iPad Pro 11 Inch Review: I Work From an iPad Everyday By Christopher Lawley

I spent the last two years, working strictly from an iPad Pro I previously had both generations of the twelve point: nine-inch iPad Pro, and I love them. I use them for everything, including writing. Video, editing and recording podcasts I work off the iPad, because it's an interesting platform I've always enjoyed it. The new development plus exciting new apps makes it an interesting place to get my work done, so I, don't think everyone has to work off the iPad, but for those of us that would like to here's a different take on the new iPad browse at apples. Last offense, they announce two new iPad pros with a fresh design. I decided to go with the 11 inch, 256 gig Space Gray model I've, always gotten from the bigger iPad, but I was curious if I could work off the smaller one, I was originally gonna, go for the one terabyte model, but those were a bit too price.

For me, I was also planning on getting the gold version, but Apple stopped baking it for these generations. One of my biggest complaints about modern Apple is that the pro devices cost more money becoming less color options. So far, I'm really happy with my decision. I feel the 11 inch is workable, but also extremely portable right off the bat it's noticeable iPad has been completely redesigned and rethought from the ground up. The screen on the smaller iPad Pro has gone from ten and a half inches to an eleven-inch screen.

The bezels, while minimal, give the users a good area to hold the device. This really helps prevent accidental touches. Apple is fond of calling it an edge to edge screen and, while I don't agree with that description, I see. Their point, though, is a completely beautiful. The screen, I would say it's more minimalist.

Bezels display is called liquid Retina. While that sounds impressive turns out that just means it has rounded corners. The rounded corners do make the device feel more modern, though it just looks and feels clearer than any past iPad displays and for those artists or people wanting to do video editing your color correction and your color reproduction will be incredibly accurate. It's an impressively beautiful display. The edges now have a flat design that remind me of the iPhone 5 days.

This was clearly engineered, so the pencil would have a place to be stored and charged along one of the long edges when I first saw the design revealed I was worried that it would make the device uncomfortable to hold, but I found that not to be the case. In fact, I really enjoy the design and I would love to see this come to the iPhone. The speakers on the iPad Pro have always been good, but they've been turned up to 11 on this model. They now have separate tweeters and subwoofers for a much louder and crisper sound overall they're, smaller speakers from the previous generation, but that doesn't degrade them at all. As someone who edits audio I would feel comfortable.

Just editing off these speakers. Just don't be that person in the coffee shop doing that Apple's audio team is seriously killing it with these and other products like the home pod on the iPhone Apple. Since the original iPad with the a4 processor has been making their own custom chips for its iOS devices with every year, they get faster and more capable. This year's a 12 X chip is no exception. The way we typically measure CPU performance is using deep bench scores the higher the score, the better the performance and the scores for the 12 X chip rival.

Some modern Mac's, including the MacBook Pro I've, been working in Lima fusion and while my previous second generation was good at it, it would sometimes get hiccups when working with large timelines of 4k video, this new iPad Pro just rips straight through them. No hiccups, no slowdowns the export times are also much faster as well same goes for podcast editing there isn't anything. I could throw out this iPad to make it feel slow. The chip is impressive and there's no way I could ever go back to using one of the older iPads because of it for somebody that works and lives off of an iPad doing creative work having a fast device is incredibly important to me. With these new iPads Apple set byes to the Lightning port on the iPad Pro and hello, to USB, see if you're previously, all in on the iOS ecosystem, this might be a bit jarring I had an abundance of lightning cables and accessories and, frankly, they're just not usable anymore, with the new iPad Pro, including the first generation Apple Pencil in the new USB world.

It's all about adapters, and I've ordered a few I'm going to make a separate video focusing on the different kinds of adapters. You can hook up to this thing, because it's a lot, but for right now, let's talk about what the USB see breaks the iPad that lightning did not. First there's the ability to charge devices like the iPhone and air pods. I found this to be incredibly handy. The other day when my air Potts case died, and I wasn't near a charger I plugged, my Nintendo Switch into the iPad and the switch charged the iPad Pro honestly I thought.

That would be the other way around, but I guess that means I have an extra battery case if my iPad ever dies. Next up is importing from a camera. You can plug a camera into it, and it'll open the Photos app, and you can just start importing photos or videos. This also happens when you plug an iPhone into it, using the USB, c2, lightning, cable. A lot of people have been talking about hooking up an external monitor as it's a new feature, but it's actually been around for a while.

As long as you had the right adapter, but what's new is the ability to output 4k at 60, Hertz I, unfortunately, don't have a 4k display, but I do have a 27-inch 2560 by 1440, monitor, and it looks great I just can update to show different content on the external display than what's on the iPad. Unfortunately, apps I use every day, like Lima. Fusion could benefit from this, but have not updated to support it. Hopefully soon, I see the external monitor, support as kind of fad right now, I think if Apple made a monitor that was built for the iPads aspect, ratio had touch inputs and could be tilted. That would be a game.

Changer or Apple could just add Mouse support, and that would just make any monitor work well with the iPad, if you're going to buy a monitor, specifically to hook up to the iPad I recommend making sure the app you use supports at first. This is a review of hardware, but I can't help but wish the iPad at least had another USB, C port I think with two ports we'd be able to use the adapters that we need, whether that's a headphone jack USB, a SD card reader, HDMI whatever, and also be able to charge at the same time. I. Don't think we'll see two ports on the iPad Pro anytime soon, but if we did get him, I think it would be great. I'd also like to see external storage support come to the iPad Pro.

Now that we have USB see, it would be very trivial for Apple to add external storage, support to the files app I'm happy to see. USB C come to the iPad Pro, especially before the iPhone. To me this is Apple saying this is a real computer ready for the spotlight. The headphone jack has now been removed from these devices. Apple says it has to do with liquid Retina screen and not having enough room for the port I wish they could have figured out some way of keeping it.

My workflow really benefited from having that, especially when it came time to record a podcast I think for most people, it'll be fine, as people have been transitioning to wireless headphones anyways, since phones have been losing that ports for years now. For me, though, I wish it would have stuck around battery life on this computer is insane when I first got it. I didn't put it down, and it was still 2 days before I needed to charge. If I was able to record a whole episode of a slab of glass which takes about 2 to 2 and a half hours with the screen on the whole time, I only used about 20% of the battery, that's with a Skype call happening in the background. Google Docs and Safari open Apple stopped giving exact numbers for how long the battery should last, and I've just started saying it lasts all day, but I found it to be even better than that.

The keyboard for this generation of iPad Pro has also been redesigned. Apple is now calling it a folio case, meaning it covers both the back in the front I kind of like this, because it has better support for the iPad, and you don't have to do any weird origami to undo the keyboard. It also feels much better on your lap as it's one solid piece, the old one, because the base wasn't solid would just fall over on my lap all the time. This new one feels like I can use it as a traditional laptop. It's sturdy, and it's not gonna fall down anytime soon.

This is helped by the fact that the cover piece is all one solid piece. The one thing I'll say is this was Apple's opportunity to make the color case. This thing by default just looks boring its black plastic I added some stickers to mine to make it look a bit more personal, but it would have been nice to get some colors now that we've kind of ran through what's new and different. Let's talk about the iPad for work. First up, the small iPad Pro versus the big iPad Pro the biggest software difference between the two is the fact that you can show to full screen iPad apps side-by-side on the big one, but the small one can only show up to full screen iPhone app versions of those apps side-by-side.

Everything is still there. You just see what you would see on the iPhone, so the layout may be a little different I. Don't think this is a big deal for most people the week that I've been using the smaller one. It's been completely fine and honestly, I keep forgetting. This is the case I.

Think, overall, if you're going to do a lot of multitasking, the big ones going to be better one to get. If you travel a lot move around at work, go to meetings, work on the couch or really any non desk area. This is where the smaller iPad Pro excels, it's great at being super portable, but at the same time a very capable machine. I love the 11-inch iPad Pro it's a great machine to throw in a bag and take to a coffee shop at work, and I'm like the 12.9. It's really easy to hold one-handed, while sitting on the couch and working on the next shortcut.

I'm going to make a video about, but I think if you're somebody that works up the iPad primarily and spend most of your day, working at a desk you'll benefit a lot by getting the bigger one for me, I feel like I'm, constantly hunched over the 11-inch model, while sitting at a desk and until we get the west-world style tablets where they can unfold and make them bigger. I think the bigger iPad is a better bet for somebody like me that works at a desk. A lot now I'm not getting rid of my 11-inch iPad Pro it's my favorite computer I've, ever owned I like the ability to work with it at any place. The twelve point nine inches one is just too big or awkward to work with mostly on the couch, so I'm, probably gonna, hit both I know that may sound a bit excessive, but I spend a lot of time with these and the 11 inch. One works really great in some instances and the twelve point nine inches one to me is going to be my desktop workhorse machine.

The 11 inch is sort of a backup computer that I can use to retweet and RSS play games, build shortcuts on and do some work that doesn't really require a really much bigger screen. I would also like to have a second iPad next to me as I'm working this way, I can reference any notes or previous videos. I need to work out almost like having two monitors plus. If we get a bunch of new features in iOS, 13 I know, I'm going to want a test machine, because putting a beta on your iPad is not a good idea. One thing that seems to be happening more and more Pro applications are coming to the iPad at the iPad event.

We saw Photoshop being showed off, and it was really cool. It really is the full Photoshop I'm going to brush up on my Photoshop skills, so I can show it off to you guys when it comes out pun intended. All of these great third-party Pro raps are coming out, but yet we have no pro apps from Apple. Yet I really hope to see logic. Final cut and Xcode come to the iPad.

Soon a big area of contention has been the iPads OS. A lot of reviewers are calling it a large iPhone and the fact that you can't really get real work done on the iPad. They seem to be forgetting the features like multitasking drag-and-drop, dock picture and picture, and that's fine, because I partially agree with them. The iPad does need more robust features for a lot of people. I hear mention all the time that there isn't a native way to deal with zip files and the best solution is a shortcut, but a lot of people don't want to go, build a shortcut every time they hit a roadblock I'd.

Also love to see the ability for external storage support comes to the iPad and also the ability to have two windows of the same app side by side. I think that stuff is coming, but I think it's completely unfair to say real work can't be done on the iPad just because one job can't be done on it. I hear every day from people that work 100% off the iPad, and it's great to hear these stories. This video is also 100% produced off the iPad I wrote the script in drafts recorded the VO and fer rite imported. The video into photos then ran a shortcut to move those videos into the files app and delete them from the Photos app and then use Lima fusion to edit the whole thing.

Together. For almost two years, every single video of mine has been produced off the iPad, so I think it's ready for real work, but it's not done growing. Yet you.

Source : Christopher Lawley