2020 iPad Pro Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and this is the 20/20 iPad Pro particularly this one right here: I'm holding is the 11 inch as ever, it's available in the 11 inch and the 12 point 9-inch sizes, so for the 11 inch. This is the second-generation for the 12 point, 9 inches, it's the 4th generation of the prompt, we're gonna, look at it now so first, as you probably know already, there's not a huge upgrade here from the previous generation. The good part is it's not going to make you want to spend money right when you already have the previous generation, but the other hand we all like to see progress, especially because it's been about 500 days since Apple last refresh the proline models. What is new here? You get twice the base storage, so that's always nice, and this thing that Apple usually does over time. Are they move from generation to generation, so 64 gigs the base model is 128 gigs, and you can get it with 256 or 512, or a terabyte of storage doesn't matter which of the sizes you're going for here also ram now 6 gigs for both models instead of 4 gigs for the previous generation? This does mean experimentally, and I've tested it compared to the previous generation, less reloading of Safari tabs. That sort of thing- that's always nice apples, always kind of skimpy on the ramp.

You can say there is optimized for ram, and it is, but still it was clear that it can be used a little more, especially for a power user device. I get so-called pro I pad model. You know the Apple, a 12 Z Bionic, instead of the 12 X and oz. That means, in this case same CPU they've, just enabled a GPU core here that was disabled on the 12 X. So you get a little better graphics performance, but clearly, there's no reason upgrade here, and I can't tell you why we don't have an 13 like we have in the current model iPhones.

Lastly, the distinctive camera cluster, there that looks like the iPhone 11 Pro or pro max. It's got two cameras, not three like the iPhones there's no telephoto, but they did add a wide angle instead of just having a main camera and that's a 10 megapixel and honestly, the cameras on this are pretty darn. Good I mean you, you don't expect much from tablets, but these take pretty nice pictures. In fact, you can see a picture of our cat taking in mediocre indoor lighting, both with the iPhone 11 Pro Max and with the iPad Pro 11 2020 model, and it's a pretty solid standing showing there for the iPad 11. But you know it's not: going to beat the iPhone 11 Pro Max, obviously or pro but hey for a tablet.

It beats the pants off of everybody else. Apple says that the recording quality is better. It does sound a little better. I mean studio-quality, not really so much, but it's better. It has three microphones.

This is nice by the way for the cameras, if there's no portrait mode, no Knight mode for the rear cameras, there is a portrait mode for the front camera. It's not bad. Actually, you can see the selfie that I took in conjunction with those cameras there's now LIDAR, which is something we see on some robotic vacuums and on self-driving cars like Tesla's, that sort of thing. So what it does is it measures the room and depth and where objects are to create a model? So that's for a augmented reality. If whether you're using the IKEA furniture placing functionality are playing an AR game, it's noticeably better so before.

If you waved your hand in front of the camera and weird things would happen if somebody walked across unnatural things, we'd have furniture floating in the air. So if you place a virtual chair using the IKEA app, for example, it stays grounded on the floor when people walk by it actually looks like they're walking by a real piece of furniture. Is this gonna change your world? No Apple seems excited about this. Maybe they're going to do some other augmented reality products, and this won't complement that or go along with that. Oh, Wi-Fi! is also upgraded to Wi-Fi makes from well.

Why five? Five, not a lot of people, have Wi-Fi six access points. There are plenty for sale at this point, but its future-proof and that's nice. If you go with the LTE plus Wi-Fi miles, then the just Wi-Fi model. Well, then you're still looking at gigabit, 4G LTE, probably not until Apple- has an 14. Bionic chip only see integrated five GLT available.

When will that happen? When will they next refresh the iPad pros, or will they make that a higher T or model still I kind of hope? Not iPad pros are expensive and not you know, I, don't know. Pricing is the same as it's been before, starting at $7.99 for the 11 inch and $9.99 for the 12 point.9 inches add more money. If you want 4G LTE thrown in there and more money as you go up in storage increments again, 128 gigs is the base model configuration which is pretty reasonable. Given the amount of cloud storage, many of us do, but if you are actually using one, these video editing and believe me with lumen fusion are with the included iMovie. You're sure could actually do this.

In fact, that's an interesting thing about the performance here. Yes, the CPU bump. Isn't that mantra even the GPU bump, but these things are wickedly powerful? Actually, if you can tolerate the workflow on an iPad which mostly I, find the challenges getting files on and off of the iPad, but this is faster to export edit and export 4k video, then even the 20/20 MacBook Air and that's kind of insane. If you look at the benchmark grass we're in Geek bench 4 in King's, Bench, 5 I think more people are still familiar with Geek bench 4 numbers. You look at that multi-core score, and you're like wow.

This actually can be on an HP Specter x-360 13-inch, with an intel, 10th, gen CPU. So Apple, you know they say hey. This can be your new laptop sort of and if you want a touch experience with an Apple product well, this is your only choice right. How true is that it's getting to be more true? Yes, they do have a file manager. Now it's somewhat less painful to move files around.

We do have cloud services to make that easier, but they have their new magic keyboard coming May 25th why it takes so long, I, don't know, but anyway, this one adds a trackpad, iOS 13 point for that. Just came out with these new iPads as support. So actually you can use trackpads with other iPad models. Anyone that's upgradable to this version of the operating system, but for the pro models for the 11 in this 1.9 inch. They have this new magic keyboard folio case.

So yes, it's a case protects the front and the back. It has a magic keyboard, which means the one-inch travel, scissor key kind of nice, normal keyboard likes on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 2020 MacBook Air are the desktop keyboard that you can use with IMAX or anything that you want. So it's a better typing experience than the fabric case, which is still available at 179 to 199, depending on the size. So, anyway, this new keyboard experience given the trackpad and the clever ways that Apple has made it work. It's not just a carbon copy clone of the way it works.

On macOS, for example, it's a little more object, oriented in gesture or either it works, really well makes it more usable organ. Ah, McGee speaking and workflow wise as a laptop replacement. Selecting text becomes easy. You don't need your finger or even the Apple Pencil to which these are compatible with. So that's cool.

The only uncool thing as ever, with Apple is pricing so for the 11 inch that magic keyboard is $300 for the 12 point, 9 inches it's three hundred and fifty dollars a three hundred dollar keyboard accessory for $7.99 tablet. That's like 40%! Almost you know more spend as I write like I said the Apple Pencil 2 works with these as well. That's $129 and it's as ever. Uh glorious experiences right up there with Wacom EMR and Into s--, and the much more expensive mobile studio pro portable tablet. Windows, computers for pen experience, I mean the pressure levels that tilt the sensitivity.

It's on those who watch my videos know that I do a lot of digital art. That's my hobby and my pastime and I love using the iPad pros for that, and that's one case where you could say these iPad products could actually maybe save you a little money versus something like a Wacom mobile studio pro or a PC and the Into to get that level of excellent pan experience, which is better than even Microsoft Surface Pro much as I loved surface pros or an HP Specter x-360. Also and I say that we're talking about the price of software too. So if you're, using Windows or Mac, and you want to use Photoshop and such you were looking at an Adobe CC subscription which ain't, cheap, Cheetos and other programs which typically are more expensive for desktop operating systems. Whereas procreate, which is superb, is $9.99, hmm and there's Photoshop for the iPad 2, it's not nearly as good as Photoshop on the desktop. If you expect all the future features, but it's pretty good for a photo editing and all that sort of things.

So there's a lot you can do here, not everything you can do on the desktop which gets into the every year. Should you get this or a MacBook, Air or Windows tablet like the Surface Pro and all that sort of thing and I would say. If you know you need those desktop applications specifically on their functionality, if you're an artist, and you're a professional artist, working with workflows required by say, Disney or something like that, and you absolutely have to have full Photoshop and so on. Well, then, you might want to stick with the desktop operating system. Obviously, for me, I mean obviously we're not going to spend our weeks professionally editing videos to upload to you on an iPad.

You can do it, but the workflows are still easier on desktop, so it depends, but if you're just doing Word, if you're streaming video, if you're editing video more casually, if you're editing photos, it's actually kind of fun to do it on an iPad, especially if you're using an Apple Pencil or your finger to do some adjustments and the touch-ups on it as to which size you should choose. This canoodles comes up every time. Apple refreshes the iPads I've been using a twelve point. Nine-inch, iPad lucky me iPad from, and I do that, because I do art and the bigger the canvas. The better I have a love and hate relationship, though with it, because it's huge, it's really awkward.

This is why most Windows tablets are actually a little on the smaller side. I want to turn it around to show somebody something not to be so careful and not knock anything over or drop it. You know you get the idea, but if you want to use it as a laptop replacement, a twelve point, nine inches makes sense if you're pretty into art the twelve point. Nine inch makes sense for everybody else. I think the 11 inch is a real sweet spot for portability, easy to hold lighter you get the idea.

One pound versus one point. Four pounds to display on this by the way is the same: liquid Retina display 120 Hertz refresh rate wide P, three color gamuts. Yes, it is nicer than the cheaper iPad models. If you have the money, it sure is nice to have those things. It's not any different from the previous generation, though so there's nothing to upgrade to here.

I'd 600, nits, a brightness, that's up a little from I, think 500 nits in the previous generation. So its tablets go it's pretty darn bright battery life, pretty much unchanged here, 10 hours for the Wi-Fi only model, they told him in 9 hours for the LTE model and as ever, if anything Apple underestimates this and the battery capacity is, you can see them on screen for the two models you can 18 watt USB see based charger, it's very compact and a 1 meter or a 3 foot, long, USB, cable. So that's kind of work for a pro model. You've got to be close to an L that are spent some money to get a longer cable. Everything else is the same.

You have USB-C, which means it's interesting. You can actually use the same USB-C adapt as you would buy for your MacBook Pro MacBook Air at this point. So if you need USB-C to an SD card, reader USB see the USB a can get adapters to that Apple or another brand, even though many USB Chubs work, so it is becoming more like a computer. In that respect, we still have squared off sides. We still have aluminum casing available and silver are spaced Greg, you get the idea physically, it's the same, so there you have it.

If you had the previous generation, probably not so much unless you're looking to do a size change, some people want to go bigger. Some people want to go smaller. You get the idea, but if you're looking to upgrade from an older iPad, that's where it starts to make sense. If you have the original generation iPad pros, if you have a lower end older heir or something like that- and you want to take the next step up to faster, more storage, better screen, all those sorts of things then you're going to get that here. So then it makes a lot more sense and I can understand that.

For those of you who are on a tighter budget, you want Apple Pencil support. You want to laminated display because. That looks a little nicer and retina nominally, maybe not as wide gamut, maybe not high refresh, but there's still the iPad Air from 2019. So that one is a ten point. Five inch display supports the original Apple Pencil and the OS.

It does support track that, even though Apple hasn't shown any magic keyboard case. Yet for that one. So for five hundred bucks, it's pretty compelling if you would like to have all these extra bells and whistles, but you can't quite make that stretch. I'm Lisa from mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech videos and hit the notification.

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