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Next iPad Pro to Have Two Key Features, But One Rumor Still Uncertain

whitby said:
Just what we need, even faster and probably more expensive iPads. I am not sure what people are doing, in general, with their iPads, but making them faster is not even on my radar for my use. But, I suppose, there must be people that need it or Apple would not have seen reason to do it. Must be the desire to run everything on one type of processor only and eliminate the need to make two types of M chip is the only reason I can deduce. Meanwhile, for me, my M1 powered iPads are more than fast enough. But that is me.
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But it’s the same with Macs. There is a spectrum, and on one end, there will be people who take full advantage of powerful Macs, while on the other, it simply means a slightly faster and longer-lasting machine. Same with iPads.

The difference with the iPad is that some people seem to be mad and want to publicly announce that they don’t have any skill/job/hobby that requires a powerful iPad. Which is okey. But I don’t see power iPad users saying that a maxed out MBP is useless because they don’t use Xcode or FCP.
 
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acblue94 said:
How do you know the exact specs if it hasn’t come out yet?
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It’s a rumor site. So I’m speculating like everyone else. But Apple usually does double the ram in the 1TB iPad Pro models, so I tend to believe the rumor that the 1TB M5 iPad Pros will get 24gb of ram while the base models will get the bump to 12gb.
Sheepish-Lord said:
You’re really trying to spend like $3K on a iPad? I hope you sell your art cause dang.
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I plan to buy the 1TB wifi 13” M5 iPad Pro without nano texture. If prices remain consistent with the M4 iPad Pros, that’d be $1,899. My 2018 iPad Pro has lasted me 7 years. I expect the M5 iPad Pro to last me just as long if not longer. To break that down for you, over 7 years, that’s equal to about $22 a month, or $5 a week… or only .75 cents a day! So yeah, as an artist, that is totally worth it to me. For less than the price of a cup of coffee a day, I get the best digital sketchbook on the planet. Even if i didn’t make any money with it, it’d be worth it for me. But I will probably make more with it in the first year to pay for it easily. Plus I can write it off on my taxes as a business expense. So it’s a no brainer. I also don’t own a computer anymore. The iPad Pro has replaced my laptop since 2018. So yeah, at $1,899 for a product that will last me almost a decade, it’s a real bargain. I will create thousands of art pieces with it. It will give me countless hours of enjoyment. And I will make $ with it. Not to mention that besides art, It’ll also be my main content consumption device. Movies look incredible on that OLED display. I will also surf the web on it, play games on it & write emails on it. Besides my iPhone 16 Pro Max, it’ll be my most used device for all things creative & social. Have I convinced you yet that it’s worth every penny for me? 😂
 
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Greenmeenie said:
It’s a rumor site. So I’m speculating like everyone else. But Apple usually does double the ram in the 1TB iPad Pro models, so I tend to believe the rumor that the 1TB M5 iPad Pros will get 24gb of ram while the base models will get the bump to 12gb.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's 12 GB and 16 GB. I mean, it's already like this with (some of) the M4 iPad Pros.

Teardowns have shown (some of) the M4 iPad Pros have 12 GB, with 4 GB deactivated.
 
EugW said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it's 12 GB and 16 GB. I mean, it's already like this with (some of) the M4 iPad Pros.

Teardowns have shown (some of) the M4 iPad Pros have 12 GB, with 4 GB deactivated.
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I believe the M4 iPad Pros are either 8gb of ram or 16gb of ram. So the 1 & 2TB models come with double the ram of the base models. If that holds true, then 24gb for the 1 & 2TB M5 models make more sense considering the base models will get 12gb. But i guess we’ll find out later this month.
 
AlexESP said:
But it’s the same with Macs. There is a spectrum, and on one end, there will be people who take full advantage of powerful Macs, while on the other, it simply means a slightly faster and longer-lasting machine. Same with iPads.

The difference with the iPad is that some people seem to be mad and want to publicly announce that they don’t have any skill/job/hobby that requires a powerful iPad. Which is okey. But I don’t see power iPad users saying that a maxed out MBP is useless because they don’t use Xcode or FCP.
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Future proofing an iPad by overspecing it makes even less sense than it does on the Mac side of things. I think it makes little sense in both cases due to the extreme pricing ladder that Apple operates with. So you're worse off trying to pull it off (you're often paying much more than you would upgrading when you've hit the limit of what your current device is capable of in your workflow).

On the iPad though, it is much weaker of a path largely due to the life of things on iPadOS and iOS. Whenever Apple cuts off support for the device, even if it is "Capable" of longer then that's it.There is no OpenCore Legacy Patcher for iPads...
 
Greenmeenie said:
I believe the M4 iPad Pros are either 8gb of ram or 16gb of ram. So the 1 & 2TB models come with double the ram of the base models. If that holds true, then 24gb for the 1 & 2TB M5 models make more sense considering the base models will get 12gb. But i guess we’ll find out later this month.
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What I was saying is some of the 8 GB M4 iPad Pros are actually 12 GB with 4 GB deactivated, as shown in teardowns.
 
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I couldn't care less about the cameras but thats just me.
Instead of ever faster processors in iPad Pro what I think would be truly useful along with more RAM is 2 Thunderbolt/USB-C ports.
 
Corpuscle said:
NO!!!!!! They are already small enough. Just why do you need smaller ones? I'm tired of unintentionally touching the active screen.
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I’m sure they could slim down the bezels more if they improved the accidental side finger & palm rejection technology. But from all indications, the bezels will remain the same size on theM5 iPad Pros. I just never want to see the bezels so thin that Apple uses a notch to hide the camera. That would suck on an ipad.
 
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Genelec8341 said:
I couldn't care less about the cameras but thats just me.
Instead of ever faster processors in iPad Pro what I think would be truly useful along with more RAM is 2 Thunderbolt/USB-C ports.
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It'd be a bonus, but I think a lot of people stopped caring (for now) when the iPad Pro got USB-C charging - via the Magic Keyboard - along with its USB 4 / Thunderbolt port. I do hope though that somewhere down the line it does get a second USB 4 / Thunderbolt port even if it's only via the Magic Keyboard. People then can use the Magic Keyboard to charge it and use an external monitor (see below) for example, while leaving the USB 4 / Thunderbolt port on the iPad Pro itself available for other uses.

In fact, that was my number 1 complaint about the 12" MacBook. It had only 1 USB-C port so it often wasn't easy to use a USB-C peripheral and charge it at the same time. The 12" MacBook actually had 2 ports, but one was a headphone jack, which I thought was stupid. You can turn a USB-C port into a headphone jack, but you can't turn a headphone jack into a charging port (iPod shuffle notwithstanding).

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It really shows how much Apple is penny pinching their products. Saving a penny to not include engraving.

Or offset it with a second lens. Which greatly shows how much margin they make. 1 ct lens.
 
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I also am also able to say with certainty "that within Apple" there is an iPad lying around with MacOS.
 
acblue94 said:
Larger screen. The iPads look dated with these huge bezels. My old IPad Air has smaller bezels.
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From Apple figures, original iPad air have bezels 2mm larger than the last iPad pro, but they may appears smaller due to the chamfer.
Only the iPad pro with 10.5’’ display have smaller bezels. And due to the chamfer the usable part of the bezels were very very small. Not a good design imho.
I am not against smaller bezels, but it has to come with better software to mitigate the drawbacks.
 
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whitby said:
Just what we need, even faster and probably more expensive iPads. I am not sure what people are doing, in general, with their iPads, but making them faster is not even on my radar for my use. But, I suppose, there must be people that need it or Apple would not have seen reason to do it. Must be the desire to run everything on one type of processor only and eliminate the need to make two types of M chip is the only reason I can deduce. Meanwhile, for me, my M1 powered iPads are more than fast enough. But that is me.
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Maybe processor update is to make it more power efficient and faster comes as a bonus?
 
whitby said:
Just what we need, even faster and probably more expensive iPads. I am not sure what people are doing, in general, with their iPads, but making them faster is not even on my radar for my use. But, I suppose, there must be people that need it or Apple would not have seen reason to do it. Must be the desire to run everything on one type of processor only and eliminate the need to make two types of M chip is the only reason I can deduce. Meanwhile, for me, my M1 powered iPads are more than fast enough. But that is me.
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As an example : on my M1 iPad pro, I had to deal with a mosaic of the moon that is approximately 100MP. The PNG is more than 350MB. And Photomator really struggled with the file.
 
acblue94 said:
Larger screen. The iPads look dated with these huge bezels. My old IPad Air has smaller bezels.
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What does that mean: "look dated". To me, computers aren't a fashion show. How do thinner bezels make something look "less dated". Seriously, you throw around this "dated" term without specifics or suggestions. Credibility Score: 0
 
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whitby said:
Just what we need, even faster and probably more expensive iPads. I am not sure what people are doing, in general, with their iPads, but making them faster is not even on my radar for my use. But, I suppose, there must be people that need it or Apple would not have seen reason to do it. Must be the desire to run everything on one type of processor only and eliminate the need to make two types of M chip is the only reason I can deduce. Meanwhile, for me, my M1 powered iPads are more than fast enough. But that is me.
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Ram will come into play if Apple enables a local AI agent to run home devices. For machine learning and graphics are the main reason.
 
mmWave 5G can return if they use the X80 modem, because it supports converged FR1+FR2 architecture and therefore doesn’t require the extra space the older modems did.
 
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