Difference between iPad Air 2 and 2014 MacBook Air
Difference between iPad Air 2 and 2014 MacBook Air

Difference between iPad Air 2 and 2014 MacBook Air

Do you really think of a tablet functioning as a laptop? Yes! This sounds bizarre to you. Well! IPad Air 2 and 2014 MacBook Air are playing a tablet-laptop game. This post of Researchpedia is meant to unhide the specs and differences between iPad Air 2 and 2014 MacBook.

What is IPad Air 2

It’s an Apple’s product designed with iOS 8 software, office and Apple A8X processor used for academic and business drives.

What is 2014 MacBook Air

Being an Apple’s product, it runs OS X Yosemite, iWork (word processing), Intel Core i5 processor mainly designed for large storage of data in academic and business purposes.

iPad Air 2 vs 2014 MacBook Air

  • Size and Weight: In the shell of Apple productions, 13 inches tablets and MackBooks are designed. Here, 11-inch MacBook seems smaller as compared to other MackBooks. Considering iPad Air 2, it is 170 mm long, 240 mm wide, 6.1 mm thin and carries 437 g. On the other side, MacBook Air is leading with 193 mm high, 300mm wide and 17mm thickscreen and carries 1,080 g weight.
  • Presence of Trackpad: IPad Air 2 keyboards are devoid of Trackpads. Here, iOS doesn’t support cursor input. Contrasting, MacBook is enlightened with glass Trackpad and works well with OS X’s multi-touch gestures.
  • Display Size and Resolution: IPad air 2 display size is 9.7 inches giving 79% screen size and 2014 MacBook Air is 11.6” giving 100% display size. Resolution of iPad Air 2 is quite terrific with 2048 x 1536 (264 ppi). On the other hand, MacBook Air is said to be the last major product of pre-Retina Resolution and carries (1336 x 768 (135 ppi)) half beauty of resolution lies in iPad Air 2.
  • Storage: The storage capacity of iPad Air 2 is 16 GB to 64 GB and MacBook can store data up to 128 GB between 256 GB. The reason behind low storage of iPad air 2 is that Apple trades iPad in smaller mobile storage tiers and MacBook in higher PC- like tiers.
  • USB ports: IPad air 2 is lacking the USB port and never will have this ability. On the other side, MacBook has a montage of USB 3.0 ports.
  • RAM and Camera: iPad air 2 is needed to be upgraded in terms of RAM’s option as it owns 2 GB RAM and MacBook holds the crown of 4GB up to 8GB. As far as the camera is concerned, iPad’s rear camera is good in taking shots as it is 8MP rear with 1.2 MP front. On the other side, MacBook is only 720p front with no rear camera option.
  • Release Date and Starting Price: iPad Air 2 was launched in October, 14 and 2014 MacBook Air launched in April with slight changes in last model of 2013. The staring price of iPad Air 2 is $500 and MacBook is quite expensive with $900 in markets.

Both contains the instant hotspot connection, Wi-Fi with cellular options and more than that calls and sms can be placed and received from both devices.If you are intending to buy tablet, you can save some cash in a way as it costs somehow lower than newbie MacBook Air. On and off, choice is yours!