I was hoping for a new Mini. Didn’t get a new Mini. Won’t be buying a new anything.
Katie
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Is there a reason you wouldn’t just replace the battery? I was thinking of doing that for a similarly aged 11" iPad Pro.
I love Face ID. Touch ID has never been reliable for me, and is a constant source of irritation on any device that has it. Can’t wait for it to come to MacBooks.
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A new battery for a 5½ year old iPad doesn’t strike me as a great investment. I’m guessing it’s only got another year or two of iPadOS updates.
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“The newly announced iPad Pro hides a sneaky upgrade option that Apple didn’t mention during its event today. When you cough up the $600 it costs to jump from the 256GB base model iPad Pro to the 1TB version, Apple doesn’t just double the RAM along with that — it also puts a faster chip inside, going from a nine-core M4 chip to a 10-core version.”
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If Wikipedia is to be believed (I don’t see why not) then the 9 core version skimps out on one of the performance cores ( 4 - 1 = 3 ), which means it’s the first ever M class chip to have fewer than 4 performance cores. They both have 6 efficiency cores.
Edit: I wonder if Apple thinks their chips are now so fast, and the iPad selling in low numbers, and the benefits of raw power on an iPad so few, that they’re able to shove a barely ready for prime time (that is, barely getting enough successful chips out of production) chip into this model to avoid wasting the “bad” silicon. Plenty of sales will be for the binned base M chip they’ve never previously been able to sell. It retains all of the improvements in chip design / features though (e.g. codec support, memory bandwidth)
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Interesting. The article I linked to says that if you get less than 1TB of storage, you’re getting a binned chip.
Makes me wonder whether they’re saving up the extras that don’t get binned to use in an upcoming M4 Mac, though to your point maybe they’ve been having issues with the yields, and that’s a factor in why the first M4 devices are iPads, not Macs.
“Great Apple event”, stated Bill’s bank account!
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Well, I think Apple is very likely to get a good amount of cash out of me with this iteration. Finally something that will move me off my 2018 Pro,
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temp me to curse.
Don’t do it!
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My 4yr old iPadPro is still on AppleCare. As soon as Coconut Battery reports the battery life is below 80% of design, I’m marching in to the AppleStore for a battery replacement.
Ideally this iPad makes it to the 7-8yr mark.
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I concur, however I will move from a 2018 12.9 Pro to a Mini for the very few apps that work only on iPadOS and perhaps a laptop, because I’m fed up with the IPadOS limitations, my son’s Surface isn’t even looking too bad now! A sad and confusing state of affairs in my opinion.
Recent Surfaces look super nice design wise! If Qualcomm can come remotely close to an M-series chip and if Microsoft can come up with a half-decent x86 translator (two big ifs), the resulting Surface would be a really compelling device. I know their last ARM device developed a bit of a cult following even though it couldn’t do anything because it was just so pleasant to use.
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My 2020 iPad Pro is also doing just fine.
They showed how scanning using iPad pro can eliminate shadows.
Does that also work with the new iPad Air or is it limited to Pro?
Further thinking: I wonder how the M4 is technically addressing the two OLED panels. Does it see them as separate displays? If so, the M4 might be the first base M chip to power more than 2 displays…
The iPad Pro of 2024 is an impressive piece of hardware, even more than its predecessors. The issue I have with it is that this hardware is running iPadOS. I cannot do this piece of hardware justice under iPadOS. An iPad Pro, especially the 13 inch one when sitting on a Magic Keyboard, would be perfectly fine running MacOS. Why not have a MacOS mode (true MacOS) when attached to a keyboard and an iPadOS mode when being disconnected from the Magic Keyboard? A maxed out iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and the new pencil: I am fine with everyone enjoying this thing, but… I don’t know. It is a lot of hardware and for sure a lot of money for…
I will try to let somebody else speak:
Jason Snell:
What I’m saying is, when it comes to iPad Pro hardware, it feels almost like Apple can do no wrong. On the software side, iPadOS is still rife with limitations that probably don’t matter much if you’re just using it to watch TV in bed or triage a few emails—but matter a lot if you’re trying to go beyond a limited set of features and some specific apps. (…) I will live in hope that the next version of iPadOS will address some more of these issues. (I have expressed this sentiment every single time a new iPad Pro has been released. It hasn’t helped.)
I got myself a new iPad Pro with an M2 when I was able to get a nice deal back in February 2023. I am very happy that I have done so: FaceID, a reasonable price, a M2 with a lot of leeway for quite some time.
The iPad Air 2024 seems to be a very good option, unfortunately it still has no FaceID. Apart from that: this would be the iPad for me, if I had to buy one this year.
I would not be surprised to see spec bumps for the basic iPad later this year and maybe the Mini, too.
I do not think so. I think it is just Apple’s way of pointing out that their Ultra Retina XDR display is better than any other OLED displays out there. They may technically have stacked two screens, but the result should be one display.
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Yes but Windows…the land of constant updates and restarts…drives me insane.
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I’ve run macOS on an iPad, remotely. Using the Mac UI on an iPad wasn’t a problem. Merging two different file systems, etc. could be.
But the reason Apple doesn’t offer an iPad that runs macOS might be a simple one, money. Revenue from Macs and iPads has been close to equal the last few years. As I recall, there was a quarter (or two?) recently when iPads outsold Macs. Why offer one device that would eliminate the need for a second?
Or perhaps Apple is waiting until software for macOS can only be purchased in the Mac App Store?
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whereas macOS is the land of constant “allow this app to do this?” or “this app is from an unknown developer, do you really want to run it?” or “goto security settings to allow this app to run”. Its like using a fisher price computer for toddlers. I do not want to be bothered by an OS babysitting mode.
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