WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.559 Wow, I haven't looked at an iPad unboxing it on on this channel since 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:10.160 2022, but I'm back now. They they 00:00:08.559 --> 00:00:17.119 finally brought me back to look at the iPad Air M3. There's no M3 on there, but 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:19.359 I thought it was the iPad Air M3, which 00:00:17.119 --> 00:00:24.240 by all accounts is that's how you take it out in case you were wondering. uh by 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:30.160 all accounts is very very similar to the iPad Air M2 because I mean Apple's 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.480 mostly just figured these things out by now like iPads are iPads you know that 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.719 especially with the Apple silicon M series chips it's going to be good you 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:44.320 if you told me this was a iPad from 2 or 3 years ago I'd believe you that said 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:46.399 the design hasn't worsened with age 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.520 still got these flat sides that originally showed up in the iPad Pro and 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:55.600 then they kind of trickled it down to their other designs And what what color is this? What is 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.600 this? A sky 00:00:55.879 --> 00:01:03.359 blue? You're supposed to know. It's not sky blue. It's just blue. But the colors 00:01:01.199 --> 00:01:07.200 that are available, the the body, the design in general, it's all the same. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:13.680 Virtually the only thing that has changed is the chip inside used to be an 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:15.600 M2, which is fine. The M2 was was 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:20.159 already enough. So, Apple, what what are you you don't have to do this anymore. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.200 What are you trying to prove? But I don't know, maybe there is something to 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:28.720 prove. We'll find out after we find out what else is in this box. It's probably 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:35.520 the same as the last time. Um, got a power adapter, which is 20 00:01:31.479 --> 00:01:37.680 watts, and a USBC cord, which has this 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:42.880 new sleeved thing that Apple is putting on all their recent uh recent USBC 00:01:40.479 --> 00:01:50.799 cords. I love it. All right. See, that's a big upgrade. We got the chip and the 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:53.600 cord. That is like 1 m or about 3 feet 3 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:58.320 in or something. Okay, do do the math. Now, we have the 11in version here, but 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:05.360 it also comes in a 13 in just like the previous model, which we also have right 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:08.239 here also in an 11 in. So, we can 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:13.680 directly compare just to make sure. Has anything really changed? Uh, one has 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:18.959 less scratches on it. That was you just now. Huh? That was you just That was me. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:23.599 Yeah. on your laptop. So, I mean, you tell me. There's nothing really super 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:28.400 super obvious that has ch that has changed here. Volume up and down button 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:34.720 there alongside the magnetic mount for the pencil. On the top, we have the 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:36.560 Touch ID power buttons. Oh, and the two 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:42.080 speaker grills. Even though this is the iPad Air, and there's only one of these 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:47.040 that is active. Same with the grills on the other side. Nothing on this side. 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:53.280 And on the bottom, those same two speaker grills, only ones enabled. And 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:56.400 the USBC connector. Same USBC connector 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.400 as the previous gen. But the last iPad I 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:02.360 did, Can I leave him here? Can I do 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:09.280 that? Ah, I'm not going to do it. But the previous iPad I did was the 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:12.560 first iPad Air. No, that's not true. 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.760 Yeah, the bodies look basically the same 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.159 in terms of thickness. exactly the same. 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:21.640 That looks like a delicious iPad witch. So, yeah, that's what you're dealing 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:28.000 with. Same price as well. Starts at $600, which gets you the same starting 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:31.760 storage of 128 gigs. So, that's basically the story of the, you know, 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.360 the core of the device here. Same screen, same refresh rate, same 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:40.319 resolution, a lot of other stuff the same, but there are some things that are 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:43.599 different and some differences with accessories as well. And we'll talk 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:48.480 about that right after this message from our sponsor, Dbrand. Hey, why not add a 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:51.680 layer of customization to your pretty boring minimalist Apple hardware? 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We just thought, you know, it's 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:12.479 basically the same. No, that's not true. But just be aware, 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:18.080 we're not intentionally comparing this to a 3ear old product. That said, as an 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:21.840 owner of an M1 iPad Air, I'm interested in this because, you know, you're 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:26.240 probably not going to upgrade directly to the next gen every time they release 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:30.320 a new gen of iPad. But for M1 owners, this might be somewhat interesting. So, 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:38.160 let's take a look. What we got, at least in Geekbench here, is 32% uh M3 versus 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:41.600 M1 in single core. 38% better in 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.600 multi-core and 45% better in 3D Mark, 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:48.560 which is more of a GPU benchmark. During our stress test in 3D Mark, the first 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:53.520 run we did was incredibly high for the M3, but then it throttled quite a bit 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:57.440 for subsequent tests. Note that there's no active cooling. So, it's kind of like 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:03.680 it gets all the juice out and then it's kind of like somebody open a window. And 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:05.440 that leads the M3 to drop to like 60% of 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:10.160 its first run performance. That throttling means that the gap between 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:11.759 the M3 and the M1 was pretty big to 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.680 start with, but during the later runs, the M3 was only about 9% better in 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:21.120 performance. So, I guess that's something to keep in mind if you're going to be planning on using your iPad 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:26.240 Air for a really, really long time doing compute intensive things, which is like 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:29.039 is do those exist for the iPad? They do. 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:32.560 I But for who? For like five people. Moving 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:36.560 on. I don't know. Okay. Seriously though, guy, iPad people who use this as 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:40.479 like their full full computer and, you know, have a pro workstation built off 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:45.199 an iPad Air, I see you, okay? I know you exist. 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.880 Just I love you. As for brightness, 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:52.080 Apple says that this is supposed to get you 500 nits, same as the previous one, 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:56.319 and our Labs team found that to be true. But we did catch Apple lying about the 00:06:54.400 --> 00:07:02.880 battery life of the of this thing. The iPad Air M3 is on paper it has the same 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:08.319 battery life as the iPad Air M1, but guess what? It's actually better. Uh the 00:07:05.599 --> 00:07:15.039 the our Labs testing found that the M3 has improved battery life over the M1. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:17.039 And so uh got you Apple. Got you so bad. 00:07:15.039 --> 00:07:22.000 So there you have it for performance. I mean uh the end of the day breaking 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:24.400 news. The M3 is faster than the M2 and 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:31.280 M1. Uh there's not a whole lot of other competition out there for like mid 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:33.599 high-end smooth tablets. Uh but now we 00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:38.080 know the one thing I was sort of interested in looking at on this one is 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:43.599 Apple intelligence features, but I haven't really even had a chance to to 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.919 look at them. That said, I think the 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:51.240 general consensus among Apple users out there right now is that the Apple 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:53.599 intelligence features are it's like 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:57.280 what? They're there. They're definitely there. I think everyone was really 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:01.280 waiting for the Siri, the upgraded AI Siri with the personal context and 00:07:59.280 --> 00:08:05.440 ability to kind of like know when your mom's coming into the airport and stuff 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:10.560 and book a cab for her. But that's been delayed indefinitely and that's not here 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:15.680 yet. But what is here is Image Playground. This is still in 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:20.160 beta. The great thing about all these all these AI features are still in beta. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.280 Describe an image or add a suggestion. I'm going to do it the lazy way. Do I 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:29.599 have to just tap it? Apple makes 00:08:26.919 --> 00:08:33.719 it Apple makes this so easy that you don't even have to come up with words to 00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:39.719 prompt it with. You just tap things. Fireworks and love. Scientist. Fireworks 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:43.200 and love. What you got for me? AI choose a 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:50.080 person. Very cool. Um, what are we 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:53.040 doing? Why Why do we have this? Cuz the other thing about image playground is 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.480 that you can't even it like it's an image generator, but it's got so many 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:00.560 guard rails on it. So, you can't even really make interesting images with it 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:04.360 from what I've seen. Oh, I can change the style illustration. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:11.120 I love all these the previous in the 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:17.680 previous style they were all smiling and being like science and these people are 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:20.959 like I calculate things for my job. They 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:24.480 don't look excited at all. Who is that? 00:09:20.959 --> 00:09:26.240 That looks like Michael Jackson. Okay, 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:29.519 now that I've seen Apple intelligence, I know that I'm not really missing 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:33.760 anything. Bring Siri. Bring the AI Siri and then we'll talk. Now, there's one 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:39.920 more new thing that Apple launched alongside this new iPad 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:45.760 Air, and it's this, a new Magic Keyboard. This is the updated Magic 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:48.560 Keyboard for the iPad Air M3, and it's 00:09:45.760 --> 00:09:57.720 also compatible with the iPad Air 2, which launched alongside its own Magic 00:09:52.680 --> 00:10:02.240 Keyboard that went for $300. This costs 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:05.519 $270. It's $30 cheaper and it's better. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:09.040 It's got a larger trackpad and a row of 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:12.480 function keys joining the Magic Keyboard 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:14.720 that is for the iPad Pros in in having 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:18.399 this more kind of MacBook like function row on the top. Just like the other 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:23.680 Magic Keyboards, we've got this nice magnetic attachment and this floaty kind of 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:29.200 design. And although I guess it like yeah it looks like it's floating 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:33.760 uh less high above the ground than the Pro models, but maybe that's just 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:33.760 because it's an 11 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:43.360 in. That feels nice. It's very very thin 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:49.120 obviously. Um, and there's a little bit of a tactile bump that it it is actually 00:10:46.880 --> 00:10:54.640 impressive that they managed to put a keyboard that feels this nice to tap on 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.959 to tap on to type on and made it this 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:01.760 thin. However, if you are kind of like adding a bit more power to your strokes 00:10:58.560 --> 00:11:03.839 and going higher higher up, then when 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:07.279 you hit it, definitely feels like you're just kind of like tapping on nothing. 00:11:05.760 --> 00:11:12.240 Yeah, if you keep it kind of closer to the keys, then it makes things feel a 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:18.240 little nicer. But yeah, I mean nothing, no complaints here. And the function row 00:11:14.959 --> 00:11:21.279 just makes it better. Apple gets a lot 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.000 of crap from me included for, you know, 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:28.160 overpricing things, for not adding features when we want them, for making 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:31.279 things that don't make sense. But particularly with their more budget kind 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:35.839 of mid-range products, they've been doing a good job in just kind of making 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:40.959 them better and not giving them a huge price hike. Like the iPad is the same 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:45.760 price as the previous gen and it's better. The keyboard is cheaper than the 00:11:42.959 --> 00:11:50.320 previous gen and better. You know, it's kind of something similar that we saw 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:54.079 with the Mac Mini release. Now, $380 is 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:56.959 also just the price of the base model 00:11:54.079 --> 00:12:00.720 iPad. Uh but, you know, that's neither here nor there. At the end of the day, 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.160 credit where credit is due, Apple. Uh you know, with these mid-range products, 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:09.760 I'm happy with what you're doing. All right. One thing I did not check out yet 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:11.120 was the speakers and the, you know, kind 00:12:09.760 --> 00:12:14.639 of looking at the screen and how it performs, doing cool stuff. So, let's 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:16.959 check that out. All right. How do the speakers 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:23.360 sound? Max. Max. Oh, screenshot. 00:12:25.959 --> 00:12:31.440 Whoops. You know, as usual, Apple knows 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:37.920 how to make speakers for an iPad. you know, uh I I I still haven't seen anyone 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:39.519 else catch up with putting like actually 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:42.560 decent speakers. And this is only the one where there's only one speaker in 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:47.600 one of these grills. I think it's the the bottom one here. Somebody will figure it out eventually. I think the 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:54.200 Pixel Slate, I've mentioned this before, the Pixel Slate from many years ago that 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:56.800 had really good speakers, but other than 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:03.839 that, it's Apple. As with the previous gen, you've got a 60 Hz LCD IPS display 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:06.320 here. Apple calls liquid retina. And you 00:13:03.839 --> 00:13:09.680 know, things look pretty good. Uh the only way you're going to get a better 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:14.240 image on an iPad is by upgrading to the iPad Pro. But not many people are going 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.600 to complain about this. What we may be able to complain about though is the 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:21.279 camera. So, let's check that out. I'm not sure though. I'm not sure. Oh, I 00:13:20.160 --> 00:13:27.680 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? 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:31.920 Cheers to the good times. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I take it back. 00:13:29.839 --> 00:13:37.200 Apple can still take 12 megapixels on the back and make it look nice. What 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.200 about the front though? Okay. 00:13:38.920 --> 00:13:46.320 Ready? I look insane. I look out of my 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.720 mind. I always have this problem. I 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:54.959 think I'm doing a funny face, but I'm actually like I'm making people fear for 00:13:52.079 --> 00:13:59.839 their lives probably. Like what? Don't say hi to that guy on the street. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:05.440 Apple's technology did a really good job of capturing my abs absolute unhinged 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:10.480 nature. Okay, that's about enough of that. 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:13.680 So, Apple has delivered to us an iPad 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:15.680 Air with an M3 chip inside. They've 00:14:13.680 --> 00:14:20.560 continued their process of kind of taking the desktop class chips that they 00:14:18.800 --> 00:14:25.199 have in their MacBooks and just kind of handing them down to the iPads. And here 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:30.399 we are. I mean, it's not super exciting at this point after two generations of 00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:34.720 Mclass chips and an iPad, but maybe we shouldn't be complaining about that. You 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:40.959 know, it's like Apple has very surely and slowly been marching towards this 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:46.240 future that uh was described many years ago where they think of the computer as 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:49.440 kind of a slate of glass that can do 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:52.160 almost everything. I look forward to 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:58.279 Apple adding more things to iPad OS, making more powerful iPads, even if for 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:04.560 most people spending $600, you know, plus $270 more on a 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:08.240 keyboard dock. Uh even if that doesn't make sense for most people, if you need 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:14.399 a tablet, probably go for one of the cheaper ones. But the iPad Air is kind 00:15:10.880 --> 00:15:17.959 of here as an option for people with 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:20.639 money to blow and something that 00:15:17.959 --> 00:15:25.480 represents the motion that I want Apple to keep doing. Uh make more powerful 00:15:23.839 --> 00:15:29.839 tablets, make computers easier to use, make them able 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:35.839 to be used the way that you want them to be. So it put macOS on it and then that 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:37.120 would be it. This is it for this video 00:15:35.839 --> 00:15:44.160 though. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. And if you're looking for something else to watch, uh, go 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:47.480 watch Lionus's video about the iPad Pro 00:15:44.160 --> 00:15:50.000 M4, which basically represents the, you 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:55.680 know, a couple tiers up actually because you can upgrade this, but it's like, oh 00:15:52.560 --> 00:15:55.680 my god.