0:00 hey everyone Kyle Erickson here this iPad looks almost identical to this one and on the surface the difference between the two isn't very obvious beyond the fact that this one starts at 449 dollars and this one starts at 5.99 this is the 10th generation iPad and this is the fifth generation iPad Air and while I've been using the air a ton over the last year I get a lot of folks asking me about which iPad is the right one to buy between these two so I went out and bought a 10th gen iPad and I've been doing a ton of comparisons over the last few weeks it turns out there is quite a difference between these two so if you're wondering which one is right for you if the price increase in the air is worth it or what accessories to consider stick around and let's get into it [Music]
0:45 all right so both of these tablets look almost identical when it comes to the actual iPads themselves same button placement pretty much the same form factor with a few minor variations the color options are the most noticeable on the area you've got a more muted color selection where the regular iPad has much brighter colors I'm actually not a fan of most of the regular iPad colors but I do like the blue which is the one that I have here not a fan of the pink and the yellow is just it's not doing it for me at all my iPad Air is Starlight but I do like most of the colors there but beyond the color selection the SMART connector on the back is on a different spot and the iPad 10 is a touch thicker at seven millimeters versus 6.1 on the air the
1:30 reason the tension iPad is a bit thicker than the air is because the air has a laminated display where the iPad 10 doesn't essentially what that means is all the components of the screen are fused together on the air and it's a lot more dense while the regular iPad there's just a touch more separation between the touch surface and the actual screen the LCD screens on both devices are pretty much identical they're both 1640 by 2360 liquid retina IPS panels both have 500 nits Peak brightness but the only difference being that the air has P3 wide color and the iPad 10 has srgb that just means that the air can technically display a broader range of color but honestly they're almost indistinguishable from one another the one thing that you can notice is the glass that sits over top the air has an
2:18 anti-reflective coating where the regular iPad does not so maybe that's a slight Factor when looking at these but I think the biggest thing here is that extra millimeter of thickness that might seem like next to nothing but there is definitely a noticeable difference using the apple pencil on the air versus the regular iPad it feels a bit more natural on the air because it's almost like you're riding on the surface where the regular iPad you can notice that separation between the screen and the touch surface just a little bit more that can be a factor if you're using this for Creative work a lot like drawing or graphic design you definitely would have a better experience with the air in that regard not only with the laminated display but with the pencil itself the second generation pencil can only be used with the iPad Air and the Pro Models where you'll have to use the
3:04 first gen pencil with the iPad 10. that's unfortunate considering the second gen pencil is a bit lighter and it just Clips on and charges wirelessly the first gen pencil uses a lightning portrait charge gin if you take a close look at this this is USBC so you're gonna have to buy a dongle to make it work with the iPad 10 but what I would suggest for most people if you don't care about pressure sensitivity in the pencil just to buy a third party pencil like the one that I have here which will work really well on either of these tablets and these are only about 30 bucks I find I don't like pressure sensitivity sometimes anyways I just feel like sometimes you have to press fairly hard to get the results that you want and something about pressing down hard on a display just feels wrong it doesn't really affect anything like
3:50 note-taking in my opinion and the nice thing about these besides the fact that they're much cheaper is they have USBC charge ports so you can just use a regular iPad charge cable to charge these up I'll link all these pencil options in the description below but another thing that I wanted to briefly touch on in relation to this is case and keyboard combos because it is important to note some of the differences there especially on the iPad 10. so Apple sells a magic a keyboard folio for the iPad 10 and Beyond it being pretty expensive at 249 dollars there's nowhere for me to slide in or attach the pencil and while I was playing around with one in store it just felt pretty underwhelming what I would suggest for both the iPad 10 and the air is one of these Logitech combo Touch cases that are a fraction of the cost and the iPad
4:37 10 version they actually have a place to slide in your pencil which is really handy if you're using this in your mobile I've been using this particular combo Touch case first on my 4th gen air and now on my 5th gen for about two years or so and it's still going strong and for me it's probably the best value buy out there just over 150 or so the keyboard is fully removable and the stand portion goes back way further than on a lot of other models which is great if you want to use this for drawing or note-taking just coming back to why you can clip a pencil onto the iPad 10 like you can in the air and why it doesn't offer wireless charging that's in large part because on the iPad 10 the front-facing camera is in the center one whole this in landscape mode where all the magnets and wireless coils would normally be on the other iPad models in
5:22 my opinion this is a much nicer natural camera placement than on the air or any other iPad if you're doing any kind of video messaging or Zoom calls landscape is the ideal placement especially if you've got this in a kickstand case where on every other iPad it's centered in portrait mode it's almost always sitting off to the side which is usually pretty annoying and doesn't look great the cameras themselves are pretty much identical to each other on both the front and the back specs wise they've got the same microphones and then all the testing that I've done it's produced very similar results on both models so this is the iPad 10 I've got this in landscape mode on the front-facing camera which obviously you'll be using if you're doing any kind of video chatting or anything like that but this is what it looks like it sounds like so
6:08 let's compare to the iPad Air 5. this is the iPad Air 5 and as you can tell right away I'm kind of off to the side I am holding it in landscape mode so because that camera is off on the edge of the screen it's just a very unnatural position but this is what it looks like and sounds like I thought that I might process photos or videos different just because I do have different chipsets in here but it doesn't really seem to be the case and the same goes for just everyday tasks the things like browsing the web checking emails that kind of thing you're likely not going to notice any difference there either the iPad 10 has the A14 bionic chip or the iPad Air 5 has the M1 and both are more than capable of handling anything like that the same goes for things like viewing content watching Netflix or your
6:55 streaming service of choice the only real difference that I notice is the speakers on the iPad 10 don't get quite as loud and they don't seem to have as much depth as in the air but the picture and the performance with those things are pretty much identical when it comes to games again both are great I can see a slight Improvement in frame rate on the M1 iPad Air which is the most noticeable in graphically demanding games and in benchmarks where you see about twice the performance under heavy load but just casually gaming on either of these from anything in the Apple arcade they're very similar the M1 is technically a lot more capable with an 8 core GPU with only four cores on the A14 and while you don't really notice it in a lot of games available on iPad there are some instances where this makes a
7:40 pretty huge difference if you're a content creator you can still use photo editing software all right most of the time on the iPad 10 unless you're working on really large files with lots of layers but with any kind of video work there are some pretty big limitations on the regular iPad versus the air that's not only to do with the reduced processing power in the A14 but the iPad 10 does only have four gigs of RAM where the air has eight and the air has a dedicated media engine where the iPad 10 does not you'll notice with things like DaVinci Resolve and other editors while it's still technically possible to use them you're often Limited to 1080p timelines and the overall experience is just not that great both iPads offer the same storage options with the same Drive speeds which I don't particularly like I said this
8:26 before but I think there should be a 128 gig option as a base for both of these 64 is just really small so if you're doing any kind of video editing storing a lot of games or apps you do need a lot more space than 64 gigs you can kind of Remedy that by using an external drive if you want because these do both have USBC but it doesn't really make sense to do on the iPad 10. the USBC Port only has Drive speeds capable of 480 megabits per second so we're talking USB 2.0 speeds where the air has 10 gigabit speeds which is actually usable and that can run drives like the SanDisk one to its full potential that speed limitation on the port and reduced memory also restricts access to things like external monitor support only 10th gen iPad
9:13 you'll only be able to get 1080p at 60 hertz or 4K at 30 Hertz where the air will go all the way up to 6K at 60 hertz those resolutions on the 10 aren't great but on top of that you won't get access to Stage manager on the iPad 10 like you will on the air so while it can technically be hooked up to an external display it's somewhat pointless in my opinion is it just be mirroring what you already see on your iPad screen let me get this really ugly bars on the side of your monitor stage manager on the air can be really handy and that it actually extends your display and makes a space functional and you can use your iPad more like a computer or a desktop machine and whether you like stage manager or not it's just a lot more versatile in that regard now during all this testing I've been carefully paying attention to battery life and this is
9:59 something that I was really curious about because having owned the previous iPad Air the 4th gen I've always felt like that had a little bit better battery life than my M1 air and the iPad 10 does have the same chipset as that model both of these devices have exactly the same battery size in this it's the same battery life specs on Apple's website and I did find that they are very similar I think where I saw a bit of difference was the iPad 10 seems to conserve power better just running those low draw tasks like web browsing but the M1 does a better job when the system resources are cranked up what I was trying to edit video or run benchmarks on the A14 chip it seemed to drain a bit faster than on the M1 but overall I don't think that there is a ton of difference and I found the charge times to be about the same as well one thing that probably makes a tension iPad a bit
10:45 more efficient is the Bluetooth is version 5.2 versus 5.0 that's on the air so if you do use Bluetooth devices a lot with your iPad like headphones and they run Bluetooth 5.2 and above you might see a bit of a difference there I'm not sure how much exactly probably not a lot but some nonetheless as far as other wireless connections go you're still gonna find the same Wi-Fi connectivity the same 5G support and if you're lucky enough and you live in the right country both of these will have esim support if you choose options with cellular connectivity otherwise you'll just have a regular nano SIM so while there is quite a bit in here that is the same there is a lot that is different I'd say for me diving into each device I think there's a cutoff limit where it makes sense to get one of these over the other if you're just using this casually around the
11:31 house browsing the web checking email playing Apple arcade games and so on the 10th gen iPad is where you want to be even if you're using this for things like taking notes writing documents and maybe some light photo editing you could probably still get by with the iPad 10 but beyond that I don't think it makes much sense certainly if you want to do any kind of video editing you want to run game smoother or you want access to Stage manager or running external drives and treat this more like a portable workstation the iPad Air is a really good starting point that is a little bit cheaper than hopping into the Pro Models like I said I will leave links down below to everything that I mentioned in this video but please leave a comment down below and let me know if you use a tablet which one you use and what you use it for or if you just have questions that's okay too if you enjoyed this
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