The iPad Air’s lighter weight and smaller size is more ideal as a portable hand-held tablet than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro in my opinion. Using the iPad Air 5 (2022) as a machine for fun Charging is done via USB-C and - surprise, surprise! - there's a 20W USB-C charging brick included with the packaging. If I'm editing videos or using AR apps, then obviously there's a bigger battery drain at up to 10-12% per hour. The iPad Air 5 (2022) offers solid battery life - for productivity use (word processing with some Spotify streaming and video watching), the machine can last a full nine, ten-hour workday and finish with 20% battery left still. The animations here obviously aren’t as fluid as the ProMotion iPad Pro, but I saw no animation stutters, or app freezes, everything works. Overall software behavior and performance work the same here on the iPad Air 5 (2022) as the iPad Pro or the older 2020 iPad Air.
Still, this doesn’t let Apple off the hook - iPadOS could and should do better in terms of multi-tasking anyway. But on the smaller 10.9-inch iPad Air, I don’t mind the two-screen limit, as it seems ideal for the screen size.
