Apple’s iPad Pro was last updated nearly two years ago; it was high time for an update, and Apple delivered.
On Tuesday, the company launched the new iPad Pro in two sizes: 11 and 13 inches.
The new iPads have a new, super-thin design; Apple says they’re thinner even than the iPod nano, making them the thinnest Apple product ever. They’re also quite light, with the smaller, 11-inch model weighing 0.98 pounds, and the 13-inch variant weighing 1.28 pounds.
As rumored, the new iPad Pro devices have an OLED display, which should improve contrast, color, and battery drain. Apple upped the ante by using new display tech called Tandem OLED, combining light with two OLED panels into one to get even better fullscreen brightness.
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The display’s Apple name is Ultra Retina XDR, and it’s coming to both iPad Pro models. Apple calls it the “world’s most advanced display.”
The new iPad Pros also sport Apple’s latest M4 chip, skipping one number (the previous iPad Pro had the M2 chip inside). It has up to 4 performance cores, and 6 efficiency cores, with up to 50% faster performance than the M2. It also has a 10-core GPU. with dynamic caching, mesh shading, and ray tracing. Finally, the new chip has a new neural engine, which Apple claims is the most powerful neural processing unit in any personal computer today.
The iPad Pro starts with 256GB of storage, which can be increased to 2TB. The 11-inch version starts at $999, while the 13-inch version costs $1,299.
If you want your iPad Pro to be a little more like a laptop, you should probably consider the new Magic Keyboard, which will set you back $299. There’s also an all-new Apple Pencil Pro, which costs $129.
The iPad Pro 2024 can be ordered today, and it will be available next week.
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