At the recently held event in San Francisco Apple unveiled the new iPad pro along with a bunch of other products, Tim Cook the current Apple CEO started the presentation by saying “Today we have the biggest news in iPad since the iPad,”.
The screen is humongous coming in at 12.9 inches, to give you an idea about the size the length of the original iPad is the breadth of the iPad Pro. The resolution which the monster support comes in at 2,732 x 2,048 pixels. Apple also claims that the iPad pro is so big that the on screen keyboard is full size just like the laptops made by Apple.
Under the hood is Apple’s very own and brand new chipset i.e. the A9X, which is an upgrade over the yesteryears A8X used in the iPad air 2. The memory bandwidth management is twice of the A8X. Apple also claims it’s faster than 80 percent of “portable PCs” sold in the past 6 months. Apple won’t officially disclose the amount of RAM the iPad Pro has but according to some sources the iPad Pro has 4 GB of RAM while few others speculate it has about 2 GB of RAM. All a consumer should be concerned about is that Apple has optimized the new iOS to run buttery smooth on all the new devices.
The iPad pro is super thin at 6.9 mm and super light weighing in at only 725 grams which is feather light for a device of this caliber. Touch ID is present as it should be, the cameras also come in at 8 MP for the rear and 1.2 MP for the front facing face time camera. silver, gold and space gray are the colors the iPad Pro will be available in and it’s also claimed to have a battery which will last for 10 hours on a single charge.
There are 4 speakers that are built into the new iPad Pro which will give extremely immersive sound experience while watching a movie or working on anything related to audio it also balances stereo and frequencies depending on how one holds it.
The iPad Pro will start at $799. That’s for a 32GB WiFi model. The 128GB WiFi model will cost $949, while the LTE 128GB model costs $1,079.
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