iPad Pro 2018 review: Beautiful, fast and not necessarily for you By CNET

Do you get a Mac, or do you get an iPad? This is a question that Apple has asked us for years, and it's still really hard to answer, because the iPad in the Mac are still pretty different computing types. The iPad Pro does double down on its strengths. It's a much faster processor, there's a nicer pencil. Then you have to buy a new one, and it works via a USB see, although it doesn't work with all accessories. So let's take a look at what it can do and what it can't. The iPad pros design is really refined now and looks really sharp compressing the screen to body ratio and making for an overall more compact tablet.

It's a lot better looking than it used to be the 12 point.9 inch version has shrunken down to land in between last year's, 10.5 and twelve point nine-inch versions while having the same screen sizes last year, the less expensive 11 inch model, which adds more screen into the 10.5 size, is what I'd prefer. But at least the 12-inch version isn't crazy, big anymore, but these iPad pros are also more expensive. Now they start at $7.99 or $9.99, with 64 gigabytes of storage and go all the way up from there. If you go for a whopping, terabyte, SSD and cellular the 12 point, 9-inch iPad Pro cost one thousand eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and that's not including accessories you'd want $129 pencil, a two hundred dollar keyboard folio case and you better consider Bluetooth or USB-C headphones or a USB-C dongle or two that's more than many MacBooks cost in a lot of ways. The new iPad pros are basically kind of like the iPad 10 because they work a lot like the iPhone 10 models.

They have the same front-facing face ID camera over here, there's a notch, but on the iPad Pro there, isn't it blends into the bezel and is basically invisible. It has the same curved corners that are in the iPhone 10 displays it has the same swipe gestures for the most part, because there's no more home button, and it has a souped up version of the 812 processor. That's in these phones and the most recent 10s and 10 are this: is the 12x has better graphics and better multitasking? If you want a multitask, you can really only put two apps side-by-side, say: Safari and Twitter I wish you could put more or even be able to position them in little windows. Face ID works just like the iPhone 10 and supports the same functions. iPad unlock, Apple Pay, iTunes purchases and automatically entering passwords for accounts setup needs to be done in portrait mode, but after that it works fine in portrait or landscape in any direction.

But the iPad may sometimes ask you where to look. The front-facing camera has the same depth: sensing technology as the iPhone 10 s, so it also takes portrait selfies. The iPad can also doom emoji and an emoji just like the iPhone 10, because of that true depth, camera which I like because I can now do this in every single video. Of course, you don't want to be the weird person taking iPad photos in public, but if you do, it takes some really nice shots. How do you navigate this thing? Well, the gesture language is pretty much the same as the iPhone 10, with a few extra wrinkles for iPad users.

You swipe down to get notifications, and if you want to get to the control center, you have to swipe from the top corner, which is a little annoying. And if you want to get to the home screen once you're inside an app well, then you just swipe from the bottom all the way up and swipe the app away. But if you want to get to the app dock, you have to do like a half swipe. If you have to swipe up a little to get to the apps you want to select, and if you want to get to the apps that are already open, you swipe a little more swipe a little more. So you get a little confusing to get to the open apps.

Getting that feel for how much you have to swipe can get a little strange. Sometimes the nicest thing about the pencil is that it finally has a place to go. Not only will it not roll off the table because the site is flat, but it magnetically charges and sticks to the side of the iPad. You don't have to worry about where else, to put it, whether you're sticking it in your pocket or trying to stick it into your ear or put it in your mouth you're, putting it off anymore, you can just flick it to the side of the iPad they're done. The new pencil has capacitive Doubleday, almost like air pods.

It does only one thing per app, though, and not many apps support it yet notes lets you switch between your pen and your eraser, but the really annoying thing about pencil is you'll need to buy a new one old Apple pencils won't work with it, which is ridiculous, and the new pencil won't work with older iPads. The rest of pencils, drawing sensitivity and latency seems similar to the older one, but I mostly draw Triceratops. So I talked to a real artist. Instead, I've been in print for 40 years, drawing on paper and then the last four years, drawing on the iPad I do a lot of live. Drawing.

I call it digital journalism, visual journalism, where I travel around and draw what I see and so having it. Portable, obviously is great I, don't call myself a caricaturist, because I was never trained to do that. I seem to be able to do it a little more easily on the iPad, the ability to erase a line instantaneously. So you just keep making the mark until you think it's right, I'm not used to the feel of this. Yet it has a little more pull and then the previous iPad is much more loose and fluid.

It feels it pulls more like a real pencil, and I'll get used to it, but I really got used to the old pencil that was really loose and fluid, and I liked what it did to my work, because my work is really quick and relaxed. I. Think I'm done! Oh, wow! That's that's perfect. It looks a lot better than me. The iPad Pro now has USB replacing lightning, which seems like a big move.

It's not as wild as you might expect. Its coolest trick is that you can reverse-charge, phones or just about anything else. Accessories are more hit-and-miss third-party dongles can be used instead of Apple's. Also, while this iPad gained USB, it dropped both lightning and a headphone jack, so for headphones. You're going to need something Bluetooth, USB-C or find an adapter.

Well, you think hopefully, and the iPad will finally connect to external monitors and do cool things, but the new iPad Pro has limitations, in fact, in its default, if you plug in with an adapter, say a USB-C to HDMI, to a monitor, it's just going to show you a mirrored image, just like it did before, with lightning to HDMI, adapter z' and it's pillar-box, so it doesn't take advantage of anything on the monitor, and you can't do a second screen now. Third-Party apps will take advantage of second displays up to 5k resolution. There aren't really very many, yet you can see, for instance, a movie trailer like this one for Bernie. The dolphin will take advantage of the whole display right there to enjoy Bernie the dolphin in all its glory and wasn't the dream of USB to skip having a dongle all together. Well, it doesn't always work like that.

In fact, I tried connecting USB to this Dell USB-C monitor and, unfortunately, it didn't work until more apps and accessory solutions arrived to make the most of this new iPad Pro. It's a pretty hard tablet to judge is the iPad Pro for you. Well, if you're an art, professional who's already liked the idea of what the iPad brought to the table sure this is great if you can afford it, but if you're somebody who's wanted this to replace your Mac. Someone like me who's like a real, serious writer. It's not exactly my perfect device.

Is it for you? I have no idea but check out that question. That's pretty amazing! You didn't deserve this pencil. Goodnight sweet prince, just very something: yes, I, buried $100.

Source : CNET