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Apple Introduces iPad Air 2, Its Thinnest Tablet Ever

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101614 iPadAir2iPadMini3?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1413493441632Apple, Inc.(CUPERTINO, Calif.) — The iPad Air 2, Apple’s thinnest tablet ever, was introduced Thursday at the company’s surprise October event.

“Can you even see it?” CEO Tim Cook joked as he showed the 6.1 mm thin tablet to an audience gathered at Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California.

The iPad Air 2 is so thin, two of them stacked on top of each other would still be thinner than the first iPad, the company noted.

The device will come with Touch ID and will be equipped with Apple Pay, making online impulse purchases even easier.

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, said the iPad Air 2 is “the best tablet display you’ve ever seen and the thinnest tablet, but there is so much more that makes the iPad Air great.”

The iPad Air 2 runs on an A8X chip packed with a whopping 3 billion transistors, making it faster than ever.

The iPad Air 2 will come in silver, space gray and gold. Prices are $499 for 16 GB, $599 for 64 GB and $699 for 128 GB.

The company is also dropping the price on its existing line of iPads. The iPad mini will now cost $249. The iPad mini 2 will be reduced to $299, while the iPad Air has been slashed to $399, the company said.


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