The slim design and 10.9in screen strike an excellent balance between usability and portability, slotting nicely in between the small iPad mini and giant 12.9in iPad Pro. The 2022 iPad Air is one of the best premium tablets you can buy, now with enough power to be as good at content creation as general-purpose browsing and TV-watching. The fifth-generation Apple iPad Air costs from £569 ( $599/ A$929) with 64GB of storage, or £719 ($749/A$1,159) with 5G, and ships on 18 March.įor comparison, the 10.2in iPad costs £319, the iPad mini costs £479 and the iPad Pro costs from £749, Amazon’s Fire HD 8 costs £90, the Fire HD 10 costs £150, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 costs £649. Apple breaks down the tablet’s environmental impact in its report and offers trade-in and free recycling schemes, including for non-Apple products. The tablet has a 100% recycled aluminium body, 100% recycled tin in the solder of its main board, 96% recycled rare earth elements, and at least 35% recycled plastic used in multiple components. The tablet is generally repairable, with the out-of-warranty service cost being £396.44, which includes the screen. Batteries in similar devices maintain at least 80% of their original capacity for at least 500 full charge cycles. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪpple does not provide an estimated lifespan for the iPad Air’s battery, but it can be replaced for £99. You can connect a large range of peripherals via USB-C too, including storage drives and external displays. It takes about two and a half hours to fully charge the tablet with the included 20W USB-C power adaptor, or faster with something more powerful. The long-awaited feature is quite something, extending the usefulness of the tablet as a second screen or input device, but only if you also have a modern Mac computer running macOS Monterey. The iPad ships with Apple’s latest iPadOS 15.4, which introduces a major new feature called Universal Control that allows you to use a Mac’s keyboard and mouse to control the iPad or visa versa, including dragging and dropping files between the two. The iPad Air still gets a reliable 10 hours of browsing, light app use or offline video. Outside of gaming, most will not need that much power on a regular basis, but having a more powerful chip hasn’t hurt battery life. But, as with the latest iPad Pro, it also has unrivalled performance to handle complex image manipulation in Affinity Photo, the drawing and rendering of 3D worlds in SketchUp, or the creation of a cinematic masterpiece in LumaFusion. It’ll fly through all the usual tablet tasks such as browsing, email, updating your Premier League team or watching TV. The M1 chip and 8GB of RAM give the small tablet desktop computer-level processing power. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian M1 power and iPadOS 15.4 The 10.9in screen is a good size, nicely balanced between being big enough for reading or watching video, and not too big to easily carry, hold or throw in a bag.
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