Everyone gets an Apple M1! - iPad Air 5th Gen
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·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,652 words · ~13 min read
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- Oh, my sweet, sweet iPads. I've missed you.
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(laughs) - [Jono] Is it a computer yet?
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- It's definitely a computer, yeah. I mean, like it's been a while since I did an iPad thing.
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This is nice. I, I used to do all the iPad reviews. Jono did you know every time you watched an LTT iPad review
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or iPad video even on ShortCircuit? I think I did most of them from like 2019 onwards.
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That's me baby. - [Jono] You did the Air last time. - The last iPad air, the fourth gen came out in 2020.
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I did the review of that on LTT and on ShortCircuit because I liked what apple was doing.
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As much as we challenge apple as much as we get up in their face.
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I actually like what they've done. - [Andy] Your check is too loud.
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- Ah, the I iPad air. I was actually excited to see this
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because I like what apple has been doing with their iPads.
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They kind of like took it from being this fun product for
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you know, your average consumer to just like play, and I don't even know what the mobile games are now to like
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you know, computers more or less iPad OS is a robust operating system
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but it still has a lot of limitations. So I'm interested to see what the M1 chip
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what it can do for the format. Ah, didn't see that coming, iPad air
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- [Jono] Mac dress opened it up before us so... - What? Mac Address already UN boxed this
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- [Andy] Describe to Mac Address. - Shut up Andy
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(laughs)
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what it's ripping? What? - [Jono] Yeah Horst ripped it...
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- This is apple is just not the same as the one it was okay,
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well I'm ripping it then, 'cause like what am I supposed to do? So from what I understand
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this is like the same chassis more
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or less as the iPad air fourth gen. Although I've seen some complaints
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from some people about build quality maybe being slightly less impressive on this one.
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Like they say that there's a thinner enclosure but like I don't feel,
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oh maybe I feel a little something but that just might be the emotions.
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Very, very happy right now it feels okay so I don't know that's probably
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it looks about the same build quality in the box We got the normal stuff papers, stickers.
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- [Jono] Aaaw, it's white lame. - You're the worst. Who cares about stickers?
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Like people are like, Ooh, I wonder what stickers are in the iPad air pro box.
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No, it's not a pro, but it looks like a pro USBC cable because once again, the iPads get USBCS.
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iPhones do not be until they get their act together.
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Doesn't have a power adapter in the box though. So that's unlike, they're still shipping power adapters
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with the iPads, but not the iPhones. So when I say the same chassis as the iPad air four
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what I mean is it's got these four speaker grills again
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but there's only two actual working speakers from what I understand because they've adapted
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the iPad pro overall chassis design that they
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I think first introduced in 2018 and in 2020
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when they updated the iPad air, they gave it that square bezel design
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that they're gonna, I guess, put on all the iPads, the iPad mini even has that the new one
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that you can use the phone but not actually, subscribe to Mac Address
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- [Jono] Again. - [Andy] Yes, please. - The iPad pro has face ID and the iPad air
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in lieu of that they used the same design overall
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but they took away the face and put in the touch ID, enabled power button,
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over here we got the volume rockers as you would expect. And I guess the, maybe that's a mic
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USBC port which this time is apparently two times faster
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than the one in the iPad air. And here's where things get really (beep) up.
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Let me tell you (laughs) you guys know
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about the USB naming and how messed up it is but this is what's so confusing to me.
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The iPad air in 2020 supported five gigabits transfer speed.
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Okay. But at that time that was USB 3.1 gen one
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that's five gigabits per second. So the iPad air 2022 has USB 10 gigabits a second.
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But what apple is calling it is USB 3.1 gen two
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which is technically correct but that's not what USB is calling it anymore.
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The USB implementers forum is now calling that USB 3.2 gen two by one, two by one.
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I better 2020 head USB 3.2 gen one by one
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is what they call it now at the time though, they called it USB 3.1 gen one.
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And now apple is saying this one has USB 3.1 gen two
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which is actually supposed to be called USB 3.2 gen two by one.
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Okay. But if apple was gonna put in a 20 gigabit port
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in this one, it would be USB 3.2 gen two by two that's the fastest one you can get
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- [Andy] What like USB four? - I'm not even touching USB four no, no Thunderbolt.
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So that is where we can bring it back. The iPad pros have support for Thunderbolt three I believe
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maybe Thunderbolt four. I don't think they have Thunderbolt four. I think they have Thunderbolt three over a USBC connector.
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Guys this is getting really confusing. You might come up against a scenario where
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you're trying to transfer a large file or something or use a use an accessory.
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And this is gonna have a slightly better bandwidth
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for you to transfer things over USBC or connect accessories or whatever.
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Everything's better than a lightning port. That's my song.
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This starts at the same price as the iPad air 4,
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$599 for the 64 gig version, you can bump it up to 256 gigs of storage
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and then you'll pay $749. And then on both of those, you can add 5G if you want
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which will bump up the price to $749 and $899 I believe.
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So also got Wi-Fi six. So that's nice. It is a nice tablet from just looking at the specs.
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So like another one of the big differences
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between the iPad air and the iPad pros is the refresh rate
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with this one, you're stuck with a 60 Hertz refresh rate.
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Doesn't have the promotion like variable, you know changing depending on the content type of situation.
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Although it is a 10.9 inch liquid retina. So like, you know, it looks nice and sharp.
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Let's bring up something. Let's bring up something pretty. Do we have pretty photos on here?
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Hey, Adam's pretty, pretty pretty.
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Who's that? What's that guy's name? Robin.
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That's a sharp photo who took this. It's got 60 Hertz compared
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to the one 20 Hertz and the iPad pro And it's got a few other kind
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of deficiencies compared to that as well. This is not a me mini LED display.
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So it doesn't have the same brightness. What did you say?
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The max peak brightness was 500 nits? - [Jono] Well, it just says 500 nits
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- But that's probably sustained. - [Jono] Yeah - But I mean, I'm looking
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at a Mac Address video right now. It still looks pretty nice. The colors, how do I get rid of the UI?
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It won't go away. What's going on? - [Jono] I don't know.
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- Apparently this thing does have, you know, true tone with like basically every Mac product with a screen
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has these days and the P3 color gamut. So I don't know how to gauge that.
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Why it turned itself down again? make yourself bright for me.
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they didn't even send us this thing with a fancy skin on it. - [Jono] No cause have to put it on.
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- I'm so bad at this, that's a leather skin baby.
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- [Andy] Dead cow - What'd you call me? What is this thing?
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Is that a cow? Is that the dead cow that made the leather - [Jono] That's Betsy.
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- Get yourself a skin made from the Carcas of old Betsy.
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Our favorite cow that we killed. This is like leather.
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- [Jono] It is leather it's real. - This is real leather? - [Jono] Yeah. - Wow.
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- [Jono] How does it smell?
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- It's like old Betsy is in the room with me right now (background noise)
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- Don't mess.
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- Oh no it's not an absolutely perfect application,
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but listen this is what I said. I'm not good at this that goes on on the lens.
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That's kind of cool actually cause then it protects it from like hitting into things.
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That's beautiful dbrand - [Jono] How does that feel? - I love you.
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- [Jono] Did you know that it actually changes colors as you use it?
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- You mean it's got a patina.
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(laughs) Okay. So now we know that Jonathan horse looks amazing
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on the iPad pro or iPad air four display.
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It looks like an iPad Pro can you blame me for keeping continuing to confuse it?
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- [Jono] Nope - So, because this thing has the M1 in it
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it has actually doubled the RAM as the previous iPad air four as well.
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That one had four gigs compared to the, you know
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at that time, the iPad pro based on the A12 Z bionic had six gigs of RAM
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and the iPad air had four gigs of RAM but now all the iPads have so much RAM you can get.
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So this one comes with eight gigs of RAM cause of the M1 and the iPad pro with the M1
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you can get up to 16 gigs of RAM on an iPad.
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That's crazy is that exciting to you?
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You're you're chewing. Don't try talk. And what's even more impressive.
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Is that with a more powerful chip it still has all day battery as apple likes to say
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but when you actually look at the specs they say it's 10 hours on Wi-Fi and nine hours on cellular.
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But we'll see, I won't see cause I'm gonna be done
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with this after this video, but someone will. The cool thing about apple deciding
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that it was basically gonna have the same physical design more or less there's thicker bezels on this compared
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to the iPad pro is the fact that they are compatible or I think they are with like other accessories.
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So I'm okay with them not having giant innovations
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in physical design as long as they fit into the same accessories.
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This is the Logitech folio touch, which I took a look at when I reviewed
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the iPad air four, it's not working.
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Is it because of the dbrand skin?
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It might be cause of the dbrand skin it's thicker.
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So unfortunately if you get the fancy dbrand leather skin,
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it might not seat correctly. And in the log detect combo touch that has
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the detachable keyboard. We do have the the track pad working,
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the keyboards working but on the non detachable Logitech folio touch keyboard
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we weren't getting the, the seating, like the the connector wasn't seating properly.
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So that's too bad but what about the magic keyboard?
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This is a mess. What is going on? We don't have our apple accessories in order
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but you know who does? Mac Address Subscribe
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- [Andy] Yeah - I think it'll work. Oh, we don't have an 11 inch (laughs)
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I think we can make it work. I think if we just kind of, - Oh whoops.
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- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Perfect. Well, if you get the 11 inch version
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of the magic keyboard, I'm pretty sure it'll fit.
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All right Well, I was going to look at the camera while it was sitting in a thing
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but I guess we're not gonna do that. Oh, is center stage on right now?
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Yeah. And moved. So that's the other thing that they're adding
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to the iPad air this time is the ultra wide 12 megapixel
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on facing camera that enables center stage.
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So you can, don't worry, This is very stable.
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- I've gonna block you. - Oh, and over here and then you move over here
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and then, oh, it's trying it's trying.
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- [Jono] Oh it's focusing on me. - Yeah, it focuses on,
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you know, whatever idiot is in the room so. - [Jono] Aww what
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- And on the back we have the same 12 megapixel
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just regular wide camera and that'll let you shoot 4k video.
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So that's nice - [Jono] Up to 60 frames per second. - Do you want me to take a nice photo of this horizon thing?
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How much is this sink? - [Jono] I think 250 US - 250 US dollar that's wrong Jono.
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- [Jono] I didn't buy it. - That's not right. It doesn't even look like anything it's too busy.
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- So if you're the type of person to not be ashamed when you're out in public
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holding up a iPad, filming something Apparently the camera's still pretty good.
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- [Jono] Tourists. - The coolest thing about this new iPad is the M1 as I said.
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So I think for most people looking for a tablet
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you still wanna look at the iPad. Ninth gen, just regular iPad, cause that starts at $329
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and it's got A14? A13 bionic, which isn't an M1
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but it's still pretty good for like tablet stuff. But I feel like the iPad air has now established this kind
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of like middle ground where maybe you're not like a full professional and you need like
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an iPad for your for your work all the time. But maybe you're like an artist and you have a computer
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you have other things and you wanna have a tablet that is reasonably powerful
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that you can like use procreate on or stuff. You know, that's a nice niche to be in.
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I can't really like test the performance per say cause that's for the full review.
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We're not doing a full review. Mac Address is, one more thing though, the speakers
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- You're not a crab don't talk to me. (instrumental music)
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- That's a tablet if I didn't know this was a tablet, man was like over there.
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No, it still sounds like a tablet. But as far as mobile device speakers go pretty good.
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There's a good amount of mids and base on that thing. - [Jono] You'd watch a movie on that thing
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- No, I would still use headphones. I have no problem watching, like using this as my visuals.
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But, but sound is like more important than visuals to me.
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And it's also more important to me that you watch to the end of this video.
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