expired Posted by Mac2H • Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024 11:54 PM
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expired Posted by Mac2H • Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024 11:54 PM
64GB Apple iPad Air 10.9" Wi-Fi Tablet (5th Gen, Various Colors)
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Some people draw with one, some people edit photos and some replace their laptops with one… but mostly, people use them to surf the web, email, play games, and watch movies. And for that, it doesn't matter much whether you use the $250 or $999 iPad.
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The 64gb is okay, not great but the 6th gen air is 128gb is 200$ more. So you have to ask yourself. Is it worth spending a third of your budget on only a slightly faster and little more storage iPad?
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In my opinion you should get the 5th gen air with 256 GB, for 550 which is 50$ less than the 6th gen. And double the storage.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/...Id=4907300
But the 256GB model can often be found for less than the base model 6th gen. And again, performance difference between the M1 and M2 is less than 20% which doesn't make much of an improvement in the real world so it's not worth the extra money.
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Air 5th gen has a slightly better screen (P3 color gamut, which means more & better colors; fully-laminated, which means a bit thinner, and anti-reflective coating).
Air 5th gen also has better hardware video decoding.
Apple Pencil support is a bit of a mess, so be careful about which Pencil you buy if you get one.
In size and weight they are actually almost identical!
Incidentally, the latest Mini falls about right in between them in performance (A15 CPU, which is faster than A14 but maybe not faster than M1?), close to Air in most other specs, but in my experience the Mini is far more usable in practice especially if you travel. I find the regular iPad size too big, but the 5th-gen Mini is much better to hold and carry around.