iPad Air 11-inch (M2)

New iPad Air M2 11" (128gb) is ~65k at Apple India. Seller's 2yr old unit at ~37k is about half price but battery is 87%, so expect shorter life and no warranty. Decent deal if you're ok with that.

good luck updating your ipad with non apple battery, you will get 1% notification and need new battery when apple scans device and doesn't detect apple battery, some techs han hack old battery so your new battery shows in battery, that's great until you come to update ipad and your stuck at 1% Here

Well I got a new iPad Air m2 back in 2025 (early) I didn’t like the battery back up coming from the normal iPad 10. Apple isn’t that good when you compare m series to phone chips on efficiency

Personally it would depend on my daily usage and if I find that 80% doesn’t last throughout the day (university student here) I would turn that off I found that my iPad Air M2 couldn’t last through exam cram days so I decided not to use that, and especially since the battery health is around 86% now

When you are buying for travel work, i had the same question recently and this is a real decision fork. For sheets, note taking, and meeting use, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) is a cleaner daily driver for heat and battery than older chip lines. If you want extra headroom for heavier multitask sessions, iPa

I think the M4 is the same. We'll talk again when the tests come in, but if they can offer an extra +5 hours on such similar hardware, I think they should be able to provide this on the iPad Air M2 and M3 with updates as well.

I have been using iPadOS 26 on an iPad mini 5 from 2019 and an iPad Air M2 without hardware keyboard. Obviously multitasking on the Mini with only 3 GB of RAM and the small screen was already not great on iPadOS 18. 26 didn’t make it any slower. The Air M2 has been running fine, no problems. The Air

I had an iPad Air M2. Got about 6 hours of screen time on a charge, by then it would be at around 20%. That was with reading, browsing and streaming video. It’s pretty normal for the iPad Airs with M2 and M3 chips. I don’t know about the M1 and the latest M4 models. The base model iPads do last a lo

As an owner of an iPad Air M2 medyo pangit yung battery life

For an iPad Air M2, I’d prioritize the exact port layout and power behavior over the logo on the shell. A few things I’d check before buying: - Make sure the USB-C data ports are actually data ports, not just one USB-C PD input plus mostly USB-A.- If you want HDMI, check the real max output: many ch