iPad Air vs. iPad 4 Specs and Reviews: iPad Air Seems to have the Best Specs Overall Beating the iPad 4 Everywhere but the Price Tag

By Mike Emaneke Aug 11, 2014 03:12 PM EDT

iPad Air vs. iPad 4 Specs and Reviews: iPad Air Seems to have the Best Specs Overall Beating the iPad 4 Everywhere but the Price Tag

It is quite clear that Apple is currently dominating the tablet market and today. As such, the iPad Air and the iPad 4 are currently the flagship products that are available for the flagship tablet products for the Cupertino based tech giant brand. Comparing the both of them, we find that both of them excel in different areas

Design: when it comes to design Apple, showed off with the iPad Air which is thinner than 7.5 mm and 469n grams as compared to the iPad 4 which is 9.4mm and weighs a bulky 662 grams. It may not seem like much but in the tech business better specs and lesser weight wins out all the time in design. Similarly, everything else about the devices in this department is almost identical because they are both available in silver and space grey casings. They both have a 9.7 inch display and 2,048 x 1,536 pixels with IPS-type screens and both of the devices are excellent even when viewed from different angles.

Performance: the iPad 4 is available with a A6X Dual-Core processor which was also used by the iPhone 5 and it runs quite well, while the iPad Air runs using a Apple A7 64-bit processor that is rumored to be almost twice as powerful and better performing as the iPad 4 when it comes to processing power and graphics.

Specs: in terms of memory, the iPad Air certainly has the iPad 4 beat. The iPad 4 can only manage a maximum memory of 16GB, while the iPad Air is available with optional units of 16GB, 32GB, 128GB, and 256GB.

Pricing: The retail price for the iPad Air is $500 at the base level while that of the iPad 4 is $500 and can reach all the way to $929 and the iPad 4 has a maximum retail price of $529.

It seems to be quite clear who the overall winner in terms of merit is, though if you would still like a basic tablet that has some of the top of the line specs and will not bruise your wallet, the iPad 4 is the device for you.