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iPad Air 6 Rumored to Launch in October as Only iPad Refresh of 2023
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I don’t think it will happen that fast. The Air 7 might get ProMotion though.
That thought crossed my mind. I do know the titanium fabrication process is quite expensive due to its extremely high melting point. I’d think they’d move the Pros to Ti first. But again, that thought did cross my mind. 😜
Exactly why I bought the Air 5 last November and I’ve been very happy with it. I could have bought the Pro, but couldn’t justify the added cost for features I didn’t need.
Nonsense. Innovation doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. It’s more trial-and-error until something clicks. A lot of the tech we use today is mature in form and function so it’s become largely incremental refinement and upgrade. It’s not an easy thing to devise something that is game changing and totally reinvents how people will do things.
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I’ve asked this question myself and I think the education market has a lot to do with it. Laminated screens are NOT what this market wants, making repairs to the base models easier and cheaper.
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Missed opportunity! Apple could have released an iPad Mini this year and could have included a 120HZ Pro-Motion display. Looks like I’m not upgrading my iPad this year.
iPad mini 6 handles landscape FT calls just fine, and the camera is not housed in the long side. Could it not work the same on Air: camera housed in short side, Pencil 2 charging on a long side? Real question. Is it that the iPad mini’s smaller physical dimensions makes a side camera, when in landscape, less of an optical issue for users on the other end of a FT call? Otherwise, I’m not sure why the camera placement/functionality could be the same on any iPad as it is on the mini.
Titanium is harder so it can be made much thinner than Aluminium and therefore lighter.
Agree nothing to do with “air” it simply became the midrange iPad. Still have the air 3 which feels quite cheap because sound is coming only from one side. For the money I paid it is very fine but you will get what you pay for. So next time it will be a Pro for me.
That’s how it currently is?
From personal experience it’s certainly bad on a 12.9”, and workable, though still not ideal, on a mini. One thing is that you have to look at the camera if you want to be looking like you’re looking at the other person, and that’s less convenient if you have to look at the side frame than at the top.
The iPad Air hasn't been updated since March 2022, but the iPad mini was last updated in Sept of 2021! Hope the updated the mini along with the air at least.
It’s stronger at the same volume, but i don’t think that’s the case anymore if you make it so much thinner that it weighs significantly less than aluminum. In addition, some aluminum alloys rival titanium in hardness. I don’t know what alloy Apple uses for the iPads. I do remember reading they already use stronger alloys for the Pros.
They need to stop being stingy and just add Face ID to the Air. I’m clinging onto my 2018 Pro for dear life but have no intention of buying another Pro model. The iPad Pro only works as a ‘computer’ for Artists and Graphic Designers. The Mac is a better solution for me for any ‘serious’ work.
It's very tempting for me with my Air 4 and A14. M2 + it's RAM bump should be huge upgrade, but I still don't feel lack of power on my Air to be honest... I guess it will be spontaneous purchase if I like the colors and so.
Edit: The most scary thing in general for me is to buy device with LCD screen. I'm so OCD for dead/stuck pixels. Thankfully my Air 4 is pixel perfect (Air 3 had 2 or 3 dead pixels (dark dots on white) and I returned it same day)
Edit: The most scary thing in general for me is to buy device with LCD screen. I'm so OCD for dead/stuck pixels. Thankfully my Air 4 is pixel perfect (Air 3 had 2 or 3 dead pixels (dark dots on white) and I returned it same day)
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I remember the good old days when we had a 13” polycarbonate MacBook, and a 13” aluminum MacBook, and a 13” MacBook Air, and the last one cost more but did less, such a simple lineup.
Or when we had the 12” iBook G4, and the 12” PowerBook G4 at the same time, with the same screen resolution, so confusing.
Thankfully Saint Job never did models just for price points.
If you look in the outdoor space it's always titanium for ultra light gadgets and not aluminium.
For most of the user is enough, we geek are not a good parameter and btw I’ve a 64GB iPad Air
This could be a great year to offer 128GB as an entry level storage, that would help differentiating more the M1 and M2 models (there are little differences between M1 and M2 SoC), and that wouldn’t be a problem for the iPad Pro lineup as they will probably start from 256GB next year.
I think his point was that it would be less confusing is this were just a cheaper option of the iPad Pro. I was actually "reverse surprised" to see that (1) the iPad Air wasn't actually lighter than the Pro, and (2) that it had a full blown M1 chip in it. Basically, I expected a souped up base iPad, not a scaled back Pro. But OTOH, this is the only way we can get cool colors for it.
. So they've totally changed the idea of what an "iPad Air" means in the line up. It's basically "last year's iPad Pro in cool colors". As a psychology experiment, it'd be interesting to know if this means they sell more of them than if they literally just kept selling last year's iPad Pros at a new lower price.I'm amazed Apple can still source 64GB flash chips! 😂 For all we know, they use 256GB of flash with the software blocking the upper 75%, similar to what companies do with calculators.
Apple will have a hard time getting me to upgrade my iPad just for the sake of ProMotion, that’s for sure.