Apple releases iPad Air 5 with M1 processor, positioning it as a laptop replacement
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At Apple’s event today, the company released a shiny new iPad Air. It packs the M1 Apple Silicon chip into the iPad Air form factor we know and love. Apple’s choice of using the M1 processor, rather than its A15 chips, shows that the iPad has aspirations as a laptop replacement, rather than just being […]
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Apple releases iPad Air 5 with M1 processor, positioning it as a laptop replacement
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Ever since I got my Pro 11 M1, I rarely open my laptop. Well, my ipad can literally do all laptop can do. A replacement (imo for me). Enter office just pull out my ipad, no paper. All in one : r/ipad
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