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hey this is Dan Siebert with the verge and we are here in a high school in Chicago and what we're looking at is the new iPad from Apple now this is available to both consumers and students it replaces the old nine point seven inch iPad so this has a nine point seven inch screen and there's a couple of new features with it internally it's got the Apple a 10x processor and then it has support for the Apple pencil which I'll talk about in a minute but otherwise it is basically the same iPad that we've become familiar with over the past couple of years again it's a nine point seven inch screen it has touch ID on the home button here you got speaker on the bottom of course your lightning port front facing camera rear facing camera of course this model is an LTE equipped one so it's got the panel here and of course your Apple logo very straightforward there's nothing really new in terms of the design here it is very much an iPad but it is a little bit faster than the one that was released last year thanks to that new processor and then of course the big new thing especially for consumers and educators alike is the support for the Apple pencil this is the first time that the Apple pencil has worked with an iPad outside of the pro line so you can use the pencil of course to navigate things but one of the things that they've been showing off here is new iWork suite and one of the new ones is keynote here you can create presentations and draw and animate them with the pencil so even if you are creating a presentation and you make a drawing on there you can actually let's get to my drawing this is I apologize it's really bad but there's my plant growing up out of the soil there which I drew with the pencil just a couple of minutes ago so of course and then it'll class works with all of the other Apple pencil supported apps so you can use it to take notes you can use it to draw you can use it with any other app that's uses the Apple pencil the pencil is not included in it however it does cost $99 extra which hasn't changed it's not missile surprise it looks like an iPad it feels like an iPad it acts like an iPad it is very much very much an iPad it's nice to have the faster processor it's going to be a little bit snappier than last year's model of course the support for the Apple pencil is great I really would have liked to have seen this our connector here a lot of the demos that Apple showed off during its presentation we're showing off things that were you were creating for classes and things like that and they require a lot of typing now Logitech is making a case for this which is like a rugged keyboard case which will sell separately but it would be great to have the smart connector because then you can use a smart keyboard which is a lot slimmer and easier to use with the iPad but otherwise you know it's an iPad that's really all there is to say about it it's going to be available at the same price as the last year's model it's $329 for consumers $299 for educators to get a little bit of a discount and it's gonna be available this week for more on the new iPad and all the other stuff that Apple announced today at its event here in Chicago be sure to check out the Virg calm and subscribe to youtube.com slash The Verge