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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Dallin Grimm

M4 iPad Pros with 8GB of RAM may actually have 12GB — teardowns reveal possible Apple hijinks

IFixit teardown showing the M4 chip and RAM modules on the iPad Pro 13.

Apple's newest iPad Pro 13 may be cutting consumers short, with 12GB onboard RAM being artificially limited to 8GB. MacRumors forum user layerstack posted their detective work, seeking to independently verify the listed RAM capacities of Apple's newest iPad Pro lineup.

Apple's newest M4 iPad Pro 13 releases with two models, a 256GB/512GB storage model with a 9-core CPU and 8GB of RAM or a 1TB/2TB storage variant with the flagship 10-core CPU and 16GB of RAM. With teardown videos and blogs finally releasing, revealing the iPad's shiny new M4 silicon, internet sleuths are investigating every revealed inch of these machines. 

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