With just a couple of days until the iPad Air’s official release date of November 1, the first batch of iPad Air hands-on reviews have arrived. As the thinner, lighter, and faster successor to the massively acclaimed iPad 4, the reviews for the iPad Air are exactly what you’d expect: universally positive.
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At first glance, with the Apple Reality Distortion Field at full power, the iPad Air seems like an impeccable, immaculate device that could only ever be conceived by the magicians at Apple in California. The iPad Air is some 30% lighter and 20% thinner than the iPad that it replaces, while still retaining the same Retina display and 10 hours of battery life. Somehow, just somehow, Apple made us feel that it had yet again pulled off the impossible. In reality, the iPad Air, while very attractive, isn’t remarkable at all. The new Kindle Fire HDX, for example, has a higher-resolution screen, more battery life, weighs less, and even costs less than the iPad Air.
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