Official iPad Pro 2024: features and prices

Apple has unveiled the new 2024 iPad Pro with OLED display and M4 chip: here are the technical features and prices of the new range

During today’s presentation event, Let LooseApple has unveiled the new ones iPad Pro 2024part of an important update to the Cupertino company’s tablet range which also brings the new ones to their debut iPad Air with M2 chip (also available for the first time in the 13-inch variant) and, above all, the new M4 chips which will arrive on the market with Apple’s new top-of-the-range tablets.

iPad Pro 2024: technical characteristics

The new generation of iPad Pro brings several new features compared to the previous version, still stuck with the M2 chip. Apple’s new top-of-the-range tablet now features a OLED displaywith a technology that Apple calls Tandem OLED due to the presence of two overlapping panels, designed to work “in tandem“.

The panel has a brightness of 1,000 nits but can reach a peak of 1,600 nits. The display of the new iPad Pro 2024 is Ultra Retina XDRa new name coined by Apple to underline the further step forward in terms of color rendering of the panel, with an XDR precision that is unprecedented in the iPad range.

This new display will be available on both iPad Pro variants coming to the market i.e 11 inches And 13 inches.

There is the new M4 chip

The new generation of Apple’s tablet, however, is not limited to just updating the display. Under the hood, in fact, there is a double generational leap in terms of chips, with the debut of the new M4 chip, unveiled by Apple on the occasion of this event. The chip in question is made with the a production process 3 nm second generation.

There CPU It features 10 cores, with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores. According to Apple, the CPU in the new M4 is up to 1.5 times faster than M2. Also there GPU it is 10 core and takes up the architecture introduced by Apple with M3, guaranteeing the possibility of exploiting the Dynamic Caching function and hardware acceleration for ray tracing, making its debut on the iPad range. According to Apple, the GPU is up to 4 times faster compared to that of M2.

Overall, M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 but with half the energy consumption. It should be noted that M4 also includes a new one to improve performance in AI activities Neural Enginecapable of reaching i 38 trillion operations per secondbeing 60 times faster than Apple’s first Neural Engine, introduced with A11 Bionic.

The other news

Among the specifications of the new Apple tablet we also find one new 12 Megapixel rear camera combined with a new adaptive True Tone flash. At the front, however, the TruDepth cameras was placed on the side long where there is also the 12 Megapixel camera with ultra-wide angle and automatic framing.

Also note a connector USB-C high performance, with support for Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4, with the possibility of making connections up to 40 Gbps and connecting external monitors (it is also possible to combine the Pro Display XDR 6K with the tablet). Connectivity includes support Wi-Fi 6E (there is no Wi-Fi 7 yet) and, for the variants Wi-Fi+Cellular, even 5G (you need to use an eSIM). There are four memory cuts: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB.

iPad Pro 2024 also becomes thinner: the model from 11 inches it is now often 5.3mm while that gives 13 inches has a thickness of 5.1mm. According to Apple, the reduction in thickness has not resulted in any compromise on sturdiness. For both variants, the body is made of recycled aluminium. There are two colors: silver and space black.

The new Apple tablet can also be combined with a series of new accessories (to be purchased separately). The main one is the new one Appel Pencil Pro which is also the first device in the series compatible with the function Where (for location tracking). The new one also makes its debut Magic Keyboard, thinner and lighter, with a haptic trackpad similar to that of MacBooks. There’s also the new one Smart Folio for iPad Pro.