Apple announced the iPad Air, its fifth-generation iPad, October 22 in
San Francisco at the company’s annual unveiling event. Thinner,
lighter, and with a more powerful processor, the 9.7-inch iPad Air
with Retina Display brings some design and performance
enhancements to the best-selling tablet, but not as many additions
as we had hoped for, or as rumors suggested.
In fact, we’d say that Apple missed some opportunities to wow us
with a tablet that could have perhaps had a larger screen with higher
resolution, a higher-megapixel camera, or laptoplike accessories. At
the very least, this was Apple’s chance to recapture its spirit of
innovation and give us something different, rather than what amounts
to a polished iteration of what we already had.
For instance, there’s no gold-hued version as with the iPhone 5S,
and Apple mentioned nothing about incorporating the Touch ID
fingerprint sensor that uses biometric data to unlock the phone and
approve purchases. Also, by keeping many key specs on par with
last year’s model, Apple’s full-size iPad and iPad Mini are now more
similar than ever, except that the Mini costs $100 less.
Design and in-hand feel
From the moment you first pick it up, the iPad Air’s weight and
slimness are two of its most significant new features. Tipping the
scale at just 1 pound, the iPad Air’s heft is down from the 1.44
pounds of the fourth-generation iPad. It also measures an extremely
thin 7.5 millimeters (0.29 inch), as opposed to the predecessor’s
9.4mm depth (0.37 inch) — that’s a 20 percent slimmer build, if
you’re keeping count. The bezel is also much narrower, too; 43
percent so, in fact.
Specif/n 16GB 32GB 64GB. 128GB
Wi-Fi. $499. $599. $699. $799
Cellular. $629. $729. $829. $929
Performance and other hardware
A new A7 chip inside makes the Air eight times faster than the iPad
4, according to Apple. For reference, this is the same 64-bit chip
populating the iPhone 5S. Like Apple’s latest smartphone, the Air’s
A7 also comes with the M7 motion coprocessor, which promises
graphics that render at twice the rate of the previous iPad.
In terms of graphics, that means that this iPad Air is 72 times faster
than the original iPad in GPU performance, but who’s counting? All
that really matters is how it stacks up against today’s top tablet
performers (and more on that to come when we actually get review
units in-house.)
In terms of Wi-Fi, there’s MIMO wireless technology onboard, but the
Air is using the 802.11n standard, not the the more current “ac” Wi-
Fi designation.
We’re sorry, but nobody looks cool taking photos with a tablet.
However, if you must (and it’s quite possible that your tablet
contains the best camera you own), then the iPad Air has a 5-
megapixel iSight camera on the rear that Apple says takes improved
low-light shots. On the front, video-chatters will find the refreshed
FaceTime HD camera, which gives you larger pixels to make images
look clearer, according to the claim. Dual microphones will help
capture even sound.
Apple is always cagey when it comes to sharing battery capacity
details, but the company does list a 32.4-watt-hour rechargeable
lithium battery, and promises to keep up its 10-hour battery life rate
on the Air.
On the software front, free and redesigned versions of core Apple
apps — like iPhoto, iMovie, Keynote, and GarageBand — have been
reworked for iOS 7 and the iPad.
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