Previously ipad 2 ipad mini 3 and ipad air.
Ipad air 2 laminated display.
The pixels count remains unchanged at 2048x1536 and apple continues to use a 9 7 inch ips lcd panel but the big change is that it now uses a laminated optically bonded display.
Compare both of these to an ipad air.
9 7 inch diagonal led backlit multi touch display with ips technology.
By the end of 2017 the screens were hard to find and cost about 200 if you did find them.
The laminated display in particular does a good job of helping the ipad mimic the feel of writing on on paper with a pen.
If you ever see a regular ipad besides a pro ipad you will instantly see why you should go for the pro.
A8x chip with 64 bit architecture.
While the ipad air has a 30 2 watt hour battery.
For example at the beginning of 2017 an ipad air 2 screen assembly laminated cost about 75.
For an ipad pro 12 9 screen the cost of just the part is about 120.
A mind for ipad air 2 9 7 2nd gen 2014 a1566 a1567 lcd display touch screen assembly replacement parts tablet front panel lcd screen repair with free tool set screen protector white 165 34 165.
But there is no reason to use anything laminated on the pro screen.
Ipad air 2 is 6 1 mm thin there was no new larger ipad pro but apple unveiled a new ipad air 2 and continues to focus on picture quality and display technology.
But then i noticed it s a downgrade from my ipad air 2 in two regards because the new baseline ipad doesn t have a laminated display my old ipad air 2 has one.
I use both ipad pro 9 7 and 12 9.
It has the same 10 2 inch screen as its predecessor with 2 160 by 1 620 resolution for the same pixel density as the ipad air though it lacks the wide color and true tone aspects.
In both cases apple.
The screen and the features it provides is the reason to buy the pro version.
Apple is using a bigger 10 9 inch liquid retina display 2360 x 1640 on this new ipad air that s fully laminated with true tone support and anti reflective coating.