racinggamenft| A summary of the article on Apple's "Let's Fly" special event: M4 chip supports the strongest iPad Pro in history

May 7th in the evening 22Racinggamenft: 00RacinggamenftThe Apple "release Bar" special event was held as scheduled.

Similar to the Mac press conference held at the end of October last year, the event was quick and lasted only more than half an hour.

Previously, according to the hint of Apple's official website Logo and a number of whistleblowers, the new lineup of this special event will focus on the iPad product line.

Sure enough, Apple brought new iPad Air, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro and M4 chips.

Cook said that iPad has reached another milestone since its inception.

Next, let's take a look at this wave of new Apple products.

One iPad Air

At this Apple special event, the first person to debut is the new iPad Air.

Compared with previous generations, the most significant change is the introduction of two sizes for the first time-the redesigned 11-inch model and the eye-catching new 13-inch model.

Both sizes are equipped with Liquid Retina displays, and Apple says the larger size makes it easier to operate while working and studying, as well as more immersive audio-visual entertainment.

In terms of design, the new iPad Air is basically the same as the previous generation, with a four-sided full screen on the front and a single camera on the back.

The fuselage is made of 100% recycled aluminum and provides four colors: blue, purple, starry gray and deep space gray.

In terms of performance, it is equipped with an Apple M2 chip, an 8-core CPU (including 4 high-performance cores and 4 energy-efficient cores) and a 10-core GPU.

In terms of storage, 64GB is gone forever, and the new iPad Air has been upgraded to 128GB, providing four storage combinations: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB.

In terms of price, the Bank of China price is now available: the 11-inch version starts at 4799 yuan and the 13-inch version starts at 6499 yuan.

The price of WLAN + cellular network version is 1000 yuan higher than that of wireless LAN version.

Powerful M2 chip + 13-inch screen, although two bright spots are mentioned, the new iPad Air still does not deserve to have ProMotion.Racinggamenft.

Apple's rating is as strict as ever, and the 60Hz line is insurmountable.

II. IPad Pro

The new iPad Air was followed by the new iPad Pro.

Apple says the new iPad Pro has an amazing new design, a groundbreaking new display, majestic performance and excellent accessories.

In terms of design, the new iPad Pro is also available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, available in silver and dark gray, and the shell is made of 100% recycled aluminum.

Among them, the thickness of 11 inches is 5.3mm, the weight is 445g, the thickness of 13 inches is 5.1mm, the weight is 580g.

The reason why the new iPad Pro can reduce the body, thanks to the use of OLED panels.

This OLED panel has a lot of history, for a new double-layer series OLED structure, the global highest brightness 1000nit, HDR content local excitation brightness 1600nit.

Apple said a single OLED panel could not generate enough brightness for the XDR, so it developed a tandem OLED. In addition, the new machine can also choose nano-textured glass to empower scenes such as painting.

In terms of performance, the new iPad Pro is equipped with M4 chip, which is unexpected to many people, which means skipping M3 directly.

Based on the second-generation 3nm process, the M4 integrates a total of 28 billion transistors and is equipped with a new display engine.

Specifically, the M4 CPU part has 10 cores, 4 performance cores + 6 energy efficiency cores, which is said to be 50% higher than M2. 、

GPU also has 10 cores, and officials say it brings dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading and raytracing to iPad for the first time.

Its overall rendering performance is 4 times higher than that of M2, and when the power consumption is halved, it can provide the same performance as M2.

Compared with lightweight laptops, the M4 is still better, claiming to achieve the same performance at 1/4 power consumption.

In addition, the M4 has built-in the most advanced media processing engine that iPad has so far, which supports AV1 decoding and enables a high-resolution streaming service video playback experience with higher energy efficiency.

It also has Apple's most powerful neural network engine to date, which can perform up to 38 trillion operations per second, up to 60 times faster than the first neural network engine used in the A11.

It is commendable that Apple also attaches importance to heat dissipation, the back cover is equipped with graphite heat dissipation material, while the use of copper material in Apple logo, so that the heat dissipation performance is improved by 20%.

All in all, according to Apple, the overall performance of the new iPad Pro is four times faster than the previous generation and 10 times faster than the original.

Although WWDC24 hasn't arrived yet, Apple has introduced a little bit of iPadOS's new features, with iPad versions of Final Cut Pro 2 and Logic Pro 2 apps.

Although image power is not the focus of iPad Pro, Apple has also upgraded.

Equipped with a 1200-megapixel rear camera, support for ProRes video recording and Smart HDR 4, and a new adaptive original color flash to further improve document scanning.

In terms of interface, it is equipped with a high-performance USB-C port supporting Leili 3 and USB 4, which can provide high-speed wired connections up to 40 Gb / s.

In terms of accessories, Apple has arranged an upgraded magic control keyboard.

Despite the fact that the design is basically the same as that of the old model, the upgrade is lighter and has a new row of 14 function keys to support a smaller opening and closing angle; with an aluminum palmrest and a touchpad with tactile feedback, Apple says "the whole experience is like using an MacBook."

In terms of price, the storage capacity of the new iPad Pro has been increased to 256GB, starting at 8999 yuan for the 11-inch version and 11499 yuan for the 13-inch version.

And the 11-inch model sells for 2399 yuan and the 13-inch model sells for 2799 yuan.

However, it has been verified that Apple still used the knife, and there are two versions of the M4 chip.

256GB and 512GB store M4 and 8GB memory for 9-core CPUs; 1TB and 2TB store M4 and 16GB memory for 10-core CPUs.

Three Apple Pencil Pro

Apple also brought Apple Pencil Pro in the process of introducing the new iPad Pro.

This stylus is equipped with a brand new sensor and a tactile engine that allows users to call up gadgets and search functions through pressure. It also supports third-party application extensions and can also be used with iPad Air.

In terms of price, the Bank of China sells for 999 yuan.

These are the new products released by Apple at this special event. What do you think?Racinggamenft?

It should be noted that Apple announced a price reduction of iPad 10 at the special event, and the starting price of the Bank of China was adjusted to 2999 yuan.

There are also a few points to note: the new iPad Air / Pro has transitioned to eSIM, does not support the second-generation Apple Pencil, and iPad 9 has been removed from the official website...

In order to make it easier for everyone to have a clearer understanding of the parameters and prices of Apple's new products, IT Home has specially created a special event to understand Apple's "Let's Fly":