Love: The iPads are Damn Sturdy Despite How Light They Feel
Despite the name, the iPad Pro is lighter and thinner than iPad Air at 11 and 13 inches. The 11-inch version weighs just under a pound, and the 13-inch is so thin the single USB-C port feels like it’s about to encroach upon the surrounding bezels. Of course, the Air is no slouch in the weight or width departments, but if you’ve handled the last-gen version, you already know what to expect there.
And just this week, we have a better idea of how sturdy these iPad Pros are. If anybody remembers back in 2014 during “bendgate,” when Apple eventually admitted it sold slightly bent tablets, these latest thin iPads won’t meet the same fate. YouTuber JerryRigsEverything absolutely massacred the $1,000 iPad Pro for the sake of seeing its weak points, and even with a fair amount of force applied to it in landscape, it only bowed slightly. Things were worse when he bent it on the landscape side, with the USB port being the first to create a fracture in the screen. Fellow YouTuber MobileReviewsEh measured the weight it took to crack the screen in landscape mode at 70 pounds.
