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Apple’s newest iPad Pro puts an M4 chip inside a thinner frame available in new 11-inch and 13-inch and sizes, while also upgrading the screens on both to two “tandem” OLED displays for more brightness.
Compared to the last iPad Pro, released in early 2022, Apple would like you to particularly consider how thin and light these new Pros are. The 11-inch model is 5.3 mm thick and weighs less than a pound, while the 13-inch is 5.1 mm, which Apple says is its thinnest product ever, and 1.28 pounds.
The tandem OLED design, dubbed Ultra Retina XDR, delivers 1000 nits at fulls-screen brightness, and 1600 nits at peak HDR, equivalent to a high-end Samsung TV. The screens are “nano-texture glass,” which is essentially a matte display finish.
What’s really big is the inclusion of an M4 chip, built from a second-generation 3-nanometer process. It’s the first time the iPad Pro has included a new Apple chip before other devices. Apple is touting a 50% improvement over M2 performance, and can deliver the same performance as M2 at half the power, or one-quarter the power, in certain scenarios. The chip’s neural engine got a very specific call-out, capable of 38 trillion operations per second, and Apple cites it as the most powerful (consumer-level) AI computer sold.
The new iPad Pros get a 12 megapixel camera, along with LIDAR scanners and an adaptive flash that improves document scanning.
This is a developing story and this post will be updated.
