dgianstefani£1250 to move from 128 GB to 2 TB.
Just Apple things.

ChaitanyaIs it soldered using gold?

cvaldesUsually the internals are pretty much the same apart from NAND chips and the optional cellular module so any precious metals would be used on all of the SKUs within the same base model.

Wait for an iFixIt teardown to see inside since Apple does not post such imagery.

Chaitanyathat 1250 GBP price increase for 2TB SSD is not worth unless its actually soldered or has heatsink made from gold. These days you can get flagship class 2TB M.2 SSDs for under US$250.

HxxI don’t see any major changes from the M1 iPad Pro outside of the processor which is not anything substantial. I’m surprised to see no difference in screen or other hardware changes . Mind as well grab the M1 variant and save some money

cvaldesNot worth it to you.

It's worth it to someone. They always sell some of their high end models. My guess is that a lot of these high-capacity iPad Pros are bought up by content creators doing stuff like 4K video production for a living.

If you don't do that for a living, I can see how the 2TB model isn't "worth it" to you. But not everyone has your exact usage case.

Remember that you can't just buy a Samsung 4GB 2.5" SSD, pop it into a cheap USB enclosure, attach it to your iPad and write to that directly. And even if you could, some people might not want to have a peripheral dangling off the end of their tablet all the time.

I wish more people online would understand that their usage case isn't the only one in the universe.

ReadlightDo you want to buy me one apple for 5 euro?

Chaitanyathat 1250 GBP price increase for 2TB SSD is not worth unless its actually soldered or has heatsink made from gold. These days you can get flagship class 2TB M.2 SSDs for under US$250.

TheinsanegamerNThe problem with that line of thinking is that a single use case (in this case hardware that cannot be repaired or upgraded sold for stupid levels of money) is being forced upon everybody. When you do that you're going to piss people off.

cvaldesPeople get pissed off for all sorts of reasons, sometimes none.

If you don't like Apple's offerings, you are free to purchase a touchscreen tablet from someone else, like Samsung. Note that you can't repair their devices any substantially easier and Apple's iPads have much better resale value than Android tablets.

It's also worth pointing out that Apple has been selling iPads since 2010 and have turned it into a substantial business unit (about 10-15% of total company revenue). Sure there are people who don't/won't buy an iPad. But there are enough who do for Apple to continue sticking with it as a marketable product.

Someday people's interests may change and they'll stop buying iPads. Apple killed off their iPod product line and even their full-sized HomePod.

If you don't like the iPad vote with your dollars. Don't buy it.

cvaldesThe biggest hardware difference is the much higher machine learning performance of the M2 SoC. That enables it to accomplish certain tasks better. Apple demonstrated some of these ML dependent features in one of their recent keynotes. Apple frequently withholds new functionality from previous hardware though to incentivize people to purchase the new hardware.

Some of these capabilities won't show up in a traditional quantitative measurement like Geekbench. I think Apple is calling a new multi-tasking feature something like Stage Manager which really can't be measured by a benchmark tool.

A lot of the machine learning capabilities are difficult to quantitatively assess. Even DLSS can be measured in terms of framerate increase, but the image quality differences end up being a subjective judgment.

The M2 does have significantly higher memory bandwidth. While that performance superiority won't show up if you're typing an e-mail or surfing the Internet, it probably would be noticeable during intensive tasks like video editing.

Regardless, owners of M1 iPads will be able to install the upcoming version of iPadOS when it is released.

The fact that there were no other major hardware changes is probably why they chose to launch the product via a press release instead of holding a hosted event.

Apple has done this before (e.g., release new product outside of an event).

R0H1TAnd if you've tried Stage manager you should know it is a horror show right now, especially on the (Mx) iPads :shadedshu:

R0H1TThe last Samsung flagship tablets will be updated for 5 years, with 4 major OS updates ~ so about the same with arguably much better specs in display/storage/memory et al, apart from (just) the SoC which is inferior to Ax or Mx chips.

And at this point I'd argue Android is a better platform, at least more versatile one.

TheinsanegamerNThose 2TB M.2 drives are also 2280 form factor. The storage on an ipad is the size of a m.2 2230, of which no 2TB versions exist. You CAN get them for $250 in 2242 form factor, with no DRAM cache, of course. Even so, these drives use 4 NAND chips, the ipad uses 2 that are far denser, and that costs cash. Those drives also wont compare to the speed of an ipads.

The price is a bit obscene, yeah, but the apple tax has always been there. AFAIK there is no windows device outside of the similarly expensive surface pros that come close.

R0H1TThe last Samsung flagship tablets will be updated for 5 years, with 4 major OS updates ~ so about the same with arguably much better specs in display/storage/memory et al, apart from (just) the SoC which is inferior to Ax or Mx chips.

And at this point I'd argue Android is a better platform, at least more versatile one.

TheinsanegamerNThe price is a bit obscene, yeah, but the apple tax has always been there. AFAIK there is no windows device outside of the similarly expensive surface pros that come close.