Apple brings M2 to iPad Pro alongside Wi-Fi 6E - AppleInsider

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11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Magic Keyboards

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Apple has launched its refresh of the iPad Pro lineup, with the upgrade to the M2 spot adding Wi-Fi 6E enactment but not mini LED for the 11-inch model.

Announced arsenic portion of Apple's October peculiar event, the updated iPad Pro scope is mostly an interior spec bump, with the main alteration to the premium tablets being the displacement implicit from utilizing the M1 spot to the M2.

The spot that has already been released successful the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro was an expected summation to the iPad Pro models. Along with the 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, the spot brings with it the Media Engine, accelerating video encoding and decoding tasks.

The models inactive see either 8GB oregon 16GB of memory, depending connected retention capacity. Storage continues to commencement from 128GB and rises done 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB to a maximum of 2TB.

One missing alteration is an update to the 11-inch iPad Pro display. While the 12.9-inch iPad Pro continues to usage the Liquid Retina XDR Display with mini-LED backlighting, the alteration hasn't introduced it to the smaller model.

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro and the 11-inch iPad Pro for 2022.

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro and the 11-inch iPad Pro for 2022.

The screens person 2,388 by 1,668 and 2,732 by 2,048-pixel resolutions respectively, and person enactment for ProMotion, Wide Color (P3), and True Tone. The second-generation Apple Pencil 2 is inactive supported by some tablets, but Apple present boasts the quality to observe the stylus extremity up to 12mm distant from the display.

Around the back, the camera strategy consists of 2 sensors, with a 12MP Wide accompanied by a 10MP Ultra Wide version. A 2x optical zoom retired with a 5x integer zoom is offered, on with a True Tone flash, and LiDAR for extent mapping applications.

The beforehand TrueDepth camera sports a 12-megapixel Ultra Wide camera, on with its accustomed extent mapping capabilities that it uses for Face ID, Animoji and Memoji, and Portrait mode shots.

The rear cameras tin seizure 4K footage astatine 60fps, implicit with cinematic video stabilization, and a 240fps 1080p slo-mo mode. The TrueDepth camera tin negociate 1080p 60fps video with cinematic video stabilization.

For connectivity, Apple has upgraded the Wi-Fi to present enactment Wi-Fi 6E, enabling much bandwidth connected networks supporting the standard. It has besides been updated from Bluetooth 5.0 to Bluetooth 5.3, with continued options to upgrade to a Cellular exemplary with 5G enactment successful some sub-6GHz and mmWave varieties.

While the iPhone 14 is moving distant from carnal SIM cards, they're sticking astir for a portion connected the iPad Pro. The cellular exemplary successful the U.S. has some eSIM and nano-SIM support.

The 11-inch iPad Pro starts from $799 for the Wi-Fi model, $999 for Wi-Fi + Cellular, portion the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is priced from $1,099 and $1,299 respectively.

Pre-orders unfastened today, with availability from October 26.

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