YouTuber unboxes what seems to be a pre-release version of an M5 iPad Pro

Signs point to a relatively mild upgrade from the 16-month-old Apple M4.

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There's probably a few different scenarios.

There's the folks that must have leading edge and they upgrade right away.

And there's folks like me that have a pretty old iPad and will probably upgrade to this.

And maybe... there's a few that with the new iPadOS 26 stuff are choosing this over a new laptop?

Also iPads get dropped and break and replacing the screen is not cheap. Kids lose them etc. It's not like a laptop, even if the hardware is still good, there's all kinds of weird attrition in that market that doesn't happen with other devices really

 

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What does Apple do with devices people trade in?

Refurb and resale. They sell a lot of them through Amazon.