What we know about Apple over the years.
Ah Guo has to hold at least two press conferences a year.
In addition to the decades-long and thunderous summer WWDC and autumn new product launches.
It's like Schrödinger's cat.
Occasionally, in February and March at the beginning of the year, I will reward myself with a spring conference.
But who would have thought.
The news of this year's spring conference spread from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, and in the blink of an eye, 2024 is about to pass halfway, but it is still missing.
Just when everyone is about to give up hope.
It's coming—
May 7 at 10 p.m
Unlike previous years, all media teachers had to take an electron microscope to analyze Apple's new products frame by frame.
This year, the "spring" press conference came a little later than usual. (It's already summer in Guangdong...)
The four letters "iPad" were already written directly on the invitation.
Due to the fact that the iPad family has not received any updates for the past year.
So if there are no accidents.
This conference is the home of the iPad.
OLED屏iPad Pro来了
I don't know when it began, there have been rumors that Ago will use an "extremely advanced" OLED screen on the new generation of iPad Pro.
Compared to traditional LCD screens.
The display effect of OLED is more delicate, and the screen brightness will be higher.
This can be clearly felt when everyone changes from LCD mobile phones to OLED mobile phones.
Compared with mini LEDs that have been used for many years, OLED has the advantage of being lighter, narrower and thinner, and it will not cause halo due to the backlight of the lamp beads, which will affect the display effect.
（OLED | mini LED）
So the most direct change in the new iPad Pro is that the screen bezels are narrower.
但你说窄成iPhone 15 Pro Max那样吧...
I advise you not to daydream.
Because Brother Ji saw the news that the new iPad Pro behind the OLED screen was not even 1mm narrowed...
Specifically.
The new 11-inch iPad Pro has a bezel width of 7.12mm.
The new 12.9-inch iPad Pro has a bezel width of 7.08mm.
Compared with the 8mm bezel width of the old model, it can only be said that it is narrow, but it is not much.
(Old |.) NEW)
Still.
Just as plastic surgery will transfer all the fat from the waist to the chest, although this "-1mm" is very small, if the "length" is in the right position, it can actually play a pivotal role.
1 mm placed on the front may not be perceived strongly.
But if you switch to the side, it's different.
In terms of thickness, the new iPad Pro will be so thinner than its predecessor -
Old 11 inches: 247.6mm*178.5mm*5.9mm
New 11 inches: 249.7mm*177.5mm*5.1mm
Old 12.9 inches: 280.6mm*214.9mm*6.4mm
New 12.9 inches: 281.5mm*215.5mm*5.0mm
In other words, while the new iPad Pro is one size larger overall, the thickness of the body will be further reduced. (But please don't bend.)
In a word, talk about sun-
I'm getting bigger
But...
It also became thinner
In terms of configuration, according to past practice, iPad Pro will use the strongest mobile chip of our time, that is, M3.
Performance, it shouldn't disappoint everyone.
In addition, this year's iPad Pro is also likely to follow the pace of the iPad 10 and "move" the Face ID module to the side along with the camera.
The Apple logo will also be placed in landscape orientation.
In this way, it is also more suitable for horizontal use.
I don't know if there is a chance for eSIM and anti-reflective coating panels.
The launch can expect a wave.
As for the price...
Because of the addition of OLED screen, the price of the new iPad Pro is naturally rising.
There is information to indicate this.
The starting price of the new iPad Pro will rise from $799 (about 5789 yuan) to an unprecedented $959 (about 6948 yuan), a direct increase of more than 1100 yuan.
But beware.
The above one is just the price of 11 inches.
Coming the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
The original starting price of $1,099 (about 7,962 yuan) will also rise by about 1,100 yuan to $1,259 (about 9,121 yuan).
If you add up the cost of seven, seven, eight, eight.
The entry-level 12.9-inch iPad Pro is afraid that it will take five figures to win.
Obediently, take 10,000 yuan to buy a tablet.
In Brother Ji's opinion, it's really better to buy a MacBook.
Your next computer, it really has to be a computer.
The iPad Air with a larger screen is also here
As we just said, the new iPad Pro will abandon the mini LED screen that has been used for many years and turn to the embrace of OLED screen.
So here's the problem.
What should happen to these mini LED screens that are backlogged in the warehouse?
This question.
Brother Ji thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure it out.
Until I saw the news that the iPad Air would also be like the iPhone and MacBook Air, walking hand in hand into the Plus large screen.
I realized that inventory nemesis is not just a simple joke.
Right.
Although the mini LED has disappeared on the iPad Pro, there is a great probability that it will play in the form of the iPad Air.
From the Magic Keyboard, the Smart Keyboard Clip, the Apple Pencil, and now the mini LED.
In the impression of Brother Ji.
The iPad Air seems to be a second-hand thing that has been "eliminated" with the iPad Pro.
Well, sure enough, the second child is the most daddy and mom doesn't love the character.
Judging from the currently known leaked information, the new iPad Air is carved out of the same mold as the iPad Pro.
The exterior is similar, and the configuration is also similar to the previous generation M2 iPad Pro.
It's just that there is no high brush, four Yang, Face ID...
Brother Ji thinks that if the starting price of the large-screen version of the iPad Air can be the same as the 11-inch iPad Pro, there will be a few more channel subsidies in the follow-up to make the price less than 5000 yuan.
It may also be a generation of real incense machine.
Otherwise, it's really better to buy the previous generation, the previous generation of iPad Pro.
Apple Pencil
Since Apple launched the newly designed Apple Pencil 2 in 2018, the entire Apple Pencil family has not ushered in a functional hardware upgrade.
Ah, yes.
那个Type-C口的Pencil不算。
But with the arrival of the new iPad Pro, iPad Air.
Apple Pencil 3,也是时候来波更新了。
In addition to being in the C position on the invitation.
In Cook's latest tweet, it is also crazy to hint at the existence of Apple Pencil 3.
所以Apple Pencil 3有啥升级捏？
When some media were analyzing the iPadOS 17.5 Beta code, they found a string of features that had never been seen before-
「Squeeze」。
It means "squeeze", "pinch", "press".
And under this "pinch" function.
还分有「Long Squeeze」和「Double Squeeze」两个细支选项。
That is, "long pinch" and "pinch twice".
But the old Apple Pencil doesn't have the so-called "pinch" function option.
It's impossible for us to pinch the iPad...
So, the new Apple Pencil is likely to have a built-in pressure sensor similar to the AirPods Pro, which can quickly switch between some functions and tools by pressing the pen body.
Isn't this more stable than tapping the pen twice?
Like AirPods, Apple Pencil is a product that is not necessary to be updated every year, and Apple has always had enough toothpaste to pave the capital for the future.
After all, it's expensive to release it once a year...
Brother Ji heard that Apple Pencil 3 This time, it is very likely that it will be in place in one step and directly adapt to Vision Pro, so that we can write and draw on the virtual screen.
Okay...
Brother Ji, who bought the Vision Pro now, even if he doesn't want to buy the new Pencil, he has to buy it.
In short, the above is roughly what may be released at Apple's conference next month.
As you can see, it is also exactly what Brother Ji said at the beginning.
This is the special session for iPad.
As for whether it is possible to release other new products other than the iPad, we can only wait until the day of the conference to know.
Finally, to sum up.
The protagonists iPad Pro and iPad Air are all steadily upgraded on the basis of the previous generation of hardware.
M2换M3、mini LED换OLED、LCD换mini LED...
This is the same as the idea of the new version of Tesla Magic Beans 3 next door.
The disadvantage is that it makes people feel that there is a lack of sincerity.
But the advantage is that those users who have bought the previous generation in the past two years, or even the previous generation, will not have any psychological gap and backstabbing feeling.
So much so that when I saw the new model, I was still a little unmoved?
——The eighth brother holding the A12X iPad Pro 2018 said.
The picture comes from the Internet