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M1 iPad Pro Arrives Early for Lucky Customer

Jensend said:
This miniLED backlight has 2596 zones. A microLED would require more than the square of that. Each of those individual zones could be subdivided into 2596 zones, and you’d still only be 40% of the way to enough total subpixels.
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Huh? Why are you suggesting they’d need more zones? MicroLED doesn’t use backlight zones at all, being emissive.

Samsung is already selling 110 inch (?) and 80-something inch microLED TVs. They’re expensive but so was OLED and this shows they are fully-capable of doing it.
 
Jensend said:
It’s like the current LCD screens, but instead of using a flat white backlight, they use a 44x59 grid of zones that can each be set to a different brightness. If all the zones are all set to the same brightness, it should look pretty much exactly like the current screens.
The issue is that if you have small bright details on a dark background, you may be able to notice the whole zone lighting up, and if that small bright detail is moving, you could see the the zones lighting up as the small bright detail passes by them.
Here is a Twitter thread with examples from the Apple Pro XDR. (But it only has a quarter as many zones)
https://twitter.com/x/status/1213220980912541702
(it won’t look that bad in person, but that’s the basic idea)
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Thank you. If it is going to have those white “artifacts” that glow or provide that constant “hue”, I might be cancelling my order.
 
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It will certainly be interesting to see the speed test comparison between the M1 iPad and the older A series chip models. See if it’s worth it being in the computer. Makes me wonder what are they going to do with iPad OS with all that power?
 
Pezimak said:
It will certainly be interesting to see the speed test comparison between the M1 iPad and the older A series chip models. See if it’s worth it being in the computer. Makes me wonder what are they going to do with iPad OS with all that power?
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Floating windows 😋
 
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lyngo said:
Thank you. If it is going to have those white “artifacts” that glow or provide that constant “hue”, I might be cancelling my order.
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It won't. Those pictures are grossly overexaggerated to show the effects of haloing. In general, even panels with very low number of dimming zones don't show haloing to the degree in those pictures. For example, I have a 85" Sony TV with 32 zones. That's it. 32! Do I see haloing? Yes. But generally, I don't notice it when I watch movies - even dark ones.

Now, with the ipad pro's 2,596 dimming zones, I think it will be completely fine as seen in the videos at the beginning of this thread. Even in those videos, I'm positive the slight haloing is much more exaggerated than what you would see in real life.
 
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GuruZac said:
You've got to be kidding me... Apple actually came out with a slightly different Magic Keyboard for the 2021 iPad Pro. SMH that pretty ridiculous.
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at least the old one is compatible, could've been much worse if we have to re-buy MK.
 
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Basically iPad Pro 2021 is iPad Pro 2020 with M1. That’s all. Chill! Just get the Air and save some of your hard earned cash!
 
GuruZac said:
You've got to be kidding me... Apple actually came out with a slightly different Magic Keyboard for the 2021 iPad Pro. SMH that pretty ridiculous.
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From the video I’m not seeing any reason to upgrade my 2020 MK to a 2021 MK for use with my pre-ordered 2021 IPP 12.9”

Why the heck can’t Apple be more explicit/descriptive about the warning about compatibility issues??? Is there potential damage to the 2021 iPP when using the 2020 MK? Is it simply a cosmetic/appearance, issue? Is lower port charging an issue? Is there an future iOS release issue? We have to wait and see what customers are finding instead of getting official guidance.

I‘ve never said this before in the many years I’ve purchased Apple devices. But REALLY APPLE SHAME ON YOU! Why can’t Apple be more explicit and informative regarding this?

If need to upgrade I will. But having to wait many pre-order/shipping weeks for a 2021 iPP delivery, and then waiting to decide to upgrade the MK to a 2021 MK seems like very poor customer service.
 
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pdoherty said:
Huh? Why are you suggesting they’d need more zones? MicroLED doesn’t use backlight zones at all, being emissive.

Samsung is already selling 110 inch (?) and 80-something inch microLED TVs. They’re expensive but so was OLED and this shows they are fully-capable of doing it.
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Yes, I realize that. When each “zone” is as small as a subpixel, it is no longer a zone, and the LCD layer on the display is no longer needed.
 
lyngo said:
Thank you. If it is going to have those white “artifacts” that glow or provide that constant “hue”, I might be cancelling my order.
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In a moderately lit room or brighter, most of those issues should be unnoticeable. i just tend to be quite picky about displays, and they all have trade-offs, currently. There is no one display that is best in every way.
 
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A pity really: not even mentioning which device is which or locking the exposure on his videos…
 
The person making the videos did not even bother to properly lock exposure when recording. Your point is moot.
 
Basically, the iPad Pro 2021 is an iPad Pro 2021 box that just has an iPad Pro 2021 inside of it. How boring is that?
 
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