Screen size: 11-inch or 13-inch | Display resolution: 2420 x 1668 (11 inches), 2752 x 2064 (13 inches) | Storage: Up to 2TB | Memory: Up to 16GB | weight: 0.98 lbs (11 inches), 1.28 lbs (13 inches) | Battery life: Up to 10 hours | Front camera: 12MP | Rear camera: 12MP
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The latest iPad Pro is the most expensive iPad, with more than most people need for tablets. But if you have cash burning, you’re determined to use your iPad as your primary mobile computer, or just hope the most impressive iPad might come out.
We gave the new iPad Pro a 84 in the comments. Like the iPad Air, it comes in 11-inch and 13-inch models: the former starts at $999, while the latter starts at $1,299. This is very expensive for most people, but for money, you get a lot of quality (even if not important) upgrades that can be upgraded to other tablets from Apple.
The most important of these is the professional “connected OLED” display. This produces richer colors, darker, more even black tones compared to the LCD screen on the iPad Air. Games and scrolling web pages look smoother thanks to their faster 120Hz refresh rate. It can also be significantly brighter, reaching up to 1,000 columns in SDR and up to 1,600 columns with HDR highlights.
This is where the “concatenation” part comes from. Essentially, Apple stacks two OLED panels on each other to improve peak brightness, which is often a (relative) weakness of traditional OLED displays. It’s a breakthrough, but what you really need to know is that this screen is absolutely delightful, and it’s one of the best screens we’ll see on any consumer device, let alone tablets. You really do better for watching movies or editing media. Unlike previous models, this same display technology is used on both the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pros, so it’s better to be just personal preference.
The design here is roughly similar to the iPad Air’s design, but is slightly thinner and lighter. The difference on paper is not very big, but the professionals’ narrowed frames make them easier to hold. This makes especially meaningful for the 13-inch model.
Another title upgrade is Apple’s M4 SoC. If the M3 is overkill for most casual and pro iPad tasks, then the M4 is a big killer. It’s easy to chew almost everything we put in. But this should be more future-proof, and if your work involves high-resolution media editing, heavy use of machine learning, etc., it will save a few seconds here and there.
Aside from that, the base iPad Pro has 256GB of storage, which is twice as much as any other iPad. Like the M3 Air, it also supports advanced features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing on its GPU, which could help with lighting in future games, as well as faster neural engines, which should help Apple plans to plan AI capabilities in the coming years.
if you real To be the most important thing, note that the 1TB and 2TB configurations have twice as much RAM (16GB) and use a more powerful M4 version with an additional performance core. Skip to one of the Skus costs Minimum However, the price is $1,599 – that’s before you add the accessories. Those who want to use the iPad Pro as a (very expensive) media consumption device don’t need this feature, but if you use an app that is eager to remember or need the absolutely best one, be aware that this will cost you.
The iPad Pro is the only iPad with Face ID, which is more convenient than a fingerprint scanner. This is the only one with a Thunderbolt USB-C port, which technically transfers large files faster. It sounds more powerful than air, with four built-in speakers instead of two. Its camera system isn’t that different, but it includes a flash to scan documents more easily and can record videos in Apple’s ProRes format. Its front camera is also on the long edge. As for accessories, Apple’s best magic keyboard is available for professionals alone, which itself is very expensive, but has better aluminum effects, backlit keys and tactile feedback, as well as a larger trackpad and a row of function keys. It also supports Pencil Professional stylus (but not Second Generation Pencils).
If most of these features sound niche to you, then, that’s the idea. Unless you’re willing to pay for that great OLED screen, the iPad Air will be close enough for a more delicious price. Even though the iPad Pro is a leading tablet, it is still an iPad in the end. Some creative professionals can use it well as a laptop replacement, but for most people, iPados are still more complex multitasking and other computer Y tasks than on MacBooks. Judging from the features added in Apple 18, this has not changed anytime soon. (There is the most buzzing non-AI addition? A new calculator app.) That said, the Pro is a great iPad – fast, slim and luxurious. And expensive.
