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Wow, I haven't looked at an iPad unboxing it on on this channel since

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2022, but I'm back now. They they

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finally brought me back to look at the iPad Air M3. There's no M3 on there, but

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I thought it was the iPad Air M3, which

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by all accounts is that's how you take it out in case you were wondering. uh by

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all accounts is very very similar to the iPad Air M2 because I mean Apple's

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mostly just figured these things out by now like iPads are iPads you know that

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especially with the Apple silicon M series chips it's going to be good you

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if you told me this was a iPad from 2 or 3 years ago I'd believe you that said

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the design hasn't worsened with age

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still got these flat sides that originally showed up in the iPad Pro and

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then they kind of trickled it down to their other designs And what what color is this? What is

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this? A sky

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blue? You're supposed to know. It's not sky blue. It's just blue. But the colors

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that are available, the the body, the design in general, it's all the same.

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Virtually the only thing that has changed is the chip inside used to be an

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M2, which is fine. The M2 was was

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already enough. So, Apple, what what are you you don't have to do this anymore.

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What are you trying to prove? But I don't know, maybe there is something to

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prove. We'll find out after we find out what else is in this box. It's probably

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the same as the last time. Um, got a power adapter, which is 20

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watts, and a USBC cord, which has this

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new sleeved thing that Apple is putting on all their recent uh recent USBC

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cords. I love it. All right. See, that's a big upgrade. We got the chip and the

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cord. That is like 1 m or about 3 feet 3

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in or something. Okay, do do the math. Now, we have the 11in version here, but

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it also comes in a 13 in just like the previous model, which we also have right

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here also in an 11 in. So, we can

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directly compare just to make sure. Has anything really changed? Uh, one has

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less scratches on it. That was you just now. Huh? That was you just That was me.

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Yeah. on your laptop. So, I mean, you tell me. There's nothing really super

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super obvious that has ch that has changed here. Volume up and down button

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there alongside the magnetic mount for the pencil. On the top, we have the

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Touch ID power buttons. Oh, and the two

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speaker grills. Even though this is the iPad Air, and there's only one of these

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that is active. Same with the grills on the other side. Nothing on this side.

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And on the bottom, those same two speaker grills, only ones enabled. And

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the USBC connector. Same USBC connector

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as the previous gen. But the last iPad I

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did, Can I leave him here? Can I do

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that? Ah, I'm not going to do it. But the previous iPad I did was the

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first iPad Air. No, that's not true.

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Yeah, the bodies look basically the same

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in terms of thickness. exactly the same.

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That looks like a delicious iPad witch. So, yeah, that's what you're dealing

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with. Same price as well. Starts at $600, which gets you the same starting

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storage of 128 gigs. So, that's basically the story of the, you know,

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the core of the device here. Same screen, same refresh rate, same

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resolution, a lot of other stuff the same, but there are some things that are

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different and some differences with accessories as well. And we'll talk

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shortlininus.com. All right, let's get on inside of this iPad and see whether

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there's actually anything different. I mean, as I said, pretty much the only

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difference between this iPad Air and the previous gen is the M3 chip versus the

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M2. So, pretty much the only difference that you're going to experience in terms

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of using it is the performance. So,

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let's look at the performance. So, one thing to note while we're looking at

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these numbers is that we can only compare the M3 iPad Air to the M1 iPad

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Air because we didn't get an M2 iPad Air. We just thought, you know, it's

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basically the same. No, that's not true. But just be aware,

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we're not intentionally comparing this to a 3ear old product. That said, as an

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owner of an M1 iPad Air, I'm interested in this because, you know, you're

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probably not going to upgrade directly to the next gen every time they release

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a new gen of iPad. But for M1 owners, this might be somewhat interesting. So,

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let's take a look. What we got, at least in Geekbench here, is 32% uh M3 versus

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M1 in single core. 38% better in

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multi-core and 45% better in 3D Mark,

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which is more of a GPU benchmark. During our stress test in 3D Mark, the first

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run we did was incredibly high for the M3, but then it throttled quite a bit

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for subsequent tests. Note that there's no active cooling. So, it's kind of like

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it gets all the juice out and then it's kind of like somebody open a window. And

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that leads the M3 to drop to like 60% of

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its first run performance. That throttling means that the gap between

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the M3 and the M1 was pretty big to

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start with, but during the later runs, the M3 was only about 9% better in

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performance. So, I guess that's something to keep in mind if you're going to be planning on using your iPad

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Air for a really, really long time doing compute intensive things, which is like

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I But for who? For like five people. Moving

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on. I don't know. Okay. Seriously though, guy, iPad people who use this as

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like their full full computer and, you know, have a pro workstation built off

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an iPad Air, I see you, okay? I know you exist.

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Just I love you. As for brightness,

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Apple says that this is supposed to get you 500 nits, same as the previous one,

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and our Labs team found that to be true. But we did catch Apple lying about the

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battery life of the of this thing. The iPad Air M3 is on paper it has the same

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battery life as the iPad Air M1, but guess what? It's actually better. Uh the

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the our Labs testing found that the M3 has improved battery life over the M1.

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And so uh got you Apple. Got you so bad.

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So there you have it for performance. I mean uh the end of the day breaking

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news. The M3 is faster than the M2 and

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M1. Uh there's not a whole lot of other competition out there for like mid

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high-end smooth tablets. Uh but now we

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know the one thing I was sort of interested in looking at on this one is

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Apple intelligence features, but I haven't really even had a chance to to

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look at them. That said, I think the

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general consensus among Apple users out there right now is that the Apple

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intelligence features are it's like

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what? They're there. They're definitely there. I think everyone was really

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waiting for the Siri, the upgraded AI Siri with the personal context and

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ability to kind of like know when your mom's coming into the airport and stuff

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and book a cab for her. But that's been delayed indefinitely and that's not here

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yet. But what is here is Image Playground. This is still in

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beta. The great thing about all these all these AI features are still in beta.

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Describe an image or add a suggestion. I'm going to do it the lazy way. Do I

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have to just tap it? Apple makes

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it Apple makes this so easy that you don't even have to come up with words to

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prompt it with. You just tap things. Fireworks and love. Scientist. Fireworks

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and love. What you got for me? AI choose a

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person. Very cool. Um, what are we

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doing? Why Why do we have this? Cuz the other thing about image playground is

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that you can't even it like it's an image generator, but it's got so many

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guard rails on it. So, you can't even really make interesting images with it

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from what I've seen. Oh, I can change the style illustration.

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I love all these the previous in the

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previous style they were all smiling and being like science and these people are

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like I calculate things for my job. They

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don't look excited at all. Who is that?

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now that I've seen Apple intelligence, I know that I'm not really missing

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anything. Bring Siri. Bring the AI Siri and then we'll talk. Now, there's one

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more new thing that Apple launched alongside this new iPad

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Air, and it's this, a new Magic Keyboard. This is the updated Magic

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also compatible with the iPad Air 2, which launched alongside its own Magic

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$270. It's $30 cheaper and it's better.

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this more kind of MacBook like function row on the top. Just like the other

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Magic Keyboards, we've got this nice magnetic attachment and this floaty kind of

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design. And although I guess it like yeah it looks like it's floating

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uh less high above the ground than the Pro models, but maybe that's just

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in. That feels nice. It's very very thin

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impressive that they managed to put a keyboard that feels this nice to tap on

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to tap on to type on and made it this

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thin. However, if you are kind of like adding a bit more power to your strokes

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little nicer. But yeah, I mean nothing, no complaints here. And the function row

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just makes it better. Apple gets a lot

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of crap from me included for, you know,

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overpricing things, for not adding features when we want them, for making

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things that don't make sense. But particularly with their more budget kind

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of mid-range products, they've been doing a good job in just kind of making

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them better and not giving them a huge price hike. Like the iPad is the same

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price as the previous gen and it's better. The keyboard is cheaper than the

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previous gen and better. You know, it's kind of something similar that we saw

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with the Mac Mini release. Now, $380 is

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also just the price of the base model

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iPad. Uh but, you know, that's neither here nor there. At the end of the day,

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credit where credit is due, Apple. Uh you know, with these mid-range products,

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I'm happy with what you're doing. All right. One thing I did not check out yet

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of looking at the screen and how it performs, doing cool stuff. So, let's

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check that out. All right. How do the speakers

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sound? Max. Max. Oh, screenshot.

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how to make speakers for an iPad. you know, uh I I I still haven't seen anyone

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decent speakers. And this is only the one where there's only one speaker in

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one of these grills. I think it's the the bottom one here. Somebody will figure it out eventually. I think the

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know, things look pretty good. Uh the only way you're going to get a better

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image on an iPad is by upgrading to the iPad Pro. But not many people are going

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to complain about this. What we may be able to complain about though is the

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camera. So, let's check that out. I'm not sure though. I'm not sure. Oh, I

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take it back. I don't know if I'll be able to complain about this. I mean, it's pretty good. All right. Ready?

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Cheers to the good times. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I take it back.

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Apple can still take 12 megapixels on the back and make it look nice. What

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Ready? I look insane. I look out of my

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mind. I always have this problem. I

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think I'm doing a funny face, but I'm actually like I'm making people fear for

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their lives probably. Like what? Don't say hi to that guy on the street.

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Apple's technology did a really good job of capturing my abs absolute unhinged

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nature. Okay, that's about enough of that.

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So, Apple has delivered to us an iPad

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Air with an M3 chip inside. They've

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continued their process of kind of taking the desktop class chips that they

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have in their MacBooks and just kind of handing them down to the iPads. And here

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we are. I mean, it's not super exciting at this point after two generations of

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Mclass chips and an iPad, but maybe we shouldn't be complaining about that. You

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know, it's like Apple has very surely and slowly been marching towards this

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future that uh was described many years ago where they think of the computer as

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kind of a slate of glass that can do

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almost everything. I look forward to

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Apple adding more things to iPad OS, making more powerful iPads, even if for

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most people spending $600, you know, plus $270 more on a

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keyboard dock. Uh even if that doesn't make sense for most people, if you need

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a tablet, probably go for one of the cheaper ones. But the iPad Air is kind

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of here as an option for people with

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money to blow and something that

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represents the motion that I want Apple to keep doing. Uh make more powerful

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tablets, make computers easier to use, make them able

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to be used the way that you want them to be. So it put macOS on it and then that

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would be it. This is it for this video

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M4, which basically represents the, you

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know, a couple tiers up actually because you can upgrade this, but it's like, oh

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my god.