Apple completed the first press conference of the year in half an hour: the new iPad Pro is equipped with M4, and the top price is touching

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2024-05-08 07:33Posted on the official account of Hebei Tencent News Technology Channel

Tencent Technology News (Wu Bin) The first Apple conference in 2024 will come a little later than usual.

At 10 p.m. on May 7, Apple held its first press conference of the year in a familiar recording format, and as expected, the iPad product line ushered in the first major version update in more than a year, along with the new M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard.

iPad Pro: The M4 chip and OLED screen are coming, and the top price is very touching

The new iPad Pro has two sizes: 11 inches and 13 inches, because of the introduction of OLED screens, the thickness of the 13-inch model is only 5.1 mm, and the thickness of the 11-inch model is 5.3 mm, and this generation of iPad Pro has become the lightest iPad Pro product in history, the 11-inch iPa Pro is only 444 grams, and the 13-inch is only 579 grams, which are 466 grams and 682 grams in the previous generation.

The new iPad Pro screen features a dual-layer OLED panel, which Apple calls Tandem OLED. With a full-screen peak brightness of 1000 nits and an HDR peak brightness of 1600 nits, the OLED display boasts a better brightness performance than the previous generation. In addition, the surface of the screen is also made of nano-textured glass for the first time, which has a certain good matte effect.

Apple says that the iPad Pro's OLED screen is capable of providing greater contrast, allowing for more immersive blacks when watching videos, which will be very important for creative professionals/artists.

The heaviest update of this product is the chip part - it directly skips the M3 chip and is equipped with the latest M4 chip, which is claimed to have a bigger leap in performance.

The chip still uses TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, with 120GB/s unified memory bandwidth, 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, and the GPU supports ray tracing technology. Its CPU is 50% faster than M2 and its GPU is 4 times faster than M2. The M4 can also provide the same performance as the M2 at half the power consumption.

At the same time, this chip has a new neural network engine, Apple's official data shows that the performance of the neural network engine on the M4, the computing speed reaches 38 trillion times per second, which is 60 times higher than that of A11.

The number of rear lenses on the new iPad Pro has been reduced to one, and the 12-megapixel f/1.8 lens allows for better scanning, stitching, and other operations on documents. Plus, on the new models, the Face ID camera has been switched to landscape orientation, making it look more natural during video calls or FaceTime.

And along with the new iPad Pro, the Apple Pencil Pro and the new Magic Keyboard were announced. Apple Pencil Pro supports the find function and vibration feedback, priced at 999 yuan. The new Magic Keyboard is equipped with an aluminum metal palm rest, and a row of function keys has been added to the top, like the keyboard of MacBook, the 11-inch version is priced at 2399 yuan, and the 13-inch version is priced at 2799 yuan.

iPad ProThe licensed price has also increased compared with before,11Inch iPad Pro licensed version is priced at 8999 yuan,13Inch price starts at 11499 yuan,Memory256GB starts,Up to 2TB,The price is 19999 yuan。

In addition, Apple still castrates iPad Pro with different memory specifications accurately, if you choose the 256GB or 512GB version of the iPad Pro, you can't choose "nano textured glass", you can only choose ordinary glass.

At the same time, the 256GB and 512GB iPad Pro models use the M4 chip with a 9-core CPU and 8GB of RAM. The iPad Pro models with 1TB and 2TB storage are powered by an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU and 16GB of RAM.

If you choose the top-of-the-line 13-inch version of the iPad Pro cellular version, with Apple Pencil Pro and the new Magic Keyboard, and equipped with AppleCare+, the price is as high as 27,746 yuan.

The iPad Air has a 13-inch version, and the chip uses M2

The new iPad Air adds a new 13-inch version in addition to the 11-inch version, which means that the iPad Air will be the second iPad product to have a dual screen size after the iPad Pro. It comes in blue, purple, gold, and gray colors, and the screen is still made of LCD material, with a slight change being that the front camera is centered.

In terms of hardware core, the M2 chip replaced the previous M1 chip to become the SoC of the new iPad Air, according to Apple's official data, the M2 has increased the number of transistors by 25% compared to the previous M1.

This year, iPad Air's starting memory has been increased to 128GB, the starting price of the 11-inch version is 4799 yuan, the starting price of the 13-inch version is 6499 yuan, and the maximum can be selected as a 1TB version, priced at 10699 yuan.

不过根据官网显示，全新的iPad Air不支持2018年发布的第二代Apple Pencil，仅支持Apple Pencil Pro及Apple Pencil（USB-C）。

iPad版Final Cut Pro与Logic Pro迎来大版本应用

In addition to the hardware, Apple also brought its own brand new video and audio editing software, named Final Cut Pro 2 and Logic Pro 2.

iPad版Final Cut Pro 2带来外置硬盘项目支持和实时多机位功能,可利用iPhone和iPad上的全新Final Cut Camera App一次完成多角度录制。

Final Cut Pro 2 introduces the new Live Multicam feature, which allows users to capture the same scene from up to four different angles on their personal device or in collaboration with others, and directly adjust the settings for each live camera to easily adjust parameters such as exposure, focus, zoom, and more.

To support the real-time multicam feature of Final Cut Pro 2 for iPad, Apple has also brought a new free standalone camera app, Final Cut Camera. The app allows users to monitor and control video streams from each camera in real-time, and users can adjust white balance, manual focus, ISO, and shutter speed, as well as enable focus peaking.

In addition, Final Cut Pro 2 for iPad brings external hard drive project support and more customization options: 12 new color correction presets, 8 basic text titles, 20 new sound tracks, and more dynamic backgrounds.

Apple says that Final Cut Pro 2, paired with an iPad Pro with an M4 processor, will deliver up to twice the final rendering speed of M1 and support up to four times the number of ProRes RAW video streams of M1.

Audio editing software Logic Pro 2 introduces a new AI-powered accompanist feature that provides an AI-driven personal accompaniment band that responds directly to feedback.

The new plug-in, ChromaGlow, harnesses the power of AI and M-Series chips to emulate a range of sounds produced by a mix of the world's most renowned studio hardware, allowing users to tune in to their ideal tone in five different saturation styles.

The Big Track Splitter feature splits almost any mix recording into four different parts: drums, bass, vocals, and other instruments, right on the device, making it easy to apply effects, add voices, or adjust mixes in post.

Apple also brought updates to Mac users with Final Cut Pro 10.8 and Logic Pro 11, which brought new AI features and material organization tools, as well as "Optimize Light and Color" and "Smooth Slow Motion" features. Logic Pro 11 brings AI-powered accompanist features.

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