iPad Pro 2021: Let’s Talk About This Newly Announced Game Changing iPad By Christopher Lawley

Whew yeah, so Apple just had their first event of 2021, and they announced a few things. But, most importantly of course, because you came here to this channel new iPad pros and boy, are they a doozy? I kind of lost it during the event like, I feel bad for my neighbors, because there is a lot of screaming and a bit of cursing, because I was very excited um, but let's walk through what the iPad has um again. It was just announced. I don't have one here. I went through the spec sheet. Furthermore, I found some fascinating stuff out about it.

So uh, lets kind of dive into it, so first up right off the bat- and this was a surprise to me. I thought the iPad Pro would just get the next a14x chip like I. I didn't see this one coming, but it got the m1 chip the same one. That's in all the new macs that we've all been going nuts over uh. I have one in uh Mac mini that I have here that that's kind of my file, server and stuff like that, and I've been in love with it.

The performance of that has been great so that same performance, that's in that Mac mini, is now in the new iPad Pro. So that means eight core CPU, eight core GPU. This thing is going to sing apple, threw up some stats, that's 50, better CPU performance than the 2020 iPad, pro and 40 better performance of the GPU compared to the 2020 iPad Pro, but yeah. If those numbers are real like true yeah yeah, that's that's kind of that's kind of what my head's been doing this whole time. If I could be selfish for just a minute, this is going to be huge for me as somebody that edits video and photos and stuff on an iPad having that much of a performance jump is, is going to be night and day for my daily workflow there's now a two terabyte storage tier option.

So this is again great for video editors photo editors that are gonna, have large local libraries of assets, and if you get the one terabyte or two terabyte tiers it now comes with 16 gigs of ram. You heard me right the iPad Pro now, ships with 16 gigs of ram, if you get anything lower than the one terabyte tier it, ships with eight gigs of ram, but to put that in perspective, the 2020 iPad Pro only has six gigs of ram. So if you get a one terabyte or two terabyte model, you're automatically adding an extra 10 gigs of ram to your iPad right, the performance gains that you're you can get out of this iPad. It's I'm so excited, I'm very excited if you guys can't tell to get my hands on this, but seeing as this iPad both got the m1 with which gave a huge CPU and GPU performance and a crap ton of more ram. This makes me think that there's still another shoe to drop on the software side that there's going to be other stuff that we're going to see, probably at WWDC or maybe later this year.

It reminds me a lot of the iPad Air 2. , the iPad Air 2. When it came out it was completely it was just overkilled, it was, it was so powerful, but then we got iOS 9 and multitasking came along. So I'm really curious to see what this other shoe is going to be. That could drop.

Is it going to be final cut? That's what I was really hoping for today. If you follow me on Twitter, you was getting really excited about the possibility of final cut uh, but it didn't happen today, kind of bummed about that. But, okay, whatever it can still come in the future, but my thinking is it could be pro apps? It could be better multitasking windowing. It could there's so many things. Furthermore, it could be that the performance of these new iPads can unlock.

The next thing that saw an upgrade was the USB port it got struck by lightning and now has thunderbolt. Do you get you guys see what I did there lightning USB thunderbolt? No, no! No, not funny! Oh okay, all right I'll move on anyways! It now has thunderbolt and USB version 4. So what this means is it can support up to 40 gigabits, 40 gigabits transfer rate up to that. If, if like the device that you're plugging into it also supports that that's really fast, that is, that is staggeringly fast, and I'm really excited to put that to the test, especially when it comes to like video transfers and stuff like that, getting stuff off SD cards, that's a little limiting, because SD cards are typically a little slow uh. It might be time for me to upgrade to cast for all my video needs along with thunderbolt and USB c4.

This also means it supports higher resolutions for external monitors. Apple specifically noted 6k, on their Pro Display XDR. Now I thought that was fascinating, that they noted that, because what that makes me think is hey iPad. Os 15 will be announced at WWDC. Maybe we might start to see true external monitor support.

Then I don't know like it's. This is me. You know. Reading tea leaves like reading between the lines, there's nothing for sure here, but fingers crossed I'm hoping the new iPad Pro. Also got 5g support and Wi-Fi six.

So if you need one of those great that's good for you, I don't necessarily think I will get a cellular model this time around, just because you know I'm working from home now and all that stuff. I don't think I need that. Maybe I might Wi-Fi six is nice, because that just means you know you get faster speeds. Great. The front and back cameras also got upgraded as well.

The back camera got better low light and HDR version three, which I'm not entirely sure what that means. I'm going to need to dig into that a little more I'm guessing it's just a better version of whatever HDR photos it was taking before, but I would like to know the specifics of that. But the front camera is the most interesting and no, they didn't move the front camera to the landscape or the long side. Unfortunately, but what they did is they put an ultra-wide camera in there, and they put this new feature in there called center stage. So basically, what this does are when you're doing a video call with somebody your face timing with somebody, and you move over here.

Basically what the camera does is it takes that ultra-wide lens and crops in and still puts you at the center of that frame and then, if it sees somebody else come in, it will widen that up, so you're, both in frame. So that way, if you're like in the kitchen, cooking, and you're moving around and stuff like that, the person can still see you, and it follows you around using that ultra-wide lens and kind of crops. Smartly through that. I think that's a fascinating feature, and I'm really excited and curious to try it out and see how it works so on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro- and this is just on the 12.9 inch. This feature is not coming to the 11-inch model.

It got a display upgrade it's now using what's called, and I want to get this right. Liquid retina, Dr and Apple is comparing this to the Pro Display XDR and if you haven't seen one of those the Pro Display XDR monitors that they make. Yes, they are really expensive, but they're so beautiful, especially if you do anything with HDR content, viewing editing, whatever the contrast ratio. That apple says that this display has is a million to one from what I understand. That is awesome.

That's that's that's great, but I need to dig into that a little more for this iPad's display the HDR specs are supposed to be around a thousand it's brightness and 1600 max brightness, and then, when it's just that regular SDR content, it's 600 nits, which is what the current iPad is, which I think that's pretty standard for SDR content. As far as accessories go, a lot of people were expecting to see a new magic keyboard or a new Apple Pencil today, and we didn't really get that. The only thing we really got is the magic keyboard now comes in white, which for about a half a second. I really liked. I, like the look of it, but then I look down at my magic keyboard and my magic keyboard is dirty, and I've had it for a year now, and I use it every day, but white is gonna, show everything you're going to have to be constantly cleaning that thing, so I'd be curious to see how it holds up.

If there's, I don't know if it's, if it's easy to clean or something like that, but I don't think I would buy the white version since the iPad Pro is my main computer, and I talk about it a lot here on this channel. Of course, I'm going to be upgrading uh. The performance alone is what got me really excited, but I'm excited to check out the display and thunderbolt that'll. It's its going to be really, really interesting. I think for me, I'm looking at the two terabyte model, but it is very expensive.

I don't have that number off the top my head, but I think it was around like 2200 dollars, which is a lot of money for an iPad. But again this is my main computer. So I and I had a video on it so having two terabytes of storage would be really nice right. Now I have the one terabyte 2020 model, one terabyte's, fine. I don't really like to run out of space that often, but I can't keep more than like three video projects on here and that's like three medium to small video projects.

If I do something huge, maybe two so the two terabyte one would give me a lot of breathing room um, but it'll definitely either be the one terabyte or the two terabyte model, because I want that 16 gigs of ram- I don't know if I'll get 5g um or the cellular option this time over the last year. You know: we've had the pandemic, I'm working from home. Now I don't really see the benefit of it. In my day-to-day I've had cellular iPads in the past, and I didn't use the cellular that much you can pre-order them on April.30Th and they'll be shipping at some point in May, I believe apple said the second half of may, which is kind of a bummer. I want it now, I'm impatient.

What can I say, but I'm really excited to check it out, uh. Let me know what you guys think about the new iPad pros in the comments below. Thank you guys so much for watching be sure to subscribe. I will, of course, be ordering one and reviewing it have a great day.

Source : Christopher Lawley