We’ve seen rumors of a serious replace coming to the iPad Professional in 2024. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is sharing some extra info on what could also be coming in Apple’s next-generation iPad Professional. Anticipated updates embody a change to bigger OLED shows and a transformed Magic Keyboard.
Within the newest version of his Energy On e-newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the upcoming iPad Professional fashions would be the “first main replace to the product since 2018.” Gurman provides that whereas the iPad Professional has undergone plenty of smaller adjustments because the present design language was launched that 12 months, the essential product itself has remained the identical.
In keeping with Gurman, the upcoming iPad Professional lineup will embody a mannequin with an 11-inch show and one with a 13-inch show. “That’s just like the prevailing lineup, however the bigger mannequin is at present 12.9 inches,” he says.
Each fashions will make the change to OLED display screen know-how. The present 12.9-inch iPad Professional boasts a mini-LED show, whereas the 11-inch iPad Professional nonetheless makes use of the older LED backlighting tech. This implies the brand new iPad Professional fashions will provide crisper and brighter shows that provide extra correct colour replica.
In July, we noticed a report from Korean web site The Elec claiming that Apple would start the mass manufacturing of recent 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional fashions with OLED shows someday within the first quarter of 2024.
Apple at present equips almost all of its iPhone and Apple Watch fashions with OLED shows, with the lowest-priced iPhone, the iPhone SE being the one exception.
Each of the brand new iPad Professional fashions might be powered by M3 chips. Gurman says the gadgets are at present being examined by Apple, and use mannequin identifiers J717, J718, J720, and J721. The M3 chip is anticipated to make its debut this fall in new Macs, after which it will likely be utilized in subsequent 12 months’s iPad Professional revamp.
Gurman’s report additionally mentions a brand new Magic Keyboard. The Magic Keyboard for iPad first debuted in 2020 and has not seen an replace since then. The Magic Keyboard brings a devoted keyboard and trackpad to the iPad Professional and makes the iPad Professional resemble a laptop computer.
Gurman says the revamped Magic Keyboard will make the iPad Professional much more like a laptop computer than the present keyboard and can boast a bigger trackpad than the present mannequin. The present Magic Keyboard’s trackpad is a bit smaller than the dimensions of the trackpad utilized in Apple’s present MacBook.
Gurman has beforehand claimed that the revamped 12.9-inch iPad Professional will characteristic a barely bigger show, and his present feedback again that up. The bigger show could possibly be pulled off in considered one of two methods. Apple might shrink the bezels surrounding the show and both retain, or shrink, the general measurement of the pill. On the opposite finish of the probabilities, Apple might additionally make the general measurement of the gadget barely bigger, which might additionally enable for the usage of a bigger trackpad on the revamped Magic Keyboard.
Gurman says the brand new iPad Professional fashions received’t be unveiled till “spring or early summer time” 2024 and that we received’t see any updates to the gadgets between now and 2024.
[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]