If you opt for the more expensive MacBook Air, it’s $51 more than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard, but you get 512GB of storage instead of the 128GB in the iPad Pro. Oh, and either version obviously gets you a keyboard (and it's Apple's Magic Keyboard, to boot).

The MacBook Air has two configurations: a $1,199 version with an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, 8GB RAM, and 256GB SSD storage and a $1,499 version that adds two GPU cores and doubles the storage. Doubling the SSD storage from 128GB to 256GB adds another $100 regardless of whether you opt for the 11-inch or 12.9-inch model-and the starting price compared to the MacBook Air ensures you will spend nearly as much on this iPad Pro if you add a keyboard or other accessories $1,448 total with the Magic Keyboard and $1,298 with the folio keyboard. You’ll get a better display with this screen size, but you get nothing in the way of more storage. You could get the Smart Keyboard Folio for $179 and save a total of $221 by comparison. If you add Apple’s Magic Keyboard, tack on another $299 to the total price-which comes to about $100 less than a 13-inch MacBook Air. The iPad Pro's base model with an 11-inch screen, 8GB RAM, 128GB of storage, and no cellular connectivity starts at $799. Companies like Logitech make a wide array of iPad keyboards, and of course, Apple has its own Magic Keyboard, but depending on the brand you could find yourself spending anywhere between $20 to upwards of $300 for an iPad keyboard. If you want the iPad Pro to double as a laptop, you’ll need to buy a keyboard-ideally one you fold over your iPad to take it with you wherever you go. Both the iPad Pro and MacBook Air are excellent productivity companions, but if you need a new computing device for more complicated tasks than checking emails, one will suit your needs better than the other.īuy the Apple MacBook Air M2 Form factor and configuration They run on different operating systems, have different cameras, screen resolutions, cellular connectivity-the list goes on. Both are also lightweight, portable, and priced very similarly.īut that’s where the similarities end: After all, one is a tablet and the other is a laptop.

Apple’s iPad Pro M2 (2022) and MacBook Air M2 (2022) share some of the same specifications: Apple’s impressive M2 chip, up to 16GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage space, so you'll get roughly the same performance out of both devices.

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