you listen to me buddy ipads are computers now
deal with it they've got full mouse and trackpad support desktop web browsing
and the pro models have a powerful processor that can outperform many real
laptops the debate about whether an ipad
can replace your laptop is over
but that doesn't mean we're done asking questions for instance take this new
ipad pro why did i just call it an ipad
pro instead of what it actually is which is the new 2020 ipad air why does it have a
better CPU but a lower price can it replace your laptop
i'm sorry old habits die hard
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okay i figured it out i called it the new ipad pro because this new ipad air
looks almost exactly like our 11 inch ipad pro from 2018 there's the square
edge design single rear-facing camera top and bottom speaker grilles and equal
bezels on all sides it even fits perfectly into the same keyboard
accessories meant for the pro including the magic keyboard the keyboard folio
and my personal favorite this logitech folio touch i mean the
only obvious visual differences are the slightly wider bezels and thicker
chassis on the air but otherwise if you hadn't heard the news you'd be forgiven
for thinking this was a ipad pro 10.9
inch so what's apple's game here is the
ipad air supposed to be the ipad pro light or maybe this square edge design
represents the future of the entire ipad line and the ipad air is just getting it
first sort of like a hand-me-down from an older sibling the thicker bezels the
tablet parallel of frayed edges on a once fashionable sweater
thank you the new ipad air is 200
cheaper than the pro but at what cost
well the top and bottom have what appear to be four speaker grilles but apple
says the air has stereo speakers and sure enough sound only seems to come
from two of them the audio is still pretty decent for a tablet though
on the back is a single 12 megapixel camera no ultra wide or lidar sensor
here and on the front a lonesome 7 megapixel camera hides in the bezel with
no true depth cameras for face id instead apple has brought back touch id
integrating it into the power button it's a little more of a hassle than just
looking at your ipad and swiping up but what do you think this is an ipad pro
the air's display has a slightly lower resolution thanks to those thick bezels
and it also lacks pro motion which is apple's fancy marketing term for 120
hertz you're stuck at a pathetic 60 here
but that's not for lack of power inside is the new a14 bionic processor the same
six core chip found in the new iphone 12 models in our geekbench tests the a14
single core and GPU performance was actually significantly better than the
a12z found in the current ipad pros although it did fall behind a bit in
multicore due to the a14 having two fewer cores the ipad air also has less
memory four gigs instead of six gigs in the pros and the base model only comes
with 64 gigs of storage anyone who does
get one of these to use as a actual laptop will probably want the 256 gig
version for an extra 150 bucks and then you've got to add a keyboard and maybe
an apple pencil if you're creative and all of a sudden your shopping cart is at
almost twelve hundred dollars in this economy
this thing better be freaking amazing to use and
well it's you know it's good i mean it feels like using the ipad pro and this
time around ipad os 14 has some cool new pencil features like scribble which lets
you write and edit in any text field a la Windows 10 from 2018 there's also
just some more basic desktop os stuff like the ability to set third-party apps
as the default email client or web browser which is especially nice now
that the ipad versions of firefox and chrome as well as safari can load the
desktop versions of websites by default instead of the dinky little mobile
version but while i've learned to love using the ipad as a laptop almost as
much as i love lttstore.com if you're going to use an ipad as your
main machine be aware that ipad os is still very much a work in progress
while they've promised full functionality is coming adobe apps are
still not quite at a desktop class level there are however great alternatives
like procreate affinity illustrator and lumafusion microsoft's native mouse
support for office on ipad is apparently coming but it hasn't rolled out to our
machine yet so the mouse still acts like a transparent finger instead of a proper
cursor and while the ipad airs usb-c port means it can easily connect to
external monitors and thus compensate for its tiny tiny screen ipad os has yet
to add the ability to extend its display instead of just duplicating it so if
you've been following our ipad pro coverage up till now you might be thinking this is more or less the same
story as last time it can be is
a laptop but only for a specific type of person the type of user who loves ipads
and wants to make ipad os work for them and has some money to blow but while the
overall story might be the same this is still an important moment to me because
this is the first ipad video we've made in the last couple years that isn't
about challenging this thing's existence as a laptop replacement
ipads officially are laptops now and not just ipad pros
maybe next year we might actually recommend that you get one
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