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Will Apple’s new iPad Pro finally replace your laptop?

Apple says its new M4 iPad Pros will have better AI, better performance and better battery life than laptops. But don’t throw away your laptop just yet.

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The two things we were hoping Apple would do in its iPad launch were: turn the iPad Pro into the proper laptop replacement it should have been years ago, and cram as many AI capabilities into it as possible, so there was finally a reason to have that much processing power in a device you can use while sitting on the loo.

We got one of them.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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