Apple today introduced a faster, more powerful iPad Air with M3 chip made for Apple Intelligence.iPad Air The first iPad with the M3 chip Air with advanced graphics architecture Apple. It takes the extraordinary combination of power efficiency and portability to a new level. iPad Air with the M3 chip it is almost 2x faster than the iPad Air with the M1 chip1 and up to 3,5x faster than iPad Air with the A14 Bionic chip.2 Users will notice the speed of the M3 chip in everything they do, from creating engaging content much faster to playing immersive, graphics-intensive games. The new iPad Air will be available in two sizes and four beautiful colors that users have come to love. The super-portable 11-inch model is great for on-the-go use, while the even larger 13-inch model has more space for creative and productive work. The new Magic Keyboard expands iPad versatility Air and brings more features at a lower price. The new iPad Air with iPadOS 18, support Apple Intelligence, advanced cameras, fast 5G mobile connectivity and compatibility with Apple Pencilem Pro a Apple Pencilem (USB-C) offers unparalleled possibilities.
New iPad Air with the same base price of CZK 17,990 for the 11-inch model and CZK 23,990 for the 13-inch model, it represents an exceptional value. Pro education starts price of new 11-inch iPad Air already at 15 CZK and the price of the 990-inch model already at 13 CZK. New iPad Air with M3 chip and Magic Keyboard for iPad Air Customers can pre-order starting today, with sales starting on Wednesday, March 12th.
iPad Air "It is so popular because its combination of high performance, portability, and advanced accessory support at an affordable price is unmatched," says Bob Borchers, Vice President of Apple for global product marketing. "Pro college students making transcripts Apple Pencilem Pro, including for travelers and content creators who need to be productive wherever they go, iPad is pushing the boundaries Air with M3 chip, Apple Intelligence and new Magic Keyboard"It takes versatility and utility to the next level."
Super-fast M3 chip
iPad Air with the M3 chip, users can be productive and creative wherever they need to be. It will be useful for ambitious creators who use demanding applications and work with large files, as well as travelers who work on content away from home. The powerful M3 chip offers a number of improvements over the M1 chip and previous generations. With a more powerful 3-core CPU, the M8 chip handles multi-threaded tasks on the CPU up to 35 percent faster than iPad Air with the M1 chip. The 9-core GPU in the M3 chip is up to 40 percent faster than the graphics in the M1 chip. The M3 for iPad Air also brings advanced graphics architecture for the first time ever Apple with support for dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated network shading, and ray tracing. When handling graphics-intensive rendering processes, iPad is Air with M3 chip up to 4x faster than iPad Air with M1. It handles more accurate lighting, reflections, shading, and extremely realistic game environments.3
Thanks to the faster Neural Engine in the M3 chip, iPad users will appreciate Air even more AI features in iPadOS. Compared to M1, the Neural Engine in the M3 chip is up to 60 percent faster at processing AI tasks. Other improvements over iPad models with A-series chips include support for Apple Intelligence, a choice of 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, and support for advanced accessories including the new Magic Keyboardua Apple Pencilu Pro.
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iPad Air: Made for Apple Intelligence
iPad Air is made for Apple Intelligence, a useful and relevant personal intelligence system.4 The Clean Up tool in Photos can easily remove distracting elements from images, while natural language support lets you search for any image or video simply by typing a description. The Drawing Wand in Notes helps users visually illustrate notes—just Apple PencilCircle a rough sketch and it instantly turns into a beautiful drawing. And when a user circles a blank space in a note, Drawing Wand creates a relevant illustration based on the surrounding content of the note.
Apple Intelligence It also helps users discover creative new ways to express themselves visually in the Image Playground, create original Genmojis for a specific situation, or improve their writing with Writing Tools. Siri can now also be communicated in writing and communication with it is more natural because it does not lose the thread, even if the user misspells something. Siri takes into account the context of the related requirements. And because he has extensive product knowledge, he can answer thousands of questions about the features and settings of the device AppleThey can also advise you on how to make a screen recording.
Since it is in Writing Instruments and Siri seamlessly integrated access to ChatGPT, users can turn to it at any time without jumping between applications. They can easily handle everything even faster than before. In addition, they have the opportunity to use ChatGPT free without creating an account and with integrated privacy protection, where their IP address is hidden and OpenAI does not store processed requests. Users have full control over their data and decide for themselves whether they want the integration ChatGPT turn it on, when to use it and what information to share with ChatGPT to share.
Apple Intelligence is designed to protect user privacy at every step. It tries to process as much of its input as possible directly on the device, so many of its models run entirely locally. For requests that require access to larger models, a private cloudnew computing that extends privacy and security from the iPad to cloudua makes even more intelligence available. User data is used exclusively to process the request within the private cloudelectronic computing and Apple it never stores or shares them.
Brand new Magic Keyboard for iPad Air
Brand new Magic Keyboard for iPad Air expands its practical capabilities at an even lower price. Larger integrated trackpad allows you to perform detailed tasks with greater precision, and a new row of 14 function keys makes it easier to access things like screen brightness and volume control. New Magic The keyboard attaches magnetically, and the Smart Connector instantly connects power and data without relying on Bluetooth. The precision-machined aluminum hinge also features USB-C toonewhich is for charging. New Magic Keyboard for iPad Air with the popular floating design, it is sold in white and its price now starts at 8 CZK for the 490-inch model and 11 CZK for the 8-inch model.
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Updated iPad with double the base storage and A16 chip
Apple Today, Apple also updated iPad, which now has double the base storage and the A16 chip. This brings even more value to customers. The A16 chip is noticeably more powerful for everyday tasks and working in iPadOS, while still giving iPad all-day battery life. Compared to the previous generation, the updated iPad with the A16 chip is nearly 30 percent faster.5 Compared to iPad with the A13 Bionic chip, users will experience up to a 50 percent increase in overall performance.5 And compared to the best-selling Android tablet, the updated iPad with the A16 chip is up to 6x faster.6
Powerful and intelligent features in iPadOS 18
iPadOS 18 also offers other powerful features that push the capabilities of iPad, making it an even more versatile and intelligent device: 7
- Calculator, designed with the unique capabilities of iPad in mind, brings a whole new way to solve equations Apple Pencilem. With Math Notes, users can write mathematical expressions by hand or keyboard, rather thanchat instantly complete their solutions in handwriting that resembles their own. They can even create and use variables or insert graphs by writing an equation. Users can access their math notes in the Notes app. Plus, math functions can be used in any note.
- Handwritten notes in Notes they are even more responsive and flexible. Smart Script It brings handy new features for editing handwritten text. For example, users can easily add spaces or paste copied text to make it look like they've written it. Handwriting is automatically Apple Pencilem automatically enhances it in real time to make it smoother, straighter, and more readable.
- New features voice recording a transcripts allows users to record a lecture or conversation on an iPad and generate a transcript that is synchronized with the audio. Users can then easily search for a specific moment in the recording.
- Users now have even more options for personal expression on area. Application icons and widgety can be enlarged and recolored with a darkening or color tinting effect, making it easy for users to achieve exactly the look they want. And in the redesigned Control Center, users can more easily access the features they use every day, including the ability to organize new controls from third-party apps.
More environmentally friendly
New iPad Air and the updated iPad are designed with the environment in mind. As part of the program Apple 2030, which aims to achieve carbon neutrality across the company's entire carbon footprint by the end of the decade, is moving Apple in renewable electricity generation and invests in wind and solar projects around the world to offset the electricity consumed when charging all products Apple including the new iPad Air and iPad. All operations are currently running Apple – including data centers for processing requests Apple Intelligence - at 100% renewable electrical energy.
To the program Apple 2030 includes designing products with more recycled and renewable materials, further reducing our carbon footprint. The new iPad Air and iPad have at least 30% total recycled content, including 100% recycled aluminum in the casing and 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets. The battery contains 100% recycled cobalt and, for the first time in an iPad, over 95% recycled lithium. The new iPad Air and iPad meet high standards Apple energy-efficient and contain no mercury, brominated flame retardants or PVC. And because the packaging is made entirely of fiber, it is Apple another step closer to its goal of eliminating plastics from all packaging used by the end of this year.8
Prices and availability
- Customers get the new iPad Air with the M3 chip can be ordered starting today, March 4th, at apple.com/cz/store or in the application Apple Store in 29 countries and territories including the US. It will be available for delivery starting March 12, when it will also go on sale in stores Apple Store and at authorized dealers Apple.
- 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip will be available in blue, purple, stellar white and space gray in configurations with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of storage.
- Price of the 11-inch iPad Air starts at 17 990 Kč for Wi-Fi model and 22 490 Kč for Wi-Fi + Cellular model. Price of 13-inch iPad Air starts at 23 990 Kč for Wi-Fi model and 28 490 Kč on the Wi-Fi + Cellular model.
- Pro education starts price of new 11-inch iPad Air na 15 990 Kč and the price of the 13-inch model at 21 990 Kč. School prices are available to current and newly admitted university students and their parents, as well as teachers, employeesancto schools and teachers of all grades of homeschooling. Learn more at apple.com/us-hed/shop.
- Magic The keyboard is sold in white and is compatible with the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air. 11-inch Magic The keyboard is sold for 8 490 Kč, 13-inch Magic Keyboard behind 8 690 Kč. Pro education is the price of an 11-inch Magic Keyboard 7 290 Kč and the price of the 13-inch Magic The keyboard is 7 990 Kč.
- Customers can pre-order the new iPad with the A16 chip starting today, March 4th, at apple.com/cz/store or in the application Apple Store in 29 countries and territories including the US. It will be available for delivery starting March 12th, when it will also go on sale in stores Apple Store and at authorized dealers Apple.
- The new iPad comes in a base configuration of 128GB of storage, with 256GB and a new 512GB configuration also available. The Wi-Fi models of the new iPad start at $XNUMX in blue, pink, yellow, and silver. 9 990 Kč, Wi-Fi + Cellular models start at 14 490 Kč. Pro education, Wi-Fi models of the new iPad are available for a price starting at 8 990 Kč, Wi-Fi + Cellular models for education start at 13 990 Kč.
- Magic Keyboard Folio for iPad is available for 7 290 Kč and is sold in white. Price Magic Keyboard Folia for education is 6 990 Kč.
- With the new iPad Air are compatible Apple Pencil Pro a Apple Pencil (USB‑C). Compatible with the new iPad Apple Pencil (USB-C) and Apple Pencil (1st generation). Apple Pencil Pro is available for 3 790 Kč. Apple Pencil (USB‑C) is available for 2 290 Kč.
- Apple offers great options to save on the latest iPad.
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- He did the tests Apple in January and February 2025. More information at apple.com/cz/ipad-air.
- He did the tests Apple in January and February 2025 with pre-production 11-inch iPads Air (M3) and 13-inch iPads Air (M3) even with production iPads Air (4th generation). Tested in Procreate Dreams 1.0.14 by exporting a 29-second project. Performance tests are conducted with specific iPads and reflect approximate iPad performance. Air.
- He did the tests Apple in January and February 2025 with pre-production 11-inch iPads Air (M3) and 13-inch iPads Air (M3) even with production iPads Air (5th generation). Tested in Octane X 2024.1.01 for iPad on a scene consisting of 770 meshes and 000 million unique basic geometric shapes using hardware-accelerated ray tracing on systems with the M8 chip and software-based ray tracing on all other systems. Performance tests are conducted with specific iPads and reflect approximate iPad performance. Air.
- Apple Intelligence is available on iPad mini (A17 Pro) and iPad models with the M1 chip or later in localized English for Australia, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Starting in April, support will expand to additional languages including English (India), English (Singapore), Chinese (Simplified), French, and German.ancChinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages, including Vietnamese, will be added throughout the year. Some features, apps, and services may not be available in all regions or languages.
- He did the tests Apple in January and February 2025 with pre-production iPads (A16) and production iPads (10th generation). Tested on a selection of tasks in Microsoft Excelfor iPad 2.93. Performance tests are performed on specific iPads and reflect approximate iPad performance.
- He did the tests Apple in January and February 2025 with pre-production iPads (A16) with the chip Apple A16 and production Android tablets with Qualcomm SM6375 chip running the latest version of Android 14 available at the time of testing. Best-selling Android tablet based on publicly available sales data over the past twelve months. Tested using common workloads in commercially available apps and select industry-recognized benchmarks. Performance varies based on device settings, usage, environment, and many other factors. Performance tests are conducted with specific systems and reflect approximate performance of iPad.
- Some features may not be available in all countries or regions. For more information about iPadOS 18, visit apple.com/cz/ipados/ipados-18.
- Based on sales packaging as supplied Apple. US retail packaging composition data by weight. Adhesives, inks and varnishes are excluded from plastic content and packaging weight calculations.
