Author: Eric Ravenscraft / Source: reviewgeek.com
Today, at Apple’s “Let’s Take a Field Trip” Education event, the company announced a newer, cheaper iPad, plus some new software that should make life easier on teachers and students alike. Here are the important bits from Apple’s presentation today.
The New iPad Is More Powerful For the Same Price
Before today’s event, you could either buy a $329 iPad ($299 for schools) with low specs, or you could spring for the iPad Pro starting at $650 for a more powerful version. Now, Apple is closing the gap. The new cheaper iPad has the same price as the old one, but its guts are more beastly.
The new iPad comes with a 9.7″ retina-quality display, powered by an A10 processor that Apple claims makes it more powerful than most laptops and Chromebooks (both of which Apple hopes to replace in the classroom). It’s certainly more powerful than the previous iPad, while coming just short of the power in an iPad Pro.
It also comes with an HD forward-facing camera for FaceTime calls, and an 8MP rear camera. Sure, taking pictures with an iPad might have a stigma attached, but when kids are using it to take photos for their school projects, we’re sure people will give them a pass. Apple also claims that the new iPad will offer 10 hours of battery life. If that claim holds up, it should be enough to last an entire school day.
It Supports the Apple Pencil
The new iPads also support the revamped Apple Pencil. Previously, only the iPad Pro supported the Apple Pencil, but with that model starting at $650, it was hardly accessible to the kind of market…
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