I don’t see this happening. This would create too large of a gap between the different models. I can see the Pro models going up in price though.
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Kuo: Mini-LED Displays to Debut in Apple's Next iPad Pro
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Possibly.
But even Anandtech was a bit surprised that the A14 was introduced with the iPad Air yet did say that technical details were scarce and the A14 was only compared to the A12 and not the A13 during that presentation.
Their take on it was that Apple wants to hold off showing off the true power of the A14 until the introduction of the iPhone or the Apple Silicon Macs.
I can imagine that if truly an iPad Pro with A14 will be able to boot into macOS or at least run some Mac applications (like the Mac will be able to run iOS applications), then Anandtech might be right and Apple really would not want to show off these benchmarks and speed comparisons (of an iPad Pro running macOS) before the Apple Silicon Macs are introduced.
In that case it would make sense to hold off that iPad Pro introduction.
And I suspect the last iPad Pro mini-refresh was there only to introduce LiDAR early to developers, so that during the introduction of the LiDAR iPhone Apple would have plenty of LiDAR apps to show... If that's the case it was a semi-refresh only anyway, not intended to represent the iPad Pro line for a whole year. Which the A12Z processor also suggests.
i talked already too much about that, based on my exp on the mac mini dev kit and based on tab s7 with Dex
Defo agree a price increase is coming. Makes you think if the 2020 pro is actually a good deal at the current price
It is, only $200 more than the Air. It’s much better than the 2018 iPad Pro, though the SoC was little improved.
At a minimum, rumors have the 2021 iPad Pro with mini-LED display and a significantly faster A14X. Easily a $100 price increase.
And of course for those who buy the cellular model, iPad Pro will have 5G too.
I understand Kuo’s words as that the display will be coming on the mass market in 4Q20, not the iPad itself? This pretty much confirms the March 2021 upgrade for the Pro, though.
What takes Apple so long? Samsung uses miniLED for quite some time in their TVs... it's a quite simple technology.
Anyway, microLED will be the real deal. Everything in between is just a bridging technology.
Anyway, microLED will be the real deal. Everything in between is just a bridging technology.
This is why I have took the plunge and ordered my iPad Pro 12.9 now rather than wait, too many reasons against waiting:
1. miniLED has only been rumoured for 2021, might be March but could also easily be October.
2. New tech always means new issues which usually get resolved on a refresh, I can see quite a few reports of screen issues on the horizon.
3. Cost, we all know more $$$ are going to be lumped into the price tag, current gen is a decent price for the specs and the 2018 model is an absolute steal.
4. Current iPad is only 6 months old (a third of the general iPad refresh cycle).
5. When the miniLED iPad is eventually released there will be rumours flying everywhere about a new version with camera in the centre landscape position, A15X chip, microLED etc...
6. The rumours of it debuting on the iPad Pro might not even be real and could debut on a Mac for all we know.
Same basic concept, i.e. full array local dimming, but completely different technology.
Those Samsung TVs don’t use mini-LEDs, they use pencil eraser-sized (well, not quite that big lol) discrete LEDs. Approx 1,000 on a huge screen, spaced a couple inches (5 cm) apart.
mini-LEDs are tiny, the size of a few pixels, spaced a few mm apart, and might pack 10,000 on a relatively small iPad display.
* Rough guesstimates on the measurements but you get the idea
Absolutely agree. For anyone who bought a Pro this year, there should be no regrets. And if debating between the Air and Pro, the Pro is clearly a better value. I’m curious more than anything about how well the new TouchID implementation works.
As for pricing — I agree that a $100 lift seems natural, so I am expecting this when the new Pro models come out. Still worth the cost, imo.
I wish they would just hurry up and release the new iPad pro instead of just all the rumours so sick rumours just want the actual devices where is my new Apple TV Apple stop focusing on just iOS devices spend some of your $2 trillion on getting the rest of the products out instead of us having to wait years for updates.
I just hope the next iPad Pro is still compatible with the Magic Keyboard I bought. Currently on a 3rd Gen 12.9”.
This article seems to say some panels will be manufactured this year but it will be 2021 before we see products on the market.
While I wouldn't be surprised to see a further price hike, everyone also convinced themselves the 16" MacBook Pro was coming in more expensive than the 15" it replaced, yet Apple surprised us. Same reasoning going around there - bigger screen, better graphics, more base storage etc, it must cost more - but Apple were able to maintain the price.
I think Apple will announce mini-LED iPad Pros (along with a new processor) next Spring alongside Mac-specific Apple Silicon MacBook Pro models (which will also use mini-LED). The new displays and processors will be a highlight of that show.
I tend to think otherwise. This MAY be a situation where they’ve reached this design point (like the iMac) and are good for the next several revisions.