- The new M3 iPad Air offers a good value at $ 599 / £ 599 / AU $ 999
- But it becomes less attractive when you start adding updates
- If you are doing that, buying an iPad Pro could make more sense
Apple has just launched a new iPad Air with M3 Chip, updating the middle -range tablet while maintaining its initial price of $ 599 / £ 599 / AU $ 999 like the M2 edition, a small pleasant impulse for Apple fans. However, I have been taking a look at the different configuration options (see the complete list below), and you quickly encounter a problem: the iPad Pro.
Here is an example. If it were me and I had my heart prepared to buy an iPad Air, I would probably want to get the 13 -inch model on the 11 -inch version. This not only gets you a more expansive screen, which is fantastic to watch movies and edit videos, but is actually brighter than the 11 -inch Air iPad. While this device rises to 500 brightness nits, the 13 -inch Air iPad reaches the maximum of 600 nits.
But choosing that update has the price of the iPad Air up to $ 799 / £ 799 / au $ 1,349. Add an storage update of the base of 128 GB to 256 GB and is seeing a total of $ 899. That is quite expensive for a middle range tablet, and means that the ipad air loses part of its brightness.
|
Model |
$ Us |
The United Kingdom |
Au $ |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (128 GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 599 |
£ 599 |
AU $ 999 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (256 GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 699 |
£ 699 |
Au $ 1,199 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (512GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 899 |
£ 899 |
Au $ 1,549 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (1 TB), Wi-Fi |
$ 1,099 |
£ 1,099 |
Au $ 1,899 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (128 GB), Wi-Fi + Cell |
$ 749 |
£ 749 |
Au $ 1,249 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (256 GB), Wi-Fi + Cell |
$ 849 |
£ 849 |
Au $ 1,449 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (512GB), Wi-Fi + Cellular |
$ 1,049 |
£ 1,049 |
Au $ 1,799 |
|
iPad Air M3 11 inches (1 TB), Wi-Fi + Cell |
$ 1,249 |
£ 1,249 |
Au $ 2,149 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (128 GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 799 |
£ 799 |
Au $ 1,349 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (256 GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 899 |
£ 899 |
Au $ 1,549 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (512GB), Wi-Fi |
$ 1,099 |
£ 1,099 |
Au $ 1,899 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (1 TB), Wi-Fi |
$ 1,299 |
£ 1,299 |
Au $ 2,249 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (128 GB), Wi-Fi + Cellular |
$ 949 |
£ 949 |
Au $ 1,599 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (256 GB), Wi-Fi + Cellular |
$ 1,049 |
£ 1,049 |
Au $ 1,799 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (512GB), Wi-Fi + Cellular |
$ 1,249 |
£, 1249 |
Au $ 2,149 |
|
iPad Air M3 13 inches (1 TB), Wi-Fi + Cellular |
$ 1,449 |
£ 1,449 |
Au $ 2,499 |
A price setting problem
If you are spending so much money, it could actually be worth considering the 11 -inch iPad Pro, which begins at just $ 100 more ($ 999 / £ 999 / Au $ 1,699).
That gives you an excellent OLED screen in Tandem, facial identification, promotion update rates, up to 1,600 maximum brightness nits and M4 chip, among other benefits. That is a lot of additional thrust for not much more effective. The main drawback is that it is obtaining a smaller 11 -inch screen, since the 13 -inch iPad Pro begins in the most expensive sale price of $ 1,299 / £ 1.299 / $ 2,199.
But if you can live with the 11 -inch screen (which is still a fantastic screen thanks to that OLED tandem), you get one of the best tablets that money can buy for a little more than an less advanced iPad air. And, ironically, the iPad Pro is even thinner than the iPad air, despite the name of the latter, which implies that it should be the lighter option.
It is a difficult position to be. Do not be misunderstood, the ipad air of $ 599 / £ 599 / £ 599 / au $ 999 has a great value for money, and you get a lot of tablet for your money thanks to its pen weight design and its chip M3. But once the updates begins to add, it is much less attractive compared to the iPad Pro.
Deciding which device is suitable for you is reduced to personal preference, but if you are looking at the iPad air and adding some updates, I would find me inexorably drifting towards the iPad Pro.
Maybe that is Apple’s people when they are intelligent with their prices, or maybe it is an oversight that is undermining iPad air. Anyway, the new iPad Air makes more sense when it does not add any update.
