{"id":1236788,"date":"2025-03-04T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236788"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:38:07","slug":"apple-announces-m3-powered-ipad-air-with-improved-magic-keyboard-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236788","title":{"rendered":"Apple announces M3-powered iPad Air with improved Magic Keyboard layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s not <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2025\/03\/report-m4-macbook-air-as-early-as-this-week-new-ipads-shortly-after\/\">the update that most Apple watchers were hoping for<\/a>, but today, Apple announced upgrades to two of its iPads, including the standard iPad and the quirky middle child, the iPad Air.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad Air moves up from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/05\/m2-ipad-air-review-the-everything-ipad\/\">an M2 in last year&#8217;s Air refresh<\/a> to an M3 chip, which is capable of Apple Intelligence and more graphics rendering. The Magic Keyboard gets a new layout with a larger trackpad and a physical function key row.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-iPad-Air-and-Magic-Keyboard-250304-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><br \/>\n      iPad Air and its Magic Keyboard.<br \/>\n        Credit:<br \/>\n          Apple<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a notable upgrade for anybody doing real, portable-minded work with an iPad, but there&#8217;s even better news: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad-keyboards\/\">new Magic Keyboard<\/a> with those physical keys is backward-compatible with previous iPad Airs: 4th and 5th generation, 11-inch M2 and M3, and 13-inch M2 and M3 models (better news, that is, if you&#8217;re good with the $270 price).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/apple-announces-m3-powered-ipad-air-with-improved-magic-keyboard-layout\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/apple-announces-m3-powered-ipad-air-with-improved-magic-keyboard-layout\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the update that most Apple watchers were hoping for, but today, Apple announced upgrades to two of its iPads, including the standard iPad and the quirky middle child, the iPad Air. The iPad Air moves up from an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}