Let’s be real: an M2 iPad Pro would make no sense

Take it from a 2021 M1 iPad Pro owner — here are all the reasons why

Kostas Farkonas
Geek Culture

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Apple is supposedly preparing a new iPad Pro even more powerful than the current M1-based one. The question is… what for? (Image: Daniel Korpai, Unsplash)

The Apple rumor mill never stops turning, it seems, so speculation about the company’s upcoming products is almost constantly making the rounds on the Web. There’s one subject, in particular, that seems to be getting more attention than others regarding those products these days, even more than the iPhone 14, and that is the next iPad Pro. Apple had surprised everyone back in March 2021 when it unveiled the first iPad Pro based on its M1 architecture — typically used in desktop and laptop Macs — and, if company tradition is anything to go by, a new model will be released at some point during 2022 (there’s typically a new Pro model every 14 to 18 months). That’s not news in and of itself, of course, but this is: the new iPad Pro is said to be the first portable device sporting Apple’s next computer processor.

This would be the M2, obviously: the M1 seems to have almost reached the end of the road with the recent Mac Studio. There’s still the Mac Pro left to be unveiled — but if it does offer an even more powerful version of the M1 (as it should be) it will probably be a “double Ultra” one, just as the Ultra is a “double Max” in the case of Mac Studio. The M2 is based on the same architecture, but it will be built on TSMC’s…

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Kostas Farkonas
Geek Culture

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