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iPad Pro: first reviews the 12.9-inch Apple tablet [video]

Although the new iPad Pro, presented at the conference on September 9, contains quite a lot of innovations, its main difference from its predecessors is the enlarged display is the length of its diagonal is 12.9 inches. Senior Vice President of Apple Phil Schiller commented on the company’s decision: “Why do you need larger display? You can touch to your documents, books, interact with any application. Such a device will allow you to do something that will not allow the iPhone because the tablet is not obliged to fit in your pocket, and something that will not be able to do the laptop, such as tablet does not need to be placed on any surface”.

The display resolution of the iPad Pro — 2732 x 2048 (264 dpi), only 5.6 million pixels. Increased by three quarters the size of display devices require additional processing power and have a negative impact on consumption. To solve these problems, Apple has equipped the iPad Pro custom timing controller TCON and have used the technology variable refresh rate image: static image downloading updates twice less than the dynamic that allows us to achieve savings. “Engine” iPad Pro is a single-chip 64-bit system A9X, characterized twice as faster access to RAM and flash memory and compared to the A8X from the iPad Air 2 at 80% and 90% increased performance CPU and GPU, respectively. In comparison with the first iPad CPU speed increased 22 times, and the GPU in the 360. According to Apple, the A9X has productivity level desktop systems, surpassing in this indicator is 80% of portable PCs sold over the past 12 months.

Large screen and high performance allow us to consider a new iPad Pro not only as a device for content consumption, but also as a tool for its creation. And Apple has demonstrated that such a positioning of the new tablet is a strategic direction by inviting to the stage representatives of Microsoft and Adobe to showcase their apps collections Office and Photoshop to create and edit documents and images, and also introduced two new accessories for the iPad Pro, designed for such work: cover with integrated keyboard Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil — stylus, which, interacting with the tablet, determines the amount of force applied, the location and slope, reliably simulating with an ordinary pencil.

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A great help when working with documents is a Split View of iOS 9. Microsoft shows the iPad version of Word and Excel, working side by side in their own half of the display, allowing you to use the clipboard to transfer data from one application to another without the need for switching via the Home button. Adobe is preparing to release a new set of graphical applications for iOS, showed how, using the Split View layout application, you can edit a bitmap in an external editor. New Microsoft and Adobe have support Apple Pencil.

iPad Pro will be available in three traditional colors — silver, gold and space Grey. The tablet will be released in three versions: two Wi-Fi models with storage of 32 GB and 128 GB and a price of $799 and $949, respectively, and the LTE model with the SSD 128 GB and traditional mark-up at $130 for cellular modem ($1079). iPad Pro will go on sale in November.

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