A new iPad is seen following a presentation at Apple headquarters
Here is a list of best features of the brand new Apple iPad Pro. Pictured above: A new iPad is seen following a presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 16, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith

In finalizing the gadgets to buy on Black Friday and this year's holiday shopping season, Apple's iPad Air 2 should easily dominate anyone's list.

Here are the reasons why:

A desktop-class GPU

Apple packed the iPad Air 2 with the 64-bit A8X processing chip that no doubt is one of the mightiest, fastest mobile chips around. Not to mention that the processors is engineered to deliver high-level of energy efficiency.

But according to AnandTech, the Air 2 real power is hidden inside its A8X graphic engine shell that the publication says boast of a customized eight cluster GPU. With that, the capabilities stuffed with the 9.7-inch iPad are comparable to that of NVIDIA's TK1 chip.

Buyers will surely get their money's worth with the iPad Air 2 because "Apple has come very close to implementing a low-end desktop class GPU on a tablet SoC," added the AnandTech report.

And in rendering desktop-class GPU performance in a mobile package, the iPad Air 2 is fully able to sustain such high level of computing task for extended hours, the review further stressed.

Essentially, in taking home the flagship Apple tablet, it is opening up a new frontier never before available to the average consumers.

Delayed iPad Pro touchdown

Sales of the latest iPad Air edition will be softer than usual and the trend, according to Ming-chi Kuo of KGI Securities, will likely extend to the first quarter of 2015. It is believed that many tablet shoppers are holding off to see if the upcoming iPad Pro would better fulfill their tablet needs.

Yet the biggest of the iPads at 12.9-inch will not arrive as expected, Kuo said in a new research note to investors. Another push back will mar Apple's release date plans for the iPad Pro. The earliest that the tablet will debut is second quarter of 2015. The Pro was earlier pegged to launch in time for the 2014 holiday season but production challenge forced Apple to alter its release calendar for the device.

And the same reason is the chief reason why the iPad Pro is not materializing anytime soon, Kuo was reported by 9to5Mac as saying.

Tablet shoppers, however, have a solid buy option with the iPad Air 2 that Apple has further trimmed down while enhancing its capabilities.

And with the numerous 2014 Black Friday deals to take effect a couple of weeks from now, the iPad Air 2's starting price of $499 would be considerably lopped off, going as low as $299 for the 16GB basic unit.