In the early morning of March 9, Apple held a spring 2022 new product launch and brought the new iPad Air 5. The new product still maintains the shape design of the previous generation, but it is unexpectedly equipped with Apple's self-developed M1 chip, and the performance is comprehensively improved. Priced at $599 (about 3,784 yuan), the iPad Air 5, available in space gray, starlight, pink, purple and the new blue, will accept the agreement this Friday and go on sale on March 18.
According to Apple, the iPad Air 5 equipped with the M1 chip will bring up to 60% cpu performance improvement. At the same time, GPU performance and AI performance will also be greatly improved, compared with the previous generation of A14 can be described as a comprehensive upgrade. In addition, the iPad Air 5 is equipped with a Liquid Retina screen that supports P3 wide color gamut, 500 nits brightness and a reflective coating.
The iPad Air 5 front camera has also been enhanced, with a 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera and support for task centering, which can bring a better experience during selfies and video calls. Apple also added 5G technology to the iPad Air 5, continuing to retain the Type-C interface, but the transfer speed has been doubled, and the transfer speed of large files is faster.
In September 2020, Apple used the full-screen design for the first time on the iPad Air 4, and the screen ratio was greatly improved, just like the small size of the iPad Pro. In addition, the product also integrates touch ID function on the side power button and upgrades the charging interface to Type-C. For the vast majority of people, this is a very satisfying product.
But unfortunately, the iPad Air 4 only provides 64GB and 256GB versions, and the starting price is as high as 4799 yuan, which is indeed too expensive. To know that the M1 version of the iPad Pro starting price is also 6199 yuan, and there is 128GB storage, the cost performance is simply hanging iPad Air 4, resulting in the latter is not optimistic about most people. Nowadays, the iPad Air 5 has undergone a number of upgrades on the basis of the previous generation, and the price is cheaper, which should be loved by more people.
Affected by the global epidemic, scenarios such as remote office and online classes are becoming more and more common, and consumers' demand for tablet computers is also increasing. It can be found that in the past two years, many mobile phone manufacturers and PC manufacturers have joined the tablet market, in addition to Huawei, Xiaomi, even OPPO has also brought its own first tablet product OPPO Pad, and the competition in the tablet market is more intense.
However, compared with the Apple iPad, in addition to the price has certain advantages, the system experience and performance are still inferior, and most people complain that this is the large-screen version of the Android phone. The tablet market is still dominated by iPads, and Android tablets still need to spend more time on system and interaction if they want to gain a larger market share.