For a few weeks after launch, the iPad was pretty hard to buy due to supply shortages, but that's long cleared up now.

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Stage Manager is the biggest change to iPadOS, though before we talk about it, remember that it's entirely optional, and must be activated from the Settings > Home Screen & Multitasking menu; it's not yet the new default. With a Geekbench 5 score of 1884 in single-core testing and 8518 in multi-core testing, it performs like a desktop processor. There’s been nothing like it in a tablet so far – while the Microsoft Surface Pro 9’s Intel chips promise to bring some competition to Apple, at last, we’ll have to see how that goes in our full review. In the US, the starting price is the same as last year's model, which feels fair, given the limited number of upgrades overall (and the price rose in 2021). The flat sides and right-angled edges look like they might be uncomfortable to clutch, but they're not at all, thanks to the corners themselves being ever-so-slightly rounded.

An almighty beast of a tablet, that becomes more niche as it gets more powerful and expensive

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One nice touch is that context menus open automatically when you over them – an example is the Subtitles menu in the Apple TV app. No need to tap, just move over the options and more menus appear. The displays have rounded corners. When measured diagonally as a rectangle, the iPad Pro 12.9‑inch screen is 12.9 inches and the iPad Pro 11‑inch screen is 11 inches. Actual viewable area is less.The rear camera is capable of 4K 60fps video, but no Dolby Vision HDR – unlike recent iPhones. The front camera is limited to 1080p HD video at up to 60fps. Again, quality is good – the front camera looks great for video calls, especially compared to almost all laptop cameras – but the setup doesn’t feel as fully ‘pro’ as the iPhone Pro models. Then there’s the power – much has been made of Apple’s M1 chipset, and this is the first time the company has included its new, own-brand silicon in an iPad. Do you absolutely need it? Probably not, but if you want some truly impressive power that blows every other tablet out of the water, again the latest iPad Pro is a great choice. This rear camera is absolutely fine – it’s good quality, delivering solid brightness to the images, pleasing contrast, nice colors, and reasonable detail. However, we are struggling to imagine that anyone thinking about ProRes video wouldn’t rather record it on the larger sensor of the iPhone 14 Pro to get as much image info as possible to work with.

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Refurbishment procedures follow the same basic technical guidelines as Apple's Finished Goods testing procedures.It helps that my testing was using the 1TB model, that therefore has 16GB of RAM – the 8GB RAM limit is probably the thing it’d be easiest to bump against the limits of right now for pros. iPadOS 16 also adds the 'Hover' support in Apple Pencil, of course, but we've already covered that. And in the future, Apple will launch an interesting new collaborative note-making app called 'Freeform', but that wasn't available at the time of writing.

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The 12.9-inch iPad Pro display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 12.9 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less). Chip Apple has included its latest M1 chipset, here, which debuted in the company’s top-end Mac products in 2020.

The biggest upgrade to the iPad Pro since its inception

The new iPad Pro comes with iPadOS 16.1 – my review unit had the final release candidate version, so sported the full version of features, including Stage Manager. So 10 hours, sure – but a lot of the uses people will actually have for an iPad Pro will cause it come in under that, based on my experience.