The 2021 iPad Pro can outperform any tablet on the
market without question, and it is even more powerful than some
of Apple's own laptops.
Now, this is a unique position because the iPad Pro is an
attractive device to those of us who want to modernize our
computing setup while minimizing our footprint.
Now, the iPad Pro can achieve this increased performance due
to the tight coupling between hardware and software cream
related unparallel
computing experience.
The 12.9 inch iPad Pro with M1 has been my daily driver for
almost 18 months and I've come to love many things about it.
Now there are a few things that I don't love about it, as well
as a few improvements that I want the M2 iPad Pro to fix.
So whether you want to purchase the sixth generation 2022 iPad
Pro that was just announced, or you are curious whether or
not that 2021 iPad Pro will fit your needs.
This video will serve as a guide for those of you to look
for either device.
Let's get started.
Now it is October 2022, and Apple just announced
updates to the most premium tablet on the market,
the iPad Pro.
And today's video is intended to help you decide whether you
should buy the newest iPad Pro or maybe save yourself a little
bit of money and purchase the previous generation.
Now, my review is broken out into different sections and you
can find each one of those sections pinned right below
the like button.
Now, this is my final review for the M1 iPad Pro.
It's not going to be a deep dive into the raw specs,
the device, because quite frankly,
that's not why you're here.
And you can find that information very easily on
Apple's own website.
Instead, my review will be based on eight months worth
of usage, covering several different aspects of owning the
most powerful tablet that Apple sells.
Now, if you find something that is not answered in the video,
your questions, feel free to comment down below as I am very
active in the comments.
This is the 2021 M1 iPad Pro and I have it configured with
one terabyte of internal storage and 16 gigs of RAM.
Having previously owned both the 12.9 and the 11 inch
iPad Pro, I continue to opt for the larger size iPad for a
few different reasons.
First I wanted is large screen as possible so that while I'm
working maybe in split screen or in slide over, I didn't want
to feel space constrained.
Now, even though iPad OS 16 does have stage manager to me,
I still want the biggest display possible so I can see
my content on as big of a screen and be able to interact
it very freely.
Second, I want to use the iPad Pro for more and more of my
general computing tasks, meaning that I most often find
myself using the iPad Pro, you know, either with
a keyboard, with a mouse and keyboard case like
the magic keyboard.
Now, like most of you.
My typing speed and accuracy go up if I'm using a
larger keyboard, and the 12.9 inch iPad Pro is really the
only reasonable choice.
The 11 inch magic keyboard is just a little bit too small for
my liking and my fingers feel a little bit cramped and I don't
have that speed and accuracy that I really like to have.
Ask him figured this portable powerhouse sells for $1,799
and to only.
I decided to add 5G for an extra 200 bucks, bringing the
total up to $1,999.
Now, many of you are probably shaking your head thinking,
why on earth would you buy a cellular enabled iPad when you
can just tethered to your iPhone ?
Now, I think that if you are spending this much money on a
tablet tablet is really designed around
portability and versatility.
You're doing yourself a disservice by not adding 5G
because the device itself really kind of excels while
being used out and about.
Whether or not you agree with me, I do have an entire
video here that I'll link in the cards above that goes
through my entire thought process a little bit deeper on
why had 5G to all my devices, which you can check out if
you want to.
Truth be told, I have not found the 2021 M1 iPad Pro to have
any significant shortcomings with my use cases, and I'm
pretty sure that it would be sufficient enough for many of
you that are even out there watching this video right now.
Save yourself some money.
The design of the 2021 iPad Pro is essentially the same as it
has been since 2018, with only some minor changes to it.
And the M2 iPad Pro carries forward the design having the
same exact dimensions.
The fifth generation iPad Pro is 42 grams heavier and
slightly thicker than the fourth generation A12z iPad Pro
and the new iPad Pro has the same exact weight coming in
at 682 grams.
Now, unless you are intimately familiar with the fourth
generation A12z iPad Pro, you held it on daily basis.
You're really not going to notice the thickness or weight
difference because it's not you know, it's very nominal.
Now, I do have a section coming up later in the video where I
talk about accessories, so make sure that you stay tuned.
The liquid retina XDR display is one of, if not the most
defining features of the 2021 iPad Pro, and I am a massive
fan of using it.
This makes using the device an absolute pleasure to use
whether using the iPad Pro to binge the latest show on
Netflix or to write your novel.
The display resolution on the 12.9 inch iPad Pro measures
2732 pixels wide by 2048 pixels high.
This makes it display a four by three aspect ratio with a 264
pixels per inch comment.
iPad Pro max down in the comments below.
If you're like me and you want Apple to release a larger iPad
Pro now in terms of display brightness, the liquid
retina XDR display can reach 600 nits of brightness in
typical mix usage, 1000 nits of brightness when you are playing
full screen non HDR content and an amazing 600 nits of peak
brightness for full screen HDR content.
It's going to be viewable off access without
much color change.
Now this won't translate in video very well, so I suggest
if you are interested in this type of feature, you make sure
that you view it in person depending on the content you
are engaging with on your iPad.
Some high contrast videos may display some artifacting due to
the number of local dimming zones that are on the iPad,
and I am interested to see if the mini OLED panel on the M2
iPad Pro performs any better than the display
on this version.
Now, between a new panel and the fact that Apple is using
mini LEDs that are supposedly like 12 times smaller,
this could mitigate the blooming effects that people
were complaining about with the 2021 iPad Pro.
I didn't find the blooming effects bothersome and I think
that there is definitely a level of subjectivity to the
person viewing the content.
So again, if this is you, I would definitely suggest
viewing both devices in person to check that out.
That or what you could do is you can subscribe to the
channel because I do have that new M2 iPad Pro coming here on
Wednesday and I plan to do some more quantitative testing where
I compared against the M1 in Seattle.
My thoughts are if the iPad Pro had a superpower, it would
almost certainly be flat.
Stability.
That is because iPad Pro is both powerful and conformable,
allowing you to work almost anywhere you want.
Find yourself on top of that.
The iPad pro as a little more flexibility because uniquely
you can choose how much ram you want your iPad pro to have the
iPad pros available with either eight or 16 gigs of RAM.
And the caveat is that the Rams tied to how much storage you
want on that device.
So you'll get 16 gigs around with either one or two
terabytes of storage while all other configurations have eight
gigs of RAM.
Now, this is kind of like forcing you to spend more money
to get additional storage on the device with the benefit of
having more RAM.
But my opinion, I don't think that most people need
this now, whether you're buying your first iPad or your next
iPad Pro, there's a very good chance to assume that you don't
need to purchase a higher tier configuration because it's not
going to be money well spent, in my opinion.
Now, most of the apps that I use as part of my workflow are
not RAM intensive.
Now, that's that thing that you're after,
not RAM intensive, but I don't initially see the benefit of
having more RAM.
I think it's not as significant as most people think or hope.
Now you might say that stage manager and external display
support our reasoning to go ahead and do so.
But I don't think that most people are going to
benefit from that.
And unless you're using your iPad in that configuration with
an external display, I would definitely suggest researching
it before spending the extra money.
Regarding storage.
I don't think that 120 gigs is really appropriate for anyone
and I would purchase 256 gigs or maybe even 512.
I wish that Apple would raise the first tier storage limit
from 122 to 56 because iPad OS really lacks the maturity
needed to allow you to store app data outside of the iPad.
Maybe 128 would be good for you.
But if you're planning on keeping the iPad again,
you know, two, three, four years, I really feel that
120 is too small and it's going to be money better spent.
On upgrading the storage from 128 to 56, like the
2022 iPad Pro.
The last model is configured with four stereo speakers.
Now, not only the speakers dynamically change what music
is coming out of there based on the device's orientation,
you'll hear both mid and high frequencies from the upper left
in the upper right when you hold the device in
portrait mode, while the two lower speakers handle the lower
frequencies make sense.
Now if you change the device's orientation from portrait
into landscape, the top left and top right speakers are
going to play the highs and mids, while the two lower
speakers are on play the low frequencies.
I thought they sounded better on the 2021 iPad Pro, but I'm
certainly no audio file now.
You also get spatial audio with the 2021 iPad Pro as a feature
that's carried forward in the new model.
But I hope that Apple's really able to push the speakers
forward and continue to improve the iPad Pro's sound quality
and audio experience.
Now obviously the devices cost does not include such
accessories as the magic keyboard and the Apple pencil,
which costs 350 in 130 respectively.
If you have an older iPad Pro, something older than the A12z,
which is the fourth generation iPad pro, your accessories that
you have minus the magic keyboard and minus the Apple
pencil will not fit because the thickness of the new iPad pro
from fifth generation going forward, it is about 6/10
of a millimeter thicker and 43 grams heavier.
So most accessories will not fit.
They can't be reused.
And any of your magic keyboards, those should
fit as well.
They might not close perfectly, but they
still functionally work.
And who wants to spend $3 on a new magic keyboard?
That's just ridiculous.
No one to do that.
Now I want to see Apple address three major things for me in
the M2 iPad Pro.
I think it's feasible that they do address them based on what
I've read and what I understand about the iPad Pro, that it's
coming out in a few days here.
So first and foremost, I love to see them re-engineer the
back like design on the mini LED for better efficiency.
I probably get about six or 7 hours worth of screen on time
most days and some days I get less than five depending on
what I'm doing and I have to recharge my battery mid to late
day only to get, you know, make it through the next day.
So that's something I definitely want to see.
Apple Fix Also the effects of blooming wear on the first
generation iPad Pro sorry, the first generation mini led
iPad Pro there was blooming effects where if you're
watching dark content where you see the halo effect which is
kind of distracting depending on the content
you're watching.
And that was a big point of concern for a lot of people.
So I will also play it.
It has that.
And the third thing I want to see, Apple Fix is going to
be the front facing camera.
It's really soft in anything less than perfect light.
Even though Apple's using the same camera hardware,
they're using a new ISP, which does allow it to record
progress as well, which is a really great feature that I'm
surprised that there are doing that.
So those are the three things that I want to see.
Apple Fix Now in terms of whether it's worth for you to
upgrade if you are coming from an iPhone iPad Pro,
I would say it.
I mean, if you have the money, go ahead and do it.
I'm not I tell you what to do with your money, but I don't
think it's money well spent.
But if you buy a 2018 iPad Pro or even later, I'd say it's
probably a pretty good upgrade.
The things that make it worth it in my mind are one,
having the mini-led, having more processing speed,
having a bigger CPU and those things that come along
with it, the neural engine and so on.
But for most people, again, if you have something that is,
you know, newer than a12z, you probably shouldn't upgrade
A12x and below you are absolutely the right
person for this.
And I think if I were you, you know, depending on where
you were going, it's probably not a lot of breath in
upgrading to the M2.
You're probably better off going with the M1.
M2 is just a real hard thing to justify upgrading
from Apple's perspective.
If that broke, don't fix it.
I want to know what you're.
Going to do.
Let me know down in the comments below.
My name is Mike.
I have that iPad Pro coming on Wednesday, so make sure
you're subscribed so I can test all those things with you.
If you want to see something tested, let me know
down the comments below.
Guys, I will talk to you in the next one.