My Thoughts on the New iPad Pro - iPad Pro 11 Inch Review By Hyun Ralph Jeong

So, it's been a few months since the new iPad pros came out and the hype has definitely died down a little. Originally I wasn't planning on reviewing this iPad Pro, because I already made a video about my original first generation iPad Pro last year and as a creative professional, not a tech, reviewer, I didn't really think that was much else to talk about other than the new design. Yeah, the performance is great, and the benchmark scores are impressive, but the performance was never really an issue even with the first generation iPad, especially for someone like me, who's mainly using it for drawing, and it is quite a costly upgrade as well, because, apart from the price of the tablet itself, now you have to buy a new Apple Pencil, because the old Apple Pencil does not work with the new iPad pros and if you'd like to type a lot, if you want to keyboard case, you can have to buy a new one of those as well. Unless you have Bluetooth keyboards also app will replace the Lightning port with USB-C, so that means you're going to have to buy all-new dong ho's. As well, I got the 11 inch, 256 gigabytes, Wi-Fi model I feel, like that's, gonna, be a popular model because the base model is 799 dollars and that only comes with 64 gigabytes of storage and if you're planning on doing any sort of creative work, I think you're going to need more storage than that. The new Apple Pencil was a hundred and twenty-nine dollars and a new keyboard case for the 11-inch model is $179 and 199 dollars.

For the twelve point, nine inch model I got a new SD card reader because I'm still using my 2015, MacBook, Pro and I haven't purchased any new USB dongle. Yet and I also got the Apple Care because I was afraid of the iPad bending on me. I'm sure you've heard a lot about that. So after a five-dollar recycling fee and the California sales tax, the total cost came out to $15503.14. And if you want the twelve point, nine inch equivalent of any configurations- that's $200 more and if you want cellular connection, that's a hundred and fifty dollars more.

So no wonder why people are asking things like. Can this thing replace their laptops because that's basically a MacBook Pro money so today, I want to focus on mainly two things: who is this iPad Pro for and if you fit into that category, should you buy one, but before we get into that? Let me just quickly go over some of the things that are new and some of the things that I like some of the things that I don't like what it's like to use, one and all the usual business. So, first the new design, if you've been watching all the reviews in the past three months and if you've been to an Apple Store, you are already probably familiar with it. I, don't think I heard any reviewers say that they don't like the new design, and I'm with them. This feels like a much more modern industrial design compared to any of the previous iPads from the past nine years, I like the thinner, bezels straight and squared off edges.

Everything is there for a reason and no nonsense. I still don't like the camera bump, though, and I feel like that's just the cheeky way to make you buy a case, but at least the rest of the device is nice and thin, and it does not affect to use in any way, and you probably forget that it's there in a few days also new in this generation, is face ID this one I'm not entirely sold on it yet, but I think I can learn to live with it. There's what I don't like about it with the girl home button, you just simply press it with your thumb to turn it on and unlock the device, but will face ID. You first have to awake the device and then let the camera recognize your face, and then you have to swipe up on the screen. However, you put it that's more steps, that's more work and in landscape mode when I reach for the power button, it's very easy to cover up the camera with my left hand, so that's just one more thing: I have to be conscious about, but the good thing is, it seems like Apple, designers and engineers were aware of this issue, and they provided several solutions.

You can turn on tap to awake in the settings, so you can tap the device anywhere to wake instead of having to reach for the power button every time, which is still one more step than touch ID. But if you have the keyboard case, you can just tap any keys twice without having to swipe up on the screen to unlock. So that's very handy, and just as fast as using your home button. One more design element that I'm not so fond of are the rounded corners on the screen. Many people like to run the corners, but what bothers me is the difference of the roundness of the inner display and the corner of the tablet itself.

This is like a graphic design, 101 absolute no-no, but the screen itself, though, is lack of a better word. Amazing. The 120 frames per second refresh rate, really makes the difference in everyday use compared to my first generation iPad Pro everything is buttery smooth, and it just makes the device a little more pleasant to use. This is hard to demonstrate in a video, but if you have not seen this in person, please go to a local, Apple, Store and check it out. Surprisingly, though, I don't think this makes a huge difference for drawing which I thought would be one of the biggest reasons to upgrade.

This is very nice, and you can still tell the difference, but when you're drawing you're not always moving very, very fast, all the time and if you're someone who's more focused on what you're, drawing rather than technical, specs, you're, probably fine with the older models, but I do like the new 11-inch design, because it provides a bigger screen real estate with smaller footprint, my own 12 point 9 inches. iPad pro was nice for doing work on my desk, but I felt like it was a bit too big for everything else. I'm, actually, very glad that I didn't get the twelve point, nine inch model, but obviously the experience might vary depending on what you do or where you use it. The new Apple Pencil nothing much to report other than the fact that now it can be charged magnetically, the magnet is strong enough, so it won't accidentally fall off, which is nice, and now you can also double tap on the pencil to switch between tools or settings, and personally it feels like it could be a tad heavier to give it more nice feel but again lighter weight, helps it stay on the iPad, and they might reduce fatigue on longer use the keyboard case I. Actually like it a lot more than I thought I.

Would the keys are kind of small, and it took me some time getting used to the layout and the keys. Don't have much travel, but they still have good click feedback. So I had no trouble typing on it. I wish the viewing angles were more adjustable, but the two angles weren't good enough for most situations. The combination of the keyboard case and the smaller size of the iPad Pro made this a much nicer device for at least typing than my 13 inch and 15-inch, MacBook, Pros, so I guess at least for that purpose.

It can replace your laptop. Is it worth 180 dollars? That's a different question: I'll! Do a separate review on the keyboard case, so stay tuned if you'd like to see that no headphone jack, which is quite annoying especially on a big device like this, there's, really no excuse not to include one and also, if you do want to use wired headphones, you now have to buy a new dongle for that as well. The USB-C port now opens up a lot of new possibilities for the iPad Pro in terms of connectivity, and also you can use it to charge your other devices like your iPhone and air pods, but in terms of actual usefulness, that's pretty much it. For example, connecting an external display does not necessarily give you more screen space. In most cases, it's just mirrors watch on your iPad.

You also cannot connect an external hard drive as an additional storage, but that's more of a photo than iOS, not USB, see basically don't get your hopes up too much about what you can do with the USB see. If you just use your iPad, like you always use to, then it shouldn't be a big issue at all, so that just about covers everything, that's new. So now, let's see who might benefit from this iPad Pro, in my opinion, probably at least half of the people who buy iPad pros are going to be some sort of illustrators like digital painters, comic book, artists, industrial designers, logo type designers, who would use the iPad Pro as their main drawing tool and out of the other half. How does that be? People like photographers graphic designers and some occasional video editors, I, say occasional, because no matter how good the performance is I, just don't see any of these people actually using the iPad Pro as their main work. Computers and the rest of the people are going to be more casual.

Users could use it to write, take notes, browse the web, play games etc. Of course, there will be some overlaps here in their bar I. Think this chart is pretty reasonable. The older iPad pros were already great for drawing, so it was already great for this group of people and the same goes for the casual users, because the iPad pros could already do everything. They were interested in doing Apple, increasing the performance and bringing software's like Photoshop to iPad I think has a lot to do with this group of people.

These are the people who might benefit from but are still not 100% sold on the iPad pros. Can the new iPad Pro edit photos? Yes, can you edit videos? Yes? Is it fast enough? Yes, so once you get used to the workflow and the pieces of software, it can actually do a lot of things quicker than most computers, but using it as a main computer is a different story. Just like I would never use my iPhone to shoot a wedding. If this was the only device that was available to me, then I could really get used to it and do a lot of great things. But since that's not the case, there are just so many hurdles that I have to jump over I can't plug in my microphone without a dongle I can't plug in my voice recorder without a dongle I can't plug in my SD card, without a dongle I can't access anything on my external hard drives without first moving them to my laptop.

So if you try to use it exactly the same way, you use your laptop you'll, probably get frustrated to actually replace your laptop with it. You have to develop a whole new workflow, and you have to learn all the new software's and in this day and age I, don't think the lack of choices of apps is an issue for the iPad Pro users, but I think it's more of a matter of the developers developing the pearl' versions of the actual desktop apps like they'll, be photoshopped. That's supposed to be coming out this year and I will have to do a separate review of that one that comes out because Photoshop alone, it is as good as they say it is. That means potentially I could do at least 50% of my work on my iPad Pro instead of on my laptop, and maybe we're being too harsh on Apple. Maybe people are focusing too much on the question.

Can it replace my laptop and I think for most people it can, but for the creative professional that they're supposedly targeting here, you know, people like photographers videographers, graphic designers? They don't like to change their workflow that much you know. These are experienced. Professionals, who's been doing the same thing for over and over again for years, and they don't like to change their workflow just because a new cool product came out. So then the final question: should you buy one? Well, it's kind of hard for me to recommend such a niche product. That is this expensive to anybody, no matter what they do, but money is a relative thing, and you have to ask yourself how much value this is going to bring into your life and your business for the money that you're going to be paying, and only you can answer that yourself.

If you are any sort of artist or an illustrator I think you guys are the ones who will be benefiting the most from this iPad Pro. If you are one of those people and if you still have not tried an iPad Pro I mean like what are you guys doing, go buy one right now. The iPad Pro in my opinion, is still one of the best tools and also the best value when it comes to digital drawing and this for that purpose, the iPad Pro is just miles better than any other PC tablets like the surface pros and just as good or better than any Wacom tablets for more casual users looking to replace their laptops. Sure it can replace your laptops. But then is this really that much better than a thousand dollar laptop, and also what's exactly wrong with the cheaper iPads for the rest of the folks? The important professionals I think the mileage might vary quite a bit depending on what you do, but for most of the people, I, don't think the software is quite there yet for you to completely replace your laptops, but once you just kind of accept that this is not a laptop replacement and start to use it more as a backup or a travel computer I think you'll enjoy using it just make sure not to lose.

Your dong goes back in 2010 after the launch of the first generation iPad Steve Jobs was at the DEA conference for an interview with Walt Moss berg. He says something that really resonated with my experience with the iPad Pro so far, he said when we were on a Ration nation. All cars were true because that's what you needed on the farm, but as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers cars got more popular. PCs are going to be like trucks they're still going to be around they're still going to have a lot of value, but they're going to be used by one out of X people and I think that statement is becoming more and more true as mobile devices like the smartphones and the tablets, and even laptops become more and more powerful. Lesser and lesser people are buying desktop PCs, obviously they're not going away anytime soon, but now only the people who demand the level of performance and the functionality of a desktop computer are going to be buying them.

Not everyone who needs a computer and exactly the same things been happening in the photography world, where more and more people are taking photos with their smartphones and not buying digital cameras. Professional cameras are still around, but only the professionals and enthusiasts are going to buy them when you watch YouTube review. So many of these products, like cameras, computers, tablets and smartphones, the people who review these products are usually the professionals or enthusiasts the top 1%. That know what they're doing I think. Honestly, a lot of people got pissed off that Apple call.

This iPad Pro and as they try to use this as a professional, some aspects might feel limited and even crippled, because undeniably, this is still a car, not a truck that we are so used to. Could this be eventually be the truck of the future if Apple redesigned the iOS and the filing system? Could this be the professional device that everyone's looking for, perhaps but by then there will be even more powerful, desktop and laptop computers that can do things that something like this can never do as a device like this become more powerful and capable I think that's still going to benefit more consumers and pursue Mrs rather than professionals, because think about what people can do nowadays with their smartphones and iPads compared to just 10 years ago. Think of all the 13-year-olds who are shooting and editing and posting videos on YouTube with their smartphones. So, to summarize, this is a very, very capable and powerful machine, but do not consider this as a laptop replacement and if you try to use it like a laptop you'll, probably get frustrated if you're a casual user and if you like the portability of the iPad Pro you think it's too expensive, then just get an older model they're just as good and the performance is not going to affect you in any way. So that's it for me today, and thank you guys for watching, and I will see you next time.

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Source : Hyun Ralph Jeong