It’s time folks, the splendid iPad Air is getting an older beefier sibling. It’s everything you loved about the iPads of yore, just bigger and badder. Meet the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
The iPad Pro has a 12.9-inch retina display, which is considerably larger than the 9.7-incher on the competition. This is a big screen, which puts it more in laptop territory than a traditional tablet. As Phil Schiller pointed out today, you can use a full-size software keyboard on it. Or as Schiller suggested, play a keyboard. Synth jam on the iPad, woo woo!
That display looks positively gorgeous: Its 2732×2048 pixels adds up to 5.9 million pixels, which is more pixels than the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
Under the hood, the iPad Pro is running a new A9x processor, which is apparently 1.8 times faster than its predecessor the A8X. According to Schiller this tablet is 80 per cent faster than other portable PCs.
The new design obviously gives the design space for a four speaker design. The audio of the speaker automatically changes depending on how hold the device.
For the much larger design, Apple’s introducing two new accessories: Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
More: Apple’s New Smart Keyboard Turns The iPad Pro Into A Surface Clone
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