For a great year or so now, it has been suggested that Apple would be coming with with a tablet larger as well as more powerful than the present flagship 9.7-inch model, as well as provided the introduction of would-be rival products like the Microsoft surface as well as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab pro line, the concept of a 12.9-inch iPad pro seems even more plausible. Today, new info has emerged about the slate, with a report suggesting that the SoC powering the top-end slab will be a more robust, A8X chip.
The new Apple A8 offers a reasonable performance bump on the new iphone 6 as well as 6 plus compared with the iphone 5s, with early benchmark readings indicating a speed boost of around 15 percent. This is definitely not poor going, especially provided that the A7 – the very first 64-bit processor in the mobile market – truly did raise the bar dramatically. However, thinking about that the iPad pro is stated to pack a 12.9-inch screen – one that will likely command a resolution boost on the iPad Air – it’s rational that Apple would be working on a somewhat more capable SoC to satisfy the demands of a tablet featuring a MacBook-sized display.
Although last iPad upgrade, which saw the iPad mini 2 as well as iPad Air introduced last October, didn’t include an ‘A7X’ processor – simply the exact same A7 as discovered in the iphone 5s however clocked at 100MHz higher – a 12.9-inch screen would almost definitely need something more in shape for function than the iphone 6’s A8. As many of you will recall, the A5X as well as A6X offered superior graphics performance over the X-less variants, as well as provided that this rumored iPad pro will be developed to provide a top-notch performance on a mammoth display, it makes sense that the iPad pro should take in every decrease of graphics power that an A8X might potentially offer.
The enigmatic iPad Pro, which, on reflection, might feasibly be provided the ‘Plus’ moniker, is expected to show up sometime during the very first half of 2015. A new iPad Air 2 as well as iPad mini 3 will almost definitely be revealed next month, though, featuring Touch ID, the A8 processor as well as a number of other advantages as well as tweaks, as well as may likewise be revealed together with OS X Yosemite 10.10 for Mac.
(Source: TechNews [Google Translate])
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