The new M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro show a historic trend clearly continuing: iPad hardware innovation keeps outpacing the Mac.

Powered by Apple's latest M5 chip, the upgraded iPad Pro is a high-performance machine that covers all the bases for gaming.

Gurman reports that the touchscreen laptops are internally known as K114 and K116, and will run on M6 chips; Apple just introduced the M5 generation of its silicon for this year's iteration of the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro.

We featured a deal late last week on the 512GB M3 iPad Air with the cell connectivity at a new all-time low. But after a pair of additional price drops, we are now looking at nearly $280 off the list price and a new Amazon all-time low once again.

Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s new N1 wireless networking chip, which adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread — the three wireless protocols the Matter smart home standard runs on.