October 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces next-generation iPad Professional, supercharged by the M2 chip
The brand new iPad Professional includes a next-level Apple Pencil hover expertise, ProRes video seize, superfast Wi-Fi 6E, and highly effective options in iPadOS 16
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment introduced the brand new iPad Professional with the M2 chip, delivering the last word mixture of portability, versatility, and unbelievable efficiency. The brand new iPad Professional includes a next-level Apple Pencil hover expertise and superfast wi-fi connectivity, together with the world’s most superior cellular show, professional cameras, Face ID, Thunderbolt, and a four-speaker audio system. New options in iPadOS 16 — together with Stage Supervisor, full exterior show assist,1 desktop-class apps, and Reference Mode — take professional workflows on iPad even additional. Enabled by its superior {hardware} and iPadOS 16, iPad Professional has an unimaginable ecosystem of highly effective professional apps not like some other system of its variety. The brand new iPad Professional is accessible to order beginning at the moment, and in shops starting Wednesday, October 26.
“The following-generation iPad Professional pushes the boundaries of what’s potential on iPad, bringing much more versatility, energy, and portability to the last word iPad expertise,” mentioned Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising. “Powered by the M2 chip, the brand new iPad Professional options unimaginable efficiency and essentially the most superior applied sciences, together with a next-level Apple Pencil hover expertise, ProRes video seize, superfast wi-fi connectivity, and highly effective iPadOS 16 options. There’s nothing else prefer it.”
Breakthrough Efficiency from the M2 Chip
M2, the beginning of Apple’s subsequent era of M-series chips, brings much more breakthrough efficiency and capabilities to iPad Professional, with industry-leading energy effectivity, a unified reminiscence structure, and customized applied sciences.
M2 options an 8-core CPU — as much as 15 p.c quicker than M1 — with developments in each efficiency and effectivity cores, and a 10-core GPU, delivering as much as 35 p.c quicker graphics efficiency for essentially the most demanding customers. Mixed with the CPU and GPU, the 16-core Neural Engine can course of 15.8 trillion operations per second — 40 p.c greater than M1 — making iPad Professional much more highly effective when dealing with machine studying duties. The M2 chip additionally options 100GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — 50 p.c greater than M1 — and helps as much as 16GB of quick unified reminiscence, making multitasking and dealing with giant belongings much more fluid.2
The efficiency of M2 turbocharges even essentially the most demanding workflows, from photographers enhancing large photograph libraries and designers manipulating complicated 3D objects, to healthcare professionals taking superior imaging and evaluation, to players having fun with graphics-intensive video games. The facility of M2 additionally extends to the brand new media engine and the picture sign processor, which mixed with the superior cameras, allow customers to seize ProRes video for the primary time and transcode ProRes footage as much as 3x quicker. This implies content material creators can seize, edit, and publish cinema-grade video from a single system out within the area.
A Subsequent-Stage Apple Pencil Hover Expertise
Powered by the brand new iPad Professional and iPadOS 16, hover with Apple Pencil (2nd era) offers a totally new dimension for customers to work together with their display. Apple Pencil is now detected as much as 12 mm above the show, permitting customers to see a preview of their mark earlier than they make it. This additionally permits customers to sketch and illustrate with even better precision, and makes the whole lot customers do with Apple Pencil much more easy. For instance, with Scribble, textual content fields routinely increase when the pencil will get close to the display, and handwriting converts to textual content even quicker. Third-party apps also can reap the benefits of this new function to allow completely new marking and drawing experiences.
Superfast Wi-fi Connectivity
The brand new iPad Professional helps the quickest Wi-Fi connections with assist for Wi-Fi 6E,3 so customers who want quick connections can take their demanding workflows with them all over the place. Downloads are as much as 2.4Gb/s, 2x quicker than the earlier era. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G (sub-6GHz and mmWave4) now assist extra 5G networks around the globe, so customers can entry their recordsdata, talk with colleagues, and again up their knowledge in a snap whereas on the go.5
Unmatched Professional Options Enabled by iPadOS 16
Along with large updates to Messages, new instruments in Mail and Safari, the brand new Climate app, and extra methods to work together with pictures and video with Reside Textual content and Visible Look Up, iPadOS 16 additionally introduces highly effective productiveness options that elevate the iPad Professional expertise:
- Stage Supervisor is a completely new multitasking expertise that routinely organizes apps and home windows, making it fast and straightforward to modify between duties. Later this yr, Stage Supervisor will unlock full exterior show assist with resolutions of as much as 6K, so customers will have the ability to organize the perfect workspace, and work with as much as 4 apps on iPad and as much as 4 apps on the exterior show.
- Desktop-class apps allow new capabilities optimized for the show on iPad Professional — making apps extra succesful with new components and interactions, together with a constant undo and redo, a redesigned inline find-and-replace expertise, a brand new doc menu, customizable toolbars, and the flexibility to vary file extensions, view folder measurement in Recordsdata, and extra.
- Reference Mode allows the 12.9-inch iPad Professional with Liquid Retina XDR show to match the colour necessities in workflows like assessment and approve, shade grading, and compositing, the place correct colours and constant picture high quality are crucial. Meaning professional customers, together with photographers and videographers, can edit HDR pictures and movies with each true-to-life element proper of their fingers, and cinematographers on set can preview content material in a shade profile that represents the ultimate seize.
iPad and the Surroundings
The brand new iPad fashions are designed to attenuate their affect on the surroundings and embrace one hundred pc recycled gold — a primary for iPad — within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards, in addition to recycled aluminum, tin, and uncommon earth components. All iPad fashions meet Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity and are mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. Redesigned packaging within the new iPad Professional eliminates the outer plastic wrap, and 99 p.c of the packaging is fiber based mostly, bringing Apple nearer to its aim of fully eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
At present, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be one hundred pc carbon impartial throughout your complete manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means that each Apple system offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all through recycling and materials restoration, could have net-zero local weather affect.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new iPad Professional is accessible to order starting at the moment, October 18, at apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 28 international locations and areas, together with the US, with availability in shops starting Wednesday, October 26.
- The brand new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Professional shall be accessible in silver and area grey finishes with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.
- The 11-inch iPad Professional begins at $799 (US) for the Wi-Fi mannequin and $999 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin; the 12.9-inch iPad Professional begins at $1,099 (US) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,299 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin.
- Apple Pencil (2nd era), accessible for buy individually, is suitable with the brand new iPad Professional for $129 (US).
- Magic Keyboard is accessible in black and white for $299 (US) for the brand new 11-inch iPad Professional and $349 (US) for the brand new 12.9-inch iPad Professional, with layouts for over 30 languages.
- The Sensible Keyboard Folio for the brand new iPad Professional is accessible for $179 (US) for the brand new 11-inch iPad Professional and $199 (US) for the brand new 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
- The Sensible Folio is accessible in black, white, and marine blue for $79 (US) for the brand new 11-inch iPad Professional and $99 (US) for the brand new 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
- Schooling pricing is accessible to present and newly accepted faculty college students and their dad and mom, in addition to school, workers, and home-school lecturers of all grade ranges. The brand new 11-inch iPad Professional begins at $749 (US), and the 12.9-inch iPad Professional begins at $999 (US). The second-generation Apple Pencil is accessible for $119 (US), and the Sensible Keyboard Folio is accessible for $159 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Professional and $179 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Professional. The Magic Keyboard shall be accessible at $279 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Professional and $329 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Professional. For extra data go to apple.com/us-hed/store.
- iPadOS 16, the highly effective working system designed particularly for iPad, shall be accessible starting Monday, October 24, and ships free of charge with the brand new iPad Professional. iPadOS 16 shall be accessible as a free software program replace for iPad (fifth era and later), iPad mini (fifth era and later), iPad Air (third era and later), and all iPad Professional fashions.
- Prospects can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one. When their system has been obtained and verified, Apple will credit score the worth to their fee methodology.
- Engrave iPad with a significant mixture of emoji, names, initials, and numbers, all free of charge, accessible solely at apple.com/retailer or within the Apple Retailer app.
- Apple offers prospects with quite a lot of providers in-store and on-line. From personalised assist and recommendation from Apple Specialists to handy supply and pickup choices, Apple ensures the easiest way to purchase Apple merchandise is from Apple Retailer areas and apple.com/retailer.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Full exterior show assist for Stage Supervisor on M1 and M2 iPad fashions shall be accessible in a software program replace later this yr.
- Efficiency is in contrast with previous-generation iPad Professional.
- Wi-Fi 6E will not be accessible in China mainland and Japan.
- mmWave is just accessible within the US and Puerto Rico.
- 5G wi-fi plan and protection required. Speeds will range. Examine with carriers for particulars.
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