iFixit’s iPad 10 Teardown Confirms Apple Made Weird Decisions - Review Geek

It's the iPad you shouldn't buy.

@xguntherc
Dec 2, 2022, 2:26 p.m. EST | 1 min read

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In October, Apple unleashed a caller 10th-generation iPad with an updated plan and a higher terms tag. However, that fancy caller iPad wasn’t good received and didn’t adjacent enactment the latest Apple Pencil. Thanks to an iFixit teardown showing the inside, present we cognize wherefore acknowledgment to immoderate silly plan flaws.

With this release, Apple’s “budget” tablet received an upgraded plan that matches the Air and high-end Pro line. The surface is bigger, astatine 10.9 inches, looks good, comes successful respective amusive colors, has a caller determination for the FaceTime camera, charges implicit USB-C, and more.

However, it inactive uses the older A14 Bionic processor, not an M1 oregon M2, and it doesn’t enactment with the 2nd-Gen Apple Pencil either. It looks a small amended and has a caller charging port, yet it costs $449. And if you privation to usage an Apple Pencil, you’ll request the archetypal pencil and a lightning to USB-C adapter. It doesn’t magnetically connect oregon complaint similar different iPad models. Silly, right?

It turns retired that’s each owed to Apple moving the front-facing FaceTime camera to a caller location. It’s present located connected the side, up top, erstwhile the tablet is successful scenery mode and utilized with a basal oregon keyboard. You don’t usage the camera successful representation mode similar different iPads.

No 1 asked for this, and I conjecture it’s marginally better, but the alteration wasn’t indispensable and made the tablet suffer a adjuvant feature. The lens and camera sensor takes up excessively overmuch space, and Apple couldn’t adhd the magnetic charging goods to enactment the 2nd-Gen Apple Pencil. What a weird decision.

The designers decided that forcing a alteration to the front-facing camera was much important than supporting the latest accessories, stuck with an older processor, past accrued the price.

As we said earlier this week, you astir apt shouldn’t bargain the 10th-Gen iPad oregon the iPad Mini. Get the erstwhile 9th-Gen iPad for $329, oregon leap up to an iPad Air. You’ll prevention immoderate wealth oregon get a much utile iPad.

via 9to5Mac