Apple updates iPad with Apple Pencil to support it’s education initiative

Apple has been committed to support the education industry for a while now, and it has updated the it’s entry-level iPad 9.7-inch with support for the Apple Pencil stylus, which gives educators and students the ability to annotate on educational apps, as well as unleashing their creativity. Due to that, the iPad (2018) processing power has now been upgraded to the A10 Fusion chip, which delivers up to 40% faster CPU and 50% faster graphics performance, an upgraded camera and advanced sensors are also present to deliver great AR performance, it will also have up to 10 hours of battery life on a single charge.

For an educational device, Apple says that the iPad 9.7-inch has been a really popular tablet in classrooms, the App Store now boasts 200,000 education apps for the iPad, which many of them will be able to take advantage of the powerful capabilities of the new device. The iPad (2018) comes in colors of silver, space gray and gold, it is available in WiFi only and cellular models with storage options of 32GB and 128GB. Prices for non-education and education customers are listed as below:

Non-Education

iPad (2018), 32GB – SGD$498 (WiFi), SGD$698 (WiFi+Cellular)

iPad (2018), 128GB – SGD$648 (WiFi), SGD$848 (WiFi+Cellular)

Education

iPad (2018), 32GB – SGD$468 (WiFi), SGD$668 (WiFi+Cellular)

iPad (2018), 128GB – SGD$618 (WiFi), SGD$818 (WiFi+Cellular)

Apple Pencil – SGD$125