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Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display (9to5mac.com)
At WWDC 2017 today, Apple unveiled a brand new iPad Pro with a 10.5-inch display and 40% narrower bezels. The new iPad features a 50% brighter True Tone display and "ProMotion" technology which increase refresh rates up to 120hz. 9to5Mac reports: The new iPad Pro includes dynamic refresh rate adjustments, screens move from 24hz to 48hz to 120hz. This maximizes battery life and performance, when you need it. The A10x Fusion chip improves CPU and GPU by at least 40%. Cameras have also been upgraded with the same sensor as the iPhone 7 on the back and the front. Apple demoed a photo app called "Affinity Photo," to demonstrate the 120hz refresh rates. Apple says new iPad Pro performance compares favorably with a desktop computer. This includes incredibly fast selections and fluid Apple Pencil interactions. Both iPad models start with 64GB of memory and maxes out to 500GB at the high-end. There are also several new software features for iPad, coming this fall with iOS 11: A new customizable Dock that provides quick access to frequently used apps and documents from any screen; Improved multitasking, including a redesigned app switcher that brings Spaces to iOS, making it easier to move between apps or pairs of active apps, used in Split View and now Slide Over; Multi-Touch Drag and Drop, which is available across the system to move text, photos and files from one app to another, anywhere on the screen; A new document scanner in Notes, which lets users easily scan single or multi-page documents, removes shadows and uses powerful image filters to enhance readability; and Deeper integration with Apple Pencil, with support for inline drawing to write along text in Notes and Mail, Instant Markup to easily sign documents, annotate PDFs or draw on screenshots, and a new Instant Notes feature, which opens Notes from the Lock Screen by simply tapping Apple Pencil on the display. New searchable handwriting makes it easy to search for handwritten text or characters.
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I want a workstation.
It's already been a single post, and nobody has said "courage"? What's wrong with the hivemind?
For that extra protection on those heavy flow days.
Wha? It's funny!
i dont think im the only one who has this sentiment..
So many ads for Apple posing as stories. Me want to hear about another Windows severe vulnerability.
My 2012 LG television has 120Hz refresh too.
Will Apple be adding 3D next? My TV came with four pair of glasses... but I've never opened those boxes.
#DeleteChrome
If I buy this gizmo it will make my life so much better. It will certify that I am a leet Apple person. I will never have a worry again because I become I wiill have 120 Hz refresh in my personal life. I can project all my needs, desires, and self esteem onto the wonderful Apple product.
Surface Pro can run Visual Studio. Android can run AIDE. I guess by now, it takes courage to make a tablet that can't build apps for itself.
I liked my prehistoric ipad 2 a lot, great when relaxing in the sofa, on trips for browsing and light photo editing and presenting, a colleague and I even used ours in 1-1 customer meetings - it was a more relaxed kind of presentation / demo than using a laptop. Unfortunately one of the last system updates it could handle made it terribly slow, it was since relegated to being an oversized wake up alarm.
I had thought of buying a kindle fire hd8, maInly to save money, but this new 10" ipad pro looks excellent, and it is of course well integrated with my other apple devices and software.
No cynical hate from me - I bet a few will call me gay now etc etc, I do think that it seems like a very well engineered tablet. I get that between ios and android, they are both great and different rather than one is better than the other.
That's an odd number. Usually the capacities are hex. Maybe its really 512GB?
All I want is to be able to delete apps from the search screen. iOS is becoming mature enough that apps are being retired. I have no idea where they are. I have hundreds of app on my iPad which have been collecting dust over the years. All I want to do is type in the name, swipe left, and have it gone.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
You'll use exactly the number of apps that Apple tells you to and you'll like it.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The summary makes it sound like Apple is trying to catch up with Microsoft OneNote and their Tablet PC features. You've been able to do all those things with a pen on Tablet PCs (not the same as tablets) for almost 15 years.
You've GOTTA be a fucking moron. Half of us have already likely been inside your shitty gmail account already. You're advertising to the hacker-minded, here, dumbass.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Apple has been increasing the performance of their ARM cores by about 40% for the past several years. They're absolutely killing it.
a tablet you can only use in landscape mode without smudging the screen.
Or is it 'Appledot'? As I'm writing this post there are currently six Apple summaries on the front page. Four of their subject lines begin with "Apple Announces"; another, (msmash was clearly feeling adventurous here), starts with "Apple unveils", while another begins with "Apple's New". If an Apple (story) a day keeps the doctor away, then thanks, Appledot, for taking such good care of my health!
'Appledot. News for annoyeds - stuff that natters'.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
More cores, more pixels, smaller form factor, better interaction.
Dear Samsung, look at the 12 inch version of this iPad, 2732 x 2048 pixels, super fast ARM processor, pen.... wouldn't it be nice to refresh your Galaxy note pro line now that Google has finally got its multi windows working? ARM chips are 6-8x faster now, leaving Intel M's behind, Flash has gotten cheaper, 256GB would be nice, 512GB better. Nice big screen, clean friendly OS, cheap high core count processors, with an OS that can use them. And USB C means you won't have the old models battery charging issues.
It's a clear opportunity. I want this or better with Android.
... is the business model?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Slashdot's front page looks like this right now:
Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display
Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11
Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11
Apple Announces Its 'Next Breakthrough' Product: the HomePod
Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra
Apple Announces New iMacs With Better Screens And Modern Processors; Refreshes MacBook Lineup
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Fine, I have an Apple story, too. It's a little outdated but we can all reminisce -- http://www.bbspot.com/News/200...
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
Six separate Apple announcements on slashdot's first page : enough !
Can't you just summarize all announcements in a single post ?
Next up..Apple launches ipad without a touchscreen! Only useable if you buy a wireless Apple keyboard using an Apple superior version of Bluetooth... Aaaand.... They tablet and keyboard will feature a very small battery, so you will need to use Apple certified connectors to connect Apple certified powerbanks to the keyboard and tablet!!
How courageous! How innovative! All hail Apple!
Of course they will also have the courage to make an ios version that requires subscription, so unless you pay up each month, you can not use the idevice!
How innovative!!! Apple should just shut up and take (all) my money already!
NOTE... this post MAY contain SARCASM!
Both iPad models start with 64GB of memory and maxes out to 500GB at the high-end.
No they do not. They start with 64GB of STORAGE, going up to 512GB at the high-end. Not exactly surprising that an Apple user doesn't understand the difference.
None of the released specs state how much MEMORY they have, but the previous iPad Pro had 2GB so maybe they'll be couragous and go all the way to 4GB now.
Do they come with a hammer that leaves users with a 40% narrower thumb as well?
So where is the point? That it breaks more often when dropped? That it smudges better? That you fat-finger your cursor more often than previously?
about time Apple started to care about the bezel size... their products have had giant bezels for years
Can I develop for the iPhone(swift) on it?