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Apple has put forward the marketing slogan “Why is your next computer a computer” for iPad products for many years, hoping to break the boundaries of tablets and challenge the notebook market. After the new iPad Air 5 is upgraded with 5G and M1 chips, can it really be done? The foreign media “Washington Post” commented on a key point, thinking that it may not work.
The Washington Post pointed out that Apple added the M1 chip, which is the same level as the MacBook, in the iPad Air. Although most people do not need such powerful performance, as applications and systems are gradually upgraded, more resources are needed. For example, Apple will launch iPadOS in the future. 20. Users can clearly feel the product value brought by the M1 chip.
If you want to replace the laptop with the iPad Air, the “Washington Post” named the iPadOS software design as the biggest obstacle. Although the difference with the computer has been greatly reduced, an external keyboard, mouse, hard disk can be connected, and even iPadOS can run 2 apps in parallel, and the operation gestures have to be re-adapted. If you want to work with as many windows as a traditional computer, the efficiency of the iPad is still far better than that of the traditional computer. not on.
The foreign media “The Verge” holds the same view, saying that the keyboard can indeed achieve the same work as the notebook, but it is not completely recommended for users to replace the notebook with an iPad. Multitasking and file management are still not as convenient as macOS.
The “Washington Post” analyzed that the iPad Air has almost everything a tablet user needs and is very versatile, but users have to consider their own needs. If they want to replace a laptop, they also need to consider the price of a smart keyboard, which is almost equivalent to The entry-level MacBook Air.
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