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Hands-On With iPad Pro in Space Black: Apple's Thinnest Product Ever
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They’ll sell like $30B of iPads, many of them these. AAPL can sell products, so it seems like people DO ask for this stuff, implicitly.
Definitely tempted to upgrade my 2022 iPad Air for this. My main gripe with the Air, aside from the now poor battery life, is the display. I take my iPad to my brightly lit gym every day, and watching dark scenes in videos is painful. The OLED screen and higher brightness seem like they would resolve this issue. But at $1000 for the base model, it’s still a tough sell.
Got it for a hell of a deal a few years back in the refurb store. ProMotion is a non-negotiable for me, otherwise I would get an Air.
It’s a lot thinner and lighter. It already was thin, so over a mm is 15% thinner.
but being thinner is a good improvement. iPad 13 inch now becomes also much better to hold and use without a keyboard for those who don't want one
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Black AirPod pro 3 please!!!!
…thank you…
I dunno. Didn’t jobs aim for thin? At the time of iPhone 4/5 wasn’t it mostly thick bigger screened Samsungs?
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I dunno. Didn’t jobs aim for thin? At the time of iPhone 4/5 wasn’t it mostly thick bigger screened Samsungs?
Interesting so when did you have the device? Reviewers have said it’s a noticeable difference
There’s a 1.5mm diff, tops. Noticeable does not make it significant or even an improvement. The thinness angle is nothing more than Apple hype.
Of course it’s an improvement. It’s going to be lighter than even the iPad airs.
People have the 13 inch will notice a difference
And space black apple pencil. No idea why the hell there is no space black apple pencil to go with the space black ipad..
“Small spec bumps” means something entirely different for Apple Silicon, though. On Intel, small spec bump means a few more watts and a tweak to clock speed. For Apple Silicon, it means the single core score of the lowest end processor rivals the ultra of two generations ago. That’s far different than anything Intel/AMD will ever be able to offer.
There’s no iPad that won’t bend provided enough pressure, but it hasn’t been determined if the pressure they can withstand is “expected or appropriate”. No one has attempted to define precisely how much energy over what amount of time will permanently deform an iPad of any shape/size. So, for the ones that have bent, we only know that they’ve experienced a deforming bending force, but have no idea if it SHOULD have happened under those circumstances.
There are BILLIONS of people in the world that won’t buy the iPad in the next 12 months, a portion of which won’t be buying it because it’s not the product that they feel provides value for the price. Apple’s done enough analysis, though, to determine that, with their current lineup, they will sell somewhere between 60-70 million iPads over the next 12 months. And, they see that as enough to maintain profitability and to continue R&D on the next version.
People that actively do not want a thin iPad Pro are not a part of the group that Apple’s expecting to sell to. So, the fact that those folks are not going to buy it is expected.
I don’t ever think it’s been a “macrumors” sort of rumor, though, where there’s someone well connected in the industry that gets a tip based on something someone saw in some internal meeting related to the future of the iPad. More like wishful thinking for folks that absolutely don’t want to work in the way that iPadOS requires, but really really like the whole tablet form factor thing.
This will be really cool when it gets the ‘bend patina’ from getting crushed in my laptop bag when travelling. An even thinner iPad is right up there with the essential motorcycle ashtray concept 
This will be really cool when it gets the ‘bend patina’ from getting crushed in my laptop bag when travelling. An even thinner iPad is right up there with the essential motorcycle ashtray concept
Agreed
I don't understand who at Apple thought about iPads and came up with..."these should be thinner!" as a big priority.
Super odd
I must admit to some confusion, Isn’t it Ableton’s responsibility to make their software compatible with iPadOs if they want it to run on that machine? It’s not Apple’s responsibility to make sure every piece of software will run on every one of its OS’s.