Ondrej Holzman The new iPad Pro looks like an enlarged iPad Air, but the engineers at Apple definitely didn't just take the original format and expand it. For example, the largest Apple tablet has significantly improved speakers and slightly different other components.
How to started selling the iPad Pro this week, get on it immediately the technicians reached out z iFixit, who regularly subject each new product to detailed dissection to find out what is new inside the machines.
Better speakers at the expense of a bigger battery
The truth is that at first glance the iPad Pro is really just bigger than the iPad Air 2, but there are several significant differences, the biggest of which is the new audio system with four speakers.
The iPad Pro has a speaker integrated into the unibody construction in each corner, and each is connected to a resonance chamber covered with a carbon fiber plate. Thanks to this, according to Apple, the iPad Pro is up to 61 percent louder than previous models, which is also helped by the foam that fills each chamber.
In addition, Apple has designed the system in such a way that it automatically recognizes how you hold the device, so that the two upper speakers always receive a higher frequency sound and the lower ones a lower one. So whether you hold iPad Pro in landscape, portrait or upside down, you'll always get the best audio experience.
Great care for the speakers and their improved system, however, took up a lot of space inside the iPad Pro. iFixit notes that without these speakers, the battery could have been up to half as long, and thus the duration of the device. Finally, the largest iPad could fit a battery with a capacity of 10 mAh. The iPad Air 307, by comparison, has 2 mAh, but also powers a much smaller display and is less powerful.
Computer performance
The performance of the iPad Pro is practically in the first place. The dual-core A9X chip is clocked at approximately 2,25 GHz and significantly beats all existing iPhones and iPads in stress tests. The iPad Pro is even more powerful than the 12-inch Retina MacBook, which features a dual-core Intel Core M processor from Intel clocked at 1,1 or 1,2 GHz.
The iPad Pro isn't enough for Microsoft's latest MacBook Air or Surface Pro 4, but it's nothing to be ashamed of. These products have the latest Intel Broadwell or Skylake chips.
Even more impressive is the GPU performance. The GFXBench OpenGL test showed that the A9X chip in the iPad Pro is faster than the integrated Intel Iris 5200 graphics in the latest 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro. In this respect, the iPad Pro also beats this year's MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and Surface Pro 4, and all other iPads.
In short, the iPad Pro represents a device with CPU performance at the level of MacBook Air and GPU performance at the level of MacBook Pro, so it is practically desktop performance, thanks to which it will not be a problem to run demanding applications such as AutoCAD on the tablet. This is also helped by 4 GB of RAM.
High Speed Lightning
Inside the iPad Pro are not only different speakers, but also a more powerful Lightning port that supports USB 3.0 speeds. This is quite significant news, as until now the Lightning port on iPads and iPhones has been able to transfer data at speeds of around 25 to 35 MB/s, which corresponds to the speed of USB 2.0.
USB 3.0 speeds are much higher, ranging from 60 to 625 MB/s. Due to the higher speeds, adapters are expected to arrive for the iPad Pro that will allow data to be transferred faster, but it is not yet clear when they will appear. It is not even clear whether Apple plans to sell Lightning cables that would support higher speeds, as current cables cannot transfer files faster than USB 2.0.
Balanced Apple Pencil
An interesting fact was also found regarding the Pencil, which, however, Unfortunately, it is not for sale yet. Since it is classically round, many were worried that the pencil would roll across the table. The engineers at Apple thought of this and equipped the pencil with a weight that ensures that the pencil always stops on the table. In addition, always with the inscription Pencil upwards.
At the same time was found, that the apple pencil is partially magnetic. Unlike Microsoft and its Surface 4, Apple didn't invent a way to attach the Pencil, but if you use the Smart Cover with the iPad Pro, the Pencil can be attached to the magnetic part of the iPad Pro when it's closed. Then you are less likely to leave your pencil somewhere.
it depends on the size. best tablet ever. touch him live and you won't resist. apple pencil is a salvation for us creative people.
I'm probably a fool (as always), but in Apple stores, you can already see the iPad Pro with Pencil in CR?
I tried it on Saturday, but in Munich. I tested in their installed ProCreare for only about 3 minutes (it was Stau) and that decided it, unfortunately it was not available for purchase yet.
May I ask what experience you have with the iPad, what have you been creating? How does Pencil feel?
Really, the performance (mainly graphics) is incredible. As I have defended tablets so far, this is a really great piece of hardware. As long as there is a fixed keyboard that would ideally serve as a cover and it could be clicked into it somehow, I would probably buy it instead of a laptop.
The keyboard is sold directly from Apple. At the same time, it also serves as a cover.
http://www.apple.com/smart-keyboard/
I don't want that ala surface keyboard right now. He's not going to put a tablet on his knees like a couch. I would like something solid, preferably with a battery. It doesn't matter that it weighs a kilo and a half. I believe the accessory manufacturers will come up with something.
I think that this should be put on the knees and in total it really has almost a kilo and a half. And that discourages me again. I would like such a keyboard, provided that the software one does not take up as much of the display as on the iPad Air and, above all, it has all the necessary keys for creating documents. It is still not possible to create a proper text document with fixed spaces after prepositions on the iPad Air, and without that it is still just a better notepad, without the ambition to create even just letters, let alone business documents, school work, etc. And that is a real shame - they can do it laptops at a fraction of the price.
I can't find anywhere the information that was talked about in the summer that the iPad Pro will contain an NFC chip that will allow it to be used as an Apple Pay terminal for receiving payments.
Do you have any idea if this is really the case? Can it be verified somehow?