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The new iPad’s battery life is likewise dependable, getting me through most of an intensive eight-hour workday as well as a full lazy Sunday that involved lots of graphically rich gaming and hours of streaming live football (thankfully, the Jets won). That being said, I was still impressed by what I was able to get done on a $449 tablet. I still ran into a few snags (the Google Docs app was particularly cumbersome, go figure), and many of iPadOS 16’s key productivity features - like the Stage Manager multitasking mode and external display support - are limited to Apple Silicon-powered iPads, such as the latest iPad Air and Pro.
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I found the iPad to be a better laptop replacement than the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, mostly because iPadOS apps seem better optimized for a keyboard and trackpad than their Android counterparts.
Thanks to that zippy A14 chip and the powers of iPadOS 16, I was able to smoothly multitask between apps like Slack and Outlook in split-screen mode without a hint of slowdown.
In fact, with a Magic Keyboard Folio attached, the new iPad was mostly able to replace my laptop for everyday work tasks. You likely won’t notice a big difference between the 10th- and ninth-gen iPad in day-to-day use, but the added muscle makes the newer model more future-proof - and a much better value than the competition in terms of sheer speed. The new iPads scores weren’t quite on the same astronomical levels as the new, pricier iPad Pro models (which are powered by Apple’s laptop-grade M2 chips), but they’re the best we’ve seen on a tablet at this price. On Geekbench 5 (a general processing benchmark), the latest iPad delivered multi-core scores that were more than double that of the ninth-gen model, roughly on par with the latest iPad Mini and notably higher than the much more expensive Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. The new iPad’s brisk performance can be credited to its A14 Bionic chip - the same processor that powers 2020’s iPhone 12 range, and one that delivers a small but still notable bump over the A13 Bionic in the previous iPad. Apple’s latest tablet zipped through every task I threw at it - flipping through the home screen and switching between apps felt smooth and instantaneous, and console-quality games like NBA 2K23 ran without a hitch. The iPad has long offered the best tablet performance you can get for the money, and that remains the case with the 10th-gen model. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account
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