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While the iPad Pro refresh was expected, still managed to surprise the pro-tablet crowd. The new 7th-generation tablets come in two sizes: 11-inch and 13-inch. This slightly differs from its predecessors, which previously had 11- and 12.9-inch options. More important is a series of upgrades that allowed Apple to keep the new 11-inch iPad Pro at just 5.3mm thickness and the 13-inch iPad Pro at just 5.1mm. According to Apple during its keynote, these are the thinnest Apple products the company has ever made (the Apple iPod Nano was just 0.1mm away and has been dethroned). The display for these new iPad Pros also saw huge upgrades. Dubbed , Apple has brought on technology (stacking two OLED panels to output graphics), HDR brightness, HDR brightness, and adaptive refresh rate. The change in OLED configuration also saw improvements to its colours, highlights, true blacks, and more. For users who work with colour-sensitive projects, Apple also offers the , which is said to help further reduce glare. Otherwise, the iPad Pro with M4 chipset can still be purchased with standard glass. The new iPad Pro comes with a new Apple Silicon, but Apple skipped one generation of chipsets. Both iPad Pro variants come with the new , which were announced alongside these tablets. Apple said that it has 4x faster rendering performance and 1.5x faster CPU performance than Apple’s M2 silicon. We have more about the . Apple also spent a chunk of its keynote to promote its in-house editing suite, which includes , and Logic Pro for iPad. We have these software updates in separate articles. The new iPad Pro has a and four microphones for on-board recording needs. The true killer use case, however, is . Upon detecting a document, the iPad Pro’s new camera takes multiple shots and stitches them together to remove shadows via machine learning, creating the ideal softcopy version without much effort. . In the U.S., the iPad Pro 11-inch starts at US$999 for 256GB, while the 13-inch variant goes at US$1,299 for 256GB. In Singapore, the model of the chipset (256GB) starts at , going all the way up to S$2,999 for 2TB. The cellular model starts at S$1,799. The chipset (Wi-Fi) has a higher starting price at for 256GB, capping at S$3,499 for 2TB. The cellular model starts at S$2,299. These prices are before adding the optional Nano-texture Glass, which is of iPad Pros with M4 chipset. It adds approximately S$150 to the final price. Note that each customer can only purchase six iPad Pro tablets apiece (six for 11-inch and six for 13-inch). The Apple Pencil Pro (announced alongside these tablets), the new Magic Keyboard, and the older Apple Pencil (USB-C) are compatible with these iPad Pros (2024) with the M4 chipset.