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The 12.9-inch 2020 iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Magic Trackpad peripherals.
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The digital camera and sensor array on the 2020 iPad Pro contains two lenses and a lidar sensor.
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It’s nonetheless as skinny as earlier than, however that digital camera bump is a change.
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The iPad Pro has USB-C as a substitute of Lightning as its one port.
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The design hasn’t modified in any respect past that digital camera bump.
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Here’s the again.
Apple plans to launch a new iPad Pro mannequin imminently—maybe as quickly as next month—according to sources cited by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, who has precisely predicted a number of Apple product launches over the previous few years.
The report claims that the brand new iPad Pros will are available the identical 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes through which they’re at present supplied and that they’ll look much like present fashions, too. However, they’ll have higher cameras, quicker processors, a new port, and—at the least within the 12.9-inch mannequin—a new display know-how.
The largest shock on this article is that the brand new port could be the identical one that’s present in Apple’s laptops: Thunderbolt. Bloomberg’s sources say that Apple has been testing variations of the iPad Pro that may connect with extra exterior displays and other forms of peripherals due to the inclusion of a Thunderbolt port.
They don’t, nonetheless, give any sense as as to whether exterior monitor help will probably be improved from the fundamental mirroring implementation we see on the iPad proper now.
The new iPad Pros will have a new, quicker chip that’s extra comparable in efficiency to the M1 discovered within the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro launched final yr. And at the least the bigger of the 2 iPad Pro fashions would have a new Mini LED display, becoming a member of a development in that route amongst many electronics producers that search to make cheaper, extra resilient LCD screens aggressive with OLED.
The report doesn’t elaborate upon the upcoming digital camera adjustments, saying solely that they are going to be higher than the cameras in present fashions.
Bloomberg concludes with a reminder that its sources have beforehand instructed it that Apple plans “main updates” to the iMac and MacBook Pro, in addition to AirTags, the corporate’s long-delayed Tile competitor with augmented actuality options.
Apple was extensively rumored to host an occasion asserting new iPads and maybe different merchandise next week, however the window through which invites would usually be despatched out for such an occasion has now handed, suggesting that it will not occur in any case.
Apple introduced an iPad Pro refresh round this time final yr, although, so Bloomberg’s declare that a new replace will come as quickly as April appears believable.
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