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what's up everyone Jon render from TechnoBuffalo here the full review for you of the iPad air 2 it is the sequel to the thinnest tablet Apple has ever made there is an incredibly crowded tablet market out there let's see if this one should grab your hard earned tablet buying buck so as I do with all our reviews I want to give a disclaimer I uses this device as my only tablet for seven days in about three and a half to four days using a conjunction with another tablet if you want to hear anything additional about what I'm talking about see more pictures teeth gallery or just sort of get more granular hit the link down below to go to the full written review and check that out as well let's go ahead and jump into the review so 2014 Apple's mantra seems to be thin thin and thinner the original iPad air it was already pretty svelte this guy though gets even thinner it's 6.1 millimeters which you can do quick math is 18% less than the original iPad air 7.5 millimeters the cool thing though it feels just as sturdy while weighing under a pound and no I'm not going to see if I can bend it it feels pretty stable secure despite that really diminutive profile design wise though it's still really close to the last gen and pretty much every iPad for the past few years say for the gold color and that little gold ring around the home button which is hiding touch ID Eston usually tends to do though it does come in a bit of a cost the battery has dropped a bit from 30 2.41 hours to 27 point 3 watt hours when the big emissions firm either with this tablet is it seems kind of strange is removal of the profile switch on the side or the mute switch however you want to use it simple thing it just became very annoying now if you want to put the volume all the way down you got to sort of hit the button and hold it all the way down or just call up control center not a giant deal by tricked imagination just annoying to have it not here in its place now you've got a mic which means there's no break on the back of a cellular model for Michael if that's a big issue for you then hey no break there it's a tiny aesthetic improvement that went through four really big hardware changes that one I had a hard time understanding as I mentioned earlier touch ID is here in networks as well in the iPhone 6 and 6 plus it's only for in-app perk it's a nice and very obvious addition if you got issues with touch ID on the iPhone 5s and we're worried about how it might perform here don't worry it works really well I had some accuracy issues with the 5s but on 6 6 plus and now the iPad line I'm batting almost a thousand with hatch idea working processor was this one's gotten a lot faster it's clocked up at 1.5 gigahertz versus 1.4 from the last gen l2 cache is double from 1 to 2 megabytes ram is also doubled now with 2 gigabytes onboard here apple's also claiming a 40% boost in cpu performance and improved graphic prowess which you'd expect from a new processor because i'd like to see what scores are i ran this through the Geekbench 3 multi-core test and the score came back at 4400 89 which is up from about 2700 on the first gen so they improvement there so obviously yeah this thing is really fast games and apps not only open very quickly the performances now superb and right now though the big caveat here developers haven't had much time to code the new hardware I'd wager that we start to see a big difference once all the RAM starts getting used which does having a bit worried about how older models might perform for right now though I can see a giant difference but you know 16 months down the road you might really start to see the discrepancy between a past gen and the current gen so I wanted to test some games so I asked the office where I should play and brightness I should play a quiet little game called five nights at freddys while doing my test and I did but also nearly peed myself so if you haven't tried that game don't try it alone it is super scary if you get the Democratic geyser coming out trying to kill you but I probably shouldn't embarrass myself publicly but it's true and while I was getting scared out of my big boy pants everything did performing really really well graphics look great the sound was awesome everything just worked as you'd expect another nice addition here in the iPad air 2 is also 802 11 AC so fast to wipe out but you wipe out eleven folks we talked a lot about hardware but this is a tablet and you're pretty much staring at this thing the whole time that's the display I would get the spec sheet you might not think much has changed you got the same 2048 1536 resolution no retina HD here at all but Apple was still able to slim down the display by using a laminated optically bonded no gap display similar the ones we have in the iPhone that's just fancy talk what does it do safe space for sure but also is now we we less reflective you don't notice it much indoors but outdoors it is a ridiculous difference I almost said redonkulous but I'm not gonna make up words it's a big difference I can now read my Marvel Civil War books not having to turn the brightness all the way up when I'm outside and sort of touring the screen to avoid the Sun you can use this outside now which is a giant plus also though something about the color seems a little bit off to me there's kind of a little hint of a pink hue obviously no pixels can be seen here text looks awesome movies and games all look really really good as it expect so one thing I usually don't talk about in tablets cuz I never so much used about it is the cameras but I'd be remiss to not talk about here on the iPad air 2 if you want to see sample galleries and stuff again hit the link down below to review of a ton of pictures up there so now it's got any major pixel sensor it actually takes decent pics I have some iPhone like tricks like burst mode slo-mo and time lapse I'm obviously not a giant fan of using this thing is just a huge viewfinder but if you like that you know you might want to give it a shot I usually lo taking pics to the tablet but you know that your cup of tea is pretty good so the big kind of elephant in the room monkey in the room elephant monkey hybrid in the room is battery and it's probably the big reason we don't have a retina HD display here though as I mentioned batteries drop from 32 watt hours 27.3 watt hours but Apple still promises the same 10 hours of battery life evidently the a8x is a little bit more power efficient case you're wondering how they pulled off that voodoo on one hand Apple was right we got about 10 and a half hours on 50% brightness with Wi-Fi off while just HD videos played so actually surpassed apples mark on the other hand we ran the same test on the iPad air 1 and got about an hour more so it's not as bad as I originally thought it would be on battery life but snot of giant improvement either but I guess holding par is a nice dish and when you're looking at tablet that's this thin so what's the conclusion on the iPad air 2 not surprisingly it's the best iPad Apple's ever made as kind of you'd expect so nice to features here a touch ID in particular is really nice to have and all honestly when I was using this thing it felt like I was just holding a screen which I guess is what the iPad was always meant to feel like I definitely traded a few millimeters though to get better battery life but the trend nowadays thin is in higher ed skrein have definitely made this feel more future-proof as well but some things that we saved I guess for the iPad air 3 iOS 8.1 work so you'd expect we've covered that sort of ad nauseam if you have the first generation iPad air I'd probably think twice before upgrading if you have anything older than that though this is a great tablet and a worthwhile upgrade the iPad light used to be the king of the tablet world back when all Android head was the zoom but as I tend to do times have changed now the iPad is just one of many very very good tablets out there it's a very solid 8.5 on TechnoBuffalo skin thank you guys for watching and hope you enjoy we are people just like you who love technology if you want to keep up on the latest in the world of consumer electronics hit the big subscription button right down below if wanna see us play games alone middle E sometimes very poorly check out our twitch channel a twitch TV slash TechnoBuffalo