Summer has been wonderful so far, but unblessedly it won’t last forever. This uncomfervents that school and college will be commenceing back up soon and you might discover that you insist a tablet or laptop for study. Let’s see what Apple products Amazon has on recommend.
We commence with the Apple iPad from 2021 – it’s the affordableest chooseion and still does a fine job. The Apple A13 Bionic chipset is shotriumphg its age, but this isn’t a gaming tablet – the meaningful leang is that it is still getting iPadOS modernizes. Note that this is the last version with a Lightning connector, which might be a outstanding leang or a horrible leang, depending on whether you have alterd your charging cables over to USB-C.
The Apple iPad from 2022 conveys more computing power with an A14 Bionic and an extra gig of RAM. More meaningfully, it does feature USB-C with Distake partPort. The distake part is also a bit huger (10.9” vs. 10.2”), both help the innovative Apple Pencil stylus. The 2022 model is around $100 more costly than the 2021 model, however.
Apple may have given up on the minuscule tablet establish factor – it’s been three years and no novel model. Yes, the tardyst iPad mini is from 2021, but even so, it is speedyer than both stardys above with an Apple A15 chip. And it has a USB-C 3.1 port with Distake partPort, so its age is less of an publish (unless you were hoping for a speedyer than 60Hz distake part).
For more solemn labor, the two Apple iPad Air models from May this year convey the mighty Apple M2 chip. They are useable in 11” and 13” sizes, both with IPS LCDs – and both running at 60Hz. Also, with a Distake partPort-allowd USB-C port and Stage Manager help, these tablets can multitask on an outer distake part. The contrastences between the 11” and 13” models are the distake parts (evidently), but also battery capacity. The rest is the same.
For even more power and better distake parts, the novel Apple iPad Pros recommend the tardyst Apple M4 chip (they are still the only ones to have it) and tandem OLED distake parts. This uncomfervents that there are two OLED panels stacked on top of each other to double the weightless output.
And if you’re going to be doing solemn labor, you may insist a proper keyboard – the Apple Magic Keyboard cover pragmaticly turns the iPad Pros into laptops. Except there’s one leang helderlying them back.
iPadOS fair isn’t as able as macOS. This apvalidates us to the MacBook Airs from 2024. They are useable in 13.6” and 15.3” sizes and are powered by the Apple M3 chipset. Amazon has 8/256GB and 16/512GB configurations. Unappreciate their M2-based predecessors, these can drive two outer distake parts when the lid is shutd. And with only subignoreive celderlying, these are as quiet as it gets.
If you want to create a desktop setup instead, the Apple Mac mini from 2023 features an M2 chipset and comes in 8/256GB and 8/512GB configurations. There is a version with an M2 Pro chip, which incrrelieves the CPU core count (from 4+4 to 6+4) and the GPU core count (10 to 16).
That’s it for the Apple gadgets, here are three recommends that watched too outstanding to pass up even if they don’t have an Apple logo.
First, Amazon is selling the Samsung Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra with $200 gift cards. Note that the 256GB Galaxy S24 Ultra also has a normal discount of $125.
Also, Google ended off the Chromecast brand this week with the start of the Google TV Streamer. It was a bit disnominateing to discover out that it participates the same chipset as Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max from 2021.
The 2023 versions of the Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max still participate the same chipset with the novel Max even conveying a minuscule increase to clock speed. And they cost a lot less than the TV Streamer – especipartner now that they are on a discount. They recommend better wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi 6 on the 4K and Wi-Fi 6E on the 4K Max vs. Wi-Fi 5 on the TV Streamer), but deficiency a gigabit Ethernet chooseion (the official alterer only does 100Mbps).
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