iPad Professional 2024 hands-on: How the brand new ‘nano-texture glass’ seems to be subsequent to at least one with out it

The brand new 2024 iPad Professional obtained unveiled at Apple’s “Let Free” occasion on Might 7. Coming in two sizes, 11-inch and 13-inch fashions, the brand new iPad Professional made a splash with an M4 chip that jumps a technology (i.e., from the predecessor’s M2 chip to the present M4 processor).

Apple boasted that the brand new iPad Professional is actually skinny — like “iPod Nano” skinny. I obtained an opportunity to briefly mess around with the brand new iPad Professional fashions — and yeah — these tablets are surprisingly slim. And so they’re very featherlike, too.

However what actually caught my eye was the nano-texture glass mannequin, however extra on that later.

The brand new iPad Professional’s slimness blew me away

When Apple stated that the iPad Professional is “impossibly skinny,” mentioning that the 11-inch and 13-inch variants are 5.3mm and 5.1mm thick, respectively, I could not wrap my thoughts round it — till I held them for myself.

Whereas being showcased on show, I walked across the iPad Professional fashions they usually appear to vanish as I checked out their sides.

After which I held them in my fingers. How might one thing so highly effective be such a featherweight?

The 13-inch iPad Professional is only one.28 kilos whereas the 11-inch variant is just below a pound (i.e., 0.9 kilos).

The brand new nano-texture glass mannequin

In case you’re sick and bored with coping with your iPad show not cooperating in difficult lighting conditions, you may seize the nano-texture glass mannequin for a pleasant matte end.

Mashable Gentle Velocity

I used to be standing in a brightly lit space and observed that the nano-texture glass mannequin, solely obtainable within the 1TB and 2TB storage choices, considerably decreased glare.

Be mindful, although, that this mannequin is greatest for customers who must have a extremely seen display always whereas they’re on-the-go. As such, the nano-texture glass mannequin targets professionals (therefore why you will must shell out a minimum of $1,699 for the 11-inch mannequin and $2,099 for the 13-inch variant).

As you may see within the picture, there are trade-offs with the nano-texture glass mannequin. The one with out it has a richer panel.

The ‘Tandem OLED’ iPad Professional is beautiful

The iPad Professional has a brand new “Tandem OLED” show, which signifies that Apple layered two OLED shows on prime of one another. The consequence? A brilliant high-contrast, immersive show with top-notch brightness (1,600 nits peak brightness, to be actual).

Referred to as an “Extremely Retina XDR show,” the iPad Professional’s display was pure visible sweet in particular person.

The ‘House Black’ iPad Professional is gorgeous

After I noticed the House Black MacBook Professional in all of its glory final October, I used to be crossing my fingers that this beautiful, wealthy onyx coloration would come to extra Apple units.

Answering my prayers, there’s now a “House Black” iPad Professional. (Now, I simply want House Black to come back to the iPhone 16.)

There is a “House Black” Magic Keyboard, too, by the way in which, which now has a bigger haptic trackpad, a full perform row, and an aluminum palm relaxation.

The 11-inch iPad Professional begins $999 whereas the 13-inch mannequin will set you again $1,299. As talked about, they arrive in House Black, however there’s additionally a Silver colorway.