Apple Unveils New iPad Pros With Edge-to-Edge Display, Face ID, USB-C More
- Mehedi Hassan
- Oct 30, 2018
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Apple just took the wraps off its new iPad Pro devices. The company has been rumoured to be planning a major upgrade for the iPad Pro for later this year, and the new devices are being revealed today at the company’s hardware event in New York City.
The company is updating both the 10.5-inch model — now 11-inch — and the 12.9-inch model — now much smaller than the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro. It’s 15% thinner than before, coming in at 25% less volume than the previous generation.
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The new devices come with a brand new design for the iPad, introducing the iPhone X’s much-loved edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display like the iPhone Xr. This means the new iPads do not include a home button, removing Touch ID and replacing it with Face ID, which works in any direction you are using the device in — also introduced first on the iPhone X. The revamped design of the device means the screen-to-body ratio is much bigger than before, and all the technicalities aside, these things look gorgeous.
And here’s the biggest surprise: it includes a USB Type-C port. You can connect to external 5K displays through the port, and you can even charge your iPhone with your iPad Pro when you are on the go. It doesn’t have a headphone jack, though.
Apple is also introducing other major upgrades with the new iPad Pro devices. The first of those upgrades is the new 7nm A12X Bionic processor powering the device, which brings major improvements in performance. It comes with a 35% faster single core CPU, 90% multicore CPU, and 2x faster graphics performance than before. It apparently offers an Xbox One S-class graphics performance — yep, Apple compared it with the Xbox One S right on the stage.
The device offers up to all-day battery life, at least according to Apple.
And then there is the new Apple Pencil — the company has completely rebuild the new Apple Pencil for the new iPad Pros. It now connects magnetically to the iPad Pro, much like the Surface Pen It looks fairly clumsy if I am being honest. It also seems to have flat sides, and charges wirelessly. You can even do some cool things with gestures, like switching between notes by double tapping the pencil itself. The Smart Keyboard Folio is being redesigned too, with two kickstand positions.
The new 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $799, while the 12.9-inch starts at $999. Pre-orders start today, ships November 7.
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#358194">In reply to illrigger:</a></em></blockquote><p>My son just bought a Dell G7 15.6inch gaming laptop on sale at BB for $999. i7-8750H 6 core. 1060 GTX 6gig, 16gig of DDR4, 128gig SSD/1TB HDD. It has USB-C, USB-3.1, GIGE, and HDMI 2.0.</p><p><br></p><p>It will crush this new iPad in games and everything else, 8 days a week. It is however 5.8lbs so while still very portable it is not a tablet.</p><p><br></p><p>The Basket Ball game did look really nice but there are no AAA games on iOS that I can point too. Witcher 3, BF1/V, AC Origins or FC5???? How about Paul's favorite teenage boy game…COD?? There are weak clones of some of those games but they do not look or perform as well as the games on a PC, XBX, or PS4 Pro. The gaming is experience on the iPad Pro would be a step down in many ways in comparison.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#358145">In reply to jaredthegeek:</a></em></blockquote><p>Xbox One S is at least 3 years old now and is basically a Xbox One, which is 5 years old now.</p>
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provision l-3
<p>So I thought the rumors that Apple would replace thunderbolt with USB-C were bunk but apparently I stand corrected. Overall this looks like a solid update. If performance lives up to the demos it is an endorsement for Apple moving chip (CPU/GPU) development in house because I don't think anyone can come close in the tablet world.</p>
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provision l-3
<blockquote><em><a href="#358186">In reply to illrigger:</a></em></blockquote><p>What Orin said, typo on my part. Should have been Lighting not Thunderbolt. </p>
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provision l-3
<blockquote><em><a href="#358041">In reply to Orin:</a></em></blockquote><ol><li>For a presentation. </li><li>Video editing. </li><li>Photo editing.</li><li>Watch content on a larger screen. </li></ol><p><br></p><p>Those are the things I can think of off the top of my head where the touch interface would still be drive on the iPad but an external display would still be useful in certain instances. Of course, none of those are any different than why you would have connected a displaying using Lightning or AirPlay. Though I imagine USB-C is smoother. </p>
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provision l-3
<blockquote><em><a href="#358072">In reply to FalseAgent:</a></em></blockquote><p>So, with the phones, iPad, Mac Mini and MacBook Air Apple has raised their prices over what they had perviously been for an extended period of time. I'm wondering if this is in part to hedge against inflation which has seen a sizable jump in 2016, 2017 and 2018. </p>
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Dryloch
<blockquote><em><a href="#358277">In reply to lvthunder:</a></em></blockquote><p>Actually… they showed someone editing 4K video and the external screen had a full view of the video and the toolbars only showed on the iPad.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#358097">In reply to officialritesh:</a></em></blockquote><p>This is a link to a malware infested site. I would ban this and two other obvious spam accounts.</p>
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nfeed2000t
<p>Stunning hardware but the iPad Pro still isn't a good productivity machine. Copying and pasting with you finger sucks. The equivalent of right clicking with your finger sucks. The multi-tasking sucks on iOS especially using a finger. File management still sucks. Apple refuses to add mouse support. Mice may seem old school but I find them essential to efficiently edit text, edit images, shape windows, and choose files. </p><p>I love iPads but I'm always disappointed when I try to get work done using the iPad. </p><p><br></p>
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dontbe evil
<p>surface say welcome to 2010…and don't forget to buy the new pencil, because the old one will not work of course… LOL</p>