Apple iPad Air Goes Big With A New Display Size, M2 Silicon And Pencil Support

Apple is refreshing its iPad family, part of which entails an upgraded iPad Air lineup with a bigger display size option that's on the level of an iPad Pro, and faster custom silicon inside. Namely, the latest-generation iPad Air is rocking Apple's M2 silicon, which Apple claims yields nearly a 50% performance boost compared to what's now the previous generation with M1 silicon inside.

Let's discuss the display options first, though. The sixth generation iPad Air is offered with an 11-inch display that's a touch bigger than the fifth generation's 10.9-inch display, as well as a new and substantially larger 13-inch display option. Those display options match what Apple's also-newly-refreshed iPad Pro with M4 silicon come in, except the iPad Air doesn't make the leap to OLED like the new Pro models do.

The M2 chip inside the sixth generation iPad ...