iPad Pro 2015 | Tim Cook Presents New iPad By ABC News

We asked ourselves: how could we take iPad even further? Today we have the biggest news and iPad since the iPad, and I am thrilled to show it to you yeah. This is the iPad Pro it's the most capable and powerful iPad we've ever created. It is chocked full of amazing, advanced technologies and innovation. To tell you all about it, I'd like to invite Phil Schiller up Phil. Thank you, Tim good morning. Everyone.

Thank you. Thank you. I am so excited to tell you about this incredible new iPad Pro. It has a huge screen, the biggest we've ever built in an iOS device, there's new, more power and performance than any iOS device we've ever made either. Let's start with that display.

Why make an iPad with a bigger display with a larger display or think about the iPad? From the very beginning? It's a magical piece of glass you hold in your hands. You can touch the software, you can touch the webpages we serve. We can touch the books, we read, we can touch the documents we create, and it can do things that a smartphone can't do because it doesn't have to fit in your pocket, and it's thin and light enough to hold all day long. So they can do things that a notebook can't do so with a bigger screen. iPad your TV shows and movies are more cinematic.

The games we play are more immersive and powerful, and an iPad is always a multi-touch device. So now, at the bigger iPad Pro, you can have a full-size software keyboard, so you can type in your documents. With this great big keyboard and keyboards can do many things like to be an amazing musical instrument. Yeah, somebody likes music. We can do something on an iPad.

You can't do on a notebook and the new multitasking features in iOS 9 slide over split view, picture and picture were designed with this iPad Pro in mind. They make it so much more productive and capable. So how big is the screen on the iPad Pro? It's 12 point 9 inches on that diagonal. Why 12 point 9 inches well here? Let me tell you a little secret about its size, let's put next to it, our previous largest iPad, that's iPad Air 2. If you look at the width of the iPad Pro, it is the same as the height of the iPad Air, and then we take that height, and we make a 4 by 3 ratio.

And now you have an iPad big enough to run your full iPad Air apps with more room side by side. It is an incredible display, is 2732 by 2048 pixels. Do the math? It's five point: six million pixels, far more than on any iOS device before, in fact, that's even more pixels on a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display it is a beautiful display. Your photos will look amazing on it, huge, incredibly detailed, rich colors. Your documents will be full size with laser sharp text, and I'll say again watching movies on.

It is incredible. It's an amazing experience. This is the most advanced display we have ever built. It took some incredible innovation in technology, for example, we used the technology that we created in the iMac, with retina 5k display, in its timing, controller, to drive all those pixels quickly. We made it look beautiful with our photo alignment technique, which means it is great.

On access contrast ratio, it's made of the best oxide TFT material, which means we can light up the pixels quickly and have uniform, color and brightness, and for the first time in an Apple display, there's a variable refresh rate. That means that if things aren't moving quickly on the display, we can slow it down and save energy. This is an amazing display and inside it, something even more amazing the chip that powers it. This is the new a9x chip. It's our third-generation 64-bit chip, we've doubled bandwidth to memory, we've doubled the read and write performance to flash storage.

It is so fast. How fast is it? The new a9 x is 1.8 times faster than the 8x it replaces. This is desktop-class performance to compare what our team is done. Our chip team is just unfixed over the last five years. They've grown performance in the iPad 22-fold for CPU tasks and graphics tasks are even faster.

We've doubled the performance of graphs of graphics over the 8x and over the last five years. This is unbelievable. Graphics performance has gone up 360 times the biggest jump in this year alone. You combine that fast Hardware, with great software, like in iOS 9, our metal, libraries for writing, gains and applications directly to that graphics, chips, and you get incredible performance, but here's another way to think about how fast iPad Pro is. It is faster than 80% of the portable PCs that ship in the last 12 months, that's at CPU tasks at graphics, tasks, it's faster than 90% of them.

So when you run tests in applications that we all love to use, they get incredibly fast. For example, iMovie running iMovie on an iPad Pro delivers desktop class performance with iMovie. You can now edit three streams of 4k video, simultaneous, that's incredible performance, and it's going to enable new classes of applications for iPad, for example, check this out. This is AutoCAD 360 from Autodesk. It's an incredibly powerful application.

This image has 320,000 objects in its wireframe mesh, and you can zoom in and pan around it with buttery 60 frames per second smoothness, something you can't do on a PC and all that power comes with all-day battery life, 10 hours of battery life, so we've got an amazing display, incredible performance, great battery life, so we thought this display deserves a great sound system and so for the first time ever an Apple product. We now have a four-speaker audio system, and it automatically balances the left and the right, depending on how you're holding the iPad, and it balances the frequencies between the top and the bottom dynamically to create a beautiful, stereo sound stage, and it puts out three times the audio volume of an iPad Air 2. You really have to listen to it. It's amazing and that's packed into a device, that's incredibly thin. In light.

Here's the iPad Pro, let's bring in the iPad Air, underneath it, you can see they're, both amazingly thin. The iPad Pro is just six point: nine millimeters thin the iPad Air six point, one very, very close. What about the weight of it? Well, here, let's bring in the original first iPad, it's kind of fun they're, both just around a one and a half pounds which is unbelievable, because the iPad Pro has a 78%, larger screen area. Yes, 360 times more graphics power, it is thin and light enough to hold all day and powerful enough to take everywhere whether you want to watch movies in the park or edit a film on location. This is an amazing iPad.

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