Speaker 1: Apple updates its most popular iPad. I'm Rich Demiro. This
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. Apple held an event today
Speaker 1: to update its most popular iPad, that's the nine point
Speaker 1: seven inch model that starts at three hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: nine dollars. They held an event in Chicago that was
Speaker 1: at a school and it was all about education. Apple
Speaker 1: really wants to get the iPad in more classrooms, and
Speaker 1: this is what they're doing to it to make that
Speaker 1: possible with a better processor and now it can support
Speaker 1: the Apple pencil. And that's a big deal if you're
Speaker 1: in a classroom, because you want to be able to
Speaker 1: jot down notes, you want to mark up screenshots, you
Speaker 1: want to do all that good stuff that you can
Speaker 1: do that the Apple pencil lets you do. This isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily a new iPad. It's basically the same iPad we've
Speaker 1: seen before, that three hundred and twenty nine dollars model,
Speaker 1: just above the Mini and just below the iPad Pro.
Speaker 1: And this is the model that I think most people
Speaker 1: are going to be interested in for the everyday user.
Speaker 1: The new iPad now as the A ten fusion chip inside,
Speaker 1: which is faster than before. This is not a brand
Speaker 1: new chip. It's been around since twenty sixteen. It was
Speaker 1: first introduced in the iPhone seven, but now it's in
Speaker 1: this iPad as well. Apple says it's forty percent faster
Speaker 1: and fifty percent faster for graphics. The new iPad's going
Speaker 1: to come in silver, space, gray, and a new gold finish.
Speaker 1: It will sell for three hundred and twenty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: which is the same price as the model it replaces.
Speaker 1: That's for a thirty two gigabyte Wi Fi model. If
Speaker 1: you want that cellular connectivity built in, that's going to
Speaker 1: be four hundred and fifty nine dollars for a thirty
Speaker 1: two gigabyte model. Now, if you want that Apple pencil,
Speaker 1: it is not built in. You don't get that for free.
Speaker 1: It is still a ninety nine dollars add on. Apple
Speaker 1: has some educational pricing for the iPad. Schools can purchase
Speaker 1: it for two hundred ninety nine dollars. That Apple pencil
Speaker 1: just ten dollars off. At eighty nine dollars, you're looking
Speaker 1: at three hundred and ninety dollars for just one student
Speaker 1: to get the iPad along with the Apple pencil. That's
Speaker 1: kind of expensive. The iPad, the new one is available
Speaker 1: to order today. It's going to arrive in stores later
Speaker 1: this week. Now, this is all very interesting because Apple
Speaker 1: is big. We know a lot of people have iPhones
Speaker 1: and I still think the iPad is definitely the gold
Speaker 1: standard when it comes to tablets. But if you look
Speaker 1: inside the classroom environment, a lot of schools that I
Speaker 1: visit are using chromebooks, and I think with that in mind, Google,
Speaker 1: if you heard the news they unveiled a tablet yesterday,
Speaker 1: a tablet sort of aimed at schools as well. This
Speaker 1: is their first tablet that's running the Chrome operating system.
Speaker 1: It's called the Acer Chromebook Tab ten and this is
Speaker 1: also three hundred and twenty nine dollars. But the difference
Speaker 1: between this tablet and previous Android tablets is that it
Speaker 1: doesn't run Android software. It's running Chrome OS. It's the
Speaker 1: same software that Chromebook laptops in a lot of classrooms
Speaker 1: are running right now. The device also has a stylus
Speaker 1: built in, so you don't have to pay extra for
Speaker 1: that stylus. So this is three hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 1: dollars for everything. There you have it. New products from
Speaker 1: Google and Apple aimed at the classroom, and at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. I think it's great if kids
Speaker 1: are exposed to a combination of these products. So they
Speaker 1: have an iPhone, they know what iOS is all about.
Speaker 1: iPads are great, they run that same thing. But it's
Speaker 1: good for them to also know what Android is all about,
Speaker 1: what chromos is all about, and of course what Windows
Speaker 1: is all about, because they all offer different things and
Speaker 1: work in different ways, and for the kids to be
Speaker 1: the most successful in their lives, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be great for them to be exposed to a
Speaker 1: combination of platforms. Thanks so much for listening. If you
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Speaker 1: Rich Jamiro. You can find links to everything I mentioned
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