iPad Pro 2020 Honest Review - Is It Worth It? By Meredith Marsh

We need to talk about this iPad situation. So a couple of months back, I bought the iPad Pro 2020 version. That's the new version. I got the Apple Pencil. I got the magic keyboard that everyone's been raving about, and I never posted an unboxing video or anything like that. Furthermore, I did get footage of the unboxing just in case they wanted to use it.

But I've been using this for about three months now, I've been using it to help manage and plan my YouTube channel, my business even in my life, and there are some pros and cons- and I want to give you my honest review of the Apple iPad Pro 2020. So this is the 11-inch iPad Pro 2020. That's the smaller of the two models. I got the one with 256 gigabytes. I felt like I needed a little more than you know this standard, but not quite as much as like a whole terabyte or anything like that.

So what do I actually use this thing for? First, the app that I use most often is good notes. It's a note-taking app is what it is. I have multiple notebooks, multiple sizes and templates. I use a tabloid size, dot grid for my YouTube video planning. Furthermore, I open up a blank page and I start planning out my videos in my own handwriting right there, and I am honestly I'm kind of shocked by how much I really enjoy handwriting my notes.

Furthermore, I will sometimes script my videos word for word, or at least script the intro in the outro, just to make sure that I cover everything that I needed to say. Furthermore, I also use it as a digital bullet journal and, if you're not familiar with what a bullet journal is that's out of the scope of this video, but I have been using the bullet journal method as a weekly planner for the past, like four years, five years or so, and so once I got this about three months ago, I started doing it digitally, and I don't know that I would ever go back to using paper and of course I use it to check in on Facebook. Inside my video pursuit society, Facebook group and my free Facebook group, I schedule posts in there as well, plus I use it to watch YouTube videos and order. My groceries from Walmart and all these I talked about using good notes to kind of plan out my YouTube videos and my podcast episodes, but as far as managing that content and like when it's going to get posted and what keyword research has been done and what the keywords are going to be and all that kind of stuff. I actually use notion for that notion works in your browser on a desktop, but it also has a really great app.

So this is essentially my editorial calendar. My content calendar- and I put things in here- my assistant- can see what's going on and schedule things out and knows exactly what is actually on our content calendar. I also use notion to manage a bunch of other stuff in my business as well and a lot of times. I do open it up here on my iPad and kind of fiddle around with it. You know, what's really nice about the whole concept of the iPad is all of these things that you can do from anywhere.

I will often sit on my couch and do this kind of like admin, type of work or the creative work of planning a YouTube video, and I don't have to be sitting at my desk at my computer, and that is by far one of my favorite things about just having an iPad in general, but also having an iPad Pro is something that is big enough and powerful enough to do all that kind of stuff. Now, let's talk about what I don't use it for, I actually don't really use it to edit my YouTube videos. I do use suffusion if I have like a quick video or something I'm just kind of working on for fun or for another social media platform or something, but I don't sit down and edit a whole YouTube. Video on my iPad, if I had to, I certainly would- and I would use suffusion like if my desktop computer died today. I absolutely would just use my iPad and use suffusion to edit my YouTube videos.

I just prefer to sit at a desk with a bigger screen for that. Furthermore, I also don't record my podcast episodes on it. Furthermore, I know that some people do that. Furthermore, I just prefer not to do it that way. So as far as the iPad itself, I am really happy with the size.

Like I said, I got the 11 inch instead of the 12.9 inch. I just I wasn't sure I needed something like as big as a laptop, and I'm really happy with this. I think this works out really well, and it's its big enough to do the split screen with things and I use that function a lot by the way. Furthermore, I also have a screen protector for it called paper like I'll, put a link in the description to that, and it's like a normal screen protector, but it is more. It has like a matte finish, and it's it just.

It feels a little more like paper. That's why it's called paper like and because I use a Mac computer and I have an iPhone and I have an iPad. I can use airdrop between those three devices. If I take a screenshot or a picture on something, I can just really easily share it to one of the other devices like it's really fast. Now we have to talk about this Apple Pencil because I freaking love this thing.

This is the Apple Pencil version 2 or whatever it is it's its it's very sleek. It's like it's minimal, it's just so easy and so beautiful it just magnetizes. Is that a word magnetizes to the top or the side, depending on how you look at it so that it charges it's never gone dead, and it really writes like a regular pencil. It's really, I think, underrated the idea of having a pencil as your pointer as your mouse is kind of game. Changing honestly now I wasn't totally sure if I would actually like writing, digitally on a tablet.

I heard people say: oh it's amazing, and I was like I don't think so. I'm really surprised by how like really enjoyable. It actually is its kind of satisfying, and it's like the best of both worlds, because you can write something you can copy and paste it into another document or on another page move it around resize it. So you have the analog handwriting, but you also have the digitalis of being able to kind of move things around and manipulate things. You can also just turn your handwriting into text as well.

Now the magic keyboard is another story. Yes, I like it as far as keyboards go. It seems like it's tiny, but its everything is spaced really well, it's a lot easier than using the keyboard that pops up right on the iPad itself, and so it is really easy to type. I was a little skeptical, whether I'd be able to actually sit on my couch. I don't know if you do this, but I like to sit on my couch and like cross-legged until my feet fall asleep and do some work that way I was skeptical, whether it that would work, because it's so small like would I be able to balance it on my lap and I can, it works fine for that.

The problem with this is I like to do a lot of writing and holding this in my hand, and I can't really do that if it's on this, it's like it's awkward right like no one wants to write like that. So what I do is I take it off great, wonderful, love the whole magnetic thing. I close the actual keyboard case, and then I can just set my iPad right on top, but this isn't attached this. Isn't it's not secure and that drives me crazy, because sometimes I think I'm just I'm like picking up my iPad, and I'm not I'm picking up two individual items and if your brain is not prepared for that, the iPad could slide right off and that just it drives me crazy. Why couldn't you figure out a way to magnetize the iPad to the outside of the magic keyboard so that you could just use it like this and not worry about having these two things sliding around? If this thing was truly magical, there'd be a way to open it up and fold it back or something so that you didn't have this whole sliding unstable iPad situation? Now I mentioned that I don't use my iPad to edit my YouTube videos, unless I'm doing just a one-off project here and there, but if I was going to suffusion for sure is the way to go it's by far the most superior video editor out there available for the iPad and the iPhone it.

It rivals some desktop video editors out there as well. So I've queued up that video here, walking you through how to use suffusion. You can see it in action, see the iPad in action, how it works to edit videos for yourself, and I'll, see you over there.

Source : Meredith Marsh