5 Interesting Things You May Not Have Known About The New M2 iPad Pro
The second is the most mysterious
Quite expectedly, Apple unveiled new products yesterday afternoon. However, the unveiling didn’t take the traditional form of a conference but only via a press release, which means that the new products aren’t groundbreaking enough to warrant a conference dedicated to them.
Specifically, we saw the new iPad Pro, the 10th generation iPad and the new 3rd generation Apple TV 4K. But if we said the new products were no different from the original ones, we’d be lying. So in this article, we’ll look together at five things you might not have known about the new iPad Pro.
The markings on the back
If you’ve ever held an iPad Pro in your hand, you may have noticed that it only says iPad on its back at the bottom. To the uninitiated, you might think it’s a regular iPad, which isn’t true, as it’s precisely the opposite. It is not only for this reason that Apple has decided to finally change the markings on the back of the new iPad Pro. Specifically, this means that instead of the iPad designation, we will now find the full iPad Pro designation, so it will be immediately apparent to everyone what they are dealing with.
Wireless interfaces and SIM
With the new iPad Pro, among other things, we’ve seen an update to the wireless interfaces. Specifically, this brings Wi-Fi 6E support, and it’s the first ever Apple product to do so — not even the latest 14 iPhones (Pro) offer it. In addition, we’ve also seen an update to Bluetooth to version 5.3.
Besides, it’s important to note that despite removing the SIM card slot on the iPhone 14 (Pro) in the United States, the same decision hasn’t been made for the iPad Pro. You can still connect to the mobile network using either a physical Nano-SIM or a modern eSIM. Another interesting fact is that the new iPad Pro has stopped supporting GSM/EDGE, so the classic “two-Go” will no longer work on it.
Different operating memory
Many Apple fans don’t know this, but in terms of RAM, the iPad Pro comes in two configurations based on which storage capacity you reach for. If you get an iPad Pro with 128GB, 256GB or 512GB storage, you automatically get 8GB of RAM, and if you reach for 1TB or 2TB storage, you automatically get 16GB of RAM.
This means that users can’t choose their combination, i.e., perhaps smaller storage and more RAM (or vice versa), as is the case with Macs, for example. This “split” is encountered in both the previous generation and the new one, so nothing has changed. Anyway, I think it is important to make this point.
ProRes support
One of the major new features that the new iPad Pro comes with definitely supports the ProRes format. Specifically, the new iPad Pro is capable of hardware acceleration of not only H.264 and HEVC codecs but also ProRes and ProRes RAW. In addition, there is also an engine for encoding and transcoding both classic video and ProRes format.
It’s worth mentioning that the new iPad Pro can process ProRes and capture it, specifically using the wide-angle camera up to 4K resolution at 30 FPS or 1080p resolution at 30 FPS if you get the basic version with 128 GB storage capacity.
M2 chip features
Another huge change with the new iPad Pro is the new chip. While the previous generation boasted “just” the M1 chip, the new one already has the M2 chip we know from the MacBook Air and 13″ MacBook Pro. As you know, with Apple computers with M2, you can choose whether you want a configuration with 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores or 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores.
With the new iPad Pro, however, Apple doesn’t give you any choice and specifically has a better version of the M2 chip, which offers 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores. In a way, you could say that this makes the iPad Pro more powerful than the base MacBook Air and 13″ Pro. In addition, the M2 boasts 16 Neural Engine cores and 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Final thoughts
The Apple iPad Pro with M2 sounds interesting. Still, the question, at least for me, is whether users will be able to take advantage of the new chipset at all because already with the Macbook Air with M2 and the Macbook Pro with M2, we’ve seen that the new chipset has a problem with thermal throttling if we load it more due to the higher power.
Another thing I can think of is due to the presence of an XDR display, it would be great to be able to edit video on the iPad fully, but apple still hasn’t come up with it. As for the upcoming stage manager, even that doesn’t seem polished enough to improve multitasking significantly.
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