My experience on my 2018 Pro is that 26.1 is both much better performance and battery life.
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M4 vs. M5 iPad Pro Buyer's Guide: 20 Differences Compared
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For someone shopping for one today, the most consequential and impactful thing between both base models is the additional memory on the M5. I would try to deter anyone from getting an M4 over the M5 just because of that, 8GB RAM is just not enough today and especially going forward, and it will be the one thing that people will notice on daily tasks, and that will obsolete the M4 quickest.
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Thank you for this tidbit!! I'll hold off then. Did you need to tweak any of the glass/transparency settings?
Adobe really does seem to be dropping the ball with their iPad Pro apps. I was really expecting them to release a more robust Premiere after Final Cut came out but nope, still the nurtured Rush app.
I did turn on the new Tinted option in Liquid Glass. Don’t know if it helps with battery but it makes things a lot easier to read!
I upgraded from M4 to M5 simply because I decided I wanted 512gb of storage instead of 256gb. The jump to 12GB of RAM is nice as well.
In my experience, not a single iPad suffered a major issue. It is the iPad OS and apps that move ahead leaving old hardware in the dust.
I have an iPad Pro. I don't know what Mx Chip it has inside because honestly, I give a flying f..k.
Whenever I try to do some actual work on it (Word; PowerPoint or even Apple's own apps) I feel it's like trying to write "War and Peace" with your hands being tied behind your back; your eyes are covered by a ninja belt and your body is getting spaghetti-fied being sucked into a primordial black hole.
So I just watch some videos on it and read news. And yes, I am glad if you can do more with it than I do. I am probably just not smart enough to figure things out - or I have a serious lack of patience. But ok. It's fine.
Whenever I try to do some actual work on it (Word; PowerPoint or even Apple's own apps) I feel it's like trying to write "War and Peace" with your hands being tied behind your back; your eyes are covered by a ninja belt and your body is getting spaghetti-fied being sucked into a primordial black hole.
So I just watch some videos on it and read news. And yes, I am glad if you can do more with it than I do. I am probably just not smart enough to figure things out - or I have a serious lack of patience. But ok. It's fine.
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I use a 13-inch iPad Pro daily, several hours a day. Keeping each new model for about 18 months then trading for the next version. Apple makes it easy to go in-store, offering about 47% as a trade-in, then leaving with the newest model. The cost comes to around $44 a month. I could easily skip a version and save some money, but find I'm always looking for more speed and the price is worth it to me.
Are you sure? I just checked the 13 256 M4 WiFi at BB and the value is $130 more than Apple offered me for the 1TB model.
I can tell you that right off the bat the weight difference is monumental, m4 m5's is the sweet spot for the pro 13"sThank you-now do the M1 iPad Pro vs. M5 iPad Pro comparison.
Dude for real, I use the magic keyboard pro and having an always display on an ipad is extremely useless. Considering the fact that when I open the keyboard the screen turns on by automatically lolol
But if you get the 1Tb version or the nano texture version for the M4, it’ll have 16gb RAM
Yep, but at that point why get the M4 over the M54. The "savings" would not make sense.
On paper, there are several improvements due to the new chip(s). Not sure whether the increase in RAM for 256/512 helps to prevent Safari reloading. Think in general, there is no reason for M4 iPad Pro users to upgrade. I just got a cellular M4 11" Pro 3 months ago. Extremely satisfied and not planning on upgrading.
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Maybe a cool picture frame or something. But other than that it'll be a HUGE battery drainer. People currently can leave their iPads for days and sometimes weeks and it'll wake up with a reasonable amount of battery still. Always on display will destroy that.
I feel to placate people who want this, perhaps a screen saver / dock / charging mode version could be developed by Apple where you toggle it to automatically turn on while charging or something. Those who have cases and flip them shut will get nothing, which is most users. But if you are one to want to leave the iPad in a displaying position, then you'll get some AOD like display.
The software needs to be behind the hardware for functionality. The installed base is orders of magnitude larger than whatever has the newest and shiniest chips and most of it gets supported.
I would expect some of this to become useable in iPadOS 27 or later. Much of it may not appear at all outside of macOS. While Apple has some flexibility to design to its own constraints, the fact that the same tech underpins the iPhone (or even the Apple Watch) on up to the Ultra chips, means occasional over-provisioning. Buy now for use now, rest assured that future OS versions will add functionality based on past/general Apple behaviour. My M1 generation MBPro is more capable than it was on release thanks to macOS enhancements.
I would expect some of this to become useable in iPadOS 27 or later. Much of it may not appear at all outside of macOS. While Apple has some flexibility to design to its own constraints, the fact that the same tech underpins the iPhone (or even the Apple Watch) on up to the Ultra chips, means occasional over-provisioning. Buy now for use now, rest assured that future OS versions will add functionality based on past/general Apple behaviour. My M1 generation MBPro is more capable than it was on release thanks to macOS enhancements.