iPad Air 2020 vs iPad Pro Review - Choose Wisely! By Matthew Moniz

So this is the iPad Air and- and I think the best way to review this is to compare it to the iPad Pro like. These are two iPads that share the exact same design pack tons of performance but exist at totally different price points. I feel like if you're looking at the air you're questioning yourself on whether you need the pro the iPad Air has finally been redesigned to match modern times. In fact, it's the same look and feel as the iPad Pro a tiny bit lighter at 1.01 pounds instead of 1.04, but almost impossible to tell the difference when holding both in your hands. They look completely alike, but the iPad Air nets you many more colors to choose from and instead of face ID, it uses touch ID, not the old circular button, you'd find on the old iPad, air or iPhone SC, but a new touch ID that's embedded into the power button. I suggest using two different fingers to log in when the iPad Air is in landscape mode.

The power button rests on the top left, which means your left index finger, becomes the best choice, but in portrait mode it's on the top right, which then makes the right index finger a better option. It's pretty quick to log in, but it takes some time getting used to. As you have to press the button down once to activate the display, then undress the button, but keep your finger rested to log you in. If you press the button for too long Siri gets activated. This is much different from most fingerprint scanners, where you simply tap once, and you're in the bezels are a tiny bit bigger on the iPad.

Air apple decided to use a 10.9 inch display instead of 11 like the iPad Pro, but they kept the form factor the same so that the air could use the iPad Pro accessories like the smart keyboard folio and my personal favorite, the magic keyboard. The air has a retina display, like the pro with 264 PPI, but lacks the high refresh rate and lowers the screen brightness from 600 nits to 500. This is the same brightness as the iPad, 8th gen and I felt indoor use was absolutely fine. Not once did I feel I wish I could crank up the brightness higher, but outdoors the extra 100 nits, the iPad Pro offers slightly improves the viewing experience. As for the high refresh rate, surprisingly, the lack of it didn't bother me when doing normal everyday productivity.

Of course, if you're, a maniac iPad, gamer or professional designer, the high refresh rate is valuable. For example, if you use the Apple Pencil 2 pro motion plays a big role of lowering the latency. When you write on the screen, the lower the latency, the more natural or fluid writing feels to me. The air felt smooth enough, but I imagine for artists who rely on the iPad for their career will want the iPad Pro instead now you'd think with four speaker grilles. The iPad Air would get four speakers like the pro, but there's only two actual speakers, one on each side, with the empty grilles acting as spaces for sound to move through.

They sound good much better than the iPad 8th gen, but lacks the volume and dynamic range of the iPad Pro on the back. There is only one camera: it's the same: 12 megapixel, wide camera that the iPad Pro uses you just don't get the ultra-wide or LIDAR sensor. Quite frankly, I am cool with that, as I only need one camera to snap, a quick photo or scan documents. The front camera is 7 megapixels and shoots much better. Video than the potato camera on the MacBook Air or pro with everyone being at home.

The iPad is a superior choice for Zoom calls. Now performance is fascinating, and I'm going to get a little nerdy here I did a couple of benchmarks and the a14 bionic is five nanometers, so it's more efficient, but it has fewer cores, which means you get faster single threaded clock speeds, but slower multi-core speeds, because there are less cores in the a14 compared to the a12 zed, I'm Canadian deal with it. Bionic inside the iPad Pro there's also more ram inside the iPad Pro there's six compared to four in the iPad Air. But here's the thing both of these chips are so powerful that there's truly no software on the iOS store right now. That's really going to make them feel slow.

So if you're thinking about getting the iPad Air over the iPad Pro because you think it's faster, don't let that be a determining factor, because these are both incredibly fast now. Battery life is also great on the iPad Air, I'm getting about nine to nine hours and 30 minutes of use before needing to charge, which is exactly the same as the iPad Pro and thank god, we finally have another Apple device, that's using USB type-c. So let's continue that trend apple. Let's, let's make the iPhone's USB type-c as well. So before.

Considering any of these two take a hard look at the iPad 8th gen, it just got a spec update and I think it's more than capable for anyone who wants something to watch content play. Ios game browse the net and answer emails. It's truly one of apple's best deals right now. Now, if you're looking at these two, I think the only reason to buy the iPad Pro is for three things. One you're some sort of crazy gamer who's playing a specific game that can utilize the promotion display.

Two. You need more storage like this. One here only comes with 256 gigabytes, whereas the iPad Pro can go up to one terabyte. But let me put this in context for you. Even if you were to max the iPad Air out at 256 gigabytes, it's still 50 dollars cheaper than the base model iPad Pro, and the third reason is, if you're, an artist if you're drawing and want the lowest latency possible when you're writing on the display to match what it feels like drawing with a pencil on paper, and you're.

Using this as a tool for your career, then it might be worth the investment to go up to the iPad Pro, but the slightly nicer speakers, the slightly brighter display and the extra sensors on the back- are nice haves, but they're, really not must-haves anyways that wraps up my review of the iPad Air. If you guys enjoyed it, feel free to hit the like button. If you're new to the channel subscribe, and I'll see you guys in the next video you.

Source : Matthew Moniz