The Apple iPad Air 2
starts at $499 (£399, AU$619), finally includes Apple's TouchID fingerprint
sensor and at 6.1 millimeters thick, is -- according to Apple -- currently the
world's thinnest tablet. The tablet weighs 0.96 pound or 437g -- 0.98 pound/444g
for cellular -- which is about 0.07 pound/32g lighter than the original iPad Air
Preorders start Friday,
October 17, and the tablet starts shipping the following Friday,
October 24. Wi-Fi model pricing looks like this: $499 for 16GB; $599 for 64GB;
$699 for 128GB. Cellular models are more expensive, as we'd expect: $629 for
16GB; $729 for 64GB; $829 for 128GB.






