The unveiling and release of the iPad Air felt like 2012 all over again. Just like the first-generation iPad mini unveiled last October, Apple this year found a way to again reduce its full-size iPad — this time in form factor, not screen size — to make it similarly portable but even more powerful. The result, the iPad Air, is a great product by almost any standard — it’s just not new, or special, or different from any other iPad.
The iPad Air has four things going for it: It is lighter, it is thinner and easier to hold, it is faster, and its cameras are improved compared to previous iPad releases. But every single one of those iPad advancements is slight. Comparing this fifth-generation iPad Air to the third-generation iPad from nearly two years ago, the iPad Air is slightly lighter (it’s really not that noticeable), slightly thinner and easier to hold, slightly faster (about two seconds difference in Web browsing, eight seconds difference in launching graphics-intensive apps), and its cameras are slightly improved. See a pattern here?
The iPad Air, in all honestly, is Apple’s most modest iPad release yet.
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