Apple will reportedly release an iPad Pro with an M2 chip this fall

Apple is reportedly planning to launch an iPad Professional with the rumored M2 chip someday between September and November of this yr, in line with Apple tracker Mark Gurman’s Energy On e-newsletter. Gurman expects Apple to challenge a serious replace for the upcoming era of iPad Execs, which can supposedly embody help for MagSafe charging.

As Gurman factors out, Apple final gave the iPad Professional a big replace in 2018, when Apple launched a design with more durable corners, an edge-to-edge show, and a USB-C connector. This replace got here a couple of yr and a half after the discharge of the iPad Professional 10.5 in 2017.

Apple is on observe to repeat the identical sample this yr, because it launched the newest era of M1-equipped iPad Execs in Might 2021. A rumored launch date between September and November 2022 means Apple will spend anyplace between one yr and 4 months and one yr and 6 months prepping the brand new mannequin.

Throughout Apple’s “Peek Efficiency” occasion earlier this month, the corporate confirmed off its latest iPad Air however omitted an up to date mannequin of the iPad Professional. Final yr, Gurman predicted the iPad Professional would include wi-fi charging capabilities and a glass backing. A report from 9to5Mac corroborates this declare, however its sources say Apple might have deserted the glass again design, probably choosing an aluminum again with a glass Apple emblem as an alternative.

There hasn’t been a lot details about the rumored M2 chip both, because it nonetheless hasn’t been confirmed by Apple. Gurman thinks the chip’s CPU will probably be barely quicker than its predecessor and include the identical eight-core structure. He additionally expects Apple so as to add the M2 to each the brand new iPad Professional, in addition to to the brand new 13-inch MacBook Professional, Mac Mini, and 24-inch iMac which might be rumored for launch later this yr. Predictions for an M2 chip powering the redesigned MacBook Air are cut up — Gurman says it should embody the rumored chip, whereas Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks it should include the M1.