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.

Right now, the focus is on the new iPad Pro that lands instore in the coming days. Righ now, though, there’s the best-ever deal on the latest iPad Air.

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.

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.

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.