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"Like birthdays and paying taxes, each year we can expect a tablet refresh from Apple. Their latest model, the iPad Air 2, is headlined as thinner and lighter than before. But is this enough to reverse declining iPad sales? Well, thankfully, the iPad Air 2 does include a few extra features and refinements to make things more interesting. Beginning with its design, the iPad...

Another release from Apple, the iPad Air, follows in the same vein as the company’s previous tablet models, i.e. with very few surprises and software upgrades. However, the Air does address one of the few problems that has dogged iPads since the launch of the original: By shedding some 30% of its weight, the terms “Apple iPad” and “heavy” are no longer synonymous. In...

The words “Apple iPad” are nearly synonymous with “tablet PC,” and with good reason: Not only is Apple consistently set new benchmarks for mobile electronics and not only do they hold a dominant share on the tablet market, but iPad products are quite simply among the very best in most areas of use. Surely this was the (justified) feeling of Apple designers when creating...

  Though Apple calls its latest tablet PC the iPad 2, it actually might be more appropriately named the iPad 1.1. After all, little has changed in the Apple iPad 2 from its first edition, but how does one improve on a market-leading product? Among the minor but overall significant improvements are a slight decrease in size, from 9.7”x7.47”x0.5” to 9.5”x7.33”x0.34”, while slimming down...

While most technology becomes rapidly outdated, the Apple iPad tablet is still going strong in terms of both user satisfaction and performance. In fact, probably the highest compliment that can be paid is the fact that the iPad 2 could hardly improve on most features of this first version because Apple got it so correct the first time around. The screen is a standard...