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hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar joined by scott stein it's time for another terribly informative episode of ask the editors that's right it's iPad over time this time around Scott sign got to review the ipad air 2 so we're going to talk about d0 ducks post-mortem if you will okay about these iPad first things first what are your knee-jerk thoughts about the ipad air 2 and and the iPad Mini 3 we're going to find out if people should buy these if you think it's worth their time and money to buy them what do you think of here's the thing nobody was really excited about he's still not there's a reason because this looks like last year's iPad this looks like last year's iPad they both have touch ID we saw that in last year's iPhones and this is pretty much the same as last year just touch ID then this one you've got a faster processor it is a little thinner right it's it's it's got crew cameras who uses the camera on their iPads it's nice to have but I mean you're talking we can really care about her screen battery life and size size is almost the same screen and battery life or about equivalent right so average person probably doesn't need upgrade to this and it's not doing anything that's really significantly different that being said the speed is a lot faster if you're a hardcore iPad user it's a good time to upgrade but this is not reinventing anything here sure so if someone comes up to you an escort okay I'm in the market for a new iPad you tell them you say hey go right for the ipad air 2 or do you say maybe the mini 3 is for you how do you sort of you know assign what someone should buy yeah so it's a tough call because if you are up for the newest technology you want something that we're going to run apps the best you get this one this is the only one they got a processor upgrade and it's a faster processor than it or in the iphones significantly for some tasks now this one uses the a7 that's the same thing that's basically on the iphone of last year okay and but you know it does fine for reading for video playing for basic stuff and now the price drop on last year's model is down to get it for 349 with 32 gigs okay that middle one that's a great price to get what's basically a fledged iPad in in the minute the one without touch ID called the ipad mini 2 now but then if I weren't doing that and I wanted something that was newer than that I get the ipad ipad air 2 i pay up for the extra storage because now it's 16 goes to 64 128 right for the extra hundred dollars bumping up to 64 that's a sort of thing an upgrade if someone has an ipad air yeah are they even thinking about upgrading no don't think the better do not think about it and ipad air is fine in fact you might even say some people might prefer that you save a hundred dollars sure getting the ipad air i would say though if you're going for the larger size i would still think about going for the air too because it's down the road ipads last a long time for a couple years down the road three years from now which is going to run the next version of iOS better it's going to be the air too because the processor is a lot faster so you're going to save yourself the anxiety at that point in the future of having to upgrade no it's that's worth it so I mean do you think people who are maybe on the fence do you think it's worth waiting for an air three is there is that ever an option and assign let's cross my mind it seems very tempting because you have interesting opinions on where this is all going and I I'd love using the iPad from the beginning right I thought it really did a lot of things for me as time goes on I probably use it less phones do more and I still think the ipad is the best tablets out there the apps available for it are great and it performs great but it's not doing anything different so if you want something that's going to feel more like a laptop there's a reasons why we use our laptops or desktops this doesn't do it they're gonna have a 12 inch ipad or they gonna have something that you know does split screen and becomes more like a surface or a macbook ipad hybrid that's like it's got to happen sometimes or make sense maybe will it happen next year probably not but i would hold out if i already own an ipad air if it's been a couple of years this is a pretty safe one to dive into just don't expect and it's going to do anything other than run super fast own touch ID is useful yeah it's just not maybe it's super useful as you think because the Apple pay that's built in here allows you to make payments on compatible apps not websites okay you can't just go to Safari I make a payment on something and then use that and I don't know what kind of such it does make sense i don't know what kind of situation you find yourself in where you would take this to a retailers that evening you never do that it's not a tap to pace you're right you thankfully woman yeah tapping this that's a shirt ping at a starbucks right doing oh that's a nice breeze excuse me sir yeah i know they smartly didn't even think about that good this is instead what Apple pay means is they store your credit card information centrally right and then compatible apps again has to be an app which is annoying right now because a lot of people shop on on browser photo you do that you tap and you pay and you don't even have to like with uber things like that you may not have to even great and account right you could just use this and bypass that and become but how many apps are going to use it it's going to take time and I still feel like you want this to work in Safari definite is I feel like ninety percent of the purchasing I do on an iPad you're usually doing your web browser absolutely that's hard i could avoid the old like lean to the side with the you know that shape that shame lean you know where you just like I get the wallet out across the room get my wallet make it so that's that's nice um knowing where the touch ID is on an iPad sometimes been as i used it i'm like was it on the bottom right side which finger am i use ish because the iphone is always like in one spot there's a small note but um it's nice to have it's just not i don't think it's a must-have right okay yeah now the switch into the mini three real quick right a lot of people are saying the word incremental is generous extremely yeah so so explain that real this is well these are goal by the way that's like a light bronzing that's that's what the gold color looks like yeah I think we all go lightly bronzed over the soil champagne champagne love on the back I would not get the gold color yeah but I you yeah you take an ipad air from last year ipad mini from last year yes slap touch ID on it and you have a gold option okay tada so you paying a hundred dollars really for touch ID which is insanely not worth you don't do that uh know if you want a super high storage ipad mini you want 64 or 128 Apple has now forced you in having to get this one right um and they shaved a hundred dollars off those configurations you could justify it and say that it's kind of costing what a would have last year but right you know so you're stuck the last year's version now is up to 32 gigs okay that's where they get you but 32 is fine for most people especially if you're not using this for a lot of hardcore things that they that you can stream videos you can cloud you know store a lot of stuff now so I still like the size of this one a lot all right very good okay so I think that about wraps it up the takeaways not worth an upgrade if you have an heir what's like the minimum ipad version that you have that you would recommend that's a good question i would say anything before the 4th gen ipad so if you've got to wonder year full of all right the year they came out with to screw over everyone was based on service Lord months writer and you know why did this happen i bought the i want the one from the spring oh so you're gonna need the one in the fall and i were hurt yeah so the 3rd gen ipad is pretty long in the tooth now yeah and was discontinued a while ago i would say this is a really good time to upgrade from that got a 4th gen ipad which was an a 6x processor you know you can still hold on it has lightning right um i know i think that if someone you notice this was thinner sure but you you want to hold on to your iPad's i think as long as possible right until you feel like they're really slow unless you're playing a lot of games or your if you are a person who's doing video editing here nine apps open at one leading edge ipad graphics work there are people who do that I then you could see clear advantages but most people are using this for web browsing videos books email you'll be fine all right so I'd say that and for the mini it's I think it's all about last year's version there's no significant differences here nice of the price dropped on last year's but there are a lot of tablet options now sure found a bigger market I still think overall for the apps that it runs it's a really nice deal I just wish they'd bump the processor just a little bit throw us a bone it's not a little bit all right well there you have it whether or not you should buy any of the new iPads Scott Stein thank you so much to be you yeah you bet this is always a pleasure tune in next time for the next ask the editors I'm Jeff olhar will see you now