looks about the same design-wise as the previous generation because Apple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.639,"end_s":16.32,"text":"figured out how iPads are supposed to look and just kind of stuck with that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.559,"end_s":20.4,"text":"like, you know, if it works, why change it? Why fix what ain't broke? So, yeah,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.32,"end_s":25.279,"text":"it's got an M4 this time instead of an M3. But it's not just the chip. 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What a time to be alive.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":713.36,"end_s":715.6,"text":"Bye.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1}],"full_text":"It's another iPad. It's the iPad Air M4. It looks about the same design-wise as the previous generation because Apple figured out how iPads are supposed to look and just kind of stuck with that like, you know, if it works, why change it? Why fix what ain't broke? So, yeah, it's got an M4 this time instead of an M3. But it's not just the chip. There's actually a few other interesting hardware upgrades that they made. Not on the outside, though. They're inside, which is what counts in case you never heard that before. But just to make sure we're not missing anything, let's take a look at the outside. So, this is the what' you call it? Platinum >> Starite. >> Starite. But yeah, there you go. If you've uh seen an iPad Air that was made in the last, you know, 3 or 4 years, this will look very familiar to you. It's still got that kind of squareedged design. On the back, we've got the Apple logo. We've got the pogo pins down there at the bottom and the 12 megapixel camera which has the exact same specs as the previous gen. On this side, we've got the volume buttons there and the pencil mount which is compatible with the Apple Pencil USBC as well as the pencil pro. And that's reminding me of that whole debacle with where they released the USBC charging version of the Apple Pencil because it wasn't compatible with one of the iPads because they moved the camera up here on the long side and they had they had the same mount. Good times. On the bottom here, we've got the two speaker grills, one of which is fake. They keep putting them on there, though. It's cuz they're just reusing the chassis from iPad Pro, basically. But like one of these has has a speaker in it, and the other one is a hilarious prank they're pulling on. In the middle is a USBC port for charging and data and display too, I think. Yeah. On this side, nothing except a little bit of text. Actually, I've never noticed that before. It says Apple Inc. iPad Air. It has charging numbers. I've never noticed that before. If that was there on previous iPads, I've never seen it. But like, what is that? That's saying what this can be charged at. Usually, you only see that kind of thing on a charger and not on the device itself. It's kind of cool. Apple. Yeah. And on the last side that we haven't looked at the we got two more speaker grills. Oh, one of them has less holes. Which one's the real speaker one? We'll find out. And then a uh power button/ fingerprint reader. Nice to see. Or Touch ID. Sorry. Sorry, Apple. Sorry. Touch ID. And then there's the display itself. We have the >> 11 in >> iPad Air here. Uh same display, same exact specs. uh 500 nits. As I said, all of the upgrades are inside, but I neglected to do the thing you're supposed to do in an unboxing, which was actually take look at the other stuff in the box. And we got uh some papers with some Those are pretty Wow, those are nice pictures. Documentation. You do read through all of that before you turn it on, but uh I won't today, but you should. And then uh we got a charger. How long How big is it? Is it 20 watts? It's 20 watts. and a nice cable. I like I like these uh sleeved cables that Apple's been using for some time now. I'm going to say that's 3 ft 3 and 1/2 ft maybe. All right, let's enter iPad OS after this segue to our sponsor deep dbrand. You know, hey, Dbrand does make iPad skins, but they actually don't want me to talk to you about iPad skins. They want me to talk to you about the new 1984 skins for the MacBook based on this kind of, you know, the thing that Apple looked like in 1984 when Apple fought a war against big brother for all of our freedoms. Now, these skins are for the MacBook Neo and it's color matched to this citrus laptop as you can see, but they actually have skins for every one of the Neo's colorways and all the other Macs as well. They love Apple. I'm going to attempt to put this on, which is probably not a good idea. And this is probably not even the way that you're supposed to do it, but they told me that I have to do this. This is not See, I told you that I shouldn't do it. I told you that it's going to take me a while. Oh, I'll use the iPad. And there you have it. I feel like I'm back in Apple's golden era already. I feel like Steve Jobs might walk in at any second and yell at me to get something done. It looks cool. It looks retro. And the logo is actually 3D printed, so it's got some texture to it. And oh, that color pops. Uh, baby Dbrand has skins like this for the MacBook Neo and a bunch of other MacBooks, new and old. See if they got one for you uh at my bosseshort.com. Okay, the iPad Air M4 experience. Like, look at that. W I'm so glad we needed a new chip. Now, as usual, it's a new chip, M3 versus M4 in the iPad Air. So, you're getting an upgrade just in terms of like raw performance. It does have the same amount of cores. Both have eight cores, but now we're dealing with three performance and five efficiency cores versus four and four on the M3. Slightly higher CPU clock speed as well. And as is usually the case with the version of the chip that gets shipped on an iPad, the M4 here has one less GPU core than the M4 in a Mac. However, it's not just kind of like faster cores and slightly different CPU configuration. There has been a major RAM upgrade. Interestingly, in the age of the RAM crisis, Apple has taken the iPad Air M3, which had 8 gigs of LPDDR5 RAM, and upgraded it in the M4, to 12 GB of LPDDR5X. I think I added an extra D in there, but we'll leave it. So, you get more RAM, and it's faster. It's got 120 GB per second memory bandwidth now instead of just 100 which I guess puts us in this interesting position now of having an iPad Air that is the same price as the MacBook Neo actually 599 but you get more RAM in this one. You got 12 gigs in this 8 gigs in the MacBook Neo. However, you have 256 gigs of starting storage with the MacBook Neo and this thing only starts with 128. It's all fun. It's just kind of like a guessing game. It's like what do we got? That RAM upgrade is extra interesting to me in particular because I'm someone who has always appreciated the iPad as a potential, you know, laptop replacement. And I think part of the reason why I was so interested in the iPad as like a potential laptop replacement was because they Apple didn't have a lower-end MacBook. Like the lowest MacBook that they had was the MacBook Air, which has been like kind of around that $1,000 price point for a long time. This thing starts at $600 and you can get it for 550 as a student US, but it doesn't come with a keyboard, but it has 12 gigs of RAM and a more powerful processor than the MacBook Neo. Oh my goodness. Smaller screen, 11 in. Thank you. There's a 13-in version of this, but that's more expensive. Apple makes everything so fun. But anyways, other than that M4 chip upgrade, uh, you know, I alluded to some other internal upgrades that Apple has made this generation. There's an Apple modem in here. There's the Apple C1X modem instead of the Qualcomm modem, although that's in the 5G version, which we don't have. We got the the normal one. And for other wireless connectivity, Apple's now put their N1 firstparty chip in here instead of the Broadcom chip that they were using before. And I don't know whether it's because of that or not, but the M4 has some upgraded standard support. So, it supports Wi-Fi 7 now instead of 6E and Bluetooth 6 instead of Bluetooth 5.3. So altogether, you know, compared to last year, which was like basically just the M3 chip versus the M2, this is a fairly acrosstheboard update in terms of hardware. Obviously, no, we got the same cameras and the same display, same battery, even battery size. One thing I didn't mention because um I don't really care about it, but some people might, uh the NPU in the M4 chip is apparently much better. It's got up to a 111% performance boost. 38 trillion operations per second versus 18 trillion operations per second. So if you run uh local LLMs on your iPad, somebody does and they'll be really excited. As is tradition though, we will check out the display and the speakers, see how they make us feel on an emotional level. You know, I will say that like it is a tablet, but to me I even iPad Pro is kind of like the the standard the the gold standard of like speakers in a tablet on the market, but like iPad Air has always been pretty good, too, even though they only have two speakers in those four grills that we mentioned. All right, Krabs. Hi, Mr. Krabs. That's Max. Oh, I got to check where the speakers were. Yeah, speakers are in the bottom of those two grills. If you're looking at it in laptop mode, that's where the speakers are. Okay, the camera's there. The speakers there. Okay, write that down. See, I think a lot more bass than you would expect to get out of a a dinky little tablet, but there's still very much like there's some bass and there's some highs and the mids are just kind of like where are they at? They took a break. But um that's at max volume. Turning it down a little bit. You know, it's it's a little bit better to represent at least subjectively. The display, I mean, you know, what's what is there to say? It looks nice. Oh, let's let's up the resolution. It looks nice. You know, it's no iPad Pro, but you know, it's an IPS display. It's an iPad Air. It's not the cheapest iPad. It's in, you know, it's funny to to compare this to the MacBook Neo. It's such an interesting We got an iPhone chip in a in a MacBook now because there are iPads with iPhone chips, but they're not pro chips. I feel like I would love to do a video kind of going over iPad OS and where that is at now. Because now that we have a like cheap MacBook, the question of whether anyone should be trying to get an iPad to replace their laptop is just so much more interesting. The the guys are saying I should play a game, but I have I have not played a game on any one of these iPad short circuits. Who's that? You play as a baby. Oh, look. It wants me to look with that. This is not fun. I would not want to play a game like this. You guys can't even see it. It's so dark. Look at Oh, I'm holding a baby now. I want to play this game just to protect that baby. iPads can game now. They've been able to game for a long time. They've been able to do a lot of stuff for a long time. And if you use an iPad for anything other than watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever, uh this will be an exciting upgrade, not only because of the upgrade to the M4 chip, but also those other upgrades that I mentioned. Apple is doing some pretty good things out here. you know, like in a in an industry that feels like it's pulling the rug out from under us at every opportunity, Apple is kind of like, you know what, we are going to give you an upgrade uh to a better chip and just better everything and launch it at the same price as last year. Like it's almost like Apple is just in their little bunker and the industry is happening. Stuff's happening out there and they're just like, I don't care. It feels like Apple only ever does what they originally planned to do except when it comes to the AI upgraded Siri. Other than that, uh Apple is an exciting company to pay attention to right now and uh I hope to continue paying attention to them and I hope you continue paying attention to ShortCircuit videos. Uh thanks for watching guys. Subscribe to the channel. Uh if you're looking for something else to watch, go watch the MacBook Neo video cuz that's exciting. What a time to be alive. Bye."}