We have the iPad Air M2. Should you buy the iPad Air M2 in 2025? Because the M4 iPads have arrived & they have a very high pricing. We have the 128GB base variant.
If you want to travel, you can easily carry it
We have this space grey color. By the way, it comes in 3 more colors, Starlight, Purple & Blue. So, You can choose according to your choice. We get rounded corners here. So, the in-hand feel is very good. It doesn’t hurt the hands from corners. It’s a 10.86 inches tablet. So, You’ll have to hold it with both your hands. It’s a good size. It’s a thin tablet. It’s all in Aluminum build. We get a premium matte finish at the back. It’s an iPad Air branding. We get a pin at the bottom for using external keyboard.
There are volume buttons here. There is a power on off button here. It’s a touch ID button. It works very fast and gets unlocked as soon as we touch it. We get 2 grills at the top & 2 grills at the bottom. There is a USB 3.0 Type-C port at the bottom. It comes with up to 10 Gbps bandwidth. It can give up to 4K 60 Hz output. Talking about technical specs, It comes with an M.2 chip. It’s an ARM based chipset tablet. If you are thinking of using M.2 chip in Mac and this will work differently.
So, if you want to stream, use it on a big display or any external device. You can get display output through Type-C port. You can also connect other accessories like hub etc. There are 4 grills at the top & bottom. It doesn’t have 4 speakers. The weight of this iPad is around 460gms. So, it doesn’t feel heavy. If you want to travel, you can easily carry it and show off your apple.
You will get better performance in Mac due to wide area & better thermals. The area of this chip is very thin. So, in the long term, you will get performance drop due to heat. Technically, it’s an 8-core CPU chip. You get a 9-core GPU in this M.2 chip. We get a wireless charger at the top for the pencil. Pencil sticks magnetic & starts charging wirelessly.
If you buy the cellular version, then you won’t get any dialer option or receiver
MacBook Air has an 8-core GPU, but according to the variant, It also comes with a 10-core GPU. We also get a 16-core Neural Engine. So, you will get almost the same performance as the MacBook. It also varies according to the type of apps you are using. But you will have to do it on the speaker. There is no privacy. But if you want to maintain privacy, then you can buy Airpods by Apple. There are a lot of things It has 8 GB RAM, LPDDR5. It also has 128GB storage. Its read speed is around 910 MBPS. And write speed is around 244 Mbps. This is basically above UFS 2.0 & less than UFS 3.0. UFS 2.5. But the read & write speeds are not a problem.
You can download & install apps from the app store. So, overall performance is not a problem. In Connectivity it has Wi-Fi 6E & Bluetooth version 5.3. And this is Wi-Fi only. If you buy the cellular version, then you won’t get any dialer option or receiver. Cellular is basically for the internet. It’s not like you won’t be able to call on WhatsApp or any other app. This is the Geekbench AI Benchmark. The numbers are very good. CPU & GPU both benchmarks are good.
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Talk about the pricing & variants
I’ll tell you that whether you should go for the iPad, Android tablets & which users do you target. We do all these things with a detailed review. Let’s open the box. This is a typical Apple box. This is the device printed here And as soon as you open the box, the tablet comes out. There is a tempered already there. There are some documents and warrenty. The person who use it might have taken them There is a 10th gen iPad 20W charger.
The iPad Air M2 was launched in May 2024. So, We’ll give it a judgement according to that. Let’s talk about the pricing & variants. It comes with Wi-Fi only & cellular. Starting from Rs 60,000 which is the 128GB internal model with WiFi only. And if you buy the cellular 128GB, then Rs 74,990. And if you go up to 1TB, then Rs 1,10,000 for Wi-Fi only & Rs 1,25,000 for cellular. This is for the M2 variant. You will get this cut apple at the back. And along with that a Type-C to Type-C cable. The braided one that we get in iPads.
