You’ll get a better display with this screen size, but you get nothing in the way of more storage.

You could get the Smart Keyboard Folio for $179 and save a total of $221 by comparison. If you add Apple’s Magic Keyboard, tack on another $299 to the total price-which comes to about $100 less than a 13-inch MacBook Air. The iPad Pro's base model with an 11-inch screen, 8GB RAM, 128GB of storage, and no cellular connectivity starts at $799. Companies like Logitech make a wide array of iPad keyboards, and of course, Apple has its own Magic Keyboard, but depending on the brand you could find yourself spending anywhere between $20 to upwards of $300 for an iPad keyboard. If you want the iPad Pro to double as a laptop, you’ll need to buy a keyboard-ideally one you fold over your iPad to take it with you wherever you go. Both the iPad Pro and MacBook Air are excellent productivity companions, but if you need a new computing device for more complicated tasks than checking emails, one will suit your needs better than the other.īuy the Apple MacBook Air M2 Form factor and configuration They run on different operating systems, have different cameras, screen resolutions, cellular connectivity-the list goes on. Both are also lightweight, portable, and priced very similarly.īut that’s where the similarities end: After all, one is a tablet and the other is a laptop. Apple’s iPad Pro M2 (2022) and MacBook Air M2 (2022) share some of the same specifications: Apple’s impressive M2 chip, up to 16GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage space, so you'll get roughly the same performance out of both devices.

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