First M4 iPad Air Benchmarks Surface

Like I said yesterday, if you have any m series air you’re fine.

Doomscrolling benchmarked at 0.0023% faster.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Apple Introduces the All-New iPad Air: Now With More Air Than Ever Before

Cupertino, California — Apple today unveiled the newest iPad Air, the most Air iPad the company has ever created, packing more air into a single device than any previous iPad Air, Air-adjacent iPad, or iPad that merely aspired to be airy.

“At Apple, we asked ourselves a simple question,” said Tim Cook. “What if we put even more air into iPad Air?”

After years of research, Apple engineers developed a revolutionary internal architecture that allows the new iPad Air to contain an unprecedented amount of premium, Apple-designed air, carefully curated to deliver the airy experience customers expect.

Breakthrough Air Technologies
The new iPad Air introduces several industry-leading air innovations:


* Air³ Architecture – a triple-layer system that distributes air more evenly throughout the device.
* Adaptive AirFlow™ – dynamically adjusts the amount of air depending on how airy you want your iPad to feel.
* Pro-Grade Air – the same professional-level air previously reserved for devices that cost significantly more.

Together, these technologies make the new iPad Air the most air iPad Apple has ever shipped, and possibly the most air any company has ever shipped in any tablet category.

Designed for Maximum Air
The design team at Apple focused on creating a device that doesn’t just contain air — it celebrates air. The result is a stunningly thin enclosure that allows air to exist with remarkable clarity and intention.

Available in four finishes — Sky Air, Space Air, Slightly Darker Air, and Blue That Is Definitely Still Air — the new iPad Air looks as airy as it feels.

Even More Air With Apple Silicon
Powered by Apple silicon, the new iPad Air delivers incredible performance while maintaining industry-leading levels of air per cubic inch. This means users can edit photos, watch movies, or scroll social media with more air surrounding every task.

Pricing and Availability
The new iPad Air starts at $599, which Apple notes includes a tremendous amount of air at no additional cost.

Pre-orders begin Friday, with availability next week in stores and online.

Apple also confirmed that future updates will bring even more air, because at Apple, there’s always room for more air.

So does this make Netflix faster? 😋

These things have so much raw horsepower for what is generally asked of them.

I love the new iPadOS with windowing and external monitor support but after the novelty wore off, I went back to using it as 'just' an iPad because I still bump into annoying use case walls. I might start trusting it more as my ONLY device when I travel but, truth be told, it's not too much of a hardship to schlep around with a laptop and an iPad in my backpack.

So Apple - what is ALL THIS POWER FOR?? :)

I think the only advantage of this over the prior model would be battery life, as M4’s run more efficiently than M3’s, and if you buy the cellular model the C1X chip is more efficient than what the M3 version ran.
Otherwise, this thing is a massive nothing-burger, especially with the same 128GB base storage.