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New iPad Pro With M5 Chip Leaked in Unboxing Video

Unboxings like these confirm what some of us knew a long time ago.

The public and dev beta versions of iOS, macOS, iPadOS are all finalized and loaded onto devices a month or two before it’s publicly announced as final.

What this means is whatever feedback you provide for the beta is almost irrelevant except for very special cases where Apple didn’t already catch the bug internally. The public betas are at least a month or two behind actual versions.
 
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JPack said:
Because these are legit products headed to CIS countries. There’s nothing to take down since they belong to retailers. Apple is also compliant with these indirect sales to Russia. They know from their own sales data it makes no sense Belarus, Turkmenistan, etc. shot up 800%.
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That's nonsense and would be highly illegal from Apple's part (circumvention of sanctions), you can't sell those kind of quantities to those countries if there's plausible reason to believe it going to Russia and like you said it makes no sense to assume otherwise. Playing dumb doesn't work especially not for a big company like Apple, no judge would agree with such a defense from Apple.

So that's not the back channel of how the products get into Russia.
 
snipr125 said:
Yeah maybe, but when you look at the rest of the hardware, Tandem OLED, thinner chassis and M4 chip its not that bad really. 12 GB RAM would have been nice on the base models, but not a deal breaker for me personally.
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I don't think it mattered to me personally either until iPadOS 26 came along and I can personally notice the performance difference from 18 to 26 on the iPad M4. It's definitely more sluggish but not enough to care but its noticeable I fear that may end up putting this iPad in the same spot as the iPad 3 with Retina display from 2012 lol.
 
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Kaiserschmarrn said:
That's nonsense and would be highly illegal from Apple's part (circumvention of sanctions), you can't sell those kind of quantities to those countries if there's plausible reason to believe it going to Russia and like you said it makes no sense to assume otherwise. Playing dumb doesn't work especially not for a big company like Apple, no judge would agree with such a defense from Apple.

So that's not the back channel of how the products get into Russia.
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It’s exactly how it works if you watch interviews with Russian Apple resellers. How else do you think Russia is able to get the full lineup of iPhones just a couple days after official availability?

There is nothing stopping any reseller from exporting an iPhone or an iPad to Russia except for a pinky swear.
 
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xxray said:
Oddly enough, it appears as though the M4 models have 12GB RAM artificially limited to 8GB.
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All M4 chips have at the bare minimum 2 6GiB chips for a total of 12GiB RAM. That's simply the smallest size Apple can purchase from chip manufacturers and Apple indeed limited it to 8GiB in software. To take a wild guess why Apple did it, at the time the base model Macbook Pros came with 8GiB of RAM (M3) since the new M4 Macs weren't out yet. So Apple probably didn't want the awkwardness of offering a base model iPad Pro with more memory than a base model Macbook Pro.

That explains why Apple blocked the 12GiB on the M4 iPad Pro and is now unblocking it with the M5 iPad Pro. Now that all Macs come with 16GiB and iPhones with 12GiB there is no reason to limit the iPad Pro anymore.

Personally I find the new M5 iPad Pro to be very uninteresting. If I didn't have one already then I'd rather buy a 1TB M4 model on sale right now and get 16GiB RAM instead of buying a 256GB M5 model at MSRP in October when they come out. I use the iPad both for media creation and consumption so 1TB is about the minimum I need to avoid low memory warnings. They both run the same software anyways and the M4 is plenty fast for years to come.

For those people who can get away with 256GB the M5 iPad Pro is certainly a good deal but I find that's way too little space in 2025 to do anything meaningful with. Because the Tandem OLED display allows you to watch and edit very large video files beautifully but you need space to store that.
 
Still no return of the ultrawide camera? I use the one on my iPad Pro all the time for filming experiments. Being able to capture various pieces of apparatus at once in one frame is rather useful.
 
davitur said:
I went from the A12Z Pro to the M4. Very noticeable sound difference. I thought it may have something to do with the thinner body of the M4.
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Out of curiosity, I am still rocking the A12Z Pro and am looking at upgrading this year, whether it be the new M5 or an on sale M4. How much of a difference could you tell when you upgraded to the M4? Any particular apps that showed off the upgrade?
 
I added all the speed improvements.
New M5 should be 100% faster than M1.
m2 25% faster than the m1,m3 25% faster than m2,m4 25% faster than m3, SO M5 100% faster than M1!
NEW M5 100% Faster..Can`t wait till we get to the M10 wow !
And anyone can be anything on the internet and make predictions ahead of new releases.
Everyone has the Crystal Ball! I predict after M6 it will be time for a name change on processors again.
Not sure about a video yet.
 
BelgianChoklit said:
Isn’t this the same picture on the front as wifh the M4 models? Apple never does that right? Maybe this is just an AI generated video with the digit changed?
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No, they do reuse the box art. People literally used the same excuse last year, when he leaked the M4 Macbook Pro, which also had the same picture on the box as the M3 model. Turned out he was right and it launched in the same box.
 
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MacRumors said:


An apparent unboxing video for an unannounced iPad Pro with the M5 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom.


The same YouTube account leaked the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip before it was announced by Apple last year, so this is likely a legitimate leak.

Based on the box shown in the video, this appears to be a 13-inch iPad Pro with an M5 chip, 256GB of storage, and a Space Black finish. The new iPad Pro does not have any noticeable external design changes compared to the current models with the M4 chip, with features like a single rear camera, four speakers, and a Smart Connector still visible. At a glance, it looks like the 13-inch iPad Pro's impressive 5.1mm thinness is preserved.

There does appear to be one change: "iPad Pro" is no longer inscribed on the back of the device.

Based on the Geekbench 6 benchmark result shown in the video, the M5 chip offers up to 12% faster multi-core CPU performance compared to the M4 chip in the iPad Pro. Like the M4 chip, the listing shows the M5 chip has a 9-core CPU with three performance cores and six efficiency cores. As for graphics performance, the M5 chip appears to have up to a 36% faster GPU compared to the M4 chip, based on the Metal score shown.

The benchmark result also shows the iPad Pro with 256GB of storage will have 12GB of RAM, just like the iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. iPad Pro models with the M4 chip have only 8GB of RAM when equipped with 256GB of storage.

Unsurprisingly, the leaked iPad Pro is running iPadOS 26, and the Settings app reveals that the device's battery was manufactured in August 2025.

In addition to the M5 chip, the next iPad Pro is rumored to gain a second front camera, allowing you to easily use the device for video calls in both portrait and landscape orientations. The video does not seem to show a second front camera, but we shall see.

It is likely that Apple will announce the iPad Pro with the M5 chip in October.

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Did anyone notice like there is small amount of bezel reduction? On M5 iPad Pro bezels do look a tiny bit less, right?
 
MacUserFella said:
It’s insane how we went from “hey, look at this unreleased iPhone found in a bar” to “what’s up guys, today, I’m unboxing an iPad that Apple hasn’t even announced yet”
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Tim Cook's infamous doubling down on their leaks announcement all those years ago is proving mighty sus right now...
 
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