This is a $1,000 iPad Pro with a 13-inch mini LED display and a whole M1 chip inside.
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One of the biggest new features on it is called Stage Manager. Stage Manager is technically a multi-tasking UI.
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The headline on Apple's website for iPad OS 16, "Incredibly capable. Unmistakably iPad."
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You can have up to four apps on a stage at once. Instead of a normal mouse, it has a unique circle pointer thing that floats between possible touch targets.
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If you connect the iPad to an external display, finally, the iPad doesn't just mirror anymore but it actually treats it like a second display to extend onto and lets you have up to four more piles to the side on Stage Manager.
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Only M1 iPads will support this, so resource intensive that it uses memory swaps, so that's not very many iPads right now.
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Apple's given us an amazing piece of hardware and it's very powerful,and they've added a bunch of features to try to take advantage of it.