Apple connected Tuesday announced the latest iPad Air models.
The uncover of the caller tablets came conscionable a time aft CEO Tim Cook alluded to an imminent merchandise unveiling coming "this week" connected societal media.
Apple touted the caller iPad Air arsenic "faster, much powerful" tablets and "built for" the tech giant’s Apple Intelligence.
There volition beryllium 2 size options – 11 inches and 13 inches – for the caller iPad Air model.
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Both volition debut connected March 12; however, Apple is taking pre-orders for the caller tablets opening Tuesday, the institution said. The starting prices volition beryllium $599 and $799, respectively.
The caller iPad Air tablets – which are lighter and thinner than the accepted iPad – diagnostic Apple’s M3 chip, thing that Apple said makes them "nearly 2x faster compared to the iPad Air with M1, and up to 3.5x faster than the iPad Air with A14 Bionic."
The spot has enabled Apple to present its "advanced graphics architecture to iPad Air for the archetypal clip with enactment for dynamic caching, on with hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing," it said.
Owners of the caller iPad Air volition besides beryllium capable to marque usage of a slew of Apple Intelligence capabilities.
Among them are the "Clean Up" diagnostic that "makes it casual to region distracting elements successful images" and the "Image Wand" that facilitates "more visually engaging" notes "by turning unsmooth sketches into delightful images," according to Apple.
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The institution said users volition person entree to ChatGPT successful "Writing Tools" and "Siri," successful summation to different Apple Intelligence features.
"For everyone from assemblage students taking notes with Apple Pencil Pro, to travelers and contented creators who request almighty productivity connected the go, iPad Air with M3, Apple Intelligence, and the caller Magic Keyboard instrumentality versatility and worth to the adjacent level," Bob Borchers, Apple's vice president of worldwide merchandise marketing, said successful a statement.
The institution saw nearly $8.09 billion successful nett income from its iPad class successful the archetypal 4th of fiscal 2025, marking a much than 15% leap twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth compared with fiscal 2024’s archetypal quarter. Those iPad income represented astir 6.5% of its full $124.3 cardinal successful gross successful the three-month period.
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Apple’s lineup of iPads consists of the accepted iPad, the iPad Pro and the iPad Mini successful summation to the iPad Air.
Apple past released caller iterations of the iPad Air successful May of past year. It has been selling the tablet since 2013.
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