Review | iPad Air 2020 review: with updated design it is lighter, cheaper and more powerful than the iPad Pro
- The latest iPad Air has a great camera, a sleek design and the powerful Apple A14 Bionic chip
- It doesn’t have all the features of the iPad Pro, but those that are missing aren’t important
Apple’s recent iPad Pros have been excellent machines for both work and play, and perhaps no other similar portables on the market can perform as well.
But as the name implies, those devices are meant for “professionals” and carry more bulk and a heftier price tag. Apple’s new iPad Air 2020 aims to bring that same experience to the masses: it’s lighter, cheaper, and ironically, packs more processing power.
Design and hardware
If we’re just comparing this new 4th-generation iPad Air to its forebears, then this is a huge upgrade, as it’s made the jump to the slim-bezelled, iPhone X-like design aesthetic while last year’s iPad Air stuck with the decade-old circular home button design.
The Air keeps all the important hardware features that make the Pro great: sleek industrial design, bright and vibrant 2,360 x 1,640 LCD display, a really good (for a tablet) 12-megapixel camera, and support for Apple’s best in class (but expensive) stylus and keyboard case. Snap both of those accessories on and the iPad Air can be a fully functional laptop or sketch pad.