Apple iPad Air 11" M3 Gray 2025
The M3 chip and 11-inch Liquid Retina display with P3 wide color and ultra-low reflectivity power through creative tasks with sharp, accurate visuals. Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard support turn it into a precise drawing and note-taking tool, while Apple Intelligence provides privacy-focused on-device assistance. This 460g tablet is best for illustrators, students, and mobile editors who need 4K video capture and all-day battery life for design work.
About This Tablet
Now with the M3 chip, the Apple 11" iPad Air delivers optimal performance and is built for Apple Intelligence. The M3 chip also brings Apple's advanced graphics architecture to the iPad Air for the first time with support for ray tracing, dynamic caching, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading. With 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a portable design, all-day battery life, an 11" Liquid Retina Display, and support for optional Apple Pencil Pro, Apple Pencil (USB-C), and Magic Keyboard, the iPad Air empowers you to be even more productive and creative while on the go.
- Apple M3 8-Core Chip
- 9-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural Engine
- 11" Liquid Retina Touchscreen
- 2360 x 1640 Screen Resolution (264 ppi)
Overview
Performance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong social proof (98th percentile) 98th
- Strong battery (96th percentile) 96th
- Strong feature (84th percentile) 84th
- Strong storage (84th percentile) 84th
Cons
Specifications
Full Specifications
Processor
| CPU | Apple M3 |
| Cores | 8 |
| GPU | Apple (9-Core) |
Memory & Storage
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 256 GB |
| Storage Type | SSD |
| Expandable | No |
Display
| Size | 11" |
| Resolution | 2360 |
| Panel | Liquid Retina |
| Refresh Rate | 60 Hz |
| Brightness | 500 nits |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 6E |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 5.3 |
| USB-C | 1 |
| Cellular | No |
Features
| Stylus Support | Yes |
| Stylus Model | Apple Pencil Pro |
| Fingerprint Reader | Yes |
| Face Unlock | No |
Physical
| Weight | 0.5 kg / 1.0 lbs |
| Battery | 29 Wh |
| OS | iPadOS |
vs Competition
| Spec | Apple iPad Air 11" M3 | Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro 24091RPADG | Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra SM-X930NZAAXAR | Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Idea Tab Pro | Microsoft Surface Pro EP2-20077 | HOTWAV R9 Ultra 5G R9 Ultra 5G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Apple M3 | 3 GHz | MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ | MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Processor (3.35 GHz ) | 5 GHz intel_core_ultra_7 | 2.3 GHz |
| RAM (GB) | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 32 | 24 |
| Storage (GB) | 256 | 512 | 256 | 128 | 1024 | 512 |
| Screen | 11" 2360x1640 | 11.2" 3200x2136 | 14.6" 2960x1848 | 12.7" 2944x1840 | 13" 2880x1920 | 11" |
| OS | iPadOS | Android 14 HyperOS | Android 16 | Android 14 | Windows 11 | Android 15 |
| Stylus | true | true | true | true | true | true |
| Cellular | false | false | false | true | false | true |
| Battery (Wh) | 29 | - | - | - | 47 | - |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Cpu | Gpu | Ram | Screen | Battery | Feature | Storage | User Sentiment | Connectivity | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iPad Air 11" M3 | 73.6 | 73.2 | 66.3 | 77.3 | 95.6 | 84.2 | 83.8 | 63.5 | 79 | 97.9 |
| Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro 24091RPADG Compare | 97.4 | 96.4 | 81.4 | 98.6 | 86 | 65.9 | 89.8 | 76.6 | 79 | 87.4 |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra SM-X930NZAAXAR Compare | 97.4 | 96.4 | 81.4 | 95.9 | 93.2 | 86.6 | 73.9 | 94.7 | 63.7 | 97.9 |
| Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Idea Tab Pro Compare | 83.3 | 82.2 | 77.7 | 91.9 | 91.1 | 99.7 | 65.1 | 63.5 | 96.4 | 97.9 |
| Microsoft Surface Pro EP2-20077 Compare | 74.5 | 93.2 | 97.4 | 98.2 | 99 | 84.2 | 98.3 | 0 | 93.7 | 50.8 |
| HOTWAV R9 Ultra 5G R9 Ultra 5G Compare | 94.5 | 93.7 | 95.9 | 43.1 | 30.8 | 93.6 | 89.8 | 94.7 | 72.6 | 48.8 |
Usage Scores
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