- Official Post
Description
iPad Air with the M3 chip and built for Apple Intelligence. iPad Air with M3 brings Apple’s advanced graphics architecture to iPad Air for the first time — taking its incredible combination of power-efficient performance and portability to a new level. iPad Air with M3 is nearly 2x faster compared to iPad Air with M1,1 and up to 3.5x faster than iPad Air with A14 Bionic.2 Users will feel the speed of M3 in everything they do, from creating engaging content faster than ever to playing demanding, graphics-intensive games. Available in two sizes and four gorgeous finishes that users love, the 11-inch iPad Air is super portable while on the go, and the 13-inch model provides an even larger display for more room to be creative and productive. Designed for iPad Air, the new Magic Keyboard enhances its versatility and delivers more capabilities. With iPadOS 18, support for Apple Intelligence, advanced cameras, fast wireless 5G connectivity, and compatibility with Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C), the new iPad Air offers an unrivaled experience.
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Specifications
Width: 214.9 mm
Height: 280.6 mm
Depth: 6.1 mm
Weight: 616 grams
Color: purple
Year introduced: 2025
LED backlit Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology
2732-by-2048-pixel resolution at 264 ppi
Wide color (P3)
True Tone
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Fully laminated
Antireflective coating
600 nits brightness
Supports Apple Pencil Pro, Apple Pencil (USB‑C)
Apple Pencil hover
Apple M3 chip
8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores
9-core GPU
Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
16-core Neural Engine
8GB RAM
Media Engine
Hardware-accelerated 8K HEVC, 4K H.264, ProRes, and ProRes RAW
Video decode engine
Video encode engine
ProRes encode and decode engine
AV1 decode
12MP Wide camera, ƒ/1.8 aperture
Digital zoom up to 5x
Five-element lens
Panorama (up to 63MP)
Sapphire crystal lens cover
Autofocus with Focus Pixels
Smart HDR 4
Wide color capture for photos and Live Photos
Photo geotagging
Auto image stabilization
Burst mode
Image formats captured: HEIF and JPEG
You can find more specs here.
My Opinion
Like every iPad it's for me simply the best you can get in a tablet form. The speed, the quality, the price, everything is top. You can buy the simple iPad, the Air, the Pro, with every model you'll be satisfied. You just need to choose your model, so the one that fits your needs.
Combined with the Magic Keyboard and Pencil it's a beast. My wife works a lot with the pencil and the iPad and she is so happy with the new one (she had my Pro one from 2018 and it's a huge difference)
I just can recommend it - it's more than enough for most of the people. For kids I would use the normal one.