The The MacBook Air's pricing is more straightforward. You also get a keyboard included. Plus, only the iPad Pro's panel has a fast refresh rate of Hz. When it comes to resolution, the iPad Pro's display is sharper at x pixels, compared to x for the MacBook Air. In our lab tests, the iPad Pro's screen averaged nits of brightness, which blows away the MacBook Air's The only area where the Air got a win is color accuracy.
The iPad Pro turned in a Delta-E score of 0. The MacBook Air offers an improved scissor-switch keyboard that offers a much more comfortable typing experience than the previous MacBook Air with its butterfly keyboard. The layout not only offers more travel 1mm vs 0. The MacBook Air also features a large 4. The iPad Pro's optional Magic Keyboard uses the same scissor mechanism as the MacBook Air and offers the same 1mm of travel, and provide a similarly pleasant typing experience.
The iPad Pro attaches magnetically to the Magic Keyboard's floating cantilever design, allowing you to adjust the display's angle up to degrees. The biggest difference between the keyboards is that you have to pay — a lot — extra for the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard.
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Specifications and dimensions Design and portability Software and productivity Performance and battery life Display and camera The bottom line. But the MacBook Air has better software for productivity, plus more storage and ports. The iPad Pro is also much more expensive when you factor in the cost of a keyboard. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Popular Reviews. Insider Reviews' All-Time Best list.
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The iPad Air, on the other hand, has an iPhone 11 jr. Even with the goofy angle when docked. On the MacBook Air, the Magic keyboard is built right in. The iPad Air version attaches magnetically and has no escape and no media keys, but has a dedicated emoji key, so there. The MacBook Air trackpad is also much, much, much bigger.
Which some people dislike, because of accidental touch events, but others love because of all the room for touch gestures. Of course, the iPad Air has that huge, totally touchable display anyway. Also, the iPad Air has an optional Apple Pencil that attaches magnetically to the casing, charges inductively, and lets you do pretty much any drawing and handwriting you want to, right on the display.
If you want more of an optional keyboard that extends the touch-first nature of the iPad only when you need it to, by all means go with the MacBook Air and Magic Keyboard. Choosing one over the other comes down to incredibly small details and personal preferences.
Both devices are powered by exactly the same M1 chip. So they're incredibly close to one another, if not identical, when it comes to overall processing power. Despite being a tablet, the iPad Pro can still handle tasks like 4K video editing , 3D design, and augmented reality creation easily. You can get the laptop with a seven-core or an eight-core GPU. The devices also very similar storage capacity. So the only real difference here is that the iPad Pro starts at a smaller storage capacity of GB, which only becomes an advantage when we look at the pricing of each configuration later.
The M1 MacBook Air only comes in one size: The current iPad Pro comes in 11 inches or The If you get the Magic Keyboard cover with the iPad Pro, though, the thickness of each device is exactly the same. In terms of weight, the iPad Pro is lighter. The M1 MacBook Air is about 2.
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