I think I think I just proved that the M2 iPad Pro is pointless.
But you already knew that!
And frankly, that’s a bit too cliche isn’t it?
Here on Youtube..
ahhh I returned my iPad, 5 reasons I hate the iPad…
But I think I will surprise you with this one.
In my last video I was quite critical of the M2 iPad Pro and basically said it’s the
same shit.
And before I sit here and just say I told you so…Well I did…
But I thought I’d put my money where my mouth is and actually use the damn thing.
And I think you’re gonna be VERY surprised.
To be 100% clear.
This iPad is going straight back to Apple.
There is a couple of bombshells in this video that even I wasn’t expecting, so bear with
me!
I asked you, my audience here on YouTube and on Twitter…
for real world professional apps that you think the iPad Pro is great for.
So I spent some time, watching tutorials, reading forums and learning about what, within
those apps… pushes the iPad to its limits.
And before I get into that, here is something very interesting!
As I predicted in my last video, all of those channels who got this iPad early from Apple…
were very fluffy about their so called reviews.
I can’t stay quiet about this.
It’s criminal…
And look, I am not salty because Apple didn’t send me this for free, I buy their shit all
the time anyway.
My problem…
as a consumer, is that these early access videos, ONLY do one thing.
They generate POSITIVE reviews.
There’s only a handful of people on Youtube who are actually calling Apple out on this
one.
Sure some of them are criticising some of the features but that’s just what I’d
expect when I watch a review.
In my opinion, we should all be getting the devices at the same time, whether Apple provides
the device to creators or not, I don’t care.
Because only then, you could choose the videos to watch that will actually help your decision.
If all you want to hear is positive, this not the channel.
Right let’s start with a 3D modelling app.
SHAPR3D This is Shaper 3D, a very popular 3D modelling
app.
I installed and played around with Shapr3D, downloaded several 3D drawings and messed
around with them trying to see what pushes the limits on this app.
I have no clue what I am doing here but I understood that rendering not just lots of
bodies but complex surfaces is what will consume a lot of resources on the iPad.
And I also found an interesting point here which was just loading a complex design.
In one example, it was about 30 seconds faster on the M2 iPad Pro.
When it came to using the drawing, applying different finishing touches to them, absolutely
ZERO difference.
And when exporting, the difference in speed was pretty negligible between the M1 iPad
Pro and M2 iPad Pro.
Both became very laggy during that process, but I didn’t notice any temperature issues
and both completed the operation without crashing.
Now… the first bombshell I mentioned is coming up… but first I decided to try a
couple more creative apps.
Affinity Design which is like an illustration app and Lightroom which I do use personally
quite a bit again, I could not tell the difference during normal usage.
One thing that some pro might do is export several RAW images at once.
So I loaded about 40 RAW edits and saved them locally.
Absolutely no issue exporting them.
But there was a NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE when downloading the RAW images locally, so it
looks like that new Wifi 6E is having a positive impact here.
But once both iPads had downloaded the images, they exported the 40 images within a second.
Affinity I tried Affinity Designer but I gotta be honest,
I wasn’t really sure what this app needs to push it, but the experience was very similar
on both.
I didn’t notice any lags, you know sometimes you might get some delays in the brushes or
when quickly zoom in and out.
Both fell very smooth.
No issues exporting in high resolution, or print ready PDFs.
I did notice the Apple Pencil hover when selecting items in the menu, and I the jury is out on
that one.
When selecting small parts in the 3D design models I did think that was useful.
Is it worth an upgrade just for that?
Nah, not for me.
Lumafusion Now here is the first bombshell with LumaFusion.
I loaded up a standard 4K video, with different sources like a bit of drone footage and some
basic 4K footage.
The video is about half an hour long, just to give you an idea.
Exporting this 4K video using the default settings in LumaFusion, was over 10 minutes
slower on the M2 iPad Pro.
Is this alarming?
I think it is.
Considering this is not a new app and the app behaves perfectly fine on the M1 chip,
this should be at least equal
for me.
When I tried the same, but with ProRes only footage… the M2 iPad Pro, absolutely smashed
it.
Because I am guessing it’s using that ProRes decode engine.
It’s only 10 minutes, but when you’re paying extra for the latest…
This is not good.
And like I said, this is only 4K footage which I still think is largely the standard usage.
Not many people out there are using the iPad for ProRes editing.
And even when I looked at the quality of the export on that ProRes edit…
It doesn’t look like we lost anything by using the M1 iPad Pro media engine.
I will upload this footage to Google drive so you can download and see for yourself.
But I can hear you thinking…
Export time is usually not something video editors care about too much, as long as the
experience DURING the edit is smooth enough.
And I gotta say, both performed exactly the same.
If anything I noticed a couple more stutters on the M2 when I was scrubbing the timeline….
but I’d be nitpicking there.
There is nothing between them when it comes to just going through the edit.
I used a whole load of different apps and the experience was very much the same.
But get ready, because I wasn’t really that happy with how close it was between these
two, so I decided to use the M1 iPad Air to run some of these apps.
And you guessed it…
They all just behaved, pretty much the same way.
Of course, when it comes to things like Procreate, the memory is going to be
the bottleneck here.
Big shoutout to my viewer Sloppy Toons.
Great name by the way.
He helped me out with giving me some pointers on what pushes the iPad.
Sadly I don’t have the skills to push some of these apps but I really didn’t notice
any different when using both.
With Nomad 3D for example, I loaded a few models, created my own and you can see how
much memory it’s being utilised.
Some models used a lot more memory than others, but when moving around, working with the models,
it is really the EXACT same experience.
And before I forget…
YouTube is bloody hard for smaller channels like this.
I am doing this as something on the side..
So if you are enjoying this video, a thumbs up goes a long way, in getting YouTube to
recommend this channel to a wider audience.
But you can do even better than that, by sharing this video with someone you know.
The benefit to you - and hopefully to your friend as well… is that I will be here at
least once a week with a down to earth tech video for you.
Right...
you know, Apple try really hard with their Marketing..
And I am not falling for that again.
A Pencil hover?
Really?
Yes, BlackMagickDesign announced a Q4 release for Davinci Resolve which got a lot of people
excited, but seeing what I just saw here…
I will believe it when I see it Apple.
Nice try though.
When it comes out, I will try it on my current two thousand dollars iPad that’s been collecting
dust since May 2021 before I go anywhere near that M2 iPad Pro.
Let’s have a little EMOJI game here…
I am really interested in hearing where you are.
Are skipping this one?
Or do you see a valid reason to get the M2?
If you are skipping the M2 iPad Pro, leave a 🎃 emoji.
And if you are getting the M2 leave a 👻 emoji in the comments below.
Conclusion When it comes to Apple recently, the best
thing to do is to ignore their Marketing.
And the same goes for YouTube.
As I said earlier the early access reviews, where apple provides creators with the devices,
they’re not gonna tell you the full story.
You will hear things like “M2 iPad Pro is faster than ever” and those massive channels
COMPLETELY gloss over this very important point:
This is 100% a cash grabbing product.
Apple have been complacent, lazy.
I am pretty sure, if sales continue to go down, we will eventually see the iPad Pro
that we want.
And it won’t be because of a new chip, it will be because of better software.
And you might be thinking it’s early days and the software hasn’t really been tested
by the developers.
What I would say to that is iPadOS 16 isn’t really being developed from ground up.
It is very much an iteration of the previous iPadOS.
I know under the hood, there’s a lot of improvements and obviously stage manager and
the new behaviour of the PENCIL and things like that…
Ultimately it’s still an iteration so really for me, this M2 iPad Pro is an upgraded hardware
on the same shitty software…
And as you saw here today it’s negligible what this upgrade is doing… in comparison
with existing iPad models.
Another point is maybe this is your first iPad.
I’d still recommend the M1 iPad Pro.
Why pay more?
Longevity?
Longer support?
Nah…
I am not convinced.
If it was 100 dollars difference, sure…
So where does a leave us?
I am returning this piece of crap straight back to Apple.
Let me know Apple, when you’ve done enough for me to be consider the M2 iPad Pro.
you know in the Apple events they have those letters to Tim Cook, this should be one of
those...
Dear Tim Cook What you did with the M1 iPad Pro, and ripping
me off for 16GB RAM for example was unforgivable and what you just did with this M2, changed
how I see the iPad Pro forever.
And try better next time…
BUT I think with this one…
I just saved a couple of grand.
See you soon.