POLISHED PERFORMER Apple has done it again. Its latest iPad Pro model is a thing of beauty and capable of handling many creative tasks. But is it worth the hefty price tag?

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If you want to use Apple’s Magic Keyboard with the iPad Pro, you’ll need to budget for an extra £279.

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The LiDAR scanner in the camera housing will support a range of augmented reality tools.

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T he headline feature of the new iPad Pro 11-inch is that it hosts the super-fast M1 chips that are now in the latest MacBook Pros and the 2021 iMac. But how much of a difference does such power make to creatives’ workflows?

Specifically, we wanted to see how all this power translates to the smaller 11-inch version, which lacks the XDR display tech of its 12.9-inch sibling. To find out, we tried the 1TB version with 16GB RAM, along with the Apple Pencil 2 and Magic Keyboard.

From a creative’s point of view, there’s plenty to make your work look great. All of the new M1 iPad Pros are calibrated for colour, brightness, gamma and white point. There’s also an anti-reflective coating so you can use your iPad Pro in harsh light. Other features include P3 wide colour, True Tone tech that adjusts the white balance of the screen and ProMotion technology, which switches the display refresh rate from 24Hz up to 120Hz.