As the iPad Pro becomes more like a MacBook, the comparison between these devices continues to get more interesting.
The line between the iPad Pro and the MacBook Air has always been slim. Despite being very different devices, they’re the two 13-inch devices in Apple’s lineup — and with the updated M4 iPad Pro, they are more competitive with each other than ever.
Design The M4 iPad Pro is a completely redesigned iPad, and certainly the most striking there’s ever been. Of course, a tablet is a tablet — a sheet of glass and not much more — but the the dimensions of this device are what makes it so eye-catching. Apple claims that it’s the company’s thinnest product ever made at just 0.2 inches thick.
Display With the introduction of the new iPad Pro, there’s never been a wider gap in display quality between the iPad Pro and MacBook Air. After all, there was already a gap between the previous-gen iPad Pro’s mini-LED screen and the MacBook Air. But bringing OLED to the iPad Pro takes it to the next level. According to what Apple has said so far, it rectifies the OLED’s brightness problem by using two OLED panels under the hood, stacked on top of each other.
I haven’t used this keyboard yet, but there’s every reason to suspect that it will better replace a MacBook Air’s keyboard than the original Magic Keyboard. The layout of the MacBook Air is a bit more spacious, of course, and I appreciate those full-sized function keys over the half-sized ones of the iPad Pro. But those are nitpicks. These are much more comparable now than they’ve ever been before.
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