another ipad you say really they just can't stop making these
ipads apple's in an interesting place because they have now essentially
since they released the magic keyboard
folio for the ipad pro they've essentially turned their ipads into
full-on computers with ipad os there's now this whole new category of like
relatively cheap machines that you can basically use as your laptop and this is the newest
entry in that category which is the ipad
air 2020 edition it's 5.99
which seems steep for a tablet but like i said
it's not really just a tablet it's a laptop if you want to use
the magic keyboard so i'm excited to look at this because
at their last event they also announced the 8th gen ipad which is more of like
your traditional you know looking ipad with the big bezels on the top and bottom and that
starts at 329 but this one starts at 599 because it
essentially has a bunch of the cool features of the
ipad pro but in a cheaper package apparently
we're gonna find out together let's take a look pretty cool design did
you see that andy does that make you want to use this ipad
yes wow enthusiasm
now also i'm scared because this came from dbrand right what
is what is this what is that supposed to be oh
Techquickie wait oh okay wait this is
cool i changed my mind right away what's
going on here in loving memory wanik entropy is
unstoppable that's our server that died right or is
it still uh we have there's another wanik i don't know those server stuff that's Anthony is
do we have a wanik right now why not
why not Techquickie nice ShortCircuit
in the style of like stranger things sort of supernova oh from laszlo this is
so cool who made this carpal critics yay
anyways so back to what we were talking about
the ipad air 2020 um so this
is the 10.9 inch version because that's the only version
uh unlike the ipad pro which comes in 11 inch and a 12.9 inch
yeah but apparently it's still compatible with the same keyboard
attachments as the ipad pro so i've got our old 11 inch ipad pro and i've got
the 12.9 inch ipad pro 2020 along with the
magic keyboard so we're gonna see how that goes but first let's take a little bit
of a look at the physical hardware
so on the back you'll see there's only one
camera this is the 12 megapixel wide camera it's the same one that's on
the previous version of the ipad pro and it also had
a 10 megapixel i think ultra wide camera as well as the lidar sensor
whereas this one just has the one
12 megapixel wide so that's what you're getting for the slightly cheaper price
along with some other things that we'll talk about but this is the first
non-pro ipad to feature this sort of like
square design here it's kind of like when was the first time they used that
the iphone 5 4. the iphone 4 was the first time we
kind of saw that now like this is the design language they're using for the ipad air so i guess like this is
interesting i guess the ipad air is now sort of like a higher tier
category than the regular ipad was that always the case what was the case with
macbooks the macbook was the lowest i guess and then the macbook air yeah that
makes sense i guess right the basic design is very very similar to
this ipad pro from 20 whoo
18 how's the bezels though i'm kind of interested
oops just settle down
oh they're right the bezels okay so the bezels are a little bit thicker on the
ipad air and i believe that they'll probably be thicker than the ipad pro too can you
see all those at one sandy so this is the ipad pro 2018 ipad pro
2020 this is the ipad air 2020 so you got a little bit thicker
bezels even though it's still 11 inch well that's why it's 10.9 instead of 11
inch anyways staying on the theme of physical hardware here we got the four speaker
setup two on each side so that's also borrowed
from the ipad pro design there's the magnetic pencil mount that i
was talking about but the other big difference here is the lack of face id they actually
brought back touch id for the ipad air
special it got a special deal on the power button
on the top who do i show that to andy show it to you right there
can you see that this thing
that's touch id because especially in the era of masks and whatnot you know
people need to use their computers without uh without their computer seeing
their faces and yes i'm calling it a computer watch our other ipad videos
the debate is over it's a computer now um we also have the smart connector
on the back these three little dots here which should allow it to be compatible
with the folio keyboard that i threw on the ground
hey look at that okay so i think it does it is compatible with it
and then if i want to use it like a laptop
there we go hola
mon amigos that's not right
um unfortunately we don't have the 11 inch size of the
magic keyboard which i really liked when i reviewed it so i'm just gonna like
bring that out so like if you'll recall from our other
ipad content we got this ipad 12.9 inch ipad pro and
it's got this really cool like levitating design you see that andy
and the magic keys which are awesome and which i love
so you can get like a 11 inch size of this to use with the ipad air as well
um but once you start adding accessories like that
and your pencil then uh things get uh things get expensive fast
and also the 599 version is only for the 64 gig
model so the 256 gig version i think is
7.49 so that's slightly less of a good deal man this
thing's heavy i forgot how heavy it is this thing's a lot lighter a lot lighter
students maybe use that as your your laptop you know another big change
is usbc you're seeing a theme here these
are all ipad pro features that they've now ported over to the ipad air which is why
i was excited to see this thing because one of the biggest downsides to the ipad
pro was its price you know it started the 11
inch model starts at 800 bucks this is 64 gigs of storage
for 5.99 if you got a family and they're like
we're apple till we die dude and they have to get an apple product
they have to get like an ipad then you know it's an option i didn't even look
at what else was in the box right yeah when the box is just you know
your papers your your whatsies and your doozies and you know your normal things
are there stickers in there you're right there
john jonah wanted me to say specifically mention the sp the stickers
and you got two so you could put one sticker one place and another sticker
anywhere else multiple places thanks apple
you got a USB-C power adapter
because as i said it's got usb-c and a usb-c to see
power cord okay i've talked a lot about the outside of this thing
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check it out hey there we go ipad os it's a computer
hey it's not just a tablet anymore although it's kind of funny because
ipads are really some of the only tablets worth buying in the market
right now because Android tablets have just samsung's making some okay ones
still but like the rest of the entire Android tablet market has just fallen
off completely and the last few remaining tablets that are worth buying are now like basically
full on computers what happened to tablets we didn't want tablets this whole time we just wanted
a different type of computer hey let's uh let's set up the touch id why not
start by placing your finger or thumb on the top button so okay so i'm gonna
usually have it like around here so okay here we go we're gonna map my
fingerprint it works about what holy crap
it's getting mad at me because i'm not doing it right wow this takes a while eh
i gotta say this is this is one of the more annoying uh
fingerprint mapping things i've done
it did let's let's lock it are you ready for this
that's pretty quick let's pray that's pretty quick john now
the question is why did they include touch id
instead of face id because they got
these big fat bezels you'd think they could fit it on and i already figured out the answer so
you don't have to tell me it's price it's probably more expensive to have those fancy you know infrared or
whatever they i don't know what do they use dot projectors lidar project
solely in uh you know and include all those fancy sensors in the bar so now
you got you you save a little bit of money and you get your touch id which like a lot of
people prefer to face id anyways because when you're just kind of like hello
hi and it doesn't recognize you it's very frustrating well now that i'm in
here i don't really know what there is for me to do well one of the
interesting features that apple has added to iOS 14 or ipad
os 14 i guess is this uh pencil support
for just writing in any field where you can type you can now just write with a
pencil and it'll translate it into text something that you know Windows had a
long time ago but when apple does it it's a big
freaking deal that's one of the cool things but i guess we'll have to look at that when we do the full review
on Linus tech tips which i am going to
write
be sure to subscribe so now you might have been watching this whole thing and
being like what do you mean it's computer what are you talking about well this actually has a more powerful
chip than the one in the ipad pro last generation well not even last
generation was just earlier this year there's an a12z bionic in the last
version and this one has the a14 bionic which is the same chip that's
found in the new iphone 12 and iphone 12 pros even
though this is a cheaper product in some like canned benchmarks it might
even outperform the ipad pro from earlier this year as i said it's got 64
gigs of storage at the base level 5.99 it's got four gigs of RAM though i think
you got two more gigs of RAM in the uh ipad pro and the display in
addition to having these larger bezels it is only 60 hertz instead of the pro
motion 120 hertz that you'll find on the ipad pro which is where'd the big
where'd the unicorn one go oh it was
disguised i thought this was my laptop let's turn it up you gotta turn up crab
rave
you can have a crab rave with that well guys there you have it it's a new ipad
and if you were thinking about getting the ipad pro but you were like it's a little steep
then uh consider this one after
you watch our full review that's going to come out on linustechtips.com
wait lionstechdesk.com is the is the forum right yeah
subscribe actually yeah join the forum it's uh it's good stuff there's good
discussion happening but anyways so thanks to dbrand for sending us this
thing and uh for the extremely i like this skin i
the other ones i didn't know i didn't know how i felt about but this one i'm i'm
down for lots of cool insider references
that's really nice guys love you and
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