Hardware
IPad Pro 13-inch (2024)
Incredible power meets an incredible displayget ready to be spoiled!
Apple had to keep the iPad Pro relevant. And it has – and how
The tandem OLED display offers a retina-searing 1,600 nits of peak HDR brightness.
The undoubted highlight of Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event in May, the new iPad Pro is truly a sight to behold. At just 5.1mm thick, not only is it the thinnest product Apple has ever made, it’s also one of the most powerful and beautiful – thanks to a breathtaking Tandem OLED Ultra Retina XDR display and the M4 all-new Apple silicon chip that’s yet to grace the Mac.
To be fair, that’s something Apple needed to do – not only was the latest gap between major iPad updates Apple’s longest ever at almost 18 months, it also had to pull something special out of the bag to the keep the iPad Pro relevant. And it has – and how.
While the new iPad Air (reviewed on p82) is the one most of us will plump for, the M4 Pro iPad Pro is the one we’ll covet – even if it’s just to gaze longingly at one in our local Apple Store. The price is one good reason why. Even the cheapest Wi-Fi only 11-inch iPad Pro will set you back £999, some £400 more than the starting price for the M2 iPad Air, while the 13-inch model is pricier still at £1,299. In each case, you’ll get a model equipped with 9-core CPU, 10-core GPU M4 with a 16-core Neural Engine, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage. Or you can pay £200 more and get a version with 512GB of storage on board. That doesn’t get you the most capable or powerful iPad Pro models though.