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Apple Announces New iPad Pro With M4 Chip, OLED Display, and More
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Working at full blast for prolonged period would really degrade the battery. These processors are designed mostly for bursty workloads… get it done fast and then pull back.
Only in desktops and certain Macbooks can sustained loads be accommodated by all system components.
Obviously not a good idea, but something that's always inevitably happened to tablets that are used on sofas and beds from time to time. Older iPads tolerated it harmlessly...
Or calling <1ms pixel response times "Sub ms control over colour and luminance" 😂
To make people that care pay an extra £600/$754 in the UK and even more in the EU!
I pulled the trigger. My primary Mac's are a M3 iMac and M1 MacBook Air (that LIVES in a dock connected to an Apple Studio, I realize I haven't EVER used it on the road or around the house, it will be replaced someday with a Mac Studio I suspect). My primary travel computer was a 2018 iPad Pro 11-inch LTE model that I use 3-4 days a week on the road as a pilot. The iPad just makes sense for me and what I like to do with a mobile device and considering I got 6 years out of the last one I figured I could get the new one, price be dammed... but that damn price lol! $1900+ out the door for the iPad Pro, keyboard, and pen.
I went iPad Pro 11-inch 5G with 512 GB. I added the keyboard and pen. I used the old pen a lot with Adobe Photoshop on the device for editing RAW photos and I plan on trying my hand at mobile video editing (something I always did at home on the Mac, but I want to try using my free time at work to do it, so I do *more* of it) using both Final Cut and Insta360 (my action camera editing package) on the iPad. The fact this has the M4 is pretty important to me because it feels like iPadOS 18 will be the start of the "AI" phase of iOS and I'm glad it seems M4 is designed to focus in that direction, it feels like a bit of "future proofing" for the new device.
It really feels like the iPad Pro did back in 2018... "overkill" and that helped that device last me 6 years, hopefully this device will feel fresh for a similar period of time. With the enhancements to iPad Air I do feel like that becomes the ideal iPad for 80-90% of iPad buyers, with the Pro being for someone likes me who needs a mobile device but would prefer something other than a laptop as their primary computer.
I went iPad Pro 11-inch 5G with 512 GB. I added the keyboard and pen. I used the old pen a lot with Adobe Photoshop on the device for editing RAW photos and I plan on trying my hand at mobile video editing (something I always did at home on the Mac, but I want to try using my free time at work to do it, so I do *more* of it) using both Final Cut and Insta360 (my action camera editing package) on the iPad. The fact this has the M4 is pretty important to me because it feels like iPadOS 18 will be the start of the "AI" phase of iOS and I'm glad it seems M4 is designed to focus in that direction, it feels like a bit of "future proofing" for the new device.
It really feels like the iPad Pro did back in 2018... "overkill" and that helped that device last me 6 years, hopefully this device will feel fresh for a similar period of time. With the enhancements to iPad Air I do feel like that becomes the ideal iPad for 80-90% of iPad buyers, with the Pro being for someone likes me who needs a mobile device but would prefer something other than a laptop as their primary computer.
The list is updated on the UK Apple website. One of the older Apple Pencils will work. Not sure which one... I lost track of them.
It’s pretty much worthless until they allow OSX to run on it.
I was also wondering how the iPad had "clearly the best display in the world".
This is the joke. You can run a Fisher Price OS on your expensive hardware or buy a real computer.
Likely spot on, while there might be some things that use the M4’s much faster NPU, it’s going to be awhile trying to convince everyone that what they use now warrants upgrading especially using the latest iPadOS? Even iPadOS 18 is going to be looked at more closely against that aspect.
That is speculation. I think they improved virtually everything and have a chance with new iPadOS next month. Time will tell. The are also so far ahead of the competition that it isn't even fair.
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It was garbage anyways. It was only 10MP and offered terrible low light performance.
Apple M4 chip
- Models with 256GB or 512GB storage:
- 9-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
- 10-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 120GB/s memory bandwidth
- 8GB RAM
I think they should do away with the cameras anyway. Who uses an iPad to take pictures? That is what the iPhone is for. It would save money and lose the bump.
So the jump from 512-1TB storage costs 2x as much on the Pro than the Air? £200 vs £400? Why the heck don't they unbundle the RAM and storage, rather than force people to pay for both at once? They're doubling down on the unjustifiable upgrade pricing!! 
They did improve the one kind of photo I've ever taken with an iPad... pictures of documents!
*Up to 10 cores (4P + 6E). You have to select 1TB storage or more to get the full 10.
Let’s see what happens when OS 18 beta rolls out in a month or so. Be nice to see a vastly i proved iPadOS however with the EU stuff going on I have my doubts.