I am also surprised that Genshin Impact is available for the iPad Air and also the iPad Pro are both using Apple’s M1 chip, but Genshin Impact is not available for MacOS? Why?Īnyway, I also use the iPad Air to do quite a lot of work. I wasn’t expecting this – bit I’m sure as hell surprised by its performance. It ran Genshin Impact at its absolute maximum graphical settings at 60fps without any issues at all. That aside, I also use the iPad Air to play Genshin Impact and oh dear lord – the performance coming out of this M1 chip is amazing. Fascinated by this, I also took some pictures with the iPad Air and surprisingly, the pictures are actually good! How’s the performance of the M1 chip in the iPad Air (2022) Even the interface was a lot better.Īpparently, the last fold of the flap can be flipped inwards and actually held on by a magnet while revealing the camera. It’s functional, has a build-in dictionary and highlighter feature so that you can save these words or phrases or sentences for future references. Other than that, one of my favoite activities with the old iPad was to read books because I like Apple’s Books app more than Google Play Books. I mean, it’s not what I expected but hey, it works the way I wanted it to, albeit in a different way. For example, I can drag and drop videos into VLC to watch them later with the VLC app, but the Photos app doesn’t see those videos that VLC sees. But no, it acts like… a sandbox of storage for each app that supports this feature. In my mind, I thought it was a storage partition that we use it like a USB flash drive. Then, I remembered that the iPad OS now has a new segment called “files”. I was able to select what files and settings to sync between the MacBook Pro and the iPad Air – but I didn’t want to duplicate my files anyway, so I didn’t sync them. I was blown away by the seamless integration that Apple has developed here – and best of all, I didn’t have to use iTunes! Direct integration into macOS’s Finder! Then, I realized one more thing – the iPad Air was displayed as a removable device on the MacBook. Since I recently also started using a MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip, it immediately told me that Facetime was usable on both machines.
Once I got everything setup on the iPad Air, I went ahead and download some essential apps and update the software too. The experience was rather interesting, though. It’s been a long time since I last used an iPad so I took my time to learn and adapt to the new iPad OS. How is it like to use the iPad Air 5th Gen?Īnd now, let’s talk about how it is to actually use the 5th gen iPad Air.
I know Lightning was the first to bring forth and make the idea of a reversible USB connector ubiquitous, but it’s time to embrace USB-C. Apple, please do the same for the iPhones too. It now even uses USB-C which I truly appreciate. It also has stereo speakers – making the iPad Air one of the best tablets for media consumption. One thing I do like is that Apple didn’t push the boundary to make the bezel as small as possible – because I think Appel understands that for a tablet, you’ll need bezels to actually hold the tablet properly to use it. It’s a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD screen at 60Hz only, but it still looks and feels absolutely fantastic. The overall dimensions of this 5th generation iPad Air is actually identical to the 4th generation – which is actually a good thing since you can just reuse all the cases from before.Įven the screen is the same. This tablet is thin, lightweight, and obviously very pretty to look at. We’ll put all the accessories aside and talk about the iPad Air on its own first.
A brief introduction of the configuration of the 5th Gen iPad Air I got – it’s the Starlight color with 256GB of storage with cellular, and I do have a SIM card inside though it’s connected to WiFi for most of the time.