Horizon

1. iPAD PRO M1

From £749, apple.com/uk

How Pro can you go? Turns out the answer is ‘pretty pro’, particularly if you’re Apple on a new product rampage. More on the rest in the next few Horizon entries, because basically everything in Apple’s spring launch event was pretty cool (even the new purple-hued iPhone variety) but it’s the iPad Pro that really shines. Apple has now brought the best version of its lauded M1 chip – the same eight-core CPU, eight-core GPU processor at the heart of the 2020 spin of the MacBook Pro – to something other than a Mac, and completely overhauled our expectations for what a high-end iPad should be in the process.

The company claims the M1 in the new iPad Pro bumps its processing performance up 50% from the previous edition, gives graphics a 40% kick, and works in tandem with upgrades to storage speed, capacity (up to 2TB) and RAM, with 8GB on lower models and 16GB