This week, Apple revealed a redesigned and refreshed iPad Pro, its top-of-the-line tablet. It improved its record of listening to customer complaints by seemingly resolving a handful of shortcomings from the 2022 version of the Pro. It’s much lighter and much thinner, for one. There’s a centered selfie camera that adds premium upgrades like a “Tandem OLED” screen. It works with a new squeezable Apple Pencil Pro and MacBook-like Magic Keyboard. Its highlight, though, is the M4 chip inside it, marking the first time Apple has debuted its latest computer-grade silicon on a tablet.
On paper, the iPad Pro’s M4 silicon is a workhorse. Apple says its ten-core CPU is 50 percent faster than the M2 found in the previous-gen iPad Pro (the Pro skipped the M3 chip altogether) while consuming only half the power. The 10-core GPU will lead to nearly four times faster performance in graphics-intensive activities like running professional-grade rendering apps.
