Does it bend?

Super-thin iPad Pro undergoes bend tests.

Leander Kahney
May 16, 2024

The new iPad Pro is even thinner than the annoying and fiddly Siri Remote for Apple TV (see the social media post below). So how can it possibly not be flimsy?

It’s so large, and so thin, that it’s got to be at least a little bit flexible, right?

After the tablet’s launch yesterday, several YouTubers were wondering the same thing. And they actually put the new iPad to the test, seeing how it held up to bend tests. Here are the surprising results.

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— Leander Kahney, EIC.

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Tweetz o’ the day

Ben Dodson :swift: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Currently working on an Apple TV app and was doing some tests with the older trackpad Siri Remote. Put it down next to the 13" iPad Pro I got yesterday and noticed that the iPad is thinner 🤯

Woahhhh this is going to absolutely change the game 🤤
— Fernando Silva (@nandoprince93)
6:33 PM • May 15, 2024

18 years ago today on May 16, 2006, Apple released the MacBook.💻
The 13" MacBook replaced the iBook as the entry level laptop. It came with an Intel processor, and you pick between a 1.83 or 2.0GHz Core Duo CPU.
The new polycarbonate case came in 2 colors, white or black.◻️◼️
— Mr. Macintosh (@ClassicII_MrMac)
2:23 PM • May 16, 2024

I have too many iPads, and that's okay.
Looking back on fourteen years of iPad ownership, from the original iPad to the new M4 iPad Pro that's arriving tomorrow.
— Adam Tow (@atow)
9:12 PM • May 14, 2024

One more thing ...

❝

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan.

— Steve Jobs, 2008.

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