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iPad Pro 2 Specs that are a Must have for the 2021 iPad Pro. Everything you need to know.

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TheRealAlex

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We all post rumors, because it’s Macrumors. And there’s alway that one guy who wants a link for proof. Well here you have them. Below

www.anandtech.com

Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512 GB eUFS 3.1 Storage: Up to 2.1 GB/s

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Samsung Starts Production of 16 GB LPDDR5-5500 for Smartphones

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There will be true next gen game changing features. When they are implemented in a new iPhone 12 and or iPad Pro in 2021.


As you can read below iPad Pro storage speeds are not great.
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iPad Pro 10.5/12.9 SSD Storage Speed test 64/256/512GB

I am a student who owns the iPad Pro 10.5 64GB gold and I have been very happy with it so far. One day I downloaded an app to test my iPad disk speed and noticed the write speed is half the one on my iPhone 8 plus 64GB. I saw a similar thread for iPhone 8/plus/X somewhere on this website and...
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And LPDDR4 speeds are 4266Mbps Vs. LPDDR5 speeds at 6400Mbps not to mention the power savings.

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LPDDR5 vs LPDDR4x vs LPDDR4 | Specs, Phones (2021)

Here's an LPDDR5 vs LPDDR4x vs LPDDR4 comparison as we compare the speed, power, and specs and mention LPDDR5 phones (March 2021).
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I think the iPhone 12 Pro Max this year may take advantage of both features since Samsung must be fulfilling an Apple contract purchase and making supply ahead of iPhone 12 assembly (you may need to get the 512GB model be warned) And the Samsung Note 20 should feature 12GB RAM and 512GB storage as standard.
 
ericwn said:
They’ll probably not stop there but go not one but two steps further, straight to nano-LED.
Super duper game changer!
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I’m calling it now. 2021 iPad Pro 5nm A15X CPU, 11” Mini-LED XDR Display, 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, and 256GB base eUFS 3.1 storage. Base price $998 and fully compatible with new Magic Keyboard.
*may ditch the 120Hz Pro Display for 4K Dolby Vision 10-bit HDR color 500nits
 
TheRealAlex said:
I’m calling it now. 2021 iPad Pro 5nm A15X CPU, 11” Mini-LED XDR Display, 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, and 256GB base eUFS 3.1 storage. Base price $998 and fully compatible with new Magic Keyboard.
*may ditch the 120Hz Pro Display for 4K Dolby Vision 10-bit HDR color 500nits
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Awesome. I’ll file it under #2017entryleveliPad_no_headphone_jack and hope it’s gonna be one of those success stories of yours.
 
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TheRealAlex said:
I’m calling it now. 2021 iPad Pro 5nm A15X CPU, 11” Mini-LED XDR Display, 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, and 256GB base eUFS 3.1 storage. Base price $998 and fully compatible with new Magic Keyboard.
*may ditch the 120Hz Pro Display for 4K Dolby Vision 10-bit HDR color 500nits
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Dolby vision should be 1000nits tho
 
I really want mini-LED to be true, but i’m doubtful.
what would they call it, the iPad Pro-Pro edition?
 
Wackery said:
I really want mini-LED to be true, but i’m doubtful.
what would they call it, the iPad Pro-Pro edition?
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I did A post about this very thing. I’ll make it a short 10 seconds. IMO crystal ball an iPad Pro with Mini-LED would be called the iPad Pro XDR which would cater to Movie Buffs, and Photo and Movie Editors, since it would boast a Wider Color Gamut, deeper blacks, be higher definition. And have similar Color Profiles to the Pro XDR Display that’s costs $6,000 bucks.

iPad Pro XDR.....it’s like having a Pro XDR Display in your lap, *cue marketing ad of a 34” Pro XDR Display shrinking to the size of an iPad Pro.

2388 x 1668 current iPad Pro 11”
3840 x 2160 4K

I think bye 2021 the A15X 5nm CPU and Bionic co-processors can handle 4K resolutions.

Apple is not hiding their intentions

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Apple Working on Six Mini-LED Products Including New 14.1-Inch MacBook Pro and Refreshed iMac Pro

Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus,...
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I will fully plan to buy that 14” Mini-LED MAcBook Pro.
 
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TheRealAlex said:
I did A post about this very thing. I’ll make it a short 10 seconds. IMO crystal ball an iPad Pro with Mini-LED would be called the iPad Pro XDR which would cater to Movie Buffs, and Photo and Movie Editors, since it would boast a Wider Color Gamut, deeper blacks, be higher definition. And have similar Color Profiles to the Pro XDR Display that’s costs $6,000 bucks.

iPad Pro XDR.....it’s like having a Pro XDR Display in your lap, *cue marketing ad of a 34” Pro XDR Display shrinking to the size of an iPad Pro.

2388 x 1668 current iPad Pro 11”
3840 x 2160 4K

I think bye 2021 the A15X 5nm CPU and Bionic co-processors can handle 4K resolutions.

Apple is not hiding their intentions

www.macrumors.com

Apple Working on Six Mini-LED Products Including New 14.1-Inch MacBook Pro and Refreshed iMac Pro

Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus,...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com

I will fully plan to buy that 14” Mini-LED MAcBook Pro.
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Ah I see. A niche within the niche. Produce a pro device then tell people it’s not pro enough and that the content creation machine is surpassed by one even better for content creation. And movie buffs, because movie production on iPad is such a core market. What a lot of silly thinking.
And this xdr mode will then set you back what 3000 bucks?

This will probably apply to the entire iPad Pro line or not happen at all. At least that would make more sense.

And of course Apple are hiding their intentions as the article you linked is one about Kuo speculating and not one about Apple making any statement whatsoever.
 
ericwn said:
Ah I see. A niche within the niche. Produce a pro device then tell people it’s not pro enough and that the content creation machine is surpassed by one even better for content creation. And movie buffs, because movie production on iPad is such a core market. What a lot of silly thinking.
And this xdr mode will then set you back what 3000 bucks?

This will probably apply to the entire iPad Pro line or not happen at all. At least that would make more sense.

And of course Apple are hiding their intentions as the article you linked is one about Kuo speculating and not one about Apple making any statement whatsoever.
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Apple whole product marketing structure is as you explained a nice within a niche. Or as Steve Jobs explained it like the Auto Industry. Toyota make the Corolla, and the Camry, and the Avalon 3 cars 3 tiers of price. And the Lexus

Apple does that across their entire product line where they can. I think they will go one level up. To a 4th

iPad Mini (Corolla)
iPad (Camry)
iPad Pro (Avalon)
iPad Pro XDR (Lexus)

iPhone 8
IPhone XR
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro Max

Macbook Air
Macbook Pro 14”
Macbook Pro 16”
If I’m right there could be a MAcBook Pro XDR (that takes over for the 16” model)
 
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TheRealAlex said:
Apple whole product marketing structure is as you explained a nice within a niche. Or as Steve Jobs explained it like the Auto Industry. Toyota make the Corolla, and the Camry, and the Avalon 3 cars 3 tiers of price. And the Lexus

Apple does that across their entire product line where they can. I think they will go one level up. To a 4th

iPad Mini (Corolla)
iPad (Camry)
iPad Pro (Avalon)
iPad Pro XDR (Lexus)

iPhone 8
IPhone XR
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro Max

Macbook Air
Macbook Pro 14”
Macbook Pro 16”
If I’m right there could be a MAcBook Pro XDR (that takes over for the 16” model)
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Problem is you’re hardly ever right as demonstrated in the past plenty of times. Apple surely doesn’t want to cater to niches - their products usually have a big target audience. They don’t make movie buff only products. They make a product for more than one group of users. The days when Apple stuff was only purchased by graphic designers and the like are long gone.
 
ericwn said:
Problem is you’re hardly ever right as demonstrated in the past plenty of times. Apple surely doesn’t want to cater to niches - their products usually have a big target audience. They don’t make movie buff only products. They make a product for more than one group of users. The days when Apple stuff was only purchased by graphic designers and the like are long gone.
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I don’t know, have you seen the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, pretty niche products targeted at graphic designers and editors.
 
TheRealAlex said:
I don’t know, have you seen the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, pretty niche products targeted at graphic designers and editors.
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You’re so funny - that’s why Apple is not just promoting the Mac Pro’s Photoshop performance but listing Logic and MATLAB first and also include Maya, Wolfram Mathematica, Build Time and Final Cut.

Oh yes, and all the expansion card possibilities of course. And the dozens of CPU cores. The super high power graphic cards (with links to Cinema 4D, DaVinci and Final Cut performances). The list of the video editing powers. The rack mounting options...

Because that’s what graphic designers use, right? You have no idea what the product is for. Case closed.
 
TheRealAlex said:
I did A post about this very thing. I’ll make it a short 10 seconds. IMO crystal ball an iPad Pro with Mini-LED would be called the iPad Pro XDR which would cater to Movie Buffs, and Photo and Movie Editors, since it would boast a Wider Color Gamut, deeper blacks, be higher definition. And have similar Color Profiles to the Pro XDR Display that’s costs $6,000 bucks.

iPad Pro XDR.....it’s like having a Pro XDR Display in your lap, *cue marketing ad of a 34” Pro XDR Display shrinking to the size of an iPad Pro.

2388 x 1668 current iPad Pro 11”
3840 x 2160 4K

I think bye 2021 the A15X 5nm CPU and Bionic co-processors can handle 4K resolutions.

Apple is not hiding their intentions

www.macrumors.com

Apple Working on Six Mini-LED Products Including New 14.1-Inch MacBook Pro and Refreshed iMac Pro

Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus,...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com

I will fully plan to buy that 14” Mini-LED MAcBook Pro.
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Theres zero shot Apple can make an 11” iPad have anywhere near the same display capability as the Pro Display XDR. Not only does it take a massive amount of power, but it also runs very hot when displaying in reference mode. That’s why it uses a power cable (vs battery) and has large heat sink holes all over the back of it (vs a solid block of aluminum). The iPad also would have the main processing units in it compared to a display just having the image sent over cable. Any iPad with a display that intense would run so hot it’d melt your lap.
 
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I agree on not adopting first gen display technology. I haven’t had any horrible experiences per se, but it’s my opinion that the current iPad display is already quite nice, and so I would rather have a few iterations in the pipeline before the next upgrade. My reasoning extends to 5G antennae too. That’s why I wanted to be sure to upgrade this year - while the rumors may have encouraged many to wait, it actually encouraged me to purchase.
 
Honestly, the RAM would be cool, but is not necessary now nor will it be for many moon years.
Having faster PCIE Flash storage is great, but again, it’s not really game changing, but just an improvement over what Apple uses now.

game changer would be in the battery life and type of display tech coming, the other would be a 5nm or 3nm processor that is not just faster than most PCs, but one that is 12x more powerful and able to run an iMac Pro or MacBook Pro.
An iPad with 16GB of RAM would be cool, but absolute overkill and pointless unless it has the processing power, capability, and access to full professional grade applications that laptops and desktops do.
But also Apple would need to change the already amazing storage management on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac OS they have. Like they’d have to downgrade way far (like to a system like android or windows.)
But as it stands right now, even an iPad with 2GB of RAM is still much more reliable and longer lasting than a Samsung phone with a snapdragon processor and 12GB of RAM.


just my opinion, ifanyone @Me... civil discussion, please. 😉👍✌️
 
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