As rumors predicted, the new lineup of products táo bị cắn revealed at its late October sự kiện included a newly redesigned i
Pad Pro 2018. But how does the refreshed tablet stack up compared to last year’s model?


Here’s a quick-and-dirty comparison in case you’re debating whether khổng lồ rush out và buy the new mã sản phẩm or if the older, cheaper one will meet your needs. Spoiler: you might miss out on some cool new features that"ll improve your chất lượng of life.

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i
Pad Pro 2017 design và colors

Design

The new i
Pad Pro 2018 comes in 11-inch & 12.9-inch screen models, but don’t mistake that for the same dimensions. Thanks lớn vastly reduced bezels, these tablets are actually smaller than last year’s versions overall, with 5.9mm thickness (down from 6.1mm) & other reductions amounting lớn 25% less volume.


But the most obvious redesign is the frame. Gone is the rounded metallic back, replaced with flat-sided metal that looks very much like the i
Phone 4’s squared-off appearance. (This is important for another new feature that we’ll cảm biến on later.)


i
Pad Pro 2018 comes in silver và space gray. Last year’s model comes in those colors along with gold and rose gold, naturally.



Display

The 11-inch i
Pad Pro 2018 mã sản phẩm has a 2388 x 1668 display while the 12.9-inch one has a 2732 x 2048 screen, both at 264 pixels-per-inch density. This is the same as last year’s model, so don’t expect much disparity there.

The i
Pad Pro 2018 has what táo khuyết calls a ‘liquid retina display,’ which is a fancy way of saying “very nice LCD screen.” We first saw this in the i
Phone XR, & while it’s not as crisp as an OLED display, it should be fine.

Aside from reduced bezels, there’s something else missing from the i
Pad Pro 2018 screen: the old model’s trang chủ button, which also contained its fingerprint sensor. With that gone, the new tablet relies on facial recognition via Face ID khổng lồ unlock the device.

If you relied on the fingerprint sensor to verify your identity within apps, it’s worth checking out whether they also work with Face ID. If not, you might need to stick with the older i
Pad Pro.

But getting rid of the home button is a bigger giảm giá than you might realize. Without it, navigation around the i
Pad Pro 2018 is done entirely through gestures, including some new ones imported from the buttonless i
Phones. If that’s too odd or cumbersome, stick with the old i
Pad Pro.



Camera

The i
Pad Pro 2018 retains its predecessor’s 12MP f/1.8 rear camera, which can shoot 4K video at 60fps or slow-mo in 720p at 240fps.

Nestled in the vị trí cao nhất of the display (or side, or bottom, depending on if you’ve rotated it: the new i
Pad Pro now rotates freely khổng lồ orient right-side up at all times) is the front-facing camera, which is still 7MP at f/2.2. But now the Pro has the True
Depth suite of sensors featured in the i
Phone X and XS lines.

That means, you guessed it, Portrait mode (and Animoji, and Memoji) is go for takeoff. Which is an incredible feature if you’re brave enough to take fancy selfies with a tablet. You’re forgiven if this selling point doesn’t enter your purchasing calculus, but any technological progress is good progress, we suppose.

Otherwise, the software got a couple tweaks, including some interesting AR capabilities through the new Neural Engine included in the i
Pad Pro 2018 processor.



Performance

The i
Pad Pro 2018 is powered by the new octa-core A12X Bionic chip (split between four performance và four efficiency cores) with a Neural Engine. Apple claims it delivers 2x faster graphics than its predecessor, and on stage, a digital artist breezed through manipulating an enormous 3GB (over 15,000 x 15,0000-pixel) photo without a hint of processing lag.

Like the A12 Bionic cpu appearing in the i
Phone XS, XS Max & XR that it’s based on, the A12X is a 7nm chip. It looks to lớn be the first cpu of that size to appear on a tablet, which, at this point, is bragging rights (and the potential for better performance).

Last year’s i
Pad Pro, on the other hand, has a hexa-core A10X Fusion chip (the immediate predecessor to lớn the A12X, since táo didn’t make an A11X).

Until we take the i
Pad Pro 2018 for a proper spin, it’s unclear just how much faster the new model is over the old. Predictably, táo apple has its own highly-quotable bragging points, like that the A12X has 10 billion transistors, its 7-core GPU can manage 5 trillion operations per second, & so on.

Apple claims the i
Pad Pro 2018 manages up to lớn 10 hours of battery life, though we won’t know how for sure until we put the tablet through its paces. That should match the old model’s longevity.

In terms of storage, the new i
Pad Pro 2018 has the edge, coming in the same 64GB, 256GB and 512GB storage options as its predecessor – as well as the new 1TB tier. Packing that much space in an táo apple tablet will cost you dearly, however, doubling the base-level $799 pricetag for an 11-inch 64GB Wi-Fi up to lớn a staggering $1,549 for a full terabyte of space.



Odds and ends

If you’re bummed by the i
Pad Pro 2018’s switch lớn a flat-sided look, it has one big benefit. The new version of the táo apple Pencil magnetically snaps lớn the side of the tablet & automatically starts charging and syncing.

Otherwise, there’s a couple đáng yêu new tricks up the i
Pad Pro’s sleeve. First, say goodbye lớn Lightning, as the new tablet now has a USB-C port. Yup, your existing táo apple tablet plugs are, once again, obsolete.

That’s a bummer for folks who’ve invested in the old cable standard, but it enables the i
Pad Pro 2018 to lớn more easily link up to lớn accessories or to lớn an external monitor for use as a secondary screen. Even better: you can connect the tablet khổng lồ an i
Phone and the latter will start charging off the i
Pad Pro’s battery.

As a newer device, the i
Pad Pro 2018 is understandably compatible with more advanced connectivity standards, including bluetooth không dây 5.0 tech (last year’s has bluetooth 4.2) và up lớn 29 bands of Gigabit-class LTE (compared to the 25 bands in last year’s model). The new model can tap into Galileo and QZSS positioning systems in addition lớn GPS and GLONASS. The only thing the new model gives up? CDMA capability in its LTE versions.


Price & availability

If you want the new i
Pad Pro 2018, you’re going khổng lồ have to pay a bit more for it than last year’s model. It’s available starting at $799 (£769, AU$1,229) for the 64GB Wi
Fi-only 11-inch and $999 (£969, AU$1,529) for the equivalent base-level 12.9-inch.

That maxes out at $1,549 (£1,519 / AU$2,349) for a 1TB Wi
Fi-only 11-inch model and $1,749 (£1,719, AU$2,649) for a 1TB Wi
Fi-only 12.9-inch model, though you should expect khổng lồ tack on around $150 if you want an LTE-connected tablet. Pre-orders are mở cửa now và the tablets will be available on November 7th.

You can still get the 10.5-inch i
Pad Pro 2017 for its original price of $649 (£619, AU$979). Sorry, no discount for waiting til the new models arrived, but you might get lucky with black Friday or other seasonal holiday deals as retailers try khổng lồ offload their inventories of old i
Pad Pros.


Takeaway

The i
Pad Pro 2018 has a new chip and a slick casing redesign that enables some cool interactivity with the revamped apple Pencil, which will suit some professionals nicely.

But the price bump on an already-pricey secondary device lớn $799 minimum is hard lớn stomach. At that price point, should you just buy a decently-specced laptop?

It’s hard lớn advocate for an expensive performance tablet, but if that’s your bag, you’ve never had it so good. The Face ID expands the screen real estate nearly to lớn the edges & the USB-C connectivity means you’ll be able lớn directly liên kết up lớn far more devices.

Whether that justifies a spending the equivalent price of a new computer on this tablet is entirely up lớn you (and your wallet).

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