Buy the 2018 iPad Pro in 2021! Here’s Why... By Fernando Silva

So, what is going on everyone, Fernando Silva here with another video, and before we get started? Please take two seconds to smash that like button, because it really helps get this channel in front of more people's eyes and grow the channel holistically. But for this video we are going to be talking about the 2018 iPad Pro in 2021, because if you guys have been following me or following apple tax or any of those leakers on Twitter, we should be getting a new iPad Pro in March of this year. So that gives us anywhere from two to six weeks for a new iPad Pro to come out, and I'm thinking it's going to be a big deal. I think it's going to be the most powerful iPad they've ever created. I think it's going to come with a price increase and a lot of those things, but for this video I want to discuss. If you need an iPad Pro right now, should you wait or should you go and get a 2018 or a 2020 iPad Pro, because those things are still beasts? I got my iPad Pro back in Prime Day of 2019, so working on almost two years with this 2018 iPad Pro, and I've never ever had an issue with it, but without further ado, let's get started so for anyone that just wants to skip this entire video and get the short answer.

The short answer is yes: the 2018 iPad Pro is a viable option and more so than that in 2021. But there are three main reasons why I'm going to say that you shouldn't wait for that 2021 iPad Pro and go with the 2018 or the 2020 model and reason number one is gonna, be performance so overall performance with my 2018 iPad Pro just to give you a quick little rundown on the spec sheet, it's wearing that a12x bionic chip, which is again about three years old. Now at this point- and it's got four gigabytes of ram and mine has 256 gigabytes of storage with the 2018 models. They only put six gigabytes of ram in the highest end storage one. So mine is still stuck with four gigabytes of ram but again zero issues from a performance standpoint.

This thing flies and it flies all the time. It's amazing to see what this thin beautiful, versatile device can do, because I video edit on this thing, I edit photos I write emails. I would work on. Word documents Excel documents. I do everything on the iPad Pro with zero lag: zero hiccups, yes, sometimes a little of a workaround, but that's comparing it to a desktop computer or a laptop.

If you're on the market for an iPad, and you're just looking at whether you should wait for the new one, the old one will put up a battle, especially against the 2020 iPad Pro the 2020 iPad Pro was one of the smallest incremental upgrades. When it comes to hardware on the iPad Pro, there was no real difference. Yes, they added the new camera, but the 2018 iPad Pro. I barely use a back camera anyway right. So that's just a use case by use case.

If you really want that dual camera setup, and you need the LIDAR scanner, then by all means the 2020 iPad. Pro version is also an awesome device because it's just a 2018 version with probably two percent better performance, in my opinion, so overall performance on the iPad Pro has been great. It hasn't slowed down at all. The only thing that has slowed down a little or gotten worse is the battery life, but that death of the battery life just happens over time with batteries. Just because that's how they're built so little by little, your battery capacity is gonna, get smaller and smaller, and if you don't follow battery best practices, which I don't at all your battery's going to get worse even faster.

So that's the only thing when it comes to an iPad Pro, but if you find an iPad Pro, the new battery then you're all good to go because from a performance standpoint the 2020 iPad Pro is not that much better and then the 2021 iPad Pro. I'm sure the performance is going to be perfect, because they're going to bring some technology from the m1 they're, probably going to put the a14x or a14z chip in there, depending on what they decide to do, and I'm sure performance is gonna. Be killer but for the 2018 iPad Pro for what you need it for especially again, I record in 4k, 30 or 60 fps, I'm editing, large images, log raw files, I'm doing more minimal tasks like emails word documents sharing, PDFs, signing documents, taking notes, so it handles that huge spectrum on a three-year-old device. So if you need an iPad Pro now go ahead and get it from a performance standpoint. Reason number two: is the promise of future upgrades right so there is no real deadline or promise of how many updates we're going to get on the 2018 iPad Pro, but I'm going to guess at least five to seven years right, so we're going to get at least two to three more years, if not maybe four more years of iPadOS updates on this 2018 iPad Pro versus yes on the 2021, you might get maybe six or seven years of longevity on that.

But the whole thing is that it just comes down to price and how long your money will last you over that time. So the iPad Pro the 2018 iPad Pro is one of the few devices that has literally gotten better over time. When I first got it, it was running iPad, OS 13.0, and I had it in the beta version, and it was cool it added the new multitasking added the new slide overview, all that cool stuff, but then little by little it got better. More security updates, added cursor support, magic keyboard products came out then, with 14.0 they redid the widgets they added scribble. Even though 14.0 wasn't that big of an update, all of those things start to add up and the iPad Pro has gotten better over time, which is something rare that you see with technology products in general right. You always want to buy something with the promise of what it's currently doing.

You never want to buy something for the promise of something later but apple's one of those brands that maybe you could make that argument, because their products do get better over time through software and then the last category has to be a combination of the price and then the unknowns right. So, yes, there are a lot of leaks, we're thinking, mini, led, 12.9 inch, probably more ram new CPU, probably some sort of new camera system right. So the leaks are there and some of it is known, but there still is a lot of unknown. We don't know what it's going to be priced at. How many of the other iPads are going to keep.

My expectation is that the new iPad Pro is gonna, be like a new level. It's going to be around twelve hundred dollars for the base. One and the 2020 iPad Pro is going to stay in the lineup, probably drop a hundred dollars, and then the 11 inch probably drop another hundred dollars. So that is my personal expectation. I have no justification for it, but that's what I think they're going to do.

I think they're going to come out with like a big ROG iPad Pro, but again that's a big unknown and then, when it comes to refurbished iPad pros in 2018, I've seen the 11 inch for less than 500. Think about that that machine costs 800 brands new. Yes, it's held onto its value, but at the same time, for 500 bucks, you get something: that's going to last you three or four years versus spending twelve hundred dollars for something that could last you five six, maybe seven years, and it's not going to be that big of a difference like there 's aren't that many applications or that many use cases where I can see that you would need to double the iPad Pro performance to get stuff done. That is just my expectation. Maybe it'll up increase render speeds, maybe it'll export things faster, but again this does it already fast enough, like it goes faster than real time when exporting and rendering suffusion files.

So overall, my final decision with the iPad Pro based on performance, future updates and then the cost to performance ratio, especially now in 2021. It's hard to beat this thing. It's hard to beat this 2018 iPad Pro this 2018 iPad Pro is still better than 95 of laptops from a performance standpoint, three years later, on a device that pretty much was brand new and kind of unheard of to that point, especially in this form factor in this design. So in my opinion, if you need a tablet, if you're on the market for one today go for it and buy it worst case scenario, you can return it 30 days later and then pick up the 2021 iPad Pro. My belief is that there won't be a 700 difference between a three-year-old iPad Pro and a brand new iPad Pro.

That is my main argument when it comes down to it, and I'm a tribe, true believer of this 2018 iPad Pro now, will I get the 2021 iPad Pro probably will to review it to see what the differences are to make videos for you guys, but overall, I'm probably going to hold on to this one, because I ended up selling my 2020 iPad Pro and my iPad Air 4, because I just didn't need them, even though they had the a12z and the a14. I just didn't need them compared to my 2018 iPad Pro, but that's pretty much gonna. Do it for this video everybody, if you guys made it to the end. Thank you so much, but basically in a nutshell, I do believe that the 2018 iPad Pro for the correct price is 100 viable. They haven't refurbished on Amazon sometimes you'll see them refurbished on the Apple app store.

So, like I said, keep refreshing it because they're always sold out on the refurbished side. But if you find yourself a cheap, 2018 iPad Pro by all means jump on it, because I think this design language is going to stay this way for a decent amount of time, and I don't think this new 2021 iPad Pro is going to change too much, because I doubt that apple's going to make us buy a new magic keyboard that only works with the new 2021 iPad Pro. If that happens, I'm going to be livid, but that's going to do for this. Video don't forget to like comment, subscribe comment below. Are you guys gonna wait for the 2021 iPad Pro? Are you guys going to get one of the older versions? Do you guys own one already, and then I'm going to upgrade? What are you guys thoughts, but again that's going to do for this video until next time.

Source : Fernando Silva