From a next-gen chip to the thinnest form factor yet, let’s break down the top features.
After a two-year hiatus, lots of hardware speculation, and a steady trickle of information regarding upcoming features, we finally know what Apple’s new lineup of 2024 iPad Pro tablets has to offer. And it’s looking great, especially for creators.
Apple unveiled its 2024 iPad Pro models on Tuesday at its «Let Loose» event, flaunting new 11-inch and 13-inch tablets with a host of upgrades, including some impressive OLED screens with the new Ultra Retina XDR display, a thinner, lighter form factor, powerful new M4 processors, a big upgrade to the Apple Pencil, and several overhauls of creative apps made specifically for the iPad Pro.
This is the first time an OLED display has appeared on an iPad, and it comes to the tablets along with some brand-new features. Apple debuted its Ultra Retina XDR technology for both iPad Pro sizes and uses an architecture called «tandem OLED,» which stacks two panels on top of one another, combining the light from both.
This results in a max brightness of 1,000 nits for SDR and HDR content and an impressively blinding 1,600 nits for HDR. The display comes in an optional recycled glass screen layering etched to the nanometer scale that scatters ambient light for use even in very bright conditions, such as outdoors.
The new iPad Pros are very thin, just 5.3mm for the 11-inch model, and 5.1mm for the 13-inch model, making them Apple’s thinnest product ever made.
