Apple’s new iPad Pro is thinner than an old iPod nano

We kicked off our Tuesday with an early iPad event. And what a beastly iPad we have. Apple shook things up by putting its brand new M4 chip in its new top-of-the-line iPad Pro. Apple says the new device delivers 50 percent faster performance than the M2 iPad Pro. It supports dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading — so better-looking games and faster graphics.

But that’s only half the story. The other big upgrade is the Tandem OLED, which is a display of two OLED panels on top of each other. Expect richer colors and deeper blacks, but also brightness levels that max out at 1,000 nits for standard and HDR and 1,600 nits for HDR highlights. This change in display technology makes it thinner than previous iPads. In fact, this ensures that the new iPad pro is (sort of) thinner than the iPod nano.

The new iPad Pro starts at $999 for the 11-inch model and $1,299 for the 13-inch, each with 256GB of storage. And we already have our first impressions, right here.

We’ve also got new iPad Airs and Apple Pencil Pro for you professional doodlers.

— Matt Smith

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