What is going on, everyone, I am Mike, welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV.
I'm glad that you were back with me today because we are
talking about the 2020 iPad pro.
Now, you might be thinking yourself, Mike 20-20,
iPad Pro.
That device came out of almost a year ago.
And that is exactly my point.
Apple released this device in March 2020.
And since that time, many people, some like you,
some like me, thought this was not going to be a
worthy enough upgrade.
So in today's video, we're going to talk about what
I like about the iPad pro, what I don't like about the
iPad pro and whether or not it is a sufficient enough upgrade
after using it for 12 months.
In addition, we're going to talk about whether you should
operate to the twenty twenty iPad pro or whether you should
wait for the next one.
Let's get started.
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Now you cannot talk about the twenty twenty iPad pro without
referencing the previous generation.
Twenty eighteen.
That is because this is really the baseline which Apple set
for mobile computing.
As we know today,
the twenty twenty iPad pro is almost indistinguishable from
the previous generation.
If you're looking at them both side by side, I mean they're
both available on the same screen sizes of eleven and
twelve point nine inch.
They both have the same resolutions.
Whether you have eleven or the twelve point nine inch, they do
have the same storage configurations available with
slight modification to the entry level being at one
hundred twenty eight.
I'm only latest generation if built in the same fast
storage controller, which allows you to go and
transfer data quickly using the USB port.
Heck, they even share the same accessories, including the
keyboard and the second generation apple pencil.
But that is exactly the thing you are not buying the iPad pro
because it looks cooler than the other one you're buying
because of its capabilities and what you can accomplish
with this device.
Now, even though the iPad pro shares that many common
features with the previous generation, that is
where future parody stops.
Apple upgrade its several components, which,
in my opinion, aren't going to be core to the experience.
And they really help the user get more out of the iPad pro.
First to to upgraded a 12 Z bionic, which is a core CPU
GPU combination, now, this is very similar to what we saw
last year with the 12 X, the differences here that the
GPU and additional core is activated, giving you a
little bit more headroom, I would say, when you're using
CPU intensive tasks, functionally speaking, if you
were looking at the speed tests from the twenty eight iPad pro
versus that that of the twenty twenty, you would come
to the conclusion that the speed test in single core and
multicore are very similar.
And that is true.
That is because at the heart of the iPad pro, it is still the
same eight core CPU that is driving it.
You are going to have that headroom on CPU intensive tasks
that end when you look at the RAM configuration on the 2020
iPad Pro, each of them have six gigs of onboard RAM.
Now that's much different than the twenty eighteen iPad pro,
where only the one terabyte version was given to RAM and
all other versions were given for gigs.
In almost every scenario that I have, my iPad pro from Twenty
Twenty is a better performer with six gigs of RAM in
comparison to the twenty eighteen.
It's not really about a actual metric that you can measure.
I can see that there is responsiveness that's going to
be there in the 2020 version and the twenty twenty iPad pro
is just a little bit more snappy.
I think you know what I'm talking about.
You can feel it, but it's a little hard to measure.
A lot of the other changes that you're going to find in the 20
20 iPad pro may or may not be meaningful to you depending on
how you use your iPad.
Now, for me, I can tell you that my iPad is my constant
daily companion from the beginning of my day.
It is on my desk at work.
It allows me throughout the day, no matter where I'm
working in my house, it also follows me throughout
the night.
I use it for majority my tasks.
Still, about 80 percent of what I'm doing from computing
perspective is being done on the iPad pro.
I mean, I'm using it from everything from joining
Zoome calls, joining FaceTime calls, all the
things that you do while you're stuck at home.
Now, I can tell you that the things that may or may not
matter to you are going to be the improved
Wi-Fi connectivity.
So this has Wi-Fi six or eight to 11.
a x it compared to Wi-Fi five and previous generation.
You're also getting wider support of gigabit LTE bands on
the latest version as well.
Now, I think some of the contention around whether this
was a meaningful upgrade is me focused on
the camera improvements.
So on the 20 20 iPad pro, there is a 10 megapixel
ultraviolence that was added to the camera in addition to
a light sensor.
Now, how useful the ultraright in the letter sensor are going
to be for use?
Really, obviously, up to you.
I don't know that.
But I can tell you that I'm a little disappointed in the
implementation of the ultraright camera because it's
not even available to access during first party
apps like FaceTime.
Like, I would love to be able to take a FaceTime call and be
able to access the ultra wide lens on the back.
You still can't do that, which to me is just a big mess
on Apple's part.
I own the 11 inch and the twelve point nine inch model,
kind of foolishly, if you ask me, I thought I was going
to be able to use the 11 inch for kind of maybe more more
tests that were a little bit more confined where the whole
point was too big of a device.
And I found myself really just using it to read.
So it's kind of a waste of money.
Don't do that.
Learn from me.
Borrowing from the 16 inch and as well as the 13 inch
MacBook Pro, there are some new mikes on the iPad Pro that
really allow you to go in and capture more dynamic range of
audio when you're either making FaceTime call and
recording video, maybe recording podcasts.
As a matter of fact, I am recording part of this video
right now using the iPod.
You told me what you think about this.
This is audio that is being captured right by the iPad,
which is about maybe a foot from my face.
So let me know in the comments below what you think
of the audio.
Now, it might not be perfect like this microphone that you
see here, but it is probably would be good enough for a
majority of people.
At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, is it worth
spending at least seven hundred ninety nine dollars to get a
brand new iPad pro if you are either adding one to your
workflow or maybe replacing a function broken one?
Now, those are two distinct use cases.
I would say if you are adding a new iPad pro to your reply,
I will say you want to wait as long as possible and get the
best possible deal you can.
At that point in time.
There is always going to be something brand new.
There's going to be an iPad with new features are going to
be the newest technology.
If you're replacing a functioning, broken iPad,
I will get that as soon as possible because the impact to
your workflow could be greater than you actually waiting and
trying to save yourself a few bucks.
Now, there are a lot of rumors coming around what the new iPad
pro is going to have in terms of features.
They're saying it's going to have many led, which would
allow for more contrast, a more robust display that the eight
fourteen X, which is that next evolution of the processor that
is in the iPad pro today, should be
significantly better.
It could be modeled on the M1 Mac Mini, your Mac pro,
which is a sort of, at least in my opinion, and it is really
should be more powerful than what we expect in addition to
it having 5G.
So if you have a workflow that maybe requires fast broadband
access while you are out and about, that's something you
want to think about as well.
So I would then delay if you had those requirements,
there is the possibility that maybe in the future we see some
type of hybrid model where the M one Mac Mini in the Mac on
the iPad pro runs some type of kind of universal software.
We're allowing you to kind of switch between.
That's just my personal opinion.
I would love to see that.
But let me know what you think in the comments below.
Who are my hard core folks that are using their iPad pro every
day as their primary computer shadow down below?
My name is Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV folks, and I will talk to you in
the next one.
So here is a little tidbit for you.
This video was taken me really about three days a record.
So I've been wearing the shirt on and off for three days,
the hindrances to the twenty twenty iPad pro and
every iPad.
Excuse me, I'm getting tile installed right now, so DenTek
is going to be that loud.
That's because there's a magic in the making.
You don't want the video to seem like it takes so long and
this thing won't stop.
But really, I've got work going on in my house.
You kind of heard that during the video.
And because they're doing construction, it's not
really a whole lot of quietness regardless.
I am like this is like 24/7 TV.
Now, what you see is that the No.