This is the new iPad Pro it is an incredible tablet still an iPad
Like it's the most beautiful most powerful most impressive iPad yet, but thanks to iOS 12.
It's just that it's just an iPad. It's not any closer to replacing my laptop use. It's not any more likely to be my main computer, but it's easily the best iPad ever.
Let me show you to me. So this iPad Pro looks like one of those renders of what people in the past imagine to tablet would look like before the iPad existed is crazy thin it's five-point nine millimeters completely flat. It has an incredible nearly bezel as the display.
Somehow has huge really impressive speakers and super powerful solid state inside. So right off the bat, there is an 11 inch or 12 points 9-inch version. And there's a space grey or silver. I will say the smaller one is much more reasonable and I think it's one most people get but I'm a big screen person. So here I am with the crazy big 12 points 9 inch iPad Pro and I prefer space grey but that's up to you and it's just a Marvel to hold like there are pretty sharp edges all the way around but I love that it's boxy like the iPhone 5S was it stands up on its own and it's so light the weight distribution is so even throughout the whole slab that you can hold it with a single finger in the middle of the Apple logo. All of this means it's really easy to hold the edges are kind of sharp. Like I said, they can maybe dig into your hands a bit. If you're holding it for a long time with the heavier iPad, but even that is the rare battery, I thought would suffer from a being so thin nope.
"This tablet has a plus battery life again and the speakers on either side. They have Precision milled holes that I just think look really good and yet again the drivers are loud. They're far enough apart for stereo effect. They just somehow keep getting better. The camera on the back is the same as the iPhone 10s".
The iPad is so thin but it's way over in the corner:
10 are and the bump is pretty big because the iPad is so thin but it's way over in the corner. So my hands never really accidentally touch it or anything and the tablet is so big and so flat that it actually doesn't really affect the whole lying down flat on a table thing. It still doesn't Rock back and forth. I guess if I had to pick something that I don't like about the design it would be actually the extra antenna lines on the cellular version which I picked they're just not symmetrical. They don't look very even just a little off looking little extra the Wi-Fi version has antenna lines too but there's not as many but I'm never looking at the back of the iPad anyway, iPad pro apple, so it doesn't really bother me.
Oh and no headphone jack, of course, but you already know how I feel about that. This is a poor talking about here and I'm kind of already on that wireless life. Anyway. Anyway, I have like little hopes now of a new iPhone next year kind of looking like this like being really squared off and boxy but then pushing the display to the edge and I don't know I probably won't happen if they want to keep wireless charging of course, but I still would love that so clearly I like the outside.
The iPad Pro and they work now in any orientation:
Aesthetics the film a hand, it's awesome hardware and on the inside, it gets even more impressive. First of all, there's no fingerprint reader no home button since the bezels are so thin but there is the whole Suite of face ID sensors in the iPad Pro and they work now in any orientation so you can be portrait landscape upside down no matter what it works which is helpful because the fact that the front of the iPad is so uniform makes it easy to forget which way is the top.
Sometimes you grab it and you try to unlock it in your hand is covering a sensor since the bezel so thin but it just points a little arrow and tells you you're covering the sensor so you can unblock it and then you're in and the display is again easily not just one of the best in any tablet but one of the best screens I've ever used so a hundred twenty Hertz IPS LCD super accurate colors great viewing angles Ultra responsive and smooth and very bright when you need it true tone there. Also if you want it and the anti-reflective coating is great. So face IDs good the display is about as good as it gets and then the specs now, Probably heard me say before about Apple products. The numbers don't really matter as much and that's still true here. But let me give you this a 12x Bionic, iPad pro and apple pencil. Is absolutely incredible. It is the fastest chip I've ever seen on a mobile device. If you've seen geek bench scores that have been pretty popular lately. It's benchmarking faster than many laptops rivaling the 15-inch MacBook Pro.
The iPad and they line up really quickly:
It has 4 gigs of RAM and for some reason, the one terabyte iPad has six gigs of RAM, but generally, performance is just really good for multitasking the flying through apps productivity photo editing.
It's all fast and fluid it's a plus performance just like the previous iPad Pro, but now you have Headroom for days like it's more about being future-proof and your very future proof here. And then even the accessory ecosystem is all upgraded the new Apple pencil way better.
Obviously, you can't get much more Awkward than this was it's not a high bar to clear but it is now great. It snaps on to the side of the iPad with magnets and pears and wirelessly charges there. There's a little cut out on the side of this all-metal iPad that lets the wireless charging work through here and aligns everything up. I just think I'd miss out on an opportunity to The second-generation apple pencil a number two pencil, maybe that's just me.
Anyway, there's also now a new thinner folio case and a new keyboard case as well. These aren't things I use very much. I do sometimes have the folio on and a now connect via magnets throughout the whole back of the iPad and they line up really quickly and snap into place which makes them easy to put on and take off but sturdy while it is connected. So here's a fun visual show this on Twitter.
The iPad and you can see that there are magnets:
And when you pass it over something like the iPad it can show you where inside the magnets are. So you put it down on the iPad and you can see that there are magnets a lot of them everywhere all around the perimeter and they match up with the same magnet placement in Apple's accessories. And that's what helps them lock into place so quickly and easily the pins always line up it's smart and I'll leave a link below if you want to get some of this magic paper to look and see where magnets are and other things the most apple and 2018 thing ever though is all the price. X so every single thing we just talked about the new pencil the new folio case the keyboard case and a tablet itself are all more expensive than last year's versions which again, you can't ignore that but you could also argue these all work. So well together better than any third party version that's why people including myself keep buying these so what's the holdup?
IOS 12 and it's weird to say because iOS 12 is great. It's the best version of iOS yet by a lot and it's my favorite but on this Hardware, it leaves a lot to be desired. Like, don't get me wrong. It's an incredible iPad, but every year when you know, the new iPad Pro comes out we revisit this conversation of can this replace my laptop can it be my primary computer?
My computer with an iPad Pro:
It has a better display. It's a touchscreen 220 hurts. It's more expensive surely. This can replace my laptop. Right? Well, I wish I could replace my computer with an iPad Pro because I enjoy using the iPad that much more but there are still things that I need to do on a pretty regular basis that the iPad doesn't that I need to keep a laptop around for the big ones no file ecosystem. So if I'm photo editing and I want to bring other files in its kind of incredibly annoying like this thing needs finder not the current files app on.
YouTuber I want to be able to go to the YouTube for desktop site and then go into the YouTube studio and go through analytics and Studio features that way mobile Safari will not let me it kicks me out into the YouTube app every single time same with Google drive. There is a Google Drive app, but I want the desktop app with all the desktop features and the desktop UI and I can't do that in the default browser. There's no trackpad or mouse support in iOS at all to the keyboard works great if you have one but you can plug in any mouse in the world and it won't do anything and then the USBC Port you'd think would unlock a world of possibilities of connecting all kinds of accessories and being able to talk to them through the iPad. First of all Thunderbolt accessories don't work at all. Like they would on a laptop only USB type-c does so you can plug in a display, for example, iPad Pro as a laptop, but this is something you could already do with lightning and still, all it will do is mirror the display, but now it's up to five k. So the closest I can get to my ideal scenario of these with creative stuff on the iPad Pro is photo editing actually. So my camera of choice is a Hasselblad x1d.
The iPad Pro is easily my favorite:
Nothing happens it actually it just starts charging the camera. So while that's a letdown, I basically we'll have to take the SD card out and I have a USBC to SD card adapter. I plug that in then I get to import the file it goes into photos. I can bring that into Lightroom and then I can do all my edits with the raw file and editing on the iPad Pro is easily my favorite way of editing photos with the pencil with the awesome hundred twenty Hertz display.
"It's great. But that's exactly what I could do with the lightning Port before. In fact, there's virtually nothing really new that I can do with the USBC port on the iPad Pro that I couldn't already do with a lightning adapter".
But thanks to iOS. It doesn't mean as much now as I think it could in the future. So basically this iPad Pro the hardware like I've said, it's crazy. It's great. It's better than a lot of laptops. It's better than Apples cheapest laptops actually, but it's definitely still an iPad. All the same, things that the previous iPad Pro did just better and that is like a textbook like a great thing to say about a product. It's all better than what it did last year but like this conversation of or at least what Apple tries to do if comparing it to laptops over and over again puts it in a weird space and I've seen people who're creative workflows happen to fit this iPad Pro into the puzzle of what they do perfectly and I'm so jealous of those people who will sketch for hours on the iPad Pro who are DJs on the iPad Pro who are doing video editing on the iPad Pro and if it does meet your needs for that then this is an incredible iPad. This all has me thinking about two things one maybe iOS 13 when that comes out will really turn the iPad into its true form its final form. It'll unlock the USBC port to do way more things.
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