Apple unveils gorgeous new iPad Professional with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Professional

Could 7, 2024

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Apple unveils gorgeous new iPad Professional with the world’s most superior show, M4 chip, and Apple Pencil Professional

That includes a brand new skinny and lightweight design, breakthrough Extremely Retina XDR show, and outrageously quick M4 efficiency with highly effective AI capabilities, the brand new iPad Professional takes an enormous leap ahead

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment unveiled the groundbreaking new iPad Professional in a stunningly skinny and lightweight design, taking portability and efficiency to the subsequent stage. Accessible in silver and area black finishes, the brand new iPad Professional is available in two sizes: an expansive 13-inch mannequin and a super-portable 11-inch mannequin. Each sizes function the world’s most superior show — a brand new breakthrough Extremely Retina XDR show with state-of-the-art tandem OLED expertise — offering a exceptional visible expertise. The brand new iPad Professional is made doable with the brand new M4 chip, the subsequent technology of Apple silicon, which delivers an enormous leap in efficiency and capabilities. M4 options a completely new show engine to allow the precision, colour, and brightness of the Extremely Retina XDR show. With a brand new CPU, a next-generation GPU that builds upon the GPU structure debuted on M3, and probably the most highly effective Neural Engine but, the brand new iPad Professional is an outrageously highly effective machine for synthetic intelligence. The flexibility and superior capabilities of iPad Professional are additionally enhanced with all-new equipment. Apple Pencil Professional brings highly effective new interactions that take the pencil expertise even additional, and a brand new thinner, lighter Magic Keyboard is full of unbelievable options. The brand new iPad Professional, Apple Pencil Professional, and Magic Keyboard can be found to order beginning at the moment, with availability in shops starting Wednesday, Could 15.

“iPad Professional empowers a broad set of professionals and is ideal for anybody who desires the last word iPad expertise — with its mixture of the world’s greatest shows, extraordinary efficiency of our newest M-series chips, and superior equipment — all in a transportable design. At present, we’re taking it even additional with the brand new, stunningly skinny and lightweight iPad Professional, our largest replace ever to iPad Professional,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “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.”

Thinnest Apple Product Ever

The brand new iPad Professional — the thinnest Apple product ever — encompasses a stunningly skinny and lightweight design, taking portability to an entire new stage. The 11-inch mannequin is simply 5.3 mm skinny, and the 13-inch mannequin is even thinner at a putting 5.1 mm, whereas each fashions are simply as sturdy because the earlier design. The 11-inch mannequin weighs lower than a pound, and the 13-inch mannequin is sort of 1 / 4 pound lighter than its predecessor — permitting professional customers to increase their workflows in new methods and in additional locations. The brand new iPad Professional is out there in two attractive finishes — silver and area black — each with one hundred pc recycled aluminum enclosures.

World’s Most Superior Show

The brand new iPad Professional debuts the Extremely Retina XDR, the world’s most superior show, to supply an much more exceptional visible expertise. The Extremely Retina XDR show options state-of-the-art tandem OLED expertise that makes use of two OLED panels and combines the sunshine from each to supply phenomenal full-screen brightness. The brand new iPad Professional helps an unbelievable 1000 nits of full-screen brightness for SDR and HDR content material, and 1600 nits peak for HDR. No different machine of its sort delivers this stage of maximum dynamic vary. Tandem OLED expertise permits sub-millisecond management over the colour and luminance of every pixel, taking XDR precision additional than ever. Specular highlights in photographs 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. For professional customers working in high-end, color-managed workflows or difficult lighting situations, a brand new nano-texture glass possibility involves iPad Professional for the primary time.¹ Nano-texture glass is exactly etched at a nanometer scale, sustaining picture high quality and distinction whereas scattering ambient gentle for diminished glare. With its breakthrough tandem OLED expertise, excessive brightness, extremely exact distinction, good colours, and nano-texture glass possibility, the brand new Extremely Retina XDR show is the world’s most superior show, giving iPad Professional prospects an unparalleled viewing expertise.

Solely Potential with M4

The extremely skinny and lightweight design and game-changing show of the brand new iPad Professional is barely doable with M4, the subsequent technology of Apple silicon that delivers an enormous leap in efficiency. M4 is constructed on second-generation 3-nanometer expertise that’s much more energy environment friendly, which is ideal for the design of the brand new iPad Professional. With a completely new show engine, M4 introduces pioneering expertise for the gorgeous precision, colour, and brightness of the Extremely Retina XDR show. The brand new CPU provides as much as 4 efficiency cores and now six effectivity cores,² with next-generation machine studying (ML) accelerators, to ship as much as 1.5x sooner CPU efficiency over M2 within the previous-generation iPad Professional.³ M4 builds on the GPU structure of M3 — the 10-core GPU consists of highly effective options like Dynamic Caching, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, which come to iPad for the primary time. Coupled with larger unified reminiscence bandwidth, professional rendering apps like Octane will see as much as 4x sooner efficiency than M2.³ M4 additionally delivers large features and industry-leading efficiency per watt. In comparison with M2, M4 can ship the identical efficiency utilizing simply half the ability, and in comparison with the newest PC chip in a skinny and lightweight laptop computer, M4 can ship the identical efficiency utilizing only a quarter of the ability.⁴ A brand new superior Media Engine consists of help for AV1 decode, offering extra power-efficient playback of high-resolution video experiences from streaming providers.

Outrageously Highly effective System for AI

The brand new iPad Professional with M4 options Apple’s strongest Neural Engine ever, able to 38 trillion operations per second, which is 60x sooner than Apple’s first Neural Engine within the A11 Bionic chip. Mixed with next-generation ML accelerators within the CPU, a high-performance GPU, extra reminiscence bandwidth, and clever options and highly effective developer frameworks in iPadOS, the Neural Engine makes the brand new iPad Professional an outrageously highly effective machine for AI. With iPad Professional with M4, customers can carry out AI-enabled duties even sooner, like simply isolate a topic from its background in 4K video with only a faucet with Scene Removing Masks in Remaining Lower Professional. With this superior stage of efficiency, the Neural Engine in M4 is extra highly effective than any neural processing unit in any AI PC at the moment.

iPadOS additionally has superior frameworks like Core ML that make it simple for builders to faucet into the Neural Engine to ship phenomenal AI options domestically, together with working highly effective diffusion and generative AI fashions, with nice efficiency on machine. iPad Professional additionally helps cloud-based options, enabling customers to run highly effective productiveness and inventive apps that faucet into the ability of AI, reminiscent of Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Adobe Firefly.

Professional Cameras

The up to date digicam system on the brand new iPad Professional delivers much more versatility, and with its wealthy audio from 4 studio-quality mics, customers can shoot, edit, and share all on one machine. The 12MP again digicam captures vibrant Sensible HDR photos and video with even higher colour, improved textures, and element in low gentle. It additionally now encompasses a new adaptive True Tone flash that makes doc scanning on the brand new iPad Professional higher than ever. Utilizing AI, the brand new iPad Professional routinely identifies paperwork proper within the Digicam app, and if a shadow is in the way in which, it immediately takes a number of photographs with the brand new adaptive flash, stitching the scan collectively for a dramatically higher scan.

On the entrance, the TrueDepth digicam system strikes to the panorama location on the brand new iPad Professional. The Extremely Extensive 12MP digicam with Heart Stage makes the expertise of video conferencing in panorama orientation even higher, particularly when iPad is hooked up to a Magic Keyboard or Sensible Folio.

Professional Connectivity

iPad Professional features a high-performance USB-C connector with help for Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4, delivering quick wired connectivity — as much as 40Gb/s. Thunderbolt helps an in depth ecosystem of high-performance equipment, together with exterior shows just like the Professional Show XDR at its full 6K decision, and exterior storage, all linked utilizing high-performance cables and docks. iPad Professional helps Wi-Fi 6E for super-fast Wi-Fi connections for professional workflows on the go. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G enable customers to entry their information, talk with colleagues, and again up their knowledge in a snap whereas on the go. Mobile fashions of the brand new iPad Professional are activated with eSIM, a safer different to a bodily SIM card, permitting customers to rapidly join and switch their present plans digitally, and retailer a number of mobile plans on a single machine. Prospects can simply get linked to wi-fi knowledge plans on the brand new iPad Professional in over 190 nations and areas all over the world while not having to get a bodily SIM card from a neighborhood service.

Apple Pencil Professional

Apple Pencil Professional options much more magical capabilities and highly effective new interactions that take the Apple Pencil expertise even additional. A brand new sensor within the barrel can sense a consumer’s squeeze, mentioning a software palette to rapidly swap instruments, line weights, and colours, all with out interrupting the inventive course of. A customized haptic engine delivers a light-weight faucet that gives affirmation when customers squeeze, use double-tap, or snap to a Sensible Form for a remarkably intuitive expertise. A gyroscope permits customers to roll Apple Pencil Professional for exact management of the software they’re utilizing. Rotating the barrel adjustments the orientation of formed pen and brush instruments, identical to pen and paper. And with Apple Pencil hover, customers can visualize the precise orientation of a software earlier than making a mark.

With these superior options, Apple Pencil Professional permits customers to deliver their concepts to life in totally new methods, and builders can even create their very own customized interactions. Apple Pencil Professional brings help for Discover My for the primary time to Apple Pencil, serving to customers find Apple Pencil Professional if misplaced. It pairs, prices, and is saved on the facet of iPad Professional via a brand new magnetic interface. iPad Professional additionally helps Apple Pencil (USB-C), perfect for be aware taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra, at an unbelievable worth.

All-New Magic Keyboard and Sensible Folio

Designed for the brand new iPad Professional, an all-new thinner and lighter Magic Keyboard makes it extra moveable and versatile than ever. The brand new Magic Keyboard opens to the magical floating design that prospects love, and now features a operate row for entry to options like display brightness and quantity controls. It additionally has a beautiful aluminum palm relaxation and bigger trackpad that’s much more responsive with haptic suggestions, so all the expertise feels identical to utilizing a MacBook. The brand new Magic Keyboard attaches magnetically, and the Sensible Connector instantly connects energy and knowledge with out the necessity for Bluetooth. The machined aluminum hinge additionally features a USB-C connector for charging. The brand new Magic Keyboard is available in two colours that completely complement the brand new iPad Professional: black with an area black aluminum palm relaxation, and white with a silver aluminum palm relaxation.

The brand new Sensible Folio for iPad Professional attaches magnetically and now helps a number of viewing angles for higher flexibility. Accessible in black, white, and denim, it enhances the colours of the brand new iPad Professional.

Highly effective iPadOS Options

iPadOS is full of options that push the boundaries of what’s doable on iPad. With Reference Mode, iPadOS can exactly match colour necessities of the Extremely Retina XDR show for duties through which correct colours and constant picture high quality are crucial — together with evaluation and approve, colour grading, and compositing. Stage Supervisor permits customers to work with a number of overlapping home windows in a single view, resize home windows, faucet to modify between apps, and extra. With full exterior show help of as much as 6K, iPad Professional customers can even lengthen their workflow, in addition to use the built-in digicam on an exterior show for enhanced video conferencing. Customers can benefit from the highly effective AI capabilities in iPad Professional and clever options in iPadOS, together with Visible Look Up, Topic Elevate, Reside Textual content, or Reside Captions and Private Voice for accessibility.

With iPadOS 17, customers can customise the Lock Display to make it extra private — profiting from the bigger show on iPad — and interactive widgets take glanceable data additional with the power to get duties performed proper within the second with only a faucet. The Notes app provides customers new methods to arrange, learn, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, and dealing with PDFs can be simpler with AutoFill, which intelligently identifies and fills fields in varieties.

Logic Professional for iPad 2

Logic Professional for iPad 2, accessible beginning Monday, Could 13, introduces unbelievable studio assistant options that increase the music-making course of and supply artists assist proper after they want it — all whereas making certain they keep full inventive management. These options embody Session Gamers, which broaden on in style Drummer capabilities in Logic to incorporate a brand new Bass Participant and Keyboard Participant; ChromaGlow, to immediately add heat to tracks; and Stem Splitter, to extract and work with particular person components of a single audio recording.

Remaining Lower Professional for iPad 2

Remaining Lower Professional for iPad 2, accessible later this spring, introduces Reside Multicam, a brand new function that transforms iPad right into a cellular manufacturing studio, permitting customers to view and management as much as 4 linked iPhone and iPad units wirelessly.⁵ To help Reside Multicam, an all-new seize app additionally involves iPad and iPhone, Remaining Lower Digicam,⁶ giving customers management over choices like white steadiness, ISO, and shutter velocity, together with monitoring instruments like overexposure indicators and focus peaking. Remaining Lower Digicam works as a standalone seize app or with Reside Multicam. Remaining Lower Professional for iPad 2 additionally permits customers to create or open tasks from exterior storage, giving editors much more flexibility, and provides new content material choices.⁷

iPad Professional and the Setting

The brand new iPad Professional is designed with the surroundings in thoughts, together with one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the enclosure, one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled gold plating and tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards. The brand new iPad Professional meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. The packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its aim to take away plastic from all packaging by 2025.

At present, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chain and life cycle of each product.

Pricing and Availability

• Prospects can order the brand new iPad Professional with M4 beginning at the moment, Could 7, at apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 29 nations and areas, together with the U.S., with availability in shops starting Wednesday, Could 15.

• The brand new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional will likely be accessible in silver and area black finishes in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.

• The 11-inch iPad Professional begins at $999 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,199 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin. The 13-inch iPad Professional begins at $1,299 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,499 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin. Further technical specs, together with nano-texture glass choices, can be found at apple.com/retailer.

• For training, the brand new 11-inch iPad Professional is out there for $899 (U.S.) and the 13-inch iPad Professional is $1,199 (U.S.). Schooling pricing is out there to present and newly accepted school college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, employees, and home-school lecturers of all grade ranges. For extra data, go to apple.com/us-hed/store.

• The brand new Apple Pencil Professional is suitable with the brand new iPad Professional. It’s accessible for $129 (U.S.). For training, Apple Pencil Professional is out there for $119 (U.S.).

• Apple Pencil (USB-C) is suitable with the brand new iPad Professional. It’s accessible for $79 (U.S.) and $69 (U.S.) for training.

• The brand new Magic Keyboard is suitable with the brand new iPad Professional. It’s accessible in black and white finishes. The brand new 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $299 (U.S.) and the brand new 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $349 (U.S.), with layouts for over 30 languages. For training, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $279 (U.S.) and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $329 (U.S.).

• The brand new Sensible Folio is out there for $79 (U.S.) in black, white, and denim finishes for the brand new 11-inch iPad Professional and $99 (U.S.) for the brand new 13-inch iPad Professional.

• Logic Professional for iPad 2 is out there on Could 13 as a free replace for present customers, and for brand new customers, it’s accessible on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days, or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial. Logic Professional for iPad 2 requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. For extra data, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.

• Remaining Lower Professional for iPad 2 will likely be accessible later this spring on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days, or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial.

• Apple provides nice methods to save lots of on the newest iPad. Prospects can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line, the Apple Retailer app, or an Apple Retailer location. To see what their machine is price, and for phrases and situations, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.

• Prospects within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 p.c APR after they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, and so they’ll get 3 p.c Every day Money again — all upfront.

About Apple
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1. Nano-texture glass is an possibility on the 1TB and 2TB configurations of the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional fashions.
2. iPad Professional fashions with 256GB or 512GB storage function the Apple M4 chip with a 9‑core CPU. iPad Professional fashions with 1TB or 2TB storage function the Apple M4 chip with a ten‑core CPU.
3. Testing was carried out by Apple in March and April 2024. See apple.com/ipad-pro for extra data.
4. Testing was carried out by Apple in March and April 2024 utilizing preproduction 13-inch iPad Professional (M4) models with a 10-core CPU and 16GB of RAM. Efficiency was measured utilizing choose {industry}‑customary benchmarks. PC laptop computer chip efficiency knowledge is from testing ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405MA) with Core Extremely 7 155H and 32GB of RAM. Efficiency checks are carried out utilizing particular pc programs and mirror the approximate efficiency of iPad Professional.
5. Remaining Lower Professional for iPad 2 is suitable with iPad fashions with the M1 chip or later, and Logic Professional for iPad 2 will likely be accessible on iPad fashions with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
6. Remaining Lower Digicam is suitable with iPhone XS and later with iOS 17.4 or later, and iPad fashions suitable with iPadOS 17.4 or later.
7. Exterior challenge help requires iPadOS 17.5 or later.

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