In the end it’s slightly more expensive than the Air and more versatile.”
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“We expect that trend to continue with the latest iPad Pro changes. “Over the past two years iPad Pro has slowly taken share from MacBook Air,” Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster told Yahoo Finance. Oh, and did I mention the iPad Pros also get wide-angle and ultra-wide angle cameras? These tablets are clearly meant to push beyond even the capabilities of the MacBook Air. There’s also WiFi 6 for improved connectivity, and, unlike the MacBook Air, the iPad Pro gets optional built-in 5G. It also gets a USB-C Thunderbolt port that allows you to connect the tablet to a secondary monitor with resolutions up to 6K and transfer data at far faster rates than standard USB-C connections. Like the Air, the iPad Pro gets up to 2TB of storage.
With the M1, the iPad Pro gets the same 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16-core neural engine as the MacBook Air. Sure, the iPad Pro didn’t get any outside design changes, either, but it’s not as though Apple could make the product any thinner than it already is. With a Magic Keyboard attached, the iPad Pro is just as much as a laptop as it is a tablet. “But in the future, I don't know how it's going to go, especially using the same CPUs. “The positioning of the iPad and the Mac is a little different right now,” Gartner research director Mikako Kitagawa told Yahoo Finance. To be sure, a few differences distinguish the two products for now, like the fact that the iPad Pro can’t run all MacOS apps. That, coupled with the fact that Apple is working to ensure that iOS and iPadOS apps can run on MacOS, means the gap between the iPad Pro and MacBook Air is quickly closing. That changed with Tuesday’s announcements, when Apple said its latest Pros will feature the exact same M1 chip found in the MacBook Air.
Until last year, Apple used pumped up versions of the chips from its iPhones in its iPad Pros. The catalyst for iPad’s new position as a MacBook Air competitor? Apple’s new M1 chip. In an ideal world, Apple would want consumers to buy an iPad in addition to its laptop, not instead of the MacBook. That could be a problem.Īpple ( AAPL) has positioned the iPad Pro as a computer replacement since its 2015 launch when CEO Tim Cook said the iPads would make notebooks or desktops unnecessary for “many, many people.”Īnd the latest models, which debuted on Tuesday, have seemingly done just that - but the problem for Apple is they’re replacing its own MacBook Air.
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