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Apple's press conference, as always, was a surprise. The most powerful iPad Pro on the surface, known as the thinnest Apple product in history. The chip directly crossed to the M4, with the largest neural network engine in Apple's history, and the performance directly beat all AI PCs today.
As expected, at the press conference, Apple opened up again!
A series of blockbuster updates at this conference revolve around the protagonist iPad.
Cook said bluntly: This will be a milestone since the birth of the iPad.
The new iPad Pro, incredibly thin and light, takes portability and performance to epic levels. In Apple's words, we're pushing the boundaries of what the iPad can do.
And this new product is equipped with a new generation of M4 chips. (Yes, not M3, but M4)
In M4, there is Apple's most powerful neural network engine, which can perform 38 trillion operations per second, and the performance is so strong that it can directly beat all AI PCs today! (Apple said)
Netizens exclaimed: iPad Pro is directly on the M4 chip, and the performance is stronger than that of MacBook all of a sudden, which is really a dimensionality reduction blow.
Originally, the audience who was only focused on Pencil to pay attention to the press conference directly wanted to change to a new iPad and experience the M4.
Unexpectedly, more surprises are yet to come!
Apple Pencil Pro's cool interactive features made a group of netizens who stayed up late to watch the press conference drop their jaws.
The night is not in vain, the apple is still the same apple: hardcore enough, elegant enough.
With the release of the Apple Pencil Pro, all of Apple's products now have the Pro
The "Apple Conference" also once ranked second in the hot search on Weibo, and successively occupied many "seats" after that.
M4, the first chip to create AI debuts
The M2 in the previous iPad Pro is already impressive.
And the new iPad Pro does not use the expected M3, but directly uses the next generation of Apple chip M4!
After all, for its stunning design and groundbreaking display, a higher-grade chip can be worthy, right?
At this point, the M4 officially debuted.
M4 means another leap forward for Apple chips.
It is based on the second-generation 3nm process and is more energy efficient.
Plus, it has a brand new display engine. Retina XDR is a great contributor to its incredible precision, color, and brightness.
It has a powerful new CPU, built on the next-generation GPU architecture that debuted on the M3, and has up to 4 performance cores.
There are also 6 energy efficiency cores. And all of them are equipped with next-generation machine learning accelerators.
Compared with the previous generation M2, the M4 has a CPU increase of up to 50% and a speed increase of at least 4 times.
The next-generation 10-core GPU architecture brings powerful features like dynamic caching, and hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing to the iPad for the first time!
Playing Diablo Immortal, the graphics are stunning
Professional rendering apps like Octane can also run at lightning speeds
At the same time, the M4 has an impressive performance-per-watt ratio, delivering the same performance as the M2 at half the power.
What's even better is that in terms of power consumption ratio. M4 has PK the new generation of PC chips of various thin and light laptops!
With only 1/4 the power consumption, the M4 delivers the same performance.
Neural Engine
Another proud achievement of Apple silicon is the neural network engine, which is known in the industry as NPU.
The Neural Engine is an IP module on the chip that is designed to accelerate all kinds of AI work.
You know, the chip industry has just begun to add NPU to some processors, but Apple's chips have been equipped with cutting-edge neural network engines for many years.
Today, the most powerful neural engine yet, with the arrival of M4!
Its computing speed has reached an astonishing 38 trillion operations per second.
That's 60 times faster than the first neural engine on the A11 Bionic.
In addition, coupled with the CPU's next-generation machine learning accelerator, high-performance GPU, and more memory bandwidth, the Neural Engine directly makes the M4 a super-powerful nuclear bomb-level chip capable of handling a variety of AI tasks.
The target object in a 4K video, which can be detached from the background
It can be said that the M4's neural network engine is strong enough to be proud of today's AI PCs!
Obviously, with the blessing of the M4, the iPad Pro will indisputably become a watershed product in Apple's history.
iPad Pro: Smash the boundaries of iPad capabilities
The blockbuster iPad Pro released this time can be said to be the pioneer of integrating Apple's cutting-edge technology.
It continues to push the boundaries of what an iPad is. In Apple's words –
Today, we're not just pushing the boundaries of what the iPad can do, it's going to shatter those boundaries!
With Procreate, illustrators can create masterpieces.
3D designers can use SketchUp to conceive their own big projects.
Tall displays, the latest M-series chips deliver superior performance, advanced connectivity features and accessories, and an ultra-portable design...... With all these factors, the iPad Pro experience is stunning and silky.
New design, ultra-thin and super strong
Once upon a time, the ideal image of an iPad was a glass of magic.
The advent of the iPad Pro directly brings us infinitely closer to this imagination.
It is available in 11-inch and 13-inch models. If there's anything salient about it, it's one word – thin!
The 11-inch model is as thin as 5.3 mm.
The 13-inch one is as thin as 5.1 mm.
Compared with the previous generation of iPad Pro, the changes are directly visible to the naked eye.
甚至比iPod nano还要薄。
And this makes the iPad Pro the thinnest Apple product to date.
At the same time, they have become lighter.
The 11-inch model weighs less than 1 pound, and the 13-inch model is also nearly 1/4 pound lighter than its predecessor.
There are two colors: silver and space black.
And although the body is thin, it is sturdy but not diminished at all.
The first OLED screen is still double-layered
In order to give users a more exciting viewing experience, Apple has tried to use OLED devices for the iPad for the first time.
OLED technology allows pixels to produce light and color at the same time with unmatched accuracy.
However, the iPad Pro's large screen and the brightness of a single-layer OLED panel do not match the XDR performance that users expect.
What to do?
For this purpose, Apple has specially developed advanced displays that use dual-layer OLED panels.
By emitting light from the two panels together, you achieve outstanding full-screen brightness.
This dual-layer series OLED technology is a major innovation for the iPad Pro.
As a result, the new iPad Pro delivers SDR and HDR content directly at a staggering 1000 nits of full-screen brightness, and HDR content at 1600 nits of peak brightness.
Because the dual-layer series OLED technology controls the color and brightness of each pixel in sub-milliseconds, the new display takes XDR accuracy to a whole new level.
As a result, photos and videos are brighter and more visible, blacks are deeper and more realistic, detail in shadows and low light is better than previous iPads, and dynamic content is more responsive.
The above is Apple's ultra-precise retina XDR display.
The HDR breakthrough of the night sky shows the delicate shadows, and the bright stars are presented with amazing accuracy
The gorgeous HDR landscape blockbuster also looks very vivid and vivid
The experience of watching a movie is even more wonderful, as if the cinema is in your hands
全新Apple Pencil Pro「轻捏」可控，售价仅999元
As many have speculated, the Apple Pencil is also out in a Pro version.
Different from the previous two generations, at this press conference, Apple's Apple Pencil Pro ushered in the first subversive upgrade in nearly 6 years.
The biggest highlight of this upgrade is that Apple has added a sensor to the pen body, which realizes a new interaction - "light pinch" can be controlled.
Equipped with Haptic motor feedback, the Apple Pencil Pro is able to sense the squeezing motion and quickly eject the tool wheel.
Easily switch between tools, line thicknesses, and colors as you paint.
When you pinch the pen, the haptic engine gives precise haptic feedback.
The "gyroscope" near the tip of the pen allows you to precisely control the tool you are currently using by rotating the pen shaft.
For example, adjust the tool orientation of the pen tip and brush.
In addition, one update that many people are excited about is the support for the "Find" function.
With this feature, mom never has to worry about me losing my Apple Pencil anymore.
Similarly, like the second-generation pen, the new Pro pen can be attached to the side of the iPad Pro, and complete pairing and charging.
It is worth mentioning that the Apple Pencil Pro upgrade does not increase the price, and it is only priced at $129 (999 yuan).
In addition, iPads that are compatible with Apple Pencil Pro include the following models.
At the event, Apple also demonstrated Procreate, a painting tool that combines with Apple Pencil Pro, a wonderful example of how artists will have a new experience.
For example, by rotating the pen body, the creator can automatically change the size, introduce colors, and more.
You can even perform actions without touching the screen with just a few pinchs, and activate shortcuts for your favorite brushes and tools.
Creatives can also hover over the canvas and pinch to select the desired layer to speed up browsing.
When you want to move, or transform an object on the canvas, haptic feedback can accurately select the object and complete the instantaneous transfer.
Plus, when animating with Procreate Dreams, Apple Pencil Pro's precision and performance are unleashed.
You can animate by recording the action of the brush strokes while playing the video.
At the same time, you can also move and rotate objects, which has a very strong sense of substitution.
Thanks to the M4 chip, Apple has also introduced a new special effect, Lens Blur, which can create realistic background blur effects, as well as animate the lens focusing process.
Obviously, the Apple Pencil Pro will greatly unleash everyone's creativity and imagination in the future, and open a new era of creativity for the iPad.
The new Magic Keyboard
Regarding iPad accessories, in addition to the Apple Pencil Pro, Apple has also introduced a new Magic Keyboard.
This is a "thinner and lighter" Magic Keyboard designed to match the slim and lightweight design of the new iPad Pro.
As soon as it is opened, levitation can be realized. What's more, the new Magic Keyboard comes in two colors.
The biggest feature of its update is that it introduces a row of function keys that can directly turn on various convenient functions, such as adjusting the screen brightness.
There's also an aluminium palm rest, a larger trackpad for more responsiveness, and haptic feedback.
It's like operating on a MacBook.
New upgrades for professional applications
In addition to hardware updates, Apple is also building various professional apps for the iPad, such as Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.
And today, both apps have received important updates.
Let's take a look at Final Cut Pro first, professional video shooting, editing, and editing can all be done in the same iPad.
The iPad Pro, which is blessed by M4, brings stronger performance, and the final rendering speed is up to 2 times that of M1.
The new version introduces some awesome new features that speed up video shooting with "real-time multi-camera".
It turns your iPad into a multi-camera production studio, with up to 4 cameras connected to preview at the same time, so you can stay in the director's seat.
Another app, Logic Pro 2, opens up more creative possibilities for music producers.