The new iPad for 2018 is designed to achieve one thing: deliver the best of Apple’s tablet efforts at a more affordable price.
Note that we say more affordable, rather than cheap – because the cost is still higher than many other tablets out there – but the new upgrades bring a lot to the iPad, bridging the gap between a ‘standard’ slate and the more impressive iPad Pro range.
Support for the Apple Pencil adds another dimension to the tablet, enabling a new method of interaction and bringing with it a slew of new apps to interact with, and the upgraded chipset inside – the same one that powered the iPhone 7 – offers more power than many will know what to do with.
Really, the biggest competition for the $329 iPad is the $649 iPad Pro. That extra $300-plus buys you the following:
A slightly bigger, better screen
A faster processor and more RAM for running multiple apps
A smart keyboard connector
Better cameras
More speakers
I think, for the vast majority of people, the cheaper iPad is the better choice. Unless you know for sure that you are going to be able to use the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement (and are very adept at the ins and outs of how iOS works), just get the cheaper one.
You won’t miss the extra features — or, more to the point, you probably won’t miss them to the tune of $300. The only thing that kept zinging me is that the iPad can’t run three apps at once like the Pro can. Well, technically it can run three apps if you include two split-screen apps and a third app showing video in picture-in-picture. But if you open a third app in a slide-over window with two apps split-screened, the background apps will pause. I only ran into that because I kept trying to use the iPad like a full computer. Most people will use it for “iPad things” and do just fine.
IPAD (SIXTH-GENERATION) SPECS AND PRICE
9.4 x 6.6 x 0.29 inches; 1.03 pounds
9.7-inch display; 2048 x 1536 resolution
Oleophobic coating, but not laminated
Apple Pencil support
Apple A10 Fusion processor
8-megapixel rear camera, 1.2-megapixel front camera
First-gen Touch ID home button
No support for Smart Connector
Two stereo speakers, located at the bottom
$329 for 32GB Wi-Fi model
$100 extra for 128GB of storage
$130 extra for LTE version
Credit : https://theverge.com , https://appleinsider.com
