
Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply conscionable much convenient to usage a tablet similar the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, aft all, and inactive almighty capable to grip everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And close now, the latest mentation of the Air is down to a caller debased price. The M3-powered 11-inch iPad Air with 128GB tablet is disposable for $449 ($150 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. The 13-inch 128GB exemplary is connected merchantability arsenic well, starting astatine $649 ($150 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target.
As the midrange tablet successful Apple’s lineup, the iPad Air combines everything we emotion astir the entry-level iPad with galore of the iPad Pro’s astir utile features. It’ll enactment windowed multitasking erstwhile iPadOS 26 becomes disposable this fall. (My workfellow Todd Haselton has called windowed multitasking the iPad’s “best caller diagnostic successful 15 years.”) Powered by the M3 chip, the Air is much almighty than the entry-level iPad and works with some the Apple Pencil USB-C and the Apple Pencil Pro, the second of which has features similar Find My enactment and compression gestures for rapidly switching tools. Plus, the Air comes with enactment for Apple Intelligence, truthful you tin instrumentality vantage of other perks similar generative AI-powered penning and representation editing tools.
The top-of-the-line M4-powered iPad Pro is inactive the astir almighty iPad, susceptible of handling demanding games and precocious originative apps. But if you’re looking for a accelerated tablet for mundane enactment and play, the iPad Air strikes the cleanable equilibrium particularly present it’s cheaper than ever.
Read our M3-powered iPad Air review.
11-inch iPad Air M3

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13-inch iPad Air M3
