With each new Apple device release, we are treated to the now famous “crash tests” from different YouTubers. Surprisingly, theApple’s latest iPad Pro is doing pretty well.
“ Incredibly fine. Incredibly powerful », This is how Apple presents its latest iPad Pro M4, freshly unveiled at the beginning of May. With 5.1 millimeters on the clock, the 13-inch iPad Pro is indeed Apple’s slimmest tablet… but surprisingly not the least resistant.
An iPad that holds up
JerryRigEverythingAnd MobileReviewsEh, two YouTube channels known for their torture of technological products, have passed Apple’s new slate on their test benches. It turns out that the iPad Pro 2024 bends and breaks less easily than you might think. Trying to make the tablet give way horizontally will require a lot of force and a lot of weight.
By hand, by pressing firmly on the back of the iPad, it is almost impossible to damage the screen, as the video proves.JerryRigEverything. The tablet may have a slight curvature and the screen may even come off the chassis, but technically, the tablet still works even after being severely abused. As MobileReviewsEh proves, it will take a mass of 43 kg (472 newtons of force) and a good minute of waiting for the tablet to bend and break permanently. The iPad Pro 2022, subjected to the same treatment, cracks under a mass of 40 kg and 457 newtons.
The astonishing structural integrity of this iPad Pro 2024 is due to a revised construction that leaves room for a metal cooling chamber in the middle of the tablet. The latter, in addition to helping to dissipate the heat generated by the processor, also serves as the backbone of the iPad and allows it to better withstand the small hassles of everyday life.
At the cost of repairability?
On the other hand, horizontally, the tablet resists significantly less well. Held in portrait mode, it is possible to break up the screen and bend the chassis with your bare hand by applying a little force. The fault is the USB-C port which presses very quickly on the display and puts it out of order as soon as it is subjected to a little pressure. Not surprising when you know that the tablet is barely thicker than the port itself.
In absolute terms, Apple has still managed to make an iPad surprisingly thin and durable despite the plethora of on-board technologies. It remains to be seen whether it really makes sense to produce tablets barely thicker than three 5-cent coins stacked on top of each other. Repairability and thinness generally don’t go well together.
Source: Youtube – JerryRigEverything / MobileReviewsEh
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