2024 iPad Pro: Best New Features

[SoldOnApple]

And it's so much lighter, you'll be least five pounds lighter carrying the new iPad Pro around, if you pay with quarters.

 

[cgs1xx]

No sim card..? that kinda worries me. I’m quite sure if I call the network now, they won’t know how it will work, moving my existing contract to an esim card…

 

[dragoon2745]

Aren't there durability concerns with the nano-texture option?

 

[Marty80]

It’s seems across all Apple devices, the best new features keep shrinking every year.

 

[alankemsley]

You’re all here talking about how great and thin the 13-inch iPad is, while I’m sitting here wondering how anyone could possibly need a giant 13-inch iPad.

 

[Uofmtiger]

So that it’s still reasonably thin with the Magic Keyboard.

Yep and with or without the keyboard it will take up less room in a backpack. A benefit of weight and thinness.

 

[cbns]

i wonder if the speakers are also a downgrade

 

[dp226]

Question - Apple is touting the neural engine just like when they announced the M3 Macintosh. What software (either iPad or Macintosh) is actually taking advantage of the neural engine?

 

[Uofmtiger]

All of you talking about how the reduced thickness is going to be a game changer for your 13-inch iPad, while I’m sitting here thinking “how the hell could anyone possibly need a 13-inch iPad?”

Bigger screens have a lot of benefits. It works better as a separate monitor for the Mac, side by side apps have more room, media looks better, photos look better and are easier to see fine details without zooming in, etc….

 

[Larabee119]

And no one mentioned one less microphone?

 

[jazz1]

I could care less of the removed features. Never used them. Think the iPad Pro is a great upgrade over the 5th Gen iPad Pro 12.9. Excited!

I hope to find the same when I compare my new one with my M1!

 

[klasma]

The new Pro also lost one “studio-quality microphone”, it has only four instead of the previous five.

 

[klasma]

I’m sitting here thinking “how the hell could anyone possibly need a 13-inch iPad?”

To display PDFs at full size. (Well, minus the top/bottom margins.)

 

[coolfactor]

So I know this is nit picky, but Apple wins when they say 5.1mm (or use the "thinnest ever” for just about all of their devices). I kinda find it annoying. At it’s thinnest for a majority of the device … sure: 5.1mm.

Is the camera bumpout detachable? No. Can I slide this through a mail slot that’s 5.2mm wide? No.

This is kinda like expecting a McDonald’s burger to look like the one pictured in the ad. Except the burgers generally do lie flat on a table.

If you watch the ad about the thinness... they flip the iPad onto its face to show the thickness against the iPad nano.

Camera Bumps Matter Too.

 

[Loki23]

So when does the pitifully bad iPad OS get addressed so all this amazing new power can actually be used whatsoever?

 

[jazz1]

Yep and with or without the keyboard it will take up less room in a backpack. A benefit of weight and thinness.

I wonder if the new Magic Keyboard is thinner/lighter that the one on my M1 iPad Pro. A thinner, lighter M4 (versus my M1 and Magic Keyboard) with Magic Keyboard would be great. I did order the new combo.

 

[Waytrix]

On the camera bump... What is the black spot/hole above the flash?

 

[Fuzzball84]

Of everything i am most interested in upcoming reviews of the new magic keyboard.. some nice improvements but i think ill be waiting for the third iteration… the one ihave for Air is already great and I wont upgrade toPro just for a keyboard :/

What is odd is that its the Air… middle tier that now has no function row… standard and Pro now have function row. 🤨

 

[slamtennis]

When do new devices get discounted? lol

I recall from recent new releases, discounts can hit relatively quickly...

 

[jw77777]

They resolved the blooming effect with the previous model, right? I have the M1 iPad Pro, and the blooming effect kinda annoys me, though I tolerated it for so long, so it'll be nice not to have that anymore.

 

[jw77777]

So that it’s still reasonably thin with the Magic Keyboard.

I think for artists, like me, who would use the Apple Pencil heavily would benefit from the lighter and thinner form. The current one is a bit heavy to have on your lap for hours. just my thought on the matter.

 

[jw77777]

All of you talking about how the reduced thickness is going to be a game changer for your 13-inch iPad, while I’m sitting here thinking “how the hell could anyone possibly need a 13-inch iPad?”

Drawing is great on a 13inch iPad!

 

[greg99]

I'm not seeing anything with the M4 that makes me need to upgrade from my M1 Pro. I upgrade my iPhones most years, but I think I'm going to hold onto my M1. If there had been some massive shift with iPadOS, then I might have considered it.

 

[younker]

I will upgrade my 2nd Pro to this one unless iPadOS have a big update, for example, running Xcode or VSCode, VIM, etc.

Ipad OS needs a big upgrade with such powerful hardware

 

[agsystems]

With this thin design, I want to know how the battery life will be?

The same 10 hour they’ve been quoting for 14 years - I use mine in low power mode all the time and you can get 15+ hours of on screen work with very little performance hit