Apple simply dropped a brand new iPad Air with an M3 chip, and sure, it has Apple Intelligence.
The M3 iPad Air is twice as quick because the M1 iPad Air which was launched in 2022, in keeping with the announcement. The M3 chip additionally offers the iPad Air quicker graphics efficiency and the identical dynamic caching assist that is available in different M3 fashions, which boosts efficiency and response time.
The M3 iPad Air comes with iPadOS 18, which helps Apple Intelligence options, together with Writing Instruments with ChatGPT integration, kind to Siri, Picture Playground, and Genmoji creation. Apple Intelligence for iPad additionally has photograph and graphics enhancing instruments just like the Clear Up software in Photographs and Picture Wand within the Notes app that works with the Apple Pencil.
Along with the M3 iPad Air, Apple additionally unveiled a brand new Magic Keyboard that has a bigger trackpad, a brand new 14-key operate row, a USB-C port for charging, and connects to the iPad with out Bluetooth with Apple’s Good Connector function.
The product drop was teased by Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner yesterday with an X publish that mentioned “there’s one thing within the air.” Many Apple insiders believed the MacBook Air with an M4 chip can be introduced earlier than the brand new iPad Air, though the iPad Air was additionally predicted to be coming quickly. And hey, the week’s not over, so we would nonetheless see the M4 MacBook Air in a number of days.
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Apple additionally up to date the iPad 11 with an A16 chip which begins at 128GB of storage, double the quantity of the iPad 10’s beginning storage.
New iPad Air sizes, costs, launch date
The brand new era of iPad Air is available in 11-inch and 13-inch variations and and metallic blue, pink, yellow, and silver colorways. The 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air with WiFi solely begin at $599 and $799 respectively and include 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB information choices. For WiFi plus mobile, the 11-inch and 13-inch bump as much as $799 and $949.
The brand new Magic Keyboard begins at $269 for the 11-inch mannequin and $319 for the 13-inch mannequin.
The up to date A16 iPad begins at $349 for WiFi and $499 for WiFi and mobile.
Pre-orders begin at this time, with availability on March 12.
