iPad Pro 9.7 vs iPad Air 2: what improvements does the new model leave us?

We have a new iPad with us and that inevitably means that it is time to think about what to do with the one we have at home, an especially difficult decision if this was the immediately previous one, in this case the iPad Air 2. What has changed in Apple's new 9.7-inch tablet? Is it worth selling or giving away ours and getting a new one? Or, taking into account that the previous model will still be on sale, but with a reduction in price, are we interested or not in making the extra investment involved in getting the most recent one? Let's try to help you decide by taking a look at the improvements what has he left us iPad Pro 9.7.

Major screen enhancements

The easiest thing is to always measure the quality of a screen by the resolution level, and if we only pay attention to this, we will not find any difference between the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro 9.7. You already know, however, that there are actually many other decisive factors, and from what he told us in today's event, it seems that we are going to find important improvements in them, since the screen of the new iPad Pro it has 40% less reflections, 20% more brightness, a greater range of colors and better saturation levels, and, in addition, a new technology called "true tone display”, Which records ambient light levels and adjusts colors accordingly.

Better sound

We always tiptoe through the audio section, which is always paid much less attention than the screen, but the reality is that it is an almost as important part of our multimedia experience as this, and the new iPad Pro leaves us a significant improvement here too, since it comes with the same audio system from four speakers that we find on the 12.9-inch model.

A camera at the level of a smartphone

We are the first to recommend not paying too much attention to the cameras when it comes to choosing a tablet, but if you really use your iPad to take pictures, then you have to know that at least with the new model you will be able to do it with a camera of the maximum level, very similar to what we find in a smartphone (very similar, in fact, to the iPhone 6s) with 12 MP, 4K recording, Live Photos, slow motion ...

An important leap in power

It had already been speculated in the weeks leading up to the keynote with which the new iPad Pro he was going to inherit the processor from his older brother A9X and, indeed, it seems that this has been the case. What does this mean? Well, judging by the results that we have seen the 12.9-inch model obtain in benchmarks, what it implies is that we can expect a simply spectacular jump in power: you have to think that it is the processor that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), It has been designed so that its tablets could compete with Windows hybrids and that performance test records ensure that the goal was achieved.

More storage capacity

Maybe the price difference pulls us back a bit, but a detail that is worth taking into account is that the iPad Pro 9.7 arrives, in its basic version, with 32 GB internal memory instead of 16 GB. Take this leap at any iDevice you already know that it alone represents a difference of 100 euros. It is also interesting to note that this new model will be available with up to 256 GB, instead of the maximum of 128 GB that we were in the iPad Air 2.

Exclusive accessories

One of the advantages of iPad is that normally all accessories that we have (with the exception of some covers, which were useless after the passage to the “Air” era) are valid for any model, but only with the iPad Pro we can enjoy some of the best official Apple accessories, as is the case of Apple Pencil, but not only: the iPad Pro 9.7 also has a smartconnector that will allow us to connect it to a smart keyboard and other peripherals, such as a USB adapter for cameras or an SD card reader.