Redditors and others say their new iPad Airs creak. We think they have normal give.
Apple is many things, secretive, sometimes expensive, but it’s not sloppy. To build new Apple iPad Air tablets that creak when you hold or press them, that would be sloppy or worse. On Reddit, there are some new iPad Air owners accusing the tech giant of shoddy workmanship. They say the back panel of the iPad Air (2022) is thinner than the fourth-generation iPad Air and that they can » almost feel the battery through the plate when you hold the device. » Wait. What? The claim is that the aluminum back is so thin that somehow their digits can feel a battery or component through it? Maybe it’s this Reddit member’s insufficient powers of description at work. The back would have to be paper-thin to « feel » something through it. One would have to assume that they mean the back isn’t as stiff or rigid as it should be. Elsewhere, we have a video (above) from Lewis Painter, a Macworld UK reporter who shows how when he presses with his thumb on the 10.9-in device’s back it makes a sound. Because everyone else has described it as « creaky, » Painter calls it that, too. Though the sound I hear is more of a click. As you know, we have a couple of these new M1-based Apple iPad Air tablets at TechRadar.
