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canukstorm said:

entropys said:

bageljoey said:
When comparing the $200 difference between the two base models, I think the difference in base storage is quite significant. If 64GB is not enough for you, your only option with the Air4 is to spend $150 more which mostly wipes out the cost difference.
To me, the difference in storage is at least as significant as other differentiators that seem to get more attention (camera difference, LiDAR, nits...) 

Bigger storage isn't so important for corporate machines. Price and bang for the buck is the reason the air is the top selling iPad, and this makes it even more so.

Great spec and feature comparison btw Ai. I can see the Air replacing my 10.5 inch pro in the future.  Cook made it pretty clear in the keynote that there won’t be more changes to full size iPads this year it seemed to me. He referenced that the iPad Pro was updated earlier this year.

According to yesterday's keynote, Tim Cook mentioned that the base model $329 iPad is Apple's most popular iPad model, not the Air.  The Air is for those that want Pro features at a more affordable price than the iPad Pro.

The Air is for those that want to pretend they have Pro features, which they clearly do not.  Making it have a full-size screen does not make it a Pro.  

So you have an article comparing the 2019 and 2020 Air.  Now you have an article comparing the 2020 Air and 2019 Pro.  Yet completely different information is conveyed in both.  In the 2019 and 2020 Air article, you go on and on about how the 2020 Air is superior to the Pro in every way (but it is not).  Yet this article clearly explains how superior the Pro is compared to the Air, explaining all the differences, but the other article fails to explain how the Pro is actually better than the Air.

So you somehow claim the A14 is faster than the A12Z, only because one chip has a higher number than the other chip, without even a real-world comparison.  The A14 is the iPhone chip, not the more advanced iPad chip.  The A14 has 4-core graphics.  The A12Z has 8-core graphics.  The Air's graphics will not compare to the performance of the Z chip.  So don't claim the A14 is faster when you have not seen it or done any benchmark reviews.  You can guarantee the Pro will have more RAM than the Air.

Gaby said:

@AppleInsider Guys its two separate articles now where you make the mistake of stating the 2020 iPad Air has two speakers. It has the same 4 speaker design as the iPad Pro except they  are only advertised as operating  in landscape

It does not have the same speaker system as the Pro.  It has a two-speaker system that only produces stereo sound in landscape mode.  Apple's webpage clearly specifies this.  The Air has two speaker audio landscape mode.  The Pro has a 4-speaker audio system (that produces stereo sound in both portrait and landscape modes).  In portrait mode, the two top speakers produce the highs and the bottom speakers produce the lows.

xander0985 said:

The A12Z in the iPad Pro has two more high performance cores (8 cores total), so will likely best the 2020 Air (6 cores: 2 high-performance, 4 high-efficiency) in multi-core performance.

Don't forget the 8-core graphics in the A12Z, compared to 4-core graphics in the A14.

The new iPad Air is not better than the iPad Pro 'in almost every aspect'.  The display in the new Air is not the same as the 11-inch iPad Pro.  The iPad Pro has ProMotion, which is lacking in the Air.  The new Air is lacking the TruDepth camera system, which offers more features than just FaceID.  TouchID in the on/off button seems ridiculous.  How many times are people going to turn off the iPad trying to authenticate?  At this time, no benchmarks are available for the A14.  However, the new Air got the iPhone version of the CPU, not the more advanced iPad Pro version.  The iPad Pros (2018 and 2020) have the A12X and A12Z which are far superior for graphics.  The A12X has 7-core graphics and the A12Z has 8-core graphics.  The A14 only has 4-core graphics.  It will be interesting to see how it performs, but unlikely to be faster than the graphics in the Pro.  Also, the USB-C port in the new Air is crippled.  The Pro has USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10Gbps.  The new Air is limited to 5Gbps.

Charging $100 more with the same storage options and no TruDepth camera system on an 'all screen' display device is pretty lame.  You do get far more options for $200 more in the Pro than what you conveniently left out in your comparison.  ProMotion display, better camera system, true 4 speaker stereo audio (The Air only has stereo in landscape mode), TruDepth camera system, faster USB-C transfer speed, faster graphics, and more storage options.