Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh

Enlarge / Apple's latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you use with older iPad Airs and Pros, though they can use the new Apple Pencil Pro.

Apple has a brand-new lineup of iPad Pro and Air models for the first time in well over a year. Most people would probably be hard-pressed to tell the new ones from the old ones just by looking at them, but after hands-on sessions with both sizes of both tablets, the small details (especially for the Pros) all add up to a noticeably refined iPad experience.

iPad Airs: Bigger is better

But let's begin with the new Airs, since there's a bit less to talk about. The 11-inch iPad Air (technically the 6th-generation model) is mostly the same as the previous-generation A14 and M1 models, design-wise, with identical physical dimensions and weight ...