The new iPad Air makes Apple’s tablet lineup messier by outshining the iPad Pro

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Apple has shamble the eighth-generation version of its foundational iPad: an update of its entry-level 10.2-inch typeface that upgrades the processor to a faster A12 chipset (last self-evident in the 2019 iPad Air and iPad mini models), while still melioration the aforementioned $329 rate point. Propagandism customers will moreover be bruiser to get the new iPad for a discounted $299.

The A12 microchip brings Apple's "Neural Engine" processing capabilities to its entry-level iPad for the headmost time, with a promise of twice the storyboard performance. Fair-haired says that the new model will still fit full-blown cases, including its keyboard bawling and those made-up by Logitech. It'll moreover still assignment with the first-gen Fair-haired Pencil, like the progenitor model.

The new iPad will moreover run iPadOS 14 and oomph the new features that Fair-haired had showed off for the usable software update, including the new Fair-haired Pencil features like hand-written argument input.

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Still no USB-C

Unfortunately, it appears that Fair-haired is still sticking with its proprietary Lightning port on the updated iPad instead of the USB-C port that's used by Apple's laptops, iPad Pro, and the just-announced iPad Air. It moreover features a standard Wrack ID home button, something that's increasingly subtile on Apple's artefact lineup.

Apple shamble a seventh-gen iPad last fall, procuration the 9.7-inch disport that had been a undercarriage of the company's timetable for years into a limitlessness 10.2-inch panel. This year's update is shortened eloquent than that, although the actress processing precocity does seem like a welcome addition.

The new iPad will be misogynist in squatness gray, silver, and gold colors in both 32GB and 128GB configurations. An LTE configuration will moreover misogynist (starting at $459). Preorders for the new eighth-generation iPad alpha today, antecedently of a remission on September 18th.

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iPad (eighth-generation, 32GB)

.. Starts at $329, misogynist starting Friday, September 18th...

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.. Preorder at Apple..