蘋果全新iPad搶鮮評測 給你一個買Air 2或mini 3的理由

Apple unveiled new iPads at the tech giant’s Cupertino, Ca. headquarters on Thursday. Fortune had 30 minutes to try them both out. While Apple clearly fine-tuned last year’s models — one much more than the other — instead of entirely remaking them, the latest iPads seemingly uphold company’s reputation for making quality products.

週四，蘋果公司（Apple）在加州庫比蒂諾總部發布了全新iPad。《財富》雜誌（Fortune）花半小時試用了這兩款新品。儘管看起來，蘋果只是大幅升級了去年的老款——其中一款升級幅度更大，這並不是一次徹底的產品革新，但新款iPad的品質對得起蘋果的名聲。

The iPad Air 2:

iPad Air 2：

What the iPad Air 2 lacks in sheer novelty, it makes up for with tweaks across the board. The new 9.7-inch tablet looks a lot like last year’s model, but manages to be 18% slimmer — a design feat that makes the iPad Air 2 thinner than a pencil. It’s the thinnest tablet on the market. (“Can you even see it?” Tim Cook quipped at the unveiling.) A new screen cuts glare and reflections by roughly half, according to Apple. And now there’s Touch ID, the same fingerprint scanning technology found in last year’s iPhone 5s that lets users unlock their devices by placing a finger on the home button.

儘管iPad Air 2缺乏創新亮點，但卻進行了全面的小幅升級。這款全新的9.7英寸平板與去年的老款看起來別無二致，但卻輕薄了18%——這使它比一支鉛筆還薄，成爲市面上最薄的平板（蒂姆o庫克在發佈會上開玩笑稱：“你還能看得見它嗎？”）據蘋果公司稱，全新的屏幕使炫光和反光減少近半。同時它也搭載了了Touch ID，也就是去年亮相iPhone 5S的指紋掃描技術，用戶把手指放在Home鍵上就可以解鎖。

The rest of the iPad Air’s improvements are beneath the hood: a faster processor and graphics chip, a Burst mode feature that quickly snaps a series of photos and more storage on iPad models priced $599 and above. It will be available starting Oct. 24.

iPad Air的其他改進都在意料之中：更快的處理器和圖形芯片，能快速抓拍多張照片的Burst模式，定價599美元及以上的機型享有更大存儲空間。10月24日起，新iPad Air開始接受預訂。

All those nips and tucks won’t blow users away, but they do add up to a better experience overall for iPad users. Apps open faster, websites load more quickly and a graphics-heavy driving video game I tried zipped by. As for that new screen? It cuts down on glare and reflections, but I only appreciated the effect when I placed the tablet alongside the iPad Mini 3 under a lamp. It’s there, but far more subtle than I expected.

所有這些小幅升級都不會讓用戶感到驚豔，但它們整體上確實讓iPad用戶的使用體驗更好了。應用打開得更快，網站加載速度更快，我試玩的一款有大量圖形界面的遊戲也運行得飛快。而新屏幕到底如何呢？它號稱大幅減少了炫光和反光，但只有當我把它放在燈下的一臺iPad Mini 3邊上時，才能感受到這種效果。確實有一定效果，但遠不如我期待的那麼明顯。

The iPad mini 3:

iPad mini 3：

If the larger iPad received something of a face lift this year, its smaller sibling got a half-hour facial. Available Oct. 24, the iPad mini 3 is more portable thanks to its 7.9-inch size, but there’s very little new here besides the addition of Touch ID. Sure, it comes in gold now, as well as silver and “space gray,” but so does the iPad Air 2. And yes, the iPad Mini 3 offers more storage on models priced $499 and over, but again, the iPad Air 2 does that, too.

如果說體型較大的iPad今年算是做了點“整容”的話，那它的小姐妹就只能說做了半小時的“臉部養護”了。iPad mini 3也是10月24日開售，7.9英寸的迷你身材讓它輕鬆便攜，但除了加了個Touch ID之外，它就沒多少升級了。確實它現在有土豪金、銀色和“太空灰”幾個顏色了，但iPad Air 2也這樣。此外，定價499美元及以上的iPad Mini 3存儲空間更大了，但iPad Air 2同樣如此。

In fact, the iPad mini 3 is virtually identical to last year’s model down to the dimensions, processor and camera, so much so that handling the device gave me déjà vu. Compared to the Air 2, it’s noticeably thicker, runs significantly slower and lacks the Air 2’s glare-resistant screen. It’s still a solid, affordable tablet — it just doesn’t offer much that’s new.

實際上，iPad mini 3在尺寸、處理器和攝像頭等方面和去年的老款幾乎一模一樣，以至於拿着這臺“新款”給我一種似曾相識的錯覺。跟Air2相比，它顯然更厚，運行速度慢得多，也沒有Air 2那塊防炫光的屏幕。它仍然是一款便宜耐用的平板——只是沒什麼新東西罷了。

Conclusion:

結論：

To say that Apple AAPL -1.31% served up “more of the same” with its new iPads would be right and wrong. It improved the larger iPad just enough so users will pick up on things like faster performance, a thinner body and a screen that’s easier to read. A good chunk of the 225 million iPad users already out there will find those features worth upgrading for.

要說蘋果這兩款新iPad提供了“大同小異的特色”，這話既對也錯。大些的那款改進較大，所以用戶會注意到運行更快、體型更輕薄、屏幕看起來更輕鬆等新特性。iPad 已有的2.25億用戶中，大部分會覺得這些特性是值得爲之買單的。

But the iPad mini 3 seems to take a lesson from the plasticky iPhone 5c: for the most part, it’s last year’s model masquerading as something new. In other words: iPad Air 2 might not be revolutionary, but it’s evolutionary. The mini 3? It’s not even that.

但iPad mini 3似乎從那款塑料感極強的iPhone 5c身上學到了教訓：在很大程度上，它就是去年的老款僞裝成了新款。換言之：iPad Air 2也許算不上革命性產品，但它還是大有改進的。但mini 3呢？它連這點都談不上。