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iPad Pro With Thunderbolt and Mini-LED Display Coming 'As Early As April'
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Most people won’t even notice the difference between mini led and the current panels on the pro models.
I think most of you here aren’t aware that USB 4 protocol includes Thunderbolt 3 as part of the specification. I think the inclusion of Thunderbolt on iPads mean they are going USB 4 just like the M1 Macs.
Sorry to hear this. AppleCare is probably worth it, as you said. I’m flummoxed over how I can drop the lid to a container of oatmeal — so I could probably just as easily drop an iPad as well! Thanks for the reminder.
For many users the flexibility is nice to have. Similar to a Surface Pro => a desktop when you need it to be. A tablet when you need it to be.
It would potentially kill the entry level (ie: MBA) of the laptop lineup, but not the MBP. But that’s okay. Better for Apple to cannibalize their own than someone else.
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Wonder if this means they'll sell the current iPad Pro 11s refurbished more often? I just picked up an iPad Air 4 but absolutely don't need the processing power of an A14, while I would love to have 120hz refresh. But the price difference is just too much at the moment.
I would totally eat some leaked A14X benchmarks right about now! Are there?
I do gravitate immensely towards an iPad Pro 11”, sidecar all the time at least, and I just grab it and go far from the desktop the minute work day is done.
Would be great to see a tutorial or hints of how you use it.
However the whole OS system for the tablet is still somewhat constrained I think. The likes of programmers and game designers have nothing yet to look for in there, however, traditional-ish artists, some minor CAD work, concept and pixel artists, office related work (word/pages, numbers/excel, keynote/PowerPoint), music, etc I think very very advanced by now.
Something must have been done right in there and maybe that’s why it has taken it’s time to catch up to a full fledged MacOS like experience.
This would be my dream, I fear I can’t yet... sometimes I have seen myself pushing 64GB of ram even, however not because final cut, FCP is a damn fine citizen on that front. 5 big libraries open, 10GB Max is what I have seen, besides it seems to me that iPadOS is way way more efficient at handling memory.
I do gravitate immensely towards an iPad Pro 11”, sidecar all the time at least, and I just grab it and go far from the desktop the minute work day is done.
Would be great to see a tutorial or hints of how you use it.
Got up until the last messages here hoping for some info, might have missed it though. But let me mildly jump in... iPadOS in an iPad Pro in general feels the snappiest device ever for me. Also there have been benchmarks and reviews going around were the iPad 2018 was beating even higher end Mac Pros in some video editing tasks with some specific codecs even at 4K+ resolution files (they were using Luma Fusion). There’s quite a lot of hardware aid going on that traditional Intel/AMD to date don’t have.
However the whole OS system for the tablet is still somewhat constrained I think. The likes of programmers and game designers have nothing yet to look for in there, however, traditional-ish artists, some minor CAD work, concept and pixel artists, office related work (word/pages, numbers/excel, keynote/PowerPoint), music, etc I think very very advanced by now.
That would be something, however, M1s not supporting eGPUs and Axx being similar, then maybe that might never happen.
Agreed, there’s something about the iPads that are just very snappy. Everything goes seemingly fast, I don’t find myself often having that slight sluggishness that happens on MacOS, that “oh, is it gonna beach ball now?” constant dread.
Something must have been done right in there and maybe that’s why it has taken it’s time to catch up to a full fledged MacOS like experience.
11” gang here, I have seen and used other’s 12.9” and it is indeed big. I do think it has its used, but for me the 11” is crazy portable, it fits everywhere from lap to a random improvised in the moment place next to the desktop. It’s a great powerful device.
Final Cut Pro without it’s plugins would be just a bit better than LumaFusion.
I wouldn’t mind if they just did a 20
minute video about the new iPad and released it on the same day.
A10X iPads comes in 64,256 or 512 GB, where did you get 128 GB from??
No matter how much th annoying crowd spews it, USB C on iPhones will never happen
I’d love to see if that is a reality itself
I think we could very well see a site refresh next Tuesday with these iPads and an event for airtags/AirPods 3 in April.
So mini LED is sort of "in between" LCD and OLED? (In terms of quality with the ultimate goal being OLED on the iPad when it's possible?)
I don't know if it will come or not (kind of doubt it, but would love to settle on one cable for everything) but never is a long time. I remember when an awful lot of people here insisted a mouse was not needed and would never come to the iPad and suddenly here it was.
I have seen screen protectors for a 2021 iPad Mini appear on Amazon, that is usually a strong sign that they will be out soon. Don't know where they get their information from, but these accessory sellers are usually very well informed. I remember the same with the iPhone 12 where they started selling cases in September...
No way Apple is going to hold an event for just AirTags / AirPods 3.
A mini-LED display will be included with "at least" the larger 12.9-inch iPad Pro, with the display upgrade bringing improved brightness and contrast ratios. This is in line with many rumors that we've heard previously, and most of the information suggests the upgraded display technology will be limited to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
If true, this is not a good news for potential iPad buyers and a rather sneaky move by Apple, withholding an important feature from a Pro 11” to drive up sales of the larger and more expensive Pro 12”.
So, if the rumours are true, people wanting to get an 11” A14 iPad this year will have a choice between iPad Air 4 with its average screen quality and 64 GB base storage or iPad Pro 11”, in many ways better than Air, but still missing that mini-LED screen for a few hundred $ more.
So we will then have:
- iPad mini & iPad (the least expensive ones with old designs with Lightning ports)
- iPad Air 4 and iPad Pro 11” (new designs with USB-C ports, with Air storage kept low on purpose not to sabotage Pro 11” sales)
- iPad (Super) Pro 12” (all the bells and whistles and the most expensive one? 🤷🏻♂️
If true, this is not a good news for potential iPad buyers and a rather sneaky move by Apple, withholding an important feature from a Pro 11” to drive up sales of the larger and more expensive Pro 12”.
So, if the rumours are true, people wanting to get an 11” A14 iPad this year will have a choice between iPad Air 4 with its average screen quality and 64 GB base storage or iPad Pro 11”, in many ways better than Air, but still missing that mini-LED screen for a few hundred $ more.
So we will then have:
- iPad mini & iPad (the least expensive ones with old designs with Lightning ports)
- iPad Air 4 and iPad Pro 11” (new designs with USB-C ports, with Air storage kept low on purpose not to sabotage Pro 11” sales)
- iPad (Super) Pro 12” (all the bells and whistles and the most expensive one? 🤷🏻♂️
I hope the 11 get the mini led screen too. Last month I sold my 12.9 2018 to get 11 2021 bc it was too big for me.
It's going to be Thunderbolt 3 because Thunderbolt 4 requires certification from Intel and certain Intel proprietary hardware.
