The 12.9-inch
iPad Pro
From £969/$999/1.099 €
Top of Apple’s iPad range, the huge
12.9-inch iPad Pro drops the Home
button usually found at the foot of
the screen. Like the recent iPhones,
instead of using your fingerprint to
unlock the iPad, you simply look at it.
The TrueDepth front-facing camera
recognises your face.
The iPad Pro is compatible with the
brand new Apple Pencil and comes
in capacities of up to 1TB. It’s just the
thing for those storage-hungry art
projects, or video editing jobs.
The 11-inch iPad Pro
From £769/$799/879 €
Like its big brother, the 11-inch iPad Pro
has Face ID to unlock your iPad and buy
apps and media and is compatible with
the newer Apple Pencil. In addition, like
its bigger stable mate, it boasts an A12X
Bionic chip with 64-bit desktop-class
architecture, making it the ideal iPad for
augmented reality and 3D gaming. For
those who want to use their iPad Pro for
productivity, there’s also a smart
keyboard in both sizes, turning your
tablet into a notebook.
The 9.7-inch iPad
From £319/$329/349 €
For those on a budget there’s the lower
spec, but still-capable, 9.7-inch iPad. It
still uses a Home button and is
unlocked with fingerprint recognition
rather than Face ID. Its processor is
less powerful than the rest of the iPad
range, being an A10 Fusion
fourth-generation chip and its
rear camera is eight
megapixel instead of 12
megapixel, but for those
on a budget, it’s a
great tablet at a very
reasonable price.
The 2019 iPad mini
From £399/$399/449 €
Apple’s iPad mini is popular among those who want a
smaller tablet, which they can keep in their handbag or
pocket. However, there’s nothing small about the mini’s
capabilities. The 2019 model, the fifth generation, is the first
iPad mini to offer support for the Apple Pencil. Once again,
you must use the first-generation Pencil, not the later model.
Like the 2019 iPad Air, it comes in three finishes (silver, gold
and space grey) and both 64GB and 256GB capacities. It
has an A12 Bionic processor too, which is just as capable at
rendering three-dimensional objects and showing what they
would look like in the real world, a feature known as
augmented reality. Compared to the previous generation of
iPad mini, the new model offers three times the performance
and nine times faster graphics.
This extra power hasn’t taken a toll on the price. If you
choose a Wi-Fi-only iPad mini, the 64GB model costs
£399/$399/449 € and the 256GB version £549/$549/619 €. If
you want a cellular iPad, which can get onto the Internet
through Wi-Fi as well as through a mobile data connection,
like a mobile phone, it will cost an extra £120/$130/140 €
Like the new iPad Air, the fifth-generation
iPad mini is compatible with the
first-generation iPad Pencil.
The power of the iPad mini makes it
great for editing videos in iMovie.
The Rest of the Range.
The new iPad Air and iPad mini join Apple’s existing range of
iPads, which includes two iPad Pros and a regular-sized
iPad. All are available in Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + cellular models.
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