Last year I bought an iPad for the first time with my own money. I thought that would be a good motivation, if the company wasn’t the one paying, but no, my iPad Pro 11” M2 spends most of its time in a drawer. An iPhone is enough to read my RSS feeds and check my email. For writing and development, among other occupations that require a keyboard, the Mac is as flexible as it is comfortable. For watching movies as a family, nothing beats Apple TV.
So when Apple presents iPad Pro 11” M4 with a series of qualifications, each more extravagant than the last, I must say I’m thoughtful. Okay, its chassis is “impossibly good”. Well, its Ultra Retina XDR display is “the most advanced in the world”. Okay, the M4 chip offers “Outstanding performance”. But could all this encourage me to use the iPad Pro instead of another device? The answer in our iPad Pro 11″ M4 test.
Since the iPad Air 2, Apple likes to describe its tablet as “magic sheet of glass”, and the comparison has never been so tangible. The 11″ model is slightly thicker than the 13″ model that bears the title “the thinnest product ever designed” by Apple up to the seventh generation iPod nanobut the word “thick” is no longer suitable to describe such finesse. In order to reduce the thickness of the tablet to only 5.3 mm, Apple engineers used a lot of ingenuity.
The acoustic chambers that amplify the sound produced by the four speakers, one in each corner, have been reduced in size without particularly affecting the sound reproduction. The motherboard slides between the two cells forming a battery, which won 2.64 Wh to offer a capacity of 31.29 Wh, a miracle of technological progress. The M4 chip is placed in the center of the device, under the Apple logo, which is no longer just a decoration, but a cooler covered with copper foil.
