Following updates to the iPad Pro and iPad Air, Apple has now up to date the fundamental iPad with extra highly effective elements.

While Apple isn’t altering up the system an excessive amount of, the brand new iPad is getting flatter sides, a quicker A13 Bionic processor, and an improved front-facing digital camera. All informed, Apple is claiming the brand new customary iPad gives 20% quicker CPU, GPU, and machine studying efficiency than the earlier mannequin. And when in comparison with top-selling Chromebooks, Apple says the brand new iPad is a whopping thrice quicker.

Combined with updates to iPadOS 15 (which might be out there for obtain someday subsequent week), the iPad can also be getting some new software program options together with Center Stage, which makes use of the iPad’s new 12-MP front-facing digital camera with a wider 122-degree area of view to ship improved picture high quality for selfies and video calls, together with a brand new UI and menu for enhanced multitasking, improved app group, and an up to date dwelling display screen structure.

Of course, by not rocking the boat an excessive amount of, the refreshed iPad nonetheless works with your whole present iPad equipment together with the first-gen Apple Pencil and first-gen Smart Keyboard, so you need to have the ability to carry over your present equipment with out a lot trouble. Critically, the up to date iPad nonetheless has a devoted TouchID button on the backside of its 10.2-inch show, the latter of which now helps Apple’s True Tone characteristic that enables the display screen to routinely modify its white steadiness to finest fit your present environment.

But maybe most significantly, the refreshed iPad will retain the identical beginning worth of $329 because the earlier mannequin, besides now you get 64GB of base storage (up from 32GB). Pre-orders for the brand new iPad go stay right this moment (out there in each silver and house grey), and gadgets begin transport out for actual subsequent week.