To the power of iPadOS 26 and its incredible hardware, the iPad Pro M5 should be the ultimate iPad. But there’s just one problem, and it’s an issue I’d never noticed in any reviews.
The battery life is terrible.
It’s terrible compared to my previous iPads, most recently an 11-inch iPad Air M3, but also compared to all current non-Pro iPads and every iPad I’ve ever owned. And I’ve owned a bunch of them.
It’s particularly terrible compared to my two-year-old MacBook Air M3 15-inch, which has a larger display and a more powerful–and, yes, complex–OS platform. The only asterisk here is that the iPad Pro M5 probably gets better battery life than a MacBook Neo based on the reviews I’ve read. And of course that Mac’s other limitations make it a lot less…
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