iPad Air, What The Experts Have To Say

Earlier on this year, we wrote about how the iPad was on the verge of being redundant. With smaller but equally capable offerings from Google, Samsung and even Apple themselves, with the iPad mini, it seemed as if the days were numbered for the original tablet.

However, Apple then launched the iPad Air and all that changed for us. Don’t just take our word for it here are what some of the industry’s best have to say about the new iPad.

Time

Harry McCracken

The iPad Air’s best feature is the 475,000 third-party offerings tailored for it in the App Store, still by far the most bountiful collection of tablet software in quantity, quality and sheer diversity, from entertainment to Web tools to education to mundane business stuff. No competing model has anything like it, which is the single biggest reason why no other full-sized model has made much of an impact on the market.

All Things D

Walt Mossberg

It doesn’t do everything a laptop does, but for many common scenarios, it has replaced the laptop as its owners’ go-to device. Bottom line: If you can afford it, the new iPad Air is the tablet I recommend, hands down.

Engadget

Bard Molen

As its name suggests, the Air comes with a revamped design that sheds almost half a pound of weight, along with a couple millimeters of thickness and a significant amount of bezel area. At the same time, it maintains the same 9.7-inch Retina display that defined the last two iPads. While that’s impressive enough in its own right, Apple also managed to make the device more powerful, thanks to the same A7 chip that already powers the iPhone 5s.

TechCrunch

Darrell Etherington

The iPad Air is a huge improvement over the iPad 4th-gen, or the iPad 2, pictured in the gallery. Its form factor is the best currently available for a 10-inch tablet, and it provides a great blend of portability and usability that leans towards the media device end of the spectrum.

When Apple introduced the iPad mini, I fell in love and felt that I’d never be swayed back to the other side. The iPad Air makes the argument anew that there’s still room for big tablets in people’s lives, and it might just help usher in an era of computing where households own more than one kind of iPad, and PCs are harder and harder to find.

David Pogue

(Former New York Times)

It’s smaller, lighter, and faster than ever, with a much bigger catalogue of apps and much better ones, than the competition. If you want a big tablet, this is the one that will make you happiest.

Put another way, there really is something in the Air.

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