Apple's renewal of the iPad Pro Lines makes a big and long-awaited change to the tablet, with OLED, M4 and a thinner housing.
The rumored iPad Pro refresh has arrived, with Apple introducing the updated iPad Pro range after more than a year without changes. A new screen, landscape selfie camera, M4 processor and a thinner housing design.
They have 11-inch and 13-inch displays, and the iPad Pro has been refined to make the cases slightly thinner than the previous generation. The size change also results in a small weight loss for both models.
The new iPad Pros are 5.3mm and 5.1mm thin, which is thinner than Apple's iPod nano. Apple says this is the thinnest device the company has ever released.
The change is partly due to an overhaul of the display technology that Apple uses. While previously relying on LED and mini-LED backlighting, Apple has finally made the switch to OLED, but in two layers with tandem OLED for better brightness.
OLED is a self-illuminating display technology that does not require a backlight, reducing the thickness of the tablets. It also offers higher contrast levels, brighter images and more accurate colors compared to traditional TFT LED screens.
The new iPad Pro has 1000 nits brightness for SDR and HDR content. It has a peak brightness of 1,600 nits for HDR content.
A nano-texture option is also available.
Making the jump to M4
Apple also added the M4 processor for a performance jump. It has 4 performance and 6 efficiency cores.
Apple M4 processor
The M4 has a 10-core GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh mapping. It enables more powerful professional apps and high-quality game rendering.
The new neural engine can perform 38 trillion operations per second, 60x faster than the first in A11.
Apple introduced Final Cut Pro 2 and Logic Pro 2 next to the new iPads. Final Cut Pro 2 gets 4x more streams than M1 models, and Logic Pro 2 gets AI instruments.
Other changes
At the back is Apple's wide camera with 12 MP. Once again, Apple puts a LiDAR sensor in the camera bump.
New pro app updates and camera features for iPad Pro
The Ultra Wide Camera has been removed.
The TrueDepth front camera uses a 12MP Ultra Wide camera with a 122-degree field of view and depth mapping capabilities. It has been moved to the landscape side of the iPad, but this is not disturbing Apple pencil to upload.
Prices and availability
Both the 11-inch iPad Pro and 13-inch iPad Pro are available in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations. Nano-textured glass adds $100 to the total.
The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $999, and the 13-inch iPad Pro starts at $1,299. Add $200 for the cellular modem option.
The Apple Pencil Pro costs $199. The Magic Keyboard costs $279 for the 11-inch model and $329 for the 13-inch model.
Pre-orders started on May 7 and the first shipments will arrive on May 15.