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It’s not the update that most Apple watchers were hoping for<\/a>, but today, Apple announced upgrades to two of its iPads, including the standard iPad and the quirky middle child, the iPad Air.<\/p>\n

The iPad Air moves up from an M2 in last year’s Air refresh<\/a> to an M3 chip, which is capable of Apple Intelligence and more graphics rendering. The Magic Keyboard gets a new layout with a larger trackpad and a physical function key row.<\/p>\n

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That’s a notable upgrade for anybody doing real, portable-minded work with an iPad, but there’s even better news: The new Magic Keyboard<\/a> with those physical keys is backward-compatible with previous iPad Airs: 4th and 5th generation, 11-inch M2 and M3, and 13-inch M2 and M3 models (better news, that is, if you’re good with the $270 price).<\/p>\n

The new Airs ship in the same 11- and 13-inch sizes. Apple’s messaging about the new Air<\/a> promotes the graphic performance of the M3 chip, saying it provides “up to 40 percent faster graphics performance over M1” and support for things like hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing. Perhaps more realistically than promising serious gaming on native iPad apps, Apple touts 4 times the performance of an M1 iPad Air for “graphics-intensive rendering workflows.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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