Apple iPad Air 2

摘要

Apple's iPad Air 2 has launched and, unlike its more cautious little brother, the iPad Mini 3 (see page 74), it's replete with enhancements and new features. It's fast, thin and beautiful to look at. But is it too thin or too expensive? In a year of near-everyday use, the original iPad Air hasn't struck us as too fat or too heavy, but Apple has nevertheless sliced 6 percent off its weight and nearly 19 percent off its depth. It's now just 6.1mm thick (down from 7.5mm) and weighs 437g (for the Wi-Fi version) or 444g (with 3G) - that's down from 469g/478g. The Air 2 is crazy-slim. And we mean that not entirely in a positive sense; shaving further millimetres off an already whisper-light chassis seems like an extravagance, and was presumably achieved at some cost - to battery size, and potentially to physical robustness.