iPad Air 3 vs iPad Pro 10.5 - Which Should You Choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and almost everyday someone is asking me, should I get the iPad Air 3 or the iPad Pro 10.5. Now Apple no longer sells the 10.5 pro new, but they do sell it refurbished on their site and there are a lot of different places offering discounts on them, or you could buy used. So in this video, it's going to be a little different. As far as the comparison, you can see the time codes in the description, but I'm only going to talk about what's different. Now as far as the price, they are a little different. The iPad Air comes in at $4.99, with 64 gigabytes of storage, up to seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars with cellular and 256 gigabytes of storage. When it comes to the pro the iPad Pro starts at 469, with the current prices refurbished from Apple, with 64 gigabytes of storage, up to 800 and $39, with 512 gigabytes of storage.

So you can get a little more storage. Neither of them have expandable storage when it comes to their physical design on the front, they're, absolutely identical. Now, on the back of the device they're a little different, the iPad Pro has a 12 megapixel camera with a flash and can record 4k video, whereas the air does not have a flash, has an 8 megapixel camera and can only do 1080p video. Now most people are probably going to record video with their phones and then transfer it to these devices. But if you wanted the better quality, you could go with the pro the camera also protrudes out of the back a little on the pro.

The other difference on the exterior of the pro is the speakers that you have 2 extra speakers on the top of the pro. So when you're in landscape they're in stereo, the headphone jack and everything else, as far as the microphones and power sleep-wake buttons are identical. When it comes to the display, everything is identical. Except pro motion, they both have the same resolution. They both have the same pixels per inch, but the iPad pro has motion, which is 120 Hertz refresh rate.

So when you're scrolling back and forth scrolling through different texts or just pages, the pro is much smoother, and hopefully you can see that I'm recording this video in 60 frames per second, and this scrolling is much smoother now. That is the only difference between the displays and even the accessories that work with the work with the air. So if you have a Smart Cover clicks on to the side of the iPad Pro, when you shut it, it turns off the iPad Pro and then, when you open it, it turns it on the same cover will work with the iPad Air works. The same way again when you close it, it will shut the pro under the iPad off, and then you can unlock it when you open it back up. Both devices support the Apple Pencil, but with the pro motion display, it is a little smoother, but if we go into notes, it works just fine on the air.

Sometimes there is a little of a lag sometimes and then again to pair it with the different devices you have to plug the pencil into the bottom. They both support. The Apple Pencil first-generation only on the iPad Pro the actual pencil, is going to be a little smoother. The touch sensitivity is the same, but the actual, writing back and forth is a little different. Now when it comes to the speed of both of them they're, both very similar, but the iPad Air does have the newer a12 processor, but the pro has the 10x processor, so they're, both very similar.

That way. But when it comes to things like Geek bench you'll see, the scores are a little different, so the iPad Air has 4818 for single core. The pro has three thousand nine hundred and eighty-three first single cores. When it comes to multi-core, the iPad Air has eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-three, whereas the pro has nine thousand five hundred and sixty-seven. However, the iPad Pro has four gigabytes of RAM, whereas the iPad Air has three gigabytes of RAM.

So when it comes to doing different tasks, they are more similar than you would think. So if we go over here, we'll scroll over we'll load a game like the room, we'll wait for it to load, and you'll see the air is a little of hand, but it's so close. You would never notice it's probably half a second away. If I hit continue game on both of them. You'll see they both floated about the same.

The pro is a little faster that time so everything's going to be the same, but as far as the graphics power on the iPad Pro you do have a little more, and I have found that I that the graphics or the scrolling or zooming seem to be a little smoother. So on games like the room, if I zoom in here zoom in over here on the air I, can see a little of skipping in the frames, whereas it's super smooth on the pro. So that is definitely a difference between the two of them. When it comes to a more intensive game like arc, we'll open that up, you'll see it was already loaded in the background and let's see if we can go here and just run depending on what's on the screen, they're going to be a little choppy, but you may have seen there on the air. It is a little choppy while it's running, whereas it was nice and smooth on the pro.

So you are going to see some graphical differences between the two and the pro does have more power when it comes to that again, it has more RAM as well. Now, if we go into something that's a little more intensive, such as exporting a 4k video in iMovie and go into iMovie and me. Have the exact same video here we'll go to edit. It's a video I recorded the other day, we're at a similar spot in the video. This video is one minute and 34 seconds long, we'll split it right here.

Just do something a little different, and then we'll add a transition in that split, so we'll add a dissolve, and then we'll hit done, and I have a stopwatch here. I've brought in we're going to share both of these in 4k and see how long they take to export. Since the iPad Air has a faster processor. Technically, it should be faster, but I have not found that to be the case in many tests. So let's go ahead and hit start and see what we've got here both have completed and the iPad Air was a little slower, maybe 13 to 14 seconds slower, but they're both very similar and the air is plenty fast buts.

The pro is a little faster when it comes to exporting video. Now, maybe you don't do a lot of video, but maybe you like to multitask. So if we go into the App Store you'll see they loaded pretty quickly. Both of them are about the same they're, both connected to the same Wi-Fi network and then, if I bring in something like music to multitask here they're both going to be able to handle it pretty much the same, so I've got split view. You can see I resize it, and they refresh it about the exact same time and everything appears on the screen at the same time.

So really there's not as big of a difference, as you might think, and when it comes to which one I would personally choose I would pick the iPad Pro once you've seen promotion it's hard to go back, it's so smooth when you're, using everything from the pencil to just reading. It's really nice to have promotion once you've had if it's hard not to have promotion. Also, the speaker's when you're using it to play video or just watch content is great. You have a really nice stereo, sound coming from them, they're, nice and loud, and also there's only one small difference. When it comes to connectivity, they both have the same Wi-Fi connectivity, a B G and an AC, but the Bluetooth is a little different.

The iPad Air supports the Bluetooth 5.0, whereas the iPad Pro only supports Bluetooth 4.2. The only place I think currently, that will make much of a difference has to do with the air pods ?, since they support Bluetooth 5.0. So they should connect just as well, but you may have a little different in sound quality. Most people aren't going to be able to notice that, and that's really if I would pick the pro. If it were up to me, maybe find a good used one when it comes to updates they're going to get the same updates for quite a long time.

The iPad Pro probably has a good three to five years left on it, whereas the air probable has at least five, but let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already, though, please subscribe and, of course, I'll leave this wallpaper linked in the description as I always do. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a like, if not the other ones, okay ?, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron. I'll see you next time.

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