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Apple's Midrange iPad Gets an M4 Chip Bump, Arriving March 11

If you're shopping for a mid-range iPad, Apple has an update to the Air that just arrived. And it makes the high-end iPad Pro released last fall maybe feel a little less necessary. The new iPad Air is available for pre-order on Wednesday, March 4, arriving on March 11.

Performance anxiety: iPad Air M4 chip is binned, has only three performance cores

The M4 chip used in the new iPad Air does not have the same performance as the iPad Pro version, thanks to core count changes.