No need to take any OLED oath, for or against. I’m pretty sure pricing will negate any chance of getting one for me likely until a few years later when they appear in the refurb’d store.
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iPad Pro Swear an Oath *raise right hand. I will NOT buy an OLED iPad Pro.
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Reminds me of when they introduced an always on display and some people were afraid to use it because of burn in fears. Do you not think that was a consideration when Apple built and tested it?
iPhones are OLED, and I don't think I've heard any problems with burn-in. No reason to beleive the iPads would fare worse.
Agreed. There isn't really a static taskbar etc on iPad, like there is on Windows and Mac OS when using an OLED monitor. The worst thing would be using something like Safari or Pages for hours and hours and hours day in day out.
The use case is different as you go up in size. iPhones don't sit like desktop monitors.
To think you can't leave a static screen in a desktop arrangement is troubling.
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you do realize iPhones are OLED? so are Apple Watches. for many years. with no burn in issues. OLED burn in has been largely mitigated since the technology was first developed.
Time, date, cellular/wifi displays and the battery icon are all persistent.
In my case my original iPad air, 2014 model, is long retired. I want the iPad Pro 12.9 with 1TB of memory. I don't really need that much internal memory storage but with the M2 iPad Pro you get 16GB of RAM at that level. We will see how that works out in the M3 version. The reason why it has taken Apple so long to add an OLED display to the iPad was trouble getting a good yield from production runs. That has been solved. The way I see it Apple Care will take care of any trouble I might have with the OLED display. If you look at 4K, and 8K TV panels with OLED displays you don't hear much trouble with them now and we are talking about 65+" screens.
As a display nerd, people often forget or don’t realize the main benefit with OLED over even miniLED is response time. Apple’s 60hz LCD panels are pretty decent on most of their devices but the ProMotion miniLED panels on the MBP and IPP 12.9” are so poor and have such bad ghosting I would rather have a 60hz panel. I actually just “downgraded” from a 16” MBP M1 Pro to a 13” MBA M3 and don’t miss it.
Now Apple’s OLED+ProMotion are superior than the rest of the industry IMO so if they can bring that tech to an iPad I’m all for it!
Now Apple’s OLED+ProMotion are superior than the rest of the industry IMO so if they can bring that tech to an iPad I’m all for it!
I draw occasionally on my iPad, when coming from the LCD 10.5" Pro to the miniLED 12.9" Pro, the rather slow response time was immediately noticeable, like a drawn stroke would take time to appear on screen. Since I don't rely on the drawing ability of the device, I decided to keep it since the HDR, M1, Magic KB, just that as a whole it was a really good package (and still is). I can imagine an artist or engineer who draws every other minute are being irritated by this.
Another short coming of the current Pros is the battery life. It was not amazing even when new where the battery was at 100% health. Mine is now more than 2 years old with >500 cycles, health is reported at 86% which makes the up time even less. I constant have to make sure mine is being charged when I am not using it. The rumors saying the new Pro will get reduced thickness doesn't excite me, I would rather the space being filled with more battery than another 1mm of air (as if the iPads were even considered too thick nowadays). Though the rumored inclusion of MagSafe may make charging easier which can offset this a bit.
Where do you see these stats? I see them on my iPhone, but my iPadPro doesn’t show these, at least not in the same place (Settings->Battery). iPadPro 4th Gen, iPadOSv17.4.
I use an app on the Mac called CoconutBattery, it is usually meant for checking MacBook battery, but when an iPad or iPhone is plugged to the Mac it can check that as well.
If was in your shoes I wouldn't either the difference between the performance of M1 and an M3 in an iPad is not going to be that much for everyday use.
This thread question is so easy to answer that it's pointless to answer:
... for the simple reason that I have no many to buy one, lol 😂
I duly Swear an Oath *raise right hand* that I will NOT buy an OLED iPad Pro"
... for the simple reason that I have no many to buy one, lol 😂
The new keyboard is rumored to be aluminum, so it might be even heavier.
Upgrading from an iPad Pro 10.5 sorry but I need a replacement. I was down to 69% battery, 2,000+ cycles and bad pixels/blotches prior to battery replacement.
As I have pointed out elsewhere the only thing magical about the Apple Magic keyboard is how it magically relieves you of $200 bucks. For $200 bucks each I have a Keychron Q1, and a Q12. They have CNC machined cases, The Q1 weights 3.5 pounds, the Q12 weights over 5 pounds. If I am going to pay good money for a keyboard I want one that feels like a $200 dollar keyboard.
