First, Apple unveiled the iPad in early 2011 … and it was a hit! Finally we have the small, light and easy to use tablet. Since then, every year there are new models, and This latest Air iPad 2 and iPad Mini 3 . Is it worth it, however, to replace its current on new Apple tablet?
Even more thin and light
The first iPad was about 1.3 cm thick. Since then, the iPad became more flat. Model Air 2 compared to its predecessor is a good millimeter thinner and device now has a thickness of 6.1 mm . Supersmukłej housing fell victim to the mute button. Now, to mute the iPad, you need to take advantage of the quick settings menu. Air 2 lost weight by 30 grams and LTE version weighs 444 grams only . In practice, however, it is difficult to notice the difference. Good news – the housing is as scratch resistant as its predecessor. The new model comes in three variants of internal memory: 16, 64 and 128 GB, and also available with LTE module for mobile surfing. You should know that the model without LTE is also deprived of the GPS receiver and do not use it for a typical navigation.
Improved screen
The resolution and screen size remained unchanged, the Air 2 displays 2048 x 1536 pixels on the screen almost 25-centimeter diagonal. These parameters, however, quietly enough for detailed display of excellent quality.
Screen Protection Smart Cover for the new iPad Air 2 occurs in seven colors . Practical feature: expensive plastic case (169 zł) automatically turns on when you open the iPad.
Advantage: reflection of the new display is about two-thirds lower than in iPad Air. Thus, although the display is not completely free of reflections, but outside or in rooms with ceiling lights reflections almost do not interfere. In terms of color and contrast odzworowania almost nothing has changed – but these parameters in the first Air and Retina models (iPad 3 and 4) were really good.
Display iPad Air 2 (right) reflects much less light nż previous models, to such as the iPad Air (left)
More power, faster wi-fi
Air iPad 2 is the fastest processor Apple marked A8X . Although he has still only two cores and is clocked at a maximum speed of 1.5 GHz, but in spite of it belongs to the currently fastest processors in tablets. In comparison with the first Air new processor almost 50 percent faster, and more than ten times faster than the first iPad. It looks good in benchmarks such as Geekbench or V8, but in practice between the two models Air almost no difference: when you turn on the new iPad Air 2 was up to 14 seconds faster than its predecessor, but this step is done very rarely. Compared with older models of iPad difference in performance is, however, felt – iPad 4 especially in games was much slower and older models, or iPad 1 and 2, were slower in almost any application.
Wi-Fi iPad 2 ac Air through technology has become faster and has a longer range. In the space connection lasted up to 225 meters – less than 60 meters more than its predecessor. Data transmission through two walls reached nearly 40 Mb / s.
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smaller perseverance
Along with the thickness of the housing of the model to model but slightly decreases battery life . iPad 4 practical test has withstood more than 18 hours, the iPad Air was 17 hours, and air 2 in the test reached only 15 hours. It’s a decent value, but does not impress. For comparison Lenovo Yoga 10 withstood the test until 21 hours . While surfing over Wi-Fi battery empties seven hours – in previous models was to eight and a half hours. While watching the video iPad Air 2 work more than surfing the web, here in the test battery has run out after ten hours.
The new camera is hardly better
The camera on the back is now 8 megapixels, but its photo in practice does not look better than the pics from the old Air and do not come close to the quality of the iPhone 6 Plus . New in the iPad is a function of shooting and recording video in slow motion. If you like loud music, better not set at maximum volume, because the output voltage of the headphone jack in the test was almost 300 mV. With high performance headphones will be really loud.
Few new iPad Mini
The third edition of the iPad mini has brought little new processor and the screen remained unchanged. What is new is the home button with integrated fingerprint reader. Instead of entering a code to unlock the iPad or buy in iTunes, simply place your finger now. Also new: Wi-Fi is now in the current standard ac. The test resulted in a little more reach and clearly higher speed. However, while surfing the Internet hardly notice the speed increase. If you do not want to have udogonieniach, better to buy the iPad mini 2 and save $ 400 at the same time. The weakest iPad mini 2 with 16 GB of memory and Wi-Fi costs only 1299 dollars.
Summary
There is no doubt – the new iPad is the absolute top among the tablets and the iPad Air 2 dumps her predecessor in the first place ranking. Directly behind them, knocking the iPad mini 3. But Apple’s superior performance makes stiff fees. mini iPad 3 with 128 GB of storage and transmission costs 2999 gold LTE and iPad Air 2 until 3399, respectively.
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