I am still on a 11" 2018 A12X as well. The battery isn’t what it used to be, but otherwise it’s hanging in there. I’ve ordered the new 256gb 11” IPP in hopes of having greater performance in Procreate and better battery life. I never thought that I’d get 7 years out of my 2018 model!
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Apple Debuts New iPad Pro With M5 Chip, Faster Charging, and More
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If you understood supply chain management, you would understand the update.
When you start up a new line (the M5) you start at lower yields, and sometimes you can bin those chips to be usable (turn off the parts that are bad, it is common practice in chipmaking). So you (Apple) paid for those chips, where do they go? Do you throw that money away? OR, do you put them in iPads and Vision Pros that can't take the thermal load of an unbinned "pro" version of the chip or one with all the core enabled...
Still using my 2018 iPad Pro, works just fine and I dont have a legitimate excuse to replace it. I do like even numbers and shiny new things so the 2026 M6 version might be the one
I agree. The only reason I bought a new iPad Pro was because my wife’s iPad needed replacing. I might as well have the newer iPad. She can have my M4 2 TB I don’t think she’ll notice any difference between that and the M5.No need to upgrade from M4 for like 8 years.
I got that 1TB with 16 gigs yo 🔥🔥🔥
glad i bought my M4 in June
Apple today announced the next-generation iPad Pro, featuring the custom-designed M5, C1X, and N1 chips.
The M5 chip has up to a 10-core CPU, with four performance cores and six efficiency cores. It features a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerator in each core, allowing the new iPad Pro to deliver up to 3.5x the AI performance than the previous model, and a third-generation ray-tracing engine. A faster 16-core Neural Engine also delivers more energy-efficient performance. Apple says that performance gains and breakthrough improvements over iPads with the M1 chip are "staggering".
In addition to the M5 chip, the cellular versions of the new iPad Pro feature Apple's custom-designed C1X modem, which allows up to 50% faster cellular data performance than its predecessor, with much greater efficiency.
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It also features the N1 chip, a new Apple-designed wireless networking chip that enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread. Apple says the N1 brings better performance when connected to 5GHz networks, and improves the overall performance and reliability of features like Personal Hotspot and AirDrop.
The new iPad Pro features over 150GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, which is almost a 30% increase compared to the previous generation. It also offers up to 2x faster storage read and write speeds, and the 256GB and 512GB models start with 12GB of unified memory.
The new iPad Pro adds the ability to drive external displays at up to 120Hz and now supports Adaptive Sync, which provides the lowest possible latency in external display performance.
Fast charging is now supported, allowing the new iPad Pro to charge up to 50% in around 30 minutes with a 40W adapter or higher.
The new iPad Pro is available to pre-order starting today, and will be available in stores on Wednesday, October 22.
Article Link: Apple Debuts New iPad Pro With M5 Chip, Faster Charging, and More
I placed my order this morning, replacing my 2018 1st generation 11" iPad Pro. I'm guessing it will be faster. 🤣
The new one is $100 more than the seven year old model was.
The new one is $100 more than the seven year old model was.
Do we know if the M5 will work with the M4 case? Based on what I could tell the M5 case works with the M4…
Absolute nonsense
Totally agree - keeping the battery life at 10 hours is a joke. It's not even half of what a MacBook gets now. Back when laptops got 6 to 8 hours - the iPad's 10 hours seemed great. Not so much any more.
Surprise! New MacBook Pros M5 in EU and UK come WITHOUT a charger… it has to be purchased separately.
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This is probably the first time Apple has explicitly listed the RAM size on its website alongside the built-in memory for the iPad.
I think they'll last longer than that given that iPadOS 26 is still supported on devices with 4GB.
The one card up Window's sleeve had been the GPU's. To me that and affordability had been the main reasons people bought Window's machines, and Macs are now more affordable and superior in every other way to Windows machines. And right now, with Windows being a complete mess and next to impossible to find anyone who think they are actually good, the reasons to buy Windows machines are slowly evaporating. But hopefully not too bad as we need competition.
I still own a couple of Windows machines for rendering, but pretty soon I can see that lone reason for me to own a Window's machine may be gone. My M4 Mac Studio still can't compete with latest Window's Nvidia machines, but the upcoming M5 Max chips should come pretty close, and without crazy cooling, and crazy wattage or a terrible OS.
Nvidia is making money hand over fist with their commercial chips and could care less about consumer chips right now, but I wouldn't doubt Apple could make a dent there too. They wouldn't need to care about CUDA compatibility as they have big enough ecosystem to make it happen. Better efficiency and looking like better technology too.
Where it comes to AI, I wouldn't worry about Apple, I would worry about Nvidia. They are check-Kiting everyone right now with their chips. That doesn't look good. That doesn't sound good. It looks like they need save some of their riches for a rainy day, as when this current AI gold rush is done, and people stop buying the picks and shovels they are done too. Like done done. And it looks like that gold rush is teetering as we speak as VC money has been hiding loses, and the contagion from shady VC practices may expose more than the cockroaches.
I still own a couple of Windows machines for rendering, but pretty soon I can see that lone reason for me to own a Window's machine may be gone. My M4 Mac Studio still can't compete with latest Window's Nvidia machines, but the upcoming M5 Max chips should come pretty close, and without crazy cooling, and crazy wattage or a terrible OS.
Nvidia is making money hand over fist with their commercial chips and could care less about consumer chips right now, but I wouldn't doubt Apple could make a dent there too. They wouldn't need to care about CUDA compatibility as they have big enough ecosystem to make it happen. Better efficiency and looking like better technology too.
Where it comes to AI, I wouldn't worry about Apple, I would worry about Nvidia. They are check-Kiting everyone right now with their chips. That doesn't look good. That doesn't sound good. It looks like they need save some of their riches for a rainy day, as when this current AI gold rush is done, and people stop buying the picks and shovels they are done too. Like done done. And it looks like that gold rush is teetering as we speak as VC money has been hiding loses, and the contagion from shady VC practices may expose more than the cockroaches.
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What are you going on about? Do you actually think Windows is going anywhere? Windows marketshare has actually gone up in the past couple of years.
Not that I was getting one because my M4 works like a dream, this update feels a bit Meh. 17 months on I would expect more than a chip and WiFi upgrade.
And with no trade-ins for that or the Apple Pencil— that’s what keeps me from upgrading.
No, I thought that was a great feature. Thinking outside the box (or bezel).
Trade-in offer for iPad Pro 11" M4 base model was $605 — pretty good IMO. With that, an upgrade would cost $394. Will not upgrade either, but could really use that extra 4GB RAM.