Apple iPad Pro M5 (2025) tablet review - An extremely fast M5 SoC and Wi-Fi 7

[Redaktion]

Apple has updated its iPad Pro series, equipping its high-end tablet with the new M5 processor and Wi-Fi 7. Performance surpasses many modern laptops, and with the new iPadOS 26 and Magic Keyboard, it almost feels like a MacBook.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-iPad-Pro-M5-2025-tablet-review-An-extremely-fast-M5-SoC-and-Wi-Fi-7.1143628.0.html

[Maciej]

How many years will take you to fix the image comparison sampler so the individual cameras show the same spot pointed by the cursor.   There is always some offset sometimes larger that camera window.
It is rubbish, and far from german engineering I would expect from that site,.

[indyp]

WiFi 7 has been available for years, and yet ya'll completely disregard testing it from a Native 3-band router.  Arguably the most important connection for laptops, tablets, smartphones...

[Bizarro_NikoB]

Faster than most compact laptops, but running an intentionally gimped operating system to avoid cannibalizing their laptop offerings. No thanks. Apple innovation is dead. What a garbage company

[will blake]

an intentionally gimped operating system

All mobile operating systems are intentionally gimped.

[daletorr]

went to the Apple Store and tried those 13 and 11 M5 iPad Pros - screen still flickers AT ALL BRIGHTNESS = using a camera with 1/8000 shutter speed...

I gave this article the benefit of the doubt and still bought the exact configuration the Reviewer used, 1TB 11 iPad Pro M5 = still flickers and I still see a bunch of lines at 1/8000 shutter speed = SAME AS MY OLD M4 iPad Pro 11 from last year that I gave away... :(

Hope Apple addresses this issue as more and more people would have eye strain problems in the long run and they would have to improve this technology anyway ...

[bruv]

Hope Apple addresses this issue as more and more people would have eye strain problems in the long run and they would have to improve this technology anyway ...

But you still bought it, so why should Apple change anything.

[RobertJasiek]

Some buy devices with display flickering nevertheless while others (like me) do not buy them at all. If Apple wanted to sell to both groups, it would offer choice making both flicker-free IPS and flickering OLED available for every type of device.

Currently, several companies try to sell OLED as the "more premium" type of display so offer some of their more high end devices only with OLED (or sometimes flickering mini-LED). Apple might be using this sale strategy for Pro versus non-Pro models or Apple might have the strategy to trickle down this alleged "pro" feature to Air and Base model product lines during the following years - we do not know yet which strategy Apple follows.

The endconsumer's choice has become: if you want to avoid (potentially) unhealthy displays less suitable for static contents, you must choose a non-Pro product or a different manufacturer. In some years and for avoiding unhealthy displays, he might face the choice between buying Apple products nevetherless or choosing a different manufacturer.

This would fit perfectly into Apple's greater strategy of dividing the world into loyalists and critics. Expel the critics to keep the loyalists loyal. Apple has applied this strategy to the Walled Garden, the refusal to offer macOS on iPads, the Apple tax of upselling storage and other features, the notch, and the pushing of data-abusing iCloud terms.

Or Apple might change after ignoring years of protest, like Apple changed back from Butterfly after years of arrogantly terrorising the consumers.

[LegionGo2 Review when?]

You kind of don't even have a choice.

I don't even care about "deep blacks".

All I want is a 1000+ nit display with 100% DCI-P3 and all the displays capable of that mostly use some type of flicker tech, either OLED or miniLED. Since miniLED has high power consumption, OLED is essentially the only viable option for mobile devices.

But you still bought it, so why should Apple change anything.

Too many other companies are doing the exact same thing for this to make a difference anymore. Apple weren't even the first to move to this technology and got there comparatively late compared to others. I moreso blame Samsung as they were the ones who were the first to really push for it to go mainstream into literally every consumer devices.