23/06/2022
Connectivity: The need for speed
Connectivity isn’t sexy, unless you’ve got a thing for 5G towers, perhaps to counteract all the nutcases trying to tear them down. But in a modern world packed with impatience, we do want everything to be faster – and the Air duly obliges.
The least surprising new feature is 5G – although note that going for a cellular unit raids your wallet to the tune of 150 quid. All models get latest-generation Wi-Fi support, though, and Apple also lobbed revamped USB-C into the mix. This doesn’t match the iPad Pro’s Thunderbolt port, but nonetheless speeds up data transfer to connected devices – handy if you have a 64GB Air and regularly offload large media files to an external drive.
