2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?

Apple’s iPad Air’s latest refreshing is not too new, so it has nothing to say, but regardless of it, it is worth a brief look.

Almost every way, it is like the previous generation. There are only two differences to go: a slightly fastened M3 from the M2 chip, and a new design of the magic keyboard.

If you want more details about this tablet, refer to our M2 iPad Air Review from last year. Whatever we say, it now applies.

From m2 to m3

The M3 chip has 8 core CPUs with four performance core and four performance core. On the GPU, there are nine core. There is also a 16 -core nerve engine, which Apple calls its NPU.

We have seen M3 in other devices before, and it compares to the GEEC Bench Benchmark here in the iPad Air. The A-series chips of M1 or old will see some of the major benefits, but this is a subtle step at M2 in last year’s iPad Air.

This will mainly promote a significant promotion for the 3D Games (the choice of The murder of the murderer surge, Residential Evil VillageFor, for, for,. Infinity NikkiAnd Gennashi Effect) And some heavy duty applications use only a few people, such as CAD or video editing program.

Most of the iPad Air target audience will never know the difference, though, and the basic benefit here is not necessarily the performance of the real world. Rather, the upgrade of this upgrade is to add certain features, namely, hardware speed -ray tracing and hardware faster AV1 video codec support.

This is not new, but this chip supports Apple Intelligence, Apple has recently been introduced to the Generative AI’s highly upset suit. There are not many devices left in the Apple lineup at this location that do not support Apple Intelligence (this is basically the cheapest, entry level iPad that is not it) and this is good news for Apple, as it helps the company facilitates its marketing messaging around the features.