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Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro

www.apple.com Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro

The groundbreaking new iPad Pro features a stunningly thin and light design, taking portability and performance to the next level.

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I’ll be interested to see what they have in store for the next iPadOS at WWDC. I fully anticipate them continuing to underutilize the horsepower of the Pros
- Gotta keep those weirdly under-specced non-pro macbooks selling somehow
  
  how are MacBook airs under specced?
- iPadOS feels like a real bottleneck for the iPad Pro line now. All that horsepower but limited room to gallop.
  
  I’m not an advocate of putting macOS on iPads, but iPadOS really needs to expand more, especially for things like file management and multitasking. Multiple audio channels when?
  
  I’ve seen some people speculating based on the new Magic Keyboard having an Esc key that something dev friendly is coming so who knows.
  
  I think the option to dual boot or run some type of virtualized sandbox should be present at this point for power users.
  
  It has been the bottleneck since they put the M1 in the iPad.
I know it's their own press release and this happens with all sorts of companies, but their choice of "stunning" disgusts me
New iPad Pro only works with the new Apple Pencil Pro. Which is the same price as the 2nd Gen.

So anyone with a current Pro and a 2nd gen pencil needs to upgrade both. That’s insane.

Now if that isn’t the shadiest Cook move I don’t know what is. What’s next? Do I need a special Remote Pro with the new Apple TV? Are we really doing “Pro only” accessories?? Is that where we are these days???

All 4 Apple pencils still being sold as of writing this. Yes even the first gen that’s nearly 10 years old. And despite 3 others available.

So much for tight Apple product lines.
- And, I think, the keyboard. So if you have a current iPad Pro and want the better quality keyboard and trackpad, you have to upgrade your otherwise still more than capable iPad.
  
  It’s fucking diabolical.
  
  They are truly lost
- I think the pencil is their biggest freaking joke and they are calling a phone “pro max” so it’s kinda saying a lot.
- I won’t be purchasing this new iPad Pro (even though I really love my oled screens). It’s too stunned by its ipadOS.
  
  “Pro” has always been a marketing strategy for them and I feel that Apple products haven’t been tight for a long time.
Until they can run blender i wont look at them. Such a powerful chip to be stunted by a mobile OS
- They actually had a couple seconds of the new mobile zbrush running on it. Blender natively supports metal nowadays (thanks to apple), so making it work is on the blender team. Sounds like a lot of work, though.
  
  I want to animate in Blender not sculpt though. Apple should have a toolset to easily get Metal mac apps running on ipadOS. Or you know, let us install MacOS on ipads since they use the exact same chips
- Imagine if they had proper Vulkan support, it could run most games using Proton like they do on Linux. But they don’t want Steam to cannibalize their App Store sales so we’ll never see it happen.
So the iPad line mostly mimics the iPhone line again except the regular iPad and mini are left, unupdated, to become the SE line. the mini was literally all i was interested in seeing updated. I haven’t read much, was the price cut at least? *no it was not
- IIRC the rumor mill has the base iPad and iPad mini getting updated at the end of the year. Prob late October or early November if I was to venture a guess.
- The regular iPad did get a price cut, didn’t it?
Looks like the FaceTime cameras are all finally landscape, not portrait.
Can someone explain to me what the benefit of this chip in an iPad is? Are people doing heavy workloads on iPads? Can the OS even utilize all the advantages?
- Some image and video processing workflows can make use of them today, and today's announced video software features seem to be a roadmap for how iPads could be used in more computationally intensive workflows: editing, re-encoding, and sharing video between devices or to specific apps.
  
  Some AI inference tasks could theoretically make heavier use of the CPUs, too.
- The benefit is that Apple are making the chips and want to use the chips in as many products as they can. It doesn’t matter that the software is nowhere near the hardware, the chips are bought and paid for, so they’ll use them.
  
  Fair enough, thanks
- Also to be able to run the large OLED displays.
  
  Actually yeah, the OLED is probably the biggest selling point to me. So if the M4 was necessary for that (was it? I have a M2 MacBook that I run on my LGC3 OLED) then cool
- Doesn't matter, people see a bigger number and get out their wallets.
I have the iPad Pro with an M1 chip in it. And I never once thought... This needed more power, or this needed to be thinner.

I need a headphone jack, and I need better software support from third party devs (without the apple tax).

The only exciting news is the Pencil Pro, but even then it's a niche use case. Plus them dropping the price of the existing iPad.

This could've been an email.
Whats the new features? More emojis and hit and miss cloud features?

Edit: Nope, not even that, it’s just thinner and forces you to buy a newer peripheral. Can’t innovate anymore my ass.
The new stunning, groundbreaking, and bespoke iPad Pro. They are nice enough but it is safe to say I was not stunned.

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