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Aside from the M1 chip, Apple’s 12.9-inch 2021 iPad Pro models have one other standout feature – the new mini-LED display. It’s the best ever display used in an iPad, and there’s such a stark difference between the mini-LED display and the display of the 2020 iPad Pro that we had to show it off.
The iPad Pro’s mini-LED display, which Apple calls Liquid Retina XDR, features more than 10,000 LEDs with 2,500 local dimming zones, allowing for much deeper blacks and higher contrast depending on the content that you’re viewing.
As you can see in the video up above, with a black background displayed, the 2020 iPad Pro is more of a dark gray with light bleed from the LEDs, while the M1 iPad Pro essentially has the mini-LEDs turned off thanks to local dimming, resulting in a much darker display that’s more of a true black.
The difference is easy to see with an all black background, but the increase in display quality is also noticeable in day to day usage, though the disparity between the two displays is not as stark.
Watching HDR content is a much more immersive experience with the 2021 M1 iPad Pro, and it’s a much nicer tablet for editing HDR photos and videos. In fact, you’re going to see the most improvement with HDR content.
It’s worth noting that some users have complained of a blooming effect caused by the extreme brightness of LEDs. Apple says that the design of the iPad Pro is meant to minimize this, but there are situations where more blooming than expected is visible. Blooming is an unavoidable consequence of local dimming technology. When one zone is lit up and one zone is dimmed for a tru
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