Unboxing Apple's Most Underrated Product... By Unbox Therapy

So in this box right here, I have something that many would probably consider to be the best value in Apple's entire product. Lineup Wow talk about a lot to live up to. Yesterday, I made this video on the new Microsoft Surface go-to, and it was hard not to compare that thing it to a number of other products. But when it came to comparison against Apple products, it was difficult to figure out what exactly that product was competing with I knew it was an iPad, but the question was which iPad and inside this box I have Apple's best value in iPad. That is this one, and this is the new 10.2 inch. iPad 7th generation is what they call it and funny enough I never featured it on the channel, maybe because it's not the most exciting product.

For me personally, of course, it's not at the top tier, it's not in their flagship level, but it might be exciting for other reasons. Most importantly, the price. This thing is a new iPad in 2020, and they sell it for $329, think of it as the iPhone SE of iPads and probably given the price. This would be the competition for that surface, go at the entry-level price, and so many people filled up the comments saying this is the better buy. This is the thing that you want.

You get the entire inventory of applications inside the Apple ecosystem, they're, not wrong. There are plenty of applications that I like that are in there and their touch, optimized and so on. But, of course where this product takes the hit is on the productivity side. You don't have the full OS, so there are some things you might not be able to install there, and you can't put a keyboard on it, whether it's Bluetooth or Apple's own keyboard cover. But for me the big interest in this particular product is just the idea that Apple is selling a new iPad, full-fledged iPads on iPad Pro, but they're selling, a full-fledged iPad for $329 in the same year that they're selling wheels for 700 stands for a thousand of course, they're completely different segments.

But there's been a few people made funny tweets on Twitter. That's where you would tweet things, but this is essentially. This is the popular iPad. It's the iPad for people that want that entry-level price point: it's not going to be as fast as the iPad Pro this particular model. I have here been the 32 gigabyte version.

I had to get the full entry-level experience. It's got an older processor inside but, of course, with the various optimizations and running a mobile OS. That should be no problem now. The reason this is the real comparison to the world of Chromebooks and a Microsoft Surface go because price more than anything else dictates the category and the comparisons. The real question here considering I have no experience with it is how close is the experience to something like an iPad Pro? The form factor is very similar.

Bezels are gonna, be bigger. They could have called this. The iPad s, Apple stickers, paperwork, health. How fast is this power? Brick gonna, be it's 15 watt, 10 watts, MMM, lightning connector, so it doesn't get the USB type-c love that the pro model gets. So those are some drawbacks.

But how can you even compare this to an iPad Pro? That's up over a grand. You start to accessorize. That thing cost you a fortune. Okay, now much like in my positive, my pros, video that I made for the iPhone SE, this thing has some big bezels on the front that are kind of a throwback. They remind you of the olden days now, maybe more so on a tablet compared to a smartphone.

You can make the argument that it gives you thumbs a place to sit. You can make that argument granted if cost was not an issue. I would still prefer a better screen to body ratio so yeah. It feels like I'm holding an old iPad. Obviously, and it's not that I expected anything different, you have the touch ID fingerprint unlock.

You do not have the fancy display either not that you'd expected at this price point. So there's no fast refresh boom-boom-boom boot, it up, and obviously the thing that comes to mind. This is a touch-based interface. I, remember, iPads, first launch people say it's just a scaled-up, it's just a bigger iPhone whoa. It is, and that's kind of what's good about it.

It's what's bad about it. Furthermore, it's what's good about me! Remember! In the early days we talked about what would an iPad be like if it ran a full, fledged OS 10 type operating system that never happened, hasn't happened yet probably will never happen, as people continue to progress towards mobile OS s as their main OS is. The Microsoft approach is the complete opposite, where they kind of actually trimmed back the touch approach a little and dug deeper into the idea that Windows the desktop operating system could do everything that you need this here is the 11-inch Oh 11-inch iPad, so a bigger screen over here, but an actual smaller body. This is the more modern look, but what about the cost of performance ratio? Is it really all that different? Well, I'll? Tell you looking at the two of these. The pro model brings the display ever closer to the surface, and when you include the pro motion, you get a much better.

It just feels like you're touching the stuff, as opposed to touching some glass. That sounds very strange. You would see the difference in experience if you touch them, but still I'm, not one of these people. That's transition to doing any heavy tasks on here, maybe a little of music production, I've experimented with, but I'm, not editing videos over here, yeah I mean it might be a little less snappy. Obviously it's not running the latest chip.

It's just not the highest specification, giving your investment now when it comes to competing with the Microsoft Surface products or a Chromebook, for example, which is in this price category. The next question that comes up is I. Understand. Apple. Has this great touch experience, but what happens when I want to pop a keyboard or bring other peripherals to the party? Well, you can use the Apple Pencil for one to potentially increase your productivity, but it can't be the new pencil.

It's actually got to be the previous generation pencil, and that brings me back to the idea that this could have been called the iPad S II. You can connect a keyboard, but it can't be obviously the keyboard case for the pro model. You have to use this slightly older one and this model I never liked. Furthermore, you know I'm picky with the keyboards I told you this already, but this models kind of a because it accesses your cover. Also- and you connect it like this, but then it only covers the front of your iPad, so you never felt super comfortable, just chucking this onto the car seat or onto a table because the entire back is exposed and then once you get it up.

Anyways like this there's a weird you pull the keyboard, and then you do that and the front edge kind of wobbles a little, and it's just yeah. By the time you get here, you're still punching into a very mushy little key travel. It's like a nylon material kind of input and I just never been a fan of this. So that means, if you want to go with something other than this particular keyboard case, that's fine! You can do it, but you need to find a way to prop up the iPad in that case and that actually brings me to today's sponsor, which is the perfect fit here. Today's sponsor is Zhu good case.

They make something called the muse case for this iPad, the seventh generation. Here it is in purple, they make it in a number of different colors. Here's a black one which you know is gonna, be my choice. This case allows you to pick a number of different angles in order to prop up your iPad, and it's magnetic so what you're, gonna notice here I can put the iPad at a laptop style angle and stick a keyboard in front of it all the way down to something more like a drawing angle or where you're looking down onto the device. So if I pop this iPad in here, it's so fast to adjust, and it clicks into place all the way up.

So this angle here is actually gonna, give you somewhat of a laptop style experience or maybe a couple more down. The point is that you can pick whatever you like, and then you could bring your own keyboard to the party kind of like this. Of course, the benefit here is obvious. Now this is an expensive mechanical keyboard, but of course you could bring any you could even get a slimmer more portable one. This is a pretty decent compromise around Apple's case, on top of the fact that Apple's keyboard isn't very tactile.

It's also expensive that keyboard case, which doesn't cover the back of the device, is 100. Fifty hundred and sixty bucks, this one, on the other hand, is forty-nine, and you can check the reviews on Amazon. You don't have to take my word for it. People love this thing. It covers the entire product, full protection, and it even has a neoprene slot for an Apple Pencil, which is a nice little touch.

I can't tell you guys how many times this thing pop has popped off the side of the May as much as I love magnets. This one could have been its tiny bit stronger. Inevitably, when I throw this thing around, it will pop off from time to time. So there's a solution for that as well. Just remember, and this iPad requires the previous-generation pencil, not the latest one just hit the Amazon link in the description, and you can check it out for yourself, like I, said, read the reviews from a bunch of people.

These guys have been doing it for a while for a number of iPads picking any angle you might like and then bringing your own keyboard it'll even stick to a fridge. This thing will stick to a fridge, maybe for a recipe, a tutorial, so you could make Willy DUS famous tacos. Do we still have some half-decent speakers over here? Why don't we find out and let's turn up the volume? Just a touch here. Signature type cover aggression towards the. What is a laptop convoy man? Okay, so that's a big improvement there.

In my opinion, maybe I'm sensitive to audio, but I mean this thing doesn't claim to be a laptop. You know what this one's not bad, either it's just not it's just not to the pro level 800 for the 11-inch model compared to 329. So the better question is more: is this thing twice as good as this, and you know what I think you could make the argument that it's not not twice? It's certainly faster. You have two gesture-based input. You know we have no home button, so you end up with so much more display.

Furthermore, you lose touch ID you get face ID, instead far better speakers way better display. Obviously you have a smaller footprint on the pro model, yet you have more display to work with, but still no I still think this product is a better value. At least you can make. The argument depends on the user, of course, and another comment that I saw in the Microsoft Surface Go video was that many of the applications that students need to access are now web-based. If you have a web browser you're into it, you've got what you need, so the last one to bring to the party here is obviously that surface go that I keep mentioning from the previous video.

This has the keyboard case on it already and Apple does not make a case to this caliber or a keyboard to this caliber. I should say for the old model that new magic style keyboard, that's going to be competitive with the surface product is only going to be attachable to the pro model. iPads apples, magic keyboard looks like it's going to be 300 bucks. Is that correct? To give you a tactile keyboard connector for the iPad Pro similar to what Microsoft offers in their cheaper product the go product this magic keyboard, even though I haven't tried it, yet I'm pointing at this one, because it's a lot like this surface keyboard has the potential to replace a laptop more easily than Apple's keyboard case for the cheap model iPad. So now, this comparison gets more complicated when you bring this guy out, because this guy starts at 399, though most people are probably going to want to step up to a slightly more powerful version of this.

So, this surface go price, wise sort of matches up to this iPad more than this pro. This pro with a magic keyboard is over a thousand bucks which is more important to you. The tablet life, the touch-based interface, the Apple ecosystem of apps, or a full-fledged operating system and a less expensive path towards a laptop replacement, which is what the surface go, gives you out of the gate in a package, it's just a little more targeted at productivity. From that standpoint. So here is a video test on the entry-level 329 dollar iPad.

You can also hear the audio performance here, like I said it's very being quite zoomed in you're. Going to have to push it back from you on the desk. You probably would want to have it around here. Instead, you can compare that to yesterday's performance on Microsoft Surface go-to. On this unit.

You have USB type-c, whereas on the iPad you need an adapter or a dongle to connect the peripheral. They both have headphone jacks. This one has the proprietary magnetic charger, and this one has the LTE option installed, but that brings this one into a different price category I think the couch buyer, the consumption buyer, the touch-based, a majority buyer, the person who's going to be touching their iPad more than typing on their iPad. It's going to go in this direction right here. This is the entry-level.

It's actually I mean it's a pretty cool value for 329. When you consider the inventory of touch based apps, for example, I'm a fan of an app called OXY, which is a music production app on iPad, it's tuned for iPad, it's designed for iPad, and it's an experience that you can have there that's pretty exclusive to iPad, and there are examples of that within apples, ecosystem that are tough to find substitutes for, or exact replicas of on Windows. Now, in a flip side when it comes to the Microsoft, Surface, go-to I think the focus there is going to be more on productivity in a traditional office or student sense, where the type based or trackpad based input with the case is more of a priority and more of a common input method. So now I have to pass it off to you guys. What do you do in this situation? You've got a vote down in the comment section: do you save some cash and get yourself the entry-level iPad? Maybe pick up a third party case and throw whatever keyboard you want on it when you need to type, do you go in this direction and grab a Microsoft Surface go with whatever specification is suitable, get the keyboard case for it, or do you save up a few extra bucks and step all the way into an iPad Pro for, like 1,100, with the keyboard case, which is the optimal scenario for a student or a human who is not a student in 2020? If it was your money, what would you do and which of these three do, you think, represents the optimal value for money.

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