We will first warn that the iPad Air has often been in and out of stock at Amazon. You have to wait until the end of August / beginning of September to actually get this model, but you can grab the deal price now and just wait for it to ship. At the moment the selling price only applies to the silver, WiFi, 256GB model. Since the base iPad Air only has 64 GB of storage and costs $ 500, you get four times that amount of space for only $ 50 more in this deal.
We gave the latest iPad Air a score of 90 for a number of reasons, but they all add up to a tablet that is likely to meet the needs of most people. It has the classic design that most people think of when they think of an iPad, with the Home button with TouchID sensor under its 10.5-inch Retina display. The screen has True Tone technology, which adjusts the color temperature based on the lighting in your area, but it does not have ProMotion technology, which is reserved for Apple’s higher end devices.
The iPad Air runs on Apple’s A12 Bionic chip, which is a step up from the A10 chip found in the entry-level $ 329 iPad. You may not claim the performance level found in the iPad Pros, but the air will get better over time and provide better overall performance than the base iPad. We also appreciate Air’s 11-hour battery life and its support for the first-generation Apple Pencil and Apple’s Smart Keyboard. Overall, the iPad Air not only gets the basics right, but adds just enough extras to make it worth spending a few dollars more.
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