iPad 10's USB-C Port Hiding Severe Limitation - MacRumors

Despite gaining a USB-C for the archetypal time, the larboard connected the 10th-generation iPad is severely limited compared to the iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro, it has emerged.

As noted successful initial reviews of the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌, the device's USB-C larboard is overmuch slower than that of each different caller ‌iPad‌ models. It is constricted to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps for information transfer. This means that contempt being equipped with a USB-C port, the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ has equivalent information transportation speeds to its precedessor, the ninth-generation ‌iPad‌, with the Lightning connector.

As such, the lone applicable betterment with the larboard is its signifier origin and universality, alternatively than immoderate show gains. The drawback is notable fixed that USB 2.0 speeds with a USB-C larboard are reasonably antithetic and the Lightning connector has been wide criticized for its dilatory transportation speeds.

All different ‌iPad‌ models with USB-C ports person faster information transportation speeds. ‌iPad Pro‌ models with the M1 spot oregon newer are compatible with Thunderbolt 3 for information transportation speeds up to 40 Gbps, the fifth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ is susceptible of transfers up to 10 Gbps, and the fourth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ and latest ‌iPad mini‌ scope speeds up to 5 Gbps.

Apple does not notation the slower USB-C larboard connected the caller ‌iPad‌'s tech specs page, but MacRumors has independently confirmed that the instrumentality is constricted to USB 2.0 speeds. This regulation mightiness not substance to astir customers successful this ‌iPad‌'s people market, but it is inactive important origin that mightiness steer immoderate customers who trust connected faster wired transfers toward the ‌iPad mini‌ oregon ‌iPad Air‌. AirDrop is besides an enactment for faster wireless transfers.

• iPad 10 vs. iPad Air Buyer's Guide: Is the $150 Difference Worth It?

The caller ‌iPad‌ starts astatine $449 successful the United States, portion the ‌iPad mini‌ and ‌iPad Air‌ commencement astatine $499 and $599, respectively. Other cardinal caller features of the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ compared to the erstwhile entry-level exemplary see a larger 10.9-inch show with slimmer bezels, level edges, the A14 Bionic chip, a USB-C port, a Touch ID powerfulness button, a landscape-positioned FaceTime camera, 5G enactment connected cellular models, Wi-Fi 6, and enactment for a caller two-piece Magic Keyboard Folio accessory with a enactment of relation keys. The instrumentality is disposable successful Blue, Pink, Silver, and Yellow finishes.