10月22日， iPad Air发布当天，苹果（Apple）发出了一批评测机。

    美国东部时间本周三晚9点——距离iPad Air预定发售时间还有一天半，关于这款设备的新闻封锁解除，苹果公司如愿以偿的获得了如潮水般涌来的好评。

    相关评测节选如下：

    沃尔特•莫斯伯格，All Things D网站：iPad Air极致纤薄，速度与动力俱佳。“近一周来，我一直在测试iPad Air，我发现这台设备非常好用。这款iPad新品并不是一款颠覆性的平板产品，但它是对一款成功产品的重大改进。iPad Air是我评测过的最好的平板电脑。不仅仅是因为它更轻薄的设计，而是因为苹果拥有475,000款适合平板使用的应用程序，数量远远高于其它平板平台。（iPhone适用的近百万款应用程序也都可以在iPad上运行。）相比之下，Android平板电脑所适用的绝大部分应用程序不过是手机应用程序的拉伸版。总之，如果你预算足够，我强烈推荐你购买新款iPad Air。

    大卫•波格，来自波格的便笺：波格评测iPad Air：“苹果这一次推出的iPad Air没有什么让人不得不掏腰包的新功能——没有什么视网膜屏幕、Siri语音识别甚至（iPhone 5s上那样的）指纹识别器这种级别的新功能。公众大感乏味，肯定会令苹果公司的工程师们十分恼火。不过，重要的是，在不牺牲电池寿命以及造型美感的前提下能让iPad体积缩小、重量减轻、运行速度加快，是一个了不起的成就。因为iPad Air不像微波炉，也不像电视机，一直就固定摆放在一个地方。人们在使用iPad Air时，必须拿着它，而在不用时，必须随身带着它。因此，它的大小和重量很重要。不过，鉴于它500美元的定价，iPad大概不需要每年、甚至每两年一换；假如你有2012年或2013年款的iPad产品，就不用买新的了。

    达蒙•达林，《纽约时报》（New York Times）：iPad Air：更轻、更快。“iPad Air明显要比之前的iPad产品轻。如果你对苹果这款新品哪怕稍稍有些兴趣，那你很可能已经知道这一点了。苹果公司的工程师成功地将早前版本iPad的重量减轻了近三分之一；新款9.7寸屏iPad Air的重量仅1磅。但你可能不知道的是：当你斜倚着看东西或者看电影，然后睡着了，iPad倒下来砸在你鼻子上时，那减掉的6.4盎司十分关键。iPad Air不会像老款iPad那样砸伤你。”

    安娜德•拉尔•希姆皮，科技博客AnandTech：iPad Air评测。“许多人在叫嚣：10英寸平板不行了，如今的热点是更小巧，但性能毫不逊色的7英寸或8英寸平板。似乎很多年前就一直在说15英寸笔记本电脑完蛋了，但苹果却逆势推出了高清版MacBook Pro。同样，上周iPad Air闪亮登场。这是对9.7英寸iPad的重大升级，Air赋予了iPad新的活力。” 

    On Oct. 22, the day the was unveiled, Apple (AAPL) handed out a bunch of review units.

    When the news embargo lifted Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern -- a day and half before the device was scheduled to go on sale -- the company got what it was hoping for: A flood of positive reviews.

    Excerpts:

    Walt Mossberg, All Things D:Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air. "I've been testing the iPad Air for about a week and found it a pleasure to use. This new iPad isn't a radical rethinking of what a tablet can be, but it's a major improvement on a successful product. It is the best tablet I've ever reviewed. That isn't just because of its slimmer, lighter design, but because Apple boasts 475,000 apps optimized for tablet use — far more than any other tablet platform. (The iPad also can run all of the million or so apps available for the iPhone.) By contrast, the vast majority of apps available for rival Android tablets are just stretched versions of phone apps... Bottom line: If you can afford it, the new iPad Air is the tablet I recommend, hands down."

    David Pogue, A note from Pogue:The Pogue Review: iPad Air. "This time around, there's no gotta-have new feature—nothing on the level of the Retina screen, Siri voice recognition, or even a fingerprint reader (like the one on the iPhone 5s). That big public yawn must drive Apple's engineers crazy. The thing is, making the iPad smaller, lighter, and faster without sacrificing battery life or beauty is a tremendous achievement. This isn't a device that sits or hangs in one place its whole life. It's not a microwave or a TV. You have to hold this thing while you're using it, and carry it around when you're not. So size and weight matter a lot. Still, at $500, an iPad probably doesn't need replacing every year or even every other year; if you have a 2012 or 2013 model, stick with what you've got."

    Damon Darlin, New York Times:Lighter and Faster, It's iPad Air. "The iPad Air is noticeably lighter than its predecessors. If you are the least bit interested in the new tablet computer from Apple, you probably already know that. The company's engineers shaved just short of a third off the weight of the earlier version; the 9.7-inch Air weighs only a pound. What you may not know is this: Those 6.4 ounces make all the difference when, as you recline while reading or watching a movie, you conk out and the iPad falls forward to bonk you on the nose. The Air won't hurt you the way the old iPad did."

    Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech:The iPad Air Review. "It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead. It also seemed like 15-inch notebook computers were done for a couple of years ago, then Apple launched the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. In a similar vein, last week Apple introduced the iPad Air. A significant re-imagining of the original 9.7-inch iPad, the Air breathes new life into the platform."