Foreign journalists have already received the iPad Pro M2 at their site.
Everyone notes high performance and lightning-fast response. Someone was even able to find an undeclared pleasant surprise.
We understand.
1. MacStories
Apple Pencil Hover is magical
One of the first novelties received in MacStories. The following are excerpts from their text.
The new iPad Pro stands out under the name Apple Pencil Hover, which allows the iPad to recognize the second-generation Apple Pencil even if it hovered within 12mm of the display, rather than making a big difference. Apple has added a new version of the iPad Pro that does not require a new version of the Apple Pencil, which I appreciate.
It works like this: start drawing in your notes, hover your Apple Pencil cursor over the screen, and as long as the tip of the pencil is within about one centimeter of it, you’ll see a significant preview of the drawing tool selection. It is necessary to remove the “pencil”, and the preview will disappear.
Developers benefit from their apps specifically for Apple Pencil Hover, but even if they don’t get it, you can start Apple Pencil Hover right away for “non-artistic purposes” in your favorite apps.
For example, a gesture that works incredibly well with the Apple Pencil Hover is video scrolling. Take the YouTube or Netflix websites for example: when watching videos in touch mode on an iPad, you can’t scroll through the videos unless you tap the screen.
Apple Pencil Hover fixes this. When you’re watching a video in Safari, type the tip of your pencil and select pre-identified footagewithout actually rewinding and forwarding the video.
I didn’t expect the Apple Pencil Hover as an input type for the iPadOS interface to be so much to my liking. But when you think about it, this is exactly the kind of feature I should love: it further expands the iPad’s modularity by blurring the lines between touch and cursor using a physical accessory that you can plug into your iPad and carry around with you.
2. Engadget
This is Apple’s most powerful tablet
Engadget was also pleasantly surprised by the new tablet, but they looked at it from a different angle.
In the short time I’ve tested the latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro, I can say that he is more responsivethan my 2020 11-inch iPad Pro, as well as the new iPad I also tested.
In the review, Apple showed how the new iPad Pro can handle apps like DaVinci Resolve and Octane X. The former is a heavy video app that combines things like professional color grading, visual effects, and more, while Octane X is for 3D rendering. Both apps are far out of the country that I would use, but in incidents it was pretty easy to notice just how responsive the new iPad Pro is.
One thing I can say is that the new Stage Manager multitasking feature in iPadOS 16 works much better on this iPad Pro than when testing past models using various betas over the past four months or so. For all the time I worked with him, I never had anything crash or hang.
Processor M2is by far the most famous change. Design, screen, cameras, storage options, accessories and price are available.
If you’re an Apple Pencil fan, the M2 includes a pretty cool new feature called Hover. As the name suggests, the iPad Pro can have properties when the Pencil is within 12mm of the screen, and the elements begin to react at that moment. For example, if you hold the Pencil over apps in the dock or on the main display, the spot where the “pencil” is located will expand slightly to show you what you’re hovering over. This is similar to what happens when you use the trackpad to move the pointer in apps.
Also in the Procreate entertainment and animation app, hovering an Apple Pencil over a project brings animation to life or shows a 3D view of your creation.
On this, perhaps, all the changes.
3. Makotakara
The Japanese blog MacOtakara shared the numbers after testing the new chip.
The performance of the M2 GPU is about 1.5 times faster than the M1 GPU and is the same as the MacBook Pro (13-inch, M2, 2022). I use Geekbench ML to measure three types of CPUs, GPUs and Core ML.
Compared to the M1 chip, it is about 1.18 times faster, the GPU is about 1.2 times faster, and the Core ML is about 1.26 times faster.
No special changes
All journalists agreed on one name. This iPad Pro is the best in the line, but there are too few changes.
In fact, the chip was updated from M1 to M2 and the Apple Pencil Hover function was added. Otherwise, this is the same tablet as with the M1 processor.
Source: Iphones RU
