how so? since in general at WWDC they announce, if they announce hardware, something like mac studio and maybe
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1 hour for tvOS,iOS, macOS, ipadOS and visionOS is more than enough...and another 30min for hardware
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Gurman: New iPads Likely to Launch During Second Week of May
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1 hour for tvOS,iOS, macOS, ipadOS and visionOS is more than enough...and another 30min for hardware
I have not been excited for an iPad launch since the iPad launch … New Processor New Keyboard New Pencil and soon new IOS at wwdc bridging hopefully more and more the gap with a MacBook … Would be awesome to have a M3 pro with 16 giga of Ram for my music applications … I am tired of switching from iPad to Mac all day long
The Amazing Kreskin "predicts" once again. Gurman's "news" is little more than obvious observations and "scoops" recycled from other, more reputable sources.
I've seen better accuracy on a ouija board....
I've seen better accuracy on a ouija board....
M3 pro cannot run with fanless design, we dont have M Pro in 15" Mba either
But for music applications M3 should be enough since the M3 Pro is more towards more heavier to gpu usage
that matte screen only him, that new pencil only him...so he has his insights for sure. I bet no one can predict what 2026 ipads can deliver besides maybe M4, everyone will wait for Gurman predictions and copy paste them
They’ll probably put a MagSafe 3 connector on the Magic Keyboard. Unless they manage to add a coil under the Apple logo as suggested by some rumours, I can’t imagine an iPad with a MagSafe 3 connector and usb-c.
iPad Pro and Air might ship the week of May 6 but i still think they will be announced by April 30. Apple will not want to have the May 2 Q2 earnings call without having new iPads announced given the very poor iPad sales in Q1 and presumably Q2.
i think people would appreciate more an magsafe 3 connector and a free usbC
Since rumors says it will be even thinner...to place also coils under the chassis is even harder unless you remove some battery and no one would want that. Plus is a win win if they have magic keyboard with MS3+usbC
It's a bit like the Windows progress indicator for copying files
That and Youtubers saying the same thing.
Fact is if a current model suits your needs and it’s on sale prior to the new model launch then save a few bucks and go for the current model. Rarely are new upgrades drastic enough to make the existing models obsolete. The introduction of Apple Silicon was a massive upgrade over Intel devices. Since then every upgrade is still a respectable 15 percent performance boost over the previous model, but for most common everyday tasks those gains will not really be noticeable. An M2 iPad Air might look a wee bit different from the M1 version, but in everyday use you won’t see it. An M3 iPad Pro will supposedly look a bit more different than the current M2, but in everyday use you likely won’t really see the performance gain.
And only a keen eye will see the visual differences. All iPads, save the still existent 9th generation, look practically identical except for size. Presently iPad 10, Air and Pro 11 look essentially identical.
You made me imagine an iPad Pro sitting on my MagSafe charger that barely fits my phone and holy smokes it would be the goofiest thing apple would make in years. (iPads are already really fragile and cutting a circle around the center would just make it worse since they’d have to use glass or plastic to make the coils work, but at this point, I don’t really trust Apple’s decisions that much)
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Agreed. I think we’re looking at an April announcement, even potentially this week, with extended preorder lead time for “in customer hands” the week of May 6.
Any guesses whether or not the existing Magic Keyboards will work with the new iPads?
Would love not to have to pay the anticipated exorbitant price of this new aluminum version and find a sale on the current one.
I'll wait for M4 or M5 2nm Technology. for both Mac and iPad
They cant shrink the die much smaller than that.
And they had to crank up the frequency to 4 Ghz plus just to achieve better performance than the M2 Chip.
With the much higher frequency of the M3 to 4 GHZ that caused the chip to run hotter. The tradeoff.
They cant shrink the die much smaller than that.
And they had to crank up the frequency to 4 Ghz plus just to achieve better performance than the M2 Chip.
With the much higher frequency of the M3 to 4 GHZ that caused the chip to run hotter. The tradeoff.
Will wait until after WWDC to buy. If my 2018 12.9 pro continues to be supported and will run all of the AI newness Apple announces, then I will stick with my current machine for another year.
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At the current rate, Apple introducing the 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro models at WWDC sounds no longer far-fetched.
If you have a product to launch with a press release in May, why not just hold it until June and add it to your big WWDC event? It would be more successful then. (Unless the supply chain is so bad that you don't want a ton of attention on this product.) Just makes me feel like there is too much stuff to announce in June to save time for hardware. I expect a lot more press announcements and controlled leaks until the fall iPhone event rather than big produced videos and demos for the media elite. Just a hunch.
Or there are iPadOS features that they only want to bring to the new iPads.