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you listen to me buddy ipads are computers now

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deal with it they've got full mouse and trackpad support desktop web browsing

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and the pro models have a powerful processor that can outperform many real

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laptops the debate about whether an ipad

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can replace your laptop is over

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but that doesn't mean we're done asking questions for instance take this new

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ipad pro why did i just call it an ipad

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pro instead of what it actually is which is the new 2020 ipad air why does it have a

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better CPU but a lower price can it replace your laptop

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i'm sorry old habits die hard

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Linus

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okay i figured it out i called it the new ipad pro because this new ipad air

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looks almost exactly like our 11 inch ipad pro from 2018 there's the square

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edge design single rear-facing camera top and bottom speaker grilles and equal

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bezels on all sides it even fits perfectly into the same keyboard

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accessories meant for the pro including the magic keyboard the keyboard folio

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and my personal favorite this logitech folio touch i mean the

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only obvious visual differences are the slightly wider bezels and thicker

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chassis on the air but otherwise if you hadn't heard the news you'd be forgiven

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for thinking this was a ipad pro 10.9

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inch so what's apple's game here is the

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ipad air supposed to be the ipad pro light or maybe this square edge design

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represents the future of the entire ipad line and the ipad air is just getting it

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first sort of like a hand-me-down from an older sibling the thicker bezels the

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tablet parallel of frayed edges on a once fashionable sweater

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thank you the new ipad air is 200

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cheaper than the pro but at what cost

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well the top and bottom have what appear to be four speaker grilles but apple

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says the air has stereo speakers and sure enough sound only seems to come

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from two of them the audio is still pretty decent for a tablet though

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on the back is a single 12 megapixel camera no ultra wide or lidar sensor

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here and on the front a lonesome 7 megapixel camera hides in the bezel with

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no true depth cameras for face id instead apple has brought back touch id

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integrating it into the power button it's a little more of a hassle than just

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looking at your ipad and swiping up but what do you think this is an ipad pro

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the air's display has a slightly lower resolution thanks to those thick bezels

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and it also lacks pro motion which is apple's fancy marketing term for 120

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hertz you're stuck at a pathetic 60 here

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but that's not for lack of power inside is the new a14 bionic processor the same

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six core chip found in the new iphone 12 models in our geekbench tests the a14

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single core and GPU performance was actually significantly better than the

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a12z found in the current ipad pros although it did fall behind a bit in

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multicore due to the a14 having two fewer cores the ipad air also has less

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memory four gigs instead of six gigs in the pros and the base model only comes

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with 64 gigs of storage anyone who does

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get one of these to use as a actual laptop will probably want the 256 gig

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version for an extra 150 bucks and then you've got to add a keyboard and maybe

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an apple pencil if you're creative and all of a sudden your shopping cart is at

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almost twelve hundred dollars in this economy

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this thing better be freaking amazing to use and

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well it's you know it's good i mean it feels like using the ipad pro and this

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time around ipad os 14 has some cool new pencil features like scribble which lets

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you write and edit in any text field a la Windows 10 from 2018 there's also

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just some more basic desktop os stuff like the ability to set third-party apps

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as the default email client or web browser which is especially nice now

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that the ipad versions of firefox and chrome as well as safari can load the

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desktop versions of websites by default instead of the dinky little mobile

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version but while i've learned to love using the ipad as a laptop almost as

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much as i love lttstore.com if you're going to use an ipad as your

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main machine be aware that ipad os is still very much a work in progress

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while they've promised full functionality is coming adobe apps are

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still not quite at a desktop class level there are however great alternatives

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like procreate affinity illustrator and lumafusion microsoft's native mouse

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support for office on ipad is apparently coming but it hasn't rolled out to our

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machine yet so the mouse still acts like a transparent finger instead of a proper

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cursor and while the ipad airs usb-c port means it can easily connect to

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external monitors and thus compensate for its tiny tiny screen ipad os has yet

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to add the ability to extend its display instead of just duplicating it so if

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you've been following our ipad pro coverage up till now you might be thinking this is more or less the same

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story as last time it can be is

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a laptop but only for a specific type of person the type of user who loves ipads

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and wants to make ipad os work for them and has some money to blow but while the

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overall story might be the same this is still an important moment to me because

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this is the first ipad video we've made in the last couple years that isn't

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about challenging this thing's existence as a laptop replacement

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ipads officially are laptops now and not just ipad pros

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maybe next year we might actually recommend that you get one

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