Apple updates its most popular iPad. I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech Daily. Apple held an event today to update its most popular iPad, that's the nine point seven inch model that starts at three hundred and twenty nine dollars. They held an event in Chicago that was at a school and it was all about education. Apple really wants to get the iPad in more classrooms, and this is what they're doing to it to make that possible with a better processor and now it can support
the Apple pencil. And that's a big deal if you're in a classroom, because you want to be able to jot down notes, you want to mark up screenshots, you want to do all that good stuff that you can do that the Apple pencil lets you do. This isn't necessarily a new iPad. It's basically the same iPad we've seen before, that three hundred and twenty nine dollars model, just above the Mini and just below the iPad Pro.
And this is the model that I think most people are going to be interested in for the everyday user. The new iPad now as the A ten fusion chip inside, which is faster than before. This is not a brand new chip. It's been around since twenty sixteen. It was first introduced in the iPhone seven, but now it's in this iPad as well. Apple says it's forty percent faster and fifty percent faster for graphics. The new iPad's going to come in silver, space, gray, and a new gold finish.
It will sell for three hundred and twenty nine dollars, which is the same price as the model it replaces. That's for a thirty two gigabyte Wi Fi model. If you want that cellular connectivity built in, that's going to be four hundred and fifty nine dollars for a thirty two gigabyte model. Now, if you want that Apple pencil, it is not built in. You don't get that for free. It is still a ninety nine dollars add on. Apple has some educational pricing for the iPad. Schools can purchase
it for two hundred ninety nine dollars. That Apple pencil just ten dollars off. At eighty nine dollars, you're looking at three hundred and ninety dollars for just one student to get the iPad along with the Apple pencil. That's kind of expensive. The iPad, the new one is available to order today. It's going to arrive in stores later this week. Now, this is all very interesting because Apple is big. We know a lot of people have iPhones and I still think the iPad is definitely the gold
standard when it comes to tablets. But if you look inside the classroom environment, a lot of schools that I visit are using chromebooks, and I think with that in mind, Google, if you heard the news they unveiled a tablet yesterday, a tablet sort of aimed at schools as well. This is their first tablet that's running the Chrome operating system. It's called the Acer Chromebook Tab ten and this is
also three hundred and twenty nine dollars. But the difference between this tablet and previous Android tablets is that it doesn't run Android software. It's running Chrome OS. It's the same software that Chromebook laptops in a lot of classrooms are running right now. The device also has a stylus built in, so you don't have to pay extra for that stylus. So this is three hundred and twenty nine
dollars for everything. There you have it. New products from Google and Apple aimed at the classroom, and at the end of the day. I think it's great if kids are exposed to a combination of these products. So they have an iPhone, they know what iOS is all about.
iPads are great, they run that same thing. But it's good for them to also know what Android is all about, what chromos is all about, and of course what Windows is all about, because they all offer different things and work in different ways, and for the kids to be the most successful in their lives, I think it's going to be great for them to be exposed to a combination of platforms. Thanks so much for listening. If you like this podcast, please rate and review it in the
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