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Apple’s professional tablet device gets supercharged with the power of M2!
The iPad Pro 12.9 (2022) lands as Apple’s biggest and boldest iPad to date, with a new M2 chipset that serves up more power than 99 percent of us will ever need. The previous iPad Pro was already simply the best tablet on the planet, through sheer shock and awe, and the new iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2022) just builds on that. You still get the stunning mini-LED screen with unmatched HDR contrast and 120Hz refresh rate, but now it can detect the Apple Pencil (2nd gen) when it’s hovering above the display, which opens up some useful new interactions, as well as aiding precision for artists or note-takers.
You still get high-end laptop levels of power, now made even faster and with more capable graphics, plus faster memory access for high-end apps. Apple has also made significant upgrades to the networking capabilities of the Pro. The new tablets support Wi-Fi 6E, a ‘fast lane’ flavour of Wi-Fi 6 that uses its own radio band. Even the iPhone 14 Pro lacks this Wi-Fi capability. The iPad Pro also gets more radio bands for 5G compatibility. Even with the list of additions, you still get a super-thin and light design, too.
But you don’t get many other meaningful changes. The iPad Pro will be able to capture ProRes video, but the cameras themselves have not received an upgrade from the Pro Camera array of the last model. You still get the same 12MP main camera and 10MP ultra-wide lens, with a 12MP selfie camera up front. It comes with iPadOS 16.1, but all recent iPads get that; it won’t represent a very tempting upgrade from last year’s model, except for some of the most serious of digital artists. It’s a bigger upgrade compared to the model before that, however, since it upgrades you to the mini-LED screen, as well as adding the near-bottomless power of the M2 processor.
Is it the best iPad on the market today? Well, in terms of sheer capability, yes. The screen is better than any other iPad, with the size of its canvas enhancing productivity. But now that the iPad Air (2022) includes the powerful Apple M1 chip, the iPad Pro is pushed more and more towards b
