reason i'm upgrading is more for the 1TB and 16GB of ram. My current ipad pro only has 256GB and 8GB of ram so thats more why i upgraded
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New iPad Pro Has Six Key Upgrades Beyond M5 Chip
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I have a 13 inch iPad Pro from last year and for a quick minute I thought about trading it in for the new 11 inch. The 13 inches is too big for what I need, and I’d like to have the nano texture display. But to get that display, you have to buy it with one terabyte SSD and it comes to over $1600. Even with $700 trade-in on my current iPad, it’s just dumb. Apple has priced themselves out of any reasonable person’s ability to justify something like this.
My experience is largely the same, but I feel for any device below 8 GB of RAM it starts to feel different now. My iPhone 13 mini with 4 gigs of RAM never keeps a previous route I looked up in Apple Maps in memory and tabs in Safari get reloaded quite often. Even on my iPad Pro M1 with 8 GB of RAM I noticed some animation stuttering or unresponsive windows, when trying to move them around. That makes me a bit concerned for what’s to come.
Critical thinking has left the building especially when someone is in a rush to criticize or complain about something, I keep noticing this.
Yeah it is annoying but standard for Apple to force multiple upgrades to get the one you want unfortunately.
Its like most performance changes, unless you're using something back to back you won't know the differences. I've specifically never tried to find out the difference RAM wise because they've tied it to the more expensive options of storage that are unnecessary for me.
I’m still using this daily with my 2018 iPad Pro 11”. I love the compactness of it. I really am not looking forward to upgrading which I feel might be due next year.
The way the other poster said it, it was as if they were suggesting the only iPads that had 16GB of RAM were the M4 Pros.
"The cellular, meh, and the ram if you had a M4 with 1-2 TB you already have 16 GB ram."
Possibly, the iPad mini will vanish if the iPhone actually gets a "working" and "reliable" fold option. The max memory of the current mini is 512GB and iPhones have had the 2TB option for years. The mini CPU is usually one or two generations behind the iPhone CPU to use up the old CPU parts inventory.
That'd be a huge mistake.
As just one example, iPad Mini's are enormously popular and perfectly sized for pilots and a "folding iPhone" is in no way at all a functional substitute.
You don't want that sort of device in the cockpit.
A rigid, fixed shape (often in a dedicated case) fits the mission profile perfectly.
Robustness, reliability, predictability, simplicity ... these are the sort of things you want in mission critical situation.
Maybe to explain or understand if not also a pilot.
M4 iPad Pro supports fast charging as well, but Apple didn’t advertise this feature last year.
Today, I measured charging on my 11-inch iPad Pro M4 using a 65W charger:
Charge levels:
15 min: 23%
20 min: 30%
25 min: 38%
30 min: 45%
33 min: 50%
Power:
0-10% - 38W
10-45% - 38-41W
45-50% - 32-38W
Negligible difference between M4 and M5.
Nothing about the M5 iPad Pro 11 would entice me to take a financial blood bath to trade in my M4 iPad Pro 11 with 2TB and Apple keyboard and Apple Pencil.
I miss the times when an iPad Pro cost 799€ instead of 1449€ 😅 (The M4 iPad Pro even cost 1549€😅😅😅) in the country I live in
I have now seen this with my iPad Pro, and my Macbook Pro. Both are just a year old and their trade in values are horrible. It is worse than buying a new car. In the case of the Macbook, it lost over 50% of its vaule in one year. The iPad did a little better but still lost about 40-45% of its value in one year. I've come to the conclusion that it is better to buy one of these one year after they come out for a fraction of what they cost new.
Been saying this forever, for cars and Apple stuff..
Buy preowned!
Let other folks stay on the bleeding edge (and have their wallets get "cut" by it)
I promise you're not missing anything important by always having "the brand new thing".
That's what I did 5 months ago: I bought a used, like-new 16-inch MacBook Pro M3 Max with 64 GB RAM and 12 battery cycles, for 55% of the price of a new M4 Max MacBook Pro. I still think it was a great deal.
