Locking the nano-texture glass behind the 1TB or 2TB storage options only is a real ******* move by Apple.
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New iPad Pro With All Options Costs Over $3,000
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That is a truly head-scratcher and villain-type decision.
Probably to push all the institutions, corporations and film studios that use iPads outside just for monitoring or control to buy the more expensive ones.
Yeah there's no valid reason for doing it, a 100% upsell move.
No, M3 only does decoding. OP was asking about AV1 encoding, which neither the M3 or M4 support.
so, now do I edit my photos in Photoshop on my M2 MacBook Air or a 13" iPad Pro ? or get the 11" iPad Pro and wait for the M4 MacBook Air ?
Apple's newly announced iPad Pro models cost over $3,000 when fully configured with all available options and accessories, making it the priciest iPad to date.
The cost breakdown for the top-specification iPad Pro is as follows:
- 13-inch iPad Pro (starting price): $1,299
- 2TB storage: +$1,000
- Nano-texture glass option: +$100
- Wi-Fi + Cellular: +$200
- Apple Pencil Pro: $129
- Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (13-inch model): $349
The maxed-out iPad Pro costs $2,599, but with the Apple Pencil Pro and the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, it comes to a total of $3,077 – a new high for the iPad.
Article Link: New iPad Pro With All Options Costs Over $3,000
Absolutely correct.
In today’s world - that customer has the the best of everything. No trade-offs needed.
It’s a new build mansion and a luxury car. Not either or!
I'll believe it when I see it.
The price of admission went up for me.
Disingenuous Apple...Obsfurcating the battery life elephant under vague efficiency claims.
I'll be waiting for "in the wild" observations of battery stamina before an expensive commitment.
Disingenuous Apple...Obsfurcating the battery life elephant under vague efficiency claims.
I'll be waiting for "in the wild" observations of battery stamina before an expensive commitment.
speaking of time travel, they will now need a Quantum Leap ... (hopefully you are enough to have watched that TV series)
Serious questions for you that I want you to answer?
1. Does something with the Snapdragon Elite run iPadOS?
2. Does the NPU in the Qualcomm Snapdragon out-perform the M4 in real world usage (or in any benchmarks)?
3. Would you really buy the iPad Pro if it had 12 GB or 16 GB of RAM? For the record, you can get an iPad Pro with 16 GB of RAM.
Also, yes, the M4 does AV1 decoding.
iPad Pro - Technical Specifications
See full technical specifications for iPad Pro — resolution, size, weight, battery life, and storage capacity — for Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular models.www.apple.com
Apple M4 chip
Media Engine
- 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
- Models with 1TB or 2TB storage:
- 10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
- 10-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 120GB/s memory bandwidth
- 16GB RAM
- Hardware-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
- AV1 decode
Yes, while in Japan in October and Thailand in April I was about to buy a PRO but hold on knowing a new one was coming ....
AV1 is the only HW Accelerate Decoding ...
8GB is too little, sorry, not gonna spend the crazy amount needed for the 1TB or 2TB only to get more than 8 GB - as I wrote "this joke is not funny anymore"
Regarding IpadOS .... that's a liability not a plus ....
Probably to limit the number of SKUs they need to manage. They see nano-texture as a high end feature and expect demand to be mostly among more demanding customers.
For business applications you often need Office 365 and especially Excel is much better on Windows then on Mac
Well, it sounds like you don't need an iPad Pro then. Good luck with whatever you end up with.
"AV1 is the only HW Accelerate Decoding"
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
"Regarding IpadOS .... that's a liability not a plus ...."
Not for me. I take notes, draw, consume media, read, do web browsing, respond to emails, write, and more with iPadOS. It hasn't held me back. It doesn't replace my laptop or my desktop, but it works great for me.
This is a little click-baity.
Apple's newly announced iPad Pro models cost over $3,000 when fully configured with all available options and accessories, making it the priciest iPad to date.
The cost breakdown for the top-specification iPad Pro is as follows:
- 13-inch iPad Pro (starting price): $1,299
- 2TB storage: +$1,000
- Nano-texture glass option: +$100
- Wi-Fi + Cellular: +$200
- Apple Pencil Pro: $129
- Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (13-inch model): $349
The maxed-out iPad Pro costs $2,599, but with the Apple Pencil Pro and the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, it comes to a total of $3,077 – a new high for the iPad.
Article Link: New iPad Pro With All Options Costs Over $3,000
Adding in the pencil and the keyboard and the 2TB option (which is the biggest chunk of that). Why not throw in the price of an airline ticket to Cupertino (first class of course) and limo service to Apple HQ so you can gripe at Tim Cook personally about the pricing. I am sure we could fake our way up to $10K.
MacRumors should be better than this.
Where exactly did the macrumours go too far? Isn't this the maximum specification if you want to have all the features that Apple itself presented in the keynote?
You could only maybe make a point about including 2TB option instead of 1TB, so that's $2,677. Still, all that article says: iPad Pro will all options.
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