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Apple’s iPad Air Gets an M4 Upgrade for the Same Starting Price
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Apple’s iPad Air Gets an M4 Upgrade for the Same Starting Price

Gizmodo · Mar 2, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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New chip, but it's the same $599 for the 11-inch model and $799 for the 13-inch model.

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Apple’s iPad Air just got an upgrade to an M4 chip, but it won’t be getting a price bump over the last generation’s MSRP. Like the last generation, the base 11-inch iPad Air will start at $599, while the 13-inch will start at $799, which is a decent value proposition considering the significant spec bump over the previous M3 chip. See M4 iPad Air at Apple Apple says the M4 chip has a 30% faster CPU compared to the M3 chip on previous iPad Air models, though this generation will have the same number of CPU and GPU cores as the last generation—eight and nine, respectively. Apple is also touting a significant jump in unified memory over the last generation, jumping 50% to 12GB, with memory bandwidth increases to 120GB/s, which Apple says should help run AI models faster. That’s a significant increase in RAM over last generation, which started at 8GB. Same look, more performance. © Apple In addition to the M4 chip, the new iPad Air will also get the N1 and C1X, which are Apple’s newest and fastest Wi-Fi and cell connections. According to Apple, the N1 should equate to better performance when connected to 5GHz networks and should improve reliability with hotspots and AirDrop. The iPad Air will also support Wi-Fi 7 for the first time. If you’re using a cellular model of iPad, the C1X brings up to 50% faster cellular data performance, according to Apple, and up to 30% less modem energy usage compared to the M3 iPad. Outside of the performance upgrades, the new iPad Air looks pretty much the same as the old iPad Air, with the same LCD screen, the same 60Hz refresh rate, as well as the same speakers and cameras. This update is all about what’s going on inside. You can preorder the new iPad Air with M4 starting on Wednesday, March 4, and it will start shipping to customers on March 11. Both the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air M4 will be available in blue, purple, starlight, and space gray, with the same storage configurations as the last generation: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB. See M4 iPad Air at Apple

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