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 The iPad Pro and iPad Air models that Apple introduced today continue to offer the same 10 hours of battery life that Apple has advertised with iPads for years now, despite the addition of new, more efficient chips.
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 There are two notable design changes for the new iPad Pro models introduced today: they are the thinnest Apple products ever released, and they are available in a new Space Black finish that debuted on the MacBook Pro last year.
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Apple refreshed its iPads in a major way today with new launches in both the iPad Pro and iPad Air lineups. Both have significant hardware updates, but somehow the iPad Pro now weighs less than all of its Air equivalents.
The 11-inch iPad Pro is 0.98 pounds (444 grams for the Wi-Fi model and 446 grams with cellular), while the same size version of the iPad Air is 1.02 pounds (462 grams with no difference between the Wi-Fi and cellular models).
The weight difference is more evident in the 13-inch tablets — the iPad Air comes in that size for the first time. The 13-inch iPad Pro starts at 1.28 pounds (or 579 grams) for the Wi-Fi model, with the cellular version coming in three grams heavier. Meanwhile, though the Wi-Fi and LTE variants of the 13-inch iPad Air are only one gram apart, they both weigh 1.36 pounds, which is noticeably heavier than the iPad Pro.
Apple says the latest iPad Pro is the thinnest product it has made, with a switch to dual OLED panels helping make the tablet more slender than ever. On the flip side, that makes the name of the iPad Air a little janky at this point.
Sure, it's just a name and it doesn't matter that much. But at 1.03 pounds, the original Air was nearly half a pound lighter than the iPad 4. The latest model is essentially the same weight, but it's now heavier and chonkier than the iPad Pro, making Apple's premium tablets literally lighter tha
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Amid a backdrop of spring birds chirping away the morning, Apple announced a bevy of updates to its iPad lineup in a streamed presentation. The company has launched a new family of iPad Airs with an updated processor and double the storage, plus two new iPad Pros with MacBook-level specifications, including the debut…
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 Apple today seeded the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the fourth betas.
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Another Apple event is in the books and, as expected, the Let Loose showcase was all about iPad. We now have our first Apple device powered by an M4 chip in the iPad Pro, with the company surprisingly choosing to debut it there rather than in a Mac. There's also an upgraded iPad Air that's available in two sizes: 11 inches and 13 inches.
There are some accessory updates too, which isn't a big shock given that an Apple Pencil was prominent in the event's teaser image. So, without further ado, here's a rundown of everything Apple announced at its blessedly brief Let Loose event.
iPad Pro
It had been expected for a while that any updated iPad Pro would have an M3 chip, but Apple decided to upend the expectations of many by instead slotting the brand new M4 into its highest-end tablet. Apple says the new device delivers 50 percent faster performance than the M2 iPad Pro.
Rendering performance is said to be four times faster than on the M2 Pro as well. For the first time on an iPad, Apple is bringing support for dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing and hardware-accelerated mesh shading to the Pro with the M4.
There are some power efficiencies here too. Apple says the M4 can deliver the same performance as an M2 using half the power. So, if you're using the tablet for tasks that aren't too strenuous, it stands to reason that th
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The new iPads are finally here. Apple has announced four new entries in its tablet lineup, including two revamped iPad Pros with OLED screens and an all-new M4 chip, a refreshed iPad Air with an M2 chip and a new larger Air model with a 13-inch display. Along with the new slates, the company also unveiled a new Apple Pencil Pro stylus with haptic feedback support and an updated Magic Keyboard with a more MacBook-like design. The updates come more than a year and a half after the company last unveiled new iPads in October 2022.
All of the new gear is available for pre-order today at Apple's online store and will be fully available on May 15. We plan to put everything through its paces in the coming days, but if you're already 100 percent sure that you want to upgrade, we'll quickly break down what's new and lay out your current purchasing options below. Here's what to know about pre-ordering the new iPad Air, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard.
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It's been a while since we've had an update on Blade Runner 2099, the sequel series heading to Amazon Prime Video. The cast list is starting to take shape, as Oscar-winner and all-around icon Michelle Yeoh is set to play a lead role, as reported by Variety.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Variety has a source that says Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, who has been described as a replicant near the end of her life. That's pretty much all we know about the story, aside from the fact that it's set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049. This is likely due to the fact that we'll be nowhere near the level of tech shown in that film when we actually hit the year 2049. The original Blade Runner, after all, was set in 2019.
Franchise creator Ridley Scott is involved in some capacity, but not as showrunner. That duty falls to TV writer Silka Luisa, who recently ran the Apple TV adaptation of the book Shining Girls. The show was great, so color me optimistic.
As for Yeoh, what more can be said? She won a long-deserved Oscar for her work in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and has been involved with classic films lik
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Weirdly, Apple launched the new M4 chip inside the Apple iPad Pro, which will cost anywhere from $999 to a whopping $1,499. We assume that it will appear in an even more expensive Mac a bit later.
Macworld has a deep dive on the new Apple M4, which includes four performance cores, six efficiency cores and a 10-core GPU. (The GPU is the same as the existing M3.) In addition, there's a new Neural Engine, the Apple NPU which executives say delivers 38 trillion operations per second (TOPS) from 16 cores.
As you may be aware, AI is hot right now. And chip manufacturers have been feverishly measuring their AI TOPS performance compared to one another. Tim Millet, Apple vice president of platform architecture, claimed Tuesday that the M4 is "more powerful than any neural processing unit in any PC today."
And that's true. For right now.
Unfortunately, Qualcomm executives are already on record claiming that their Snapdragon X Elite's NPU delivers 45 TOPS. And while PCs with the Snapdragon X Elite inside them have yet to ship, they're expected to be announced in as little as two weeks, in a launch event on May 20. There, Microsoft is expected to show off the Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Snapdragon X Elite chips inside them. Asus, mean
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 We've long anticipated this new OLED iPad Pro, growing almost bored with the wait, and yet the new tablet announcement was weighty enough that it still managed to leave us winded. Sure, the updated iPad Air with M2 and a 13-inch variation would be par for the course for Apple's standard refreshes, but the iPad Pro now…
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The M4 is made on an enhanced 3nm process and contains over 28 billion transistors and has the following advanced features in the iPad Pro:
Up to 4 high-performance CPU cores with improved branch prediction and wider decode and execution engines.
6 high-efficiency CPU cores with improved branch prediction and a deeper execution engine.
10-core GPU built on the same architecture as M3, with dynamic caching, mesh shaders, and ray tracing acceleration.
16-core Neural Engine delivering over 38 trillion operations per second.
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 The wait is finally over. Apple just announced two brand-new iPad Pros—an 11-inch and a 13-inch model—at its Let Loose event today, confirming our months-long speculation about them. The event also revealed two new 11 and 13-inch iPad Air models.
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 Apple today unveiled the M4 chip, its newest system on a chip for the 2024 iPad Pro lineup.
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If you're in the market for a new set of AirPods these discounts should have something for everyone.
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Apple is adding a bunch of new titles to its Arcade video game subscription service next month, including Return to Monkey Island. It's the first new entry in the franchise by series creator Ron Gilbert since Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, which was released way back in 1991. The game still revolves around the pirate Guybrush Threepwood who's on a journey to unearth the secret of Monkey Island. You'll see some familiar locations from the older games in the new title, which also features Threepwood's wife Elaine Marley and his arch-enemy, the zombie pirate LeChuck. Return to Monkey Island is already available on the App Store, but it's coming to Apple Arcade on June 6 where subscribers can access the whole game, including the in-app purchases non-subscribers would have to buy.
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 At some point in the last 24 hours, Siri on the HomePod and the HomePod mini seems to have forgotten how to relay the time. When asking ?Siri? "what time is it?" ?Siri? is unable to answer and directs users to the iPhone.
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In yet another illustration of just how devious criminals have become in their attempts to undermine security, Jamf Threat Labs has identified a potential tampering technique that puts a device into Fake Lockdown Mode.
As most people know, Lockdown Mode is an extreme protection feature for iPhone designed to protect the kind of high-value targets some of the nastiestsurveillance and state-sponsored attackers aim for.
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