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  The 2020 iPad Air. [credit:
  Samuel Axon ]

For a long, long time, most of Apple’s iPads looked fundamentally the same. They all had a home button, they all had a similar aesthetic, and they all had similar screen-to-body ratios, with some minor variation over time. All of that changed in 2018 with the overhauled iPad Pro, and that design has since carried over across the majority of Apple’s recently released mobile devices, from the iPhone 12 to the iPad Air.

Today, we’re going to give the new iPad Air a quick review.

The Air incorporates Apple’s latest processor (the A14), which is also seen in the iPhone 12. And it adopts the general aesthetic and language of the iPad Pro, sans Face ID. The base price of the iPad Air is up from that of its predecessor, but you’re arguably getting a much more modern device for it.