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New iPad Air, iPad Pro, and MacBook Air Models Likely to Launch in March or April
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My pockets are a little low right now due to my home reno, but even if they weren’t, I’d be tempted to wait it out a few more months for the back-to-school sale. An 11” OLED iPad Pro this year would be perfect for me. I don’t need that speed, I’m wanting that screen.
I’m currently using an iPad Air 2, so slow. Actually, I had a 2017 iPad Pro 10.5” but gave it to my kid, so now I’m limping along with this old iPad Air 2.
Good argument! With your reasoning there is no point of anything more than a Macbook Air in the lineup either.
Looking forward to the release of new models, so that I can get better deals from third-party stores of previous generations of iPad Pros🤣
now that seems more intresting. An iPad Air with 12.9 inch display.. if it is a LCD display, I'm more intrested. OLED is full of flickering issue, so a big no for me☹️
Considering iPad sales have been a bit lacklustre the last few years, the last thing Apple should be doing is increasing prices as OLED is unlikely to drive significant interest on its own. But then, we also know Apple’s pricing strategy has long been “We’re selling less? Increase prices!”
Well, it will be an interesting sales experiment then and might get somewhat confusing for customers. With iPad screen sizes being similar (Pro & Air), I guess Apple will try to upsell the new OLED screens of Pro and we shall see if the customers would be ok paying significantly more for this. Unless Apple will surprise us with another must-have Pro feature. I just cannot imagine what this could be.
These days I advise to just buy the MacBook Air, especially if they do massively increase iPad Pro prices, a Mac is just far better value as it’s far more capable, iPads have such a restrictive OS on them. I use mi e daily but never consider it to be more then a large iPhone, cause it is, lacking basic abilities.
At least iPads and MacBooks are in distinctly different categories, but mixing iPad Pro and Air at the same time is indeed a new trick.
This would be nuts, considering an M2 MBA starts at 1299€. 🤷🏻♂️
I have the 16gb M1. I'm not a power-user, by any definition, other than spending a lot of time in terminal and probably won't upgrade.
I've had base 16GB ram on my MBA's for decades, you just buy it.
But it's more likely Apple will start at 12GB than 16GB at this point, I think.
Then an upgrade to 24GB ram will be nice on my next MBA.
Good news however to hear the M3 MacBook Air's are in work to be released soon.
I was pondering if it would be worth it to upgrade my old one to a M2 lately. But if the M3 are around the corner I hold out a bit more
This makes me excited, a lot more than the scubas. 🥰
If Apple also could make them in 3 sizes; 11, 13, 15, and by so re-introduce a smaller MBA again I would be absolutely thrilled.
Wife is getting an Air as soon as it is released. I hope it has ProMotion, since it is almost 7 years since it was included in the Pro line, so about time it became part of the Air line.
The current iPad mini has display issues for many people, you’d think Apple would want to be in a hurry to move on from that.
Hopefully true. The sooner the 15" M3 Air comes out the better! I'll have it preordered as soon as it goes up. Would be nice if Apple gave us more than 8GB RAM for starters.
Exactly.
Unless you're a professional - or a tough gamer - that works exactly with those kinds of apps, in which case a MBA wouldn't be enough.