If you've been holding off purchasing the new 2022 M2 iPad
Pro because it might have blooming issues like last
year's model, well, you are in the right place because in
today's video I'm going to test the 2022 version.
Against the last version, the 2021 M1 iPad
Pro with Mini-led.
Also my test head against the iPad Air five.
And just for kind of giggles, I'm going to test against a 16
inch MacBook Pro to see which one of these displays
performs the best.
And there's really anything that you should be concerned
about when buying the 2022 M2 iPad Pro.
So let's get started.
What is going on, everybody?
It is.
Mike, welcome back, the channel.
I'm glad that you're with me today because we are testing
the M2 iPad Pro.
Now, today's test is going to be blooming.
The big concern is for a lot of people, you're buying a,
you know, $1,000 plus or $100 tablet and it's going
to display blooming.
Now, if you're unfamiliar with what blooming is, it's a
display artifact when you have maybe some of the objects have
a little bit of a halo effect around them.
And this is common with with many OLED panels or panels that
have full array local dimming.
But we'll see whether or not the 2022 iPad Pro with 12.9
inch mini OLED display will exhibit the same issues.
Now we're going to test it against three
different devices.
First thing, we're going to get a baseline or get tested
against a 16 inch MacBook Pro with a mini LCD panel.
It's actually I think it's probably the same panel just in
a different size.
Arguably, the 16 inch and the 14 inch MacBook Pro
have really, really good displays.
Everyone talks about them very highly.
I can confirm the displays are actually very great.
So first let's get started with a 16 inch MacBook Pro and the
2022 iPad Pro.
After being in the room and rewatching the video, you could
see it for yourself that these displays look
almost identical.
The color, the representation, the black levels,
they look very similar.
And again, I think that they're almost they're probably the
same exact display just in a different, different size.
The displays themselves are getting good black levels.
You can see that that there's no fraying around every little
frame around the image itself and there's no blooming
around these images.
Now, I would say that for the most part, all the images look
really clear and crisp.
This blue one here on the screen right now, it doesn't
look that good in person, But let's go to the white level
test for me.
I don't see any of blooming around either of these text.
There might be a little bit here on the right hand side of
the iPad Pro in some of these squares that you see in the top
right hand corner.
But there is no light leakage on either one of the devices.
Now, overall, I think each of these displays
perform very well.
But I want to know what you think.
Let me know which one of them you think you did perform
better or worse on the comments below.
Now next, we're going to see the iPad Air five against the
2022 iPad Pro with Mini-led.
Now, I want to use this test as a way to calibrate what we're
seeing to what a good display is and difference between
a great display.
iPad Air five.
While it is a good display for that level tablet, it is
definitely lesser quality when you think about that in that
mini-led display of the 2022 iPad Pro.
Now you can see right off the bat the colors on the iPad Air
five are not as vivid, not as bright, not as detailed
as they are on the 2022 iPad Pro, Much more muted than
you would expect.
Now, I can tell you that when I was watching the video,
the flowers themselves looked more closely to the iPad Pro
than they did on the iPad Air five.
Now, here on this flower, the iPad Pro is actually
overexposing the top of the image where the petals
are in there.
You're losing a lot of detail.
It's just kind of blown out.
I think that this image looks better on the iPad Air five
than it does on the iPad Pro because of the overexposure
that's being done here on the iPad Pro.
But this is really one of maybe three images where it looks
better on the iPad Air five, the color on the iPad Air five
or the brightness on the iPad.
Air five is definitely as much to be desired.
Now we're moving on the blooming test for the iPad Air
five and the iPad Pro.
I'd say that on the iPad Air, the image is very dull and you
definitely are not seeing any type of zooming effect because
the image is that dull.
Now, depending on what type of moment you're watching this and
you should be able to see how that the entire display of the
iPad Air five is being illuminated in order to show
you the text that's being shown on the display where the mini
OLED panel is not doing that.
And I see that it's better represented on the
Mini-led panel, of course, but the iPad Air five, it's a
little dull looking.
It doesn't necessarily look black.
It looks a little bit gray and the text is not exactly crisp
in my opinion.
Okay.
So let's move on to the 2021 iPad Pro against the
2022 version, iPad Pro.
Now, as much as I would hate to admit this, there does not seem
to be that much change in the panel from the 2021
version 2.2.
Like I was hoping for, at least from a visual perspective,
these panels appear to be producing the same images at
the same contrast and the same brightness, and there's
not much change in there.
Now let's move on to the blooming test between each of
the iPad pros.
Again, since these panels are the same, the images
look very, very similar.
They look almost identical.
And for me, I can't see any artifacts for blooming and I
wasn't able to see any while watching it live.
So it's not like the camera is representing something that was
maybe not or that was visual when watching in person.
Now I would say is if this is something that matters to you,
I definitely would check it out in person.
I don't think it's that bad.
And you know, both these.
But if you were the tech person who thinks that you're might be
overly sensitive or hot, you know, you're you're
calibrated to a different way that other people are.
Check it out in person.
Now, the very last test is going to be the 2021 iPad Pro
on the left hand side in the 2022 iPad Pro on the
right hand side.
And this is can be a different blooming test than
we already saw.
Now, it is really hard for me to see a difference between
each of these panels, and that would make sense if the panels
are indeed the same.
Now, while we're watching this, let me know
which panel you like better.
Is it the 2021 iPad Pro on the left hand side or the 2022 iPad
Pro on the right hand side ?
Now, in terms of performance, I think each of these panels
are the same between the 2021 iPad Pro, the 2022 iPad Pro and
even the 16 inch MacBook Pro.
They're going to be the same panels they do perform.
You know, I would say very well in my opinion.
But again, if you are someone who is maybe a little bit more
sensitive to the blooming, you probably won't see
this in person.
I would say that you shouldn't feel too worried about getting
this and having a high percentage or a high
amount of blooming.
In my opinion.
It's not something to worry about, but let me know
what you think about that.
Now the next thing I plan to test is going to
be the speakers.
That video will come out in a couple of days, so make
sure you subscribe.
My name is Mike.
I'll talk to you guys in the next one.