Apple 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air : Price, Specs, Availability

Less than a twelvemonth aft upgrading its iPad Air with the M2 chip, Apple is already backmost with an enhanced version. Today, the institution announced an all-new iPad Air, implicit with the M3 chipset. But the updates don't halt there—the institution besides unveiled a agelong overdue refresh of its basal iPad model, adding an A16 chipset and treble the storage. All tablets are disposable for pre-order contiguous and volition vessel connected March 12.

The seventh-generation iPad Air doesn't person immoderate noteworthy hardware upgrades. As with its predecessor, you'll person the prime betwixt an 11-inch and 13-inch show sizes—both of which person slim bezels, Touch ID integrated into the apical button, a 12-megapixel scenery selfie camera, and a 12-megapixel rear camera.

You'll find the important changes nether the hood. Apple updated the tablet with an M3 chip, which the institution archetypal debuted it backmost successful 2023, alongside the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and 24-inch iMac. It's since made its mode to past year's MacBook Air (13-inch and 15-inch). It's not the latest spot (Apple launched the M4 backmost successful May), but it's inactive considered almighty and reasonably new.

Equipped with an 8-core CPU and 9-core GPU, Apple claims CPU show is up to 35 percent faster than the iPad Air with M1, portion graphics are up to 40 percent faster. The M3 besides supports features similar mesh shading, ray tracing, and dynamic caching for graphics-intensive tasks.

The institution says the Neural Engine is besides up to 60 percent faster compared to the M1 for “AI-based workloads.” This volition assistance to powerfulness Apple Intelligence—the company's suite of AI features similar Mail Summaries, Smart Replies successful Messages, Writing Tools Cleanup successful Apple Photos, Genmoji, and more. You tin work each astir these features and much successful our roundup of macOS Sequoia features.

Apple besides released a caller mentation of its Magic Keyboard lawsuit for the iPad Air. It comes with the aforesaid upgrades you'll find connected the latest mentation for the iPad Pro, including a larger built-in trackpad on with a enactment of keys for functions similar surface brightness and measurement control. It's a spot much affordable this clip astir too, starting astatine $269 for the 11-inch tablet and $319 for the 13-inch version. As with the M2 iPad Air, it's compatible with the Apple Pencil Pro arsenic well.