Apple simply took the wraps off the 2024 iPad Professional, the primary with an OLED display screen quite than a standard LCD. If that wasn’t sufficient, a brand-new Apple M4 processor powers the pill, which Cupertino says is the “thinnest Apple product ever.”
“We’ve at all times envisioned iPad as a magical sheet of glass,” stated John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {hardware} engineering, throughout Tuesday’s prerecorded “Let Loose” event. “And with this new design, that imaginative and prescient is dropped at life greater than ever.”
2024 iPad Professional goes OLED
The LCDs in earlier iPad screens look nice however Apple wasn’t content material. The 2024 iPad Professional has an OLED show. With an organic light-emitting diode display screen, every pixel glows by itself. This results in a vibrant, even picture with sturdy distinction.
And if one is nice, two are higher. The display screen of the 2024 iPad Professional makes use of what Apple calls “tandem OLED” know-how that stacks two OLED panels to offer better full-screen brightness. That interprets into 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness for SDR and HDR content material, and 1,600 nits peak for HDR.
“Specular highlights in images and video seem even brighter, and there’s extra element in shadows and low gentle than ever earlier than on iPad — all whereas delivering much more responsiveness to content material in movement,” Apple says.
The brand new show sort involves each sizes of the iPad Professional: 11 inches and 13 inches (up barely from the earlier mannequin). And, for the primary time, Apple is providing a nano-texture show glass choice ($100) on 1TB and 2TB fashions.
Apple’s thinnest product ever
The change to OLED let designers considerably slim down the tablets. The 11-inch model measures simply 5.3 mm thick whereas the 13-inch mannequin is even thinner at 5.1 mm.
“The brand new iPad Professional is even thinner than the iPod nano,” Ternus stated, “which makes it the thinnest Apple product ever.”
The OLED iPad Execs are lighter than earlier fashions, too.
“The 11-inch mannequin weighs lower than a pound, and the 13-inch mannequin is sort of 1 / 4 pound lighter than its predecessor,” bragged Apple. They weigh 0.98 kilos and 1.28 kilos, respectively. (The precise iPad Professional dimensions are 11.1 inches by 8.5 inches by 0.2 inches for the bigger mannequin, and 9.8 inches by 7 inches by 0.21 inches for the smaller one.)
Apple M4 processor is a shock in 2024 iPad Professional
It has lengthy been thought the 2024 iPad Professional would run on the Apple M3 processor within the newest MacBooks. However no — the OLED iPad Execs introduced the debut of the Apple M4 chip as a substitute.
“The brand new CPU gives as much as 4 efficiency cores and now six effectivity cores, with next-generation machine studying (ML) accelerators, to ship as much as 1.5x sooner CPU efficiency over M2 within the previous-generation iPad,” guarantees Apple.
The M4 is undoubtedly a shock — and a shock to those that purchased one of many M3-powered MacBook Professional and MacBook Air fashions which have solely been in the marketplace for just a few months.
The bottom mannequin 2024 iPad Professional gives double the storage of its predecessor: 256GB. And storage tops out at 2 terabytes. Most variations include 8GB of RAM, however the 1TB and 2TB fashions bump that as much as 16GB.
Panorama digicam means higher video conferencing
The OLED iPad Professional makes a change pill customers have needed for years: Apple moved the front-facing digicam for higher horizontal use.
In earlier fashions, when the pill is held horizontally — the best way most individuals use it — the front-facing digicam is means off to the left so customers appear to be staring off to at least one facet throughout video calls. For the 2024 iPad Professional, Apple relocated the front-facing digicam to the lengthy fringe of the pill. (Now you’ll know that these iPad Professional customers actually are paying consideration throughout video calls.)
New Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Professional, too
Those that wish to use their iPad Professional as a convertible pocket book have a brand new choice: a redesigned Magic Keyboard. It’s thinner and lighter, and has an all-aluminum exterior. Different adjustments embody a row of perform keys and a glass trackpad with haptic suggestions.
Apple additionally added the Apple Pencil Pro to its iPad stylus lineup. It comes with a gyroscope, and customers can squeeze the Apple Pencil Professional to open an on-screen menu. The stylus additionally provides Find My help for the primary time.
On the software program entrance, Apple additionally showcased new variations of Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro for iPad that make the most of the M4 processor’s capabilities.
Order the 2024 iPad Professional now
Apple introduced the last iPad Pro in October 2022 — about 18 months in the past. The brand new model gives a better-quality display screen and a sooner processor, and clearly Apple didn’t wish to make customers wait.
“With the breakthrough Extremely Retina XDR show, the next-level efficiency of M4, unbelievable AI capabilities, and help for the all-new Apple Pencil Professional and Magic Keyboard, there’s no machine like the brand new iPad Professional,” stated Ternus, Apple’s {hardware} SVP.
There’s no delay between in the present day’s announcement and the 2024 iPad Professional occurring sale: The pill is on the market for pre-order now. It is going to attain clients subsequent week on Might 15.
The 11-inch OLED iPad Professional begins at $999, whereas the 13-inch mannequin begins at $1,299. Each tablets are available in both silver or house black.
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The redesigned Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Professional are additionally out there for preorder, and can attain clients Might 15.
And there’s extra!
Don’t miss the 2024 iPad Air that Apple additionally simply launched. It’s the primary in that product line with a 13-inch display screen.