Apple Introduces M3-Powered iPad Air With Minimal Upgrades

The new iPad Air offers improved performance for creative professionals and gamers but retains its predecessor's design and features.

The seventh-generation iPad Air now features Apple's M3 chip, offering enhanced graphics capabilities such as ray tracing, mesh shading, and dynamic caching.
The tablet is available in 11-inch and 13-inch models, with the larger display providing a slightly brighter screen but no significant upgrades to panel technology like OLED or mini LED.
Critics note the lack of innovation, as the new iPad Air retains the same design, battery life, and 60-Hz refresh rate as the previous model, despite the performance boost.
Apple Intelligence features, available with iPadOS 18.1, are supported, offering tools like AI-driven writing assistance and image editing, but these are not exclusive to the M3 model.
The iPad Air (2025) is positioned as an affordable option for users needing advanced graphics performance, but its improvements may not justify the upgrade for those with recent models.