hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and apple has updated their ipad lineup this year again
and currently there are essentially four different models so i wanted to help you decide which
one would be best for you and before we get started this video is sponsored by paperlike
now there are five things that i think most ipad buyers are considering
size and display price speed accessories and the cameras now currently we have four different ipads
in front of us for the different offerings of apple's latest models on the far left we have
the 9th generation ipad this is essentially the traditional ipad it has top borders on the top
and bottom they're very big bezels and we have a home button we also have an aluminum frame
or aluminium depending on where you live and it's sort of curved around the outside edges and is the
only one that lies flat on a table regardless of it having a camera the others have a camera bump
so we have that and it also uses lightning all of the rest use usbc so let's look at the next one
which is the sixth sixth generation ipad mini this is the newer squared off design and this allows
for pencil attachment to it has that camera bump like i said and i think has a really nice feel
but maybe a little bit more fragile based on who you would ask if you go to bend one or sit on one
you have a higher likelihood of bending this one than you would with the traditional design however
i haven't run into that myself then we have the fifth generation ipad air again it's essentially
the same as the 11 inch ipad pro so this is the newer one for this year and it's got sort of the
same squared off edge and then finally we have the ipad pro 12.9 inch so that's apple's top of the
line with the top of the line display so when it comes to the displays we have the standard display
this is a 10.2 inch 2160 by 1620 with 264 pixels per inch and goes up to 500 nits of brightness
it is not a laminated display which means that the glass is not attached to the lcd underneath and
it's also very reflective because they don't have a reflective or an anti-reflective coating on it
so you can see it is an oleophobic coating meaning it doesn't show as many fingerprints but it's very
reflective but it does help with repairability if you wanted to just easily remove the glass
and then replace that if something happened to it the ipad mini has an 8.3 inch display 2266 by 1488
with 326 pixels per inch and goes up to 500 nits of brightness then we have the ipad air 10.9 inch
with 2 360 by 1 640 pixels up to 264 pixels per inch again going up to 500 nits of brightness then
the ipad pro is a very different display this is a 12.9 inch display 2732 by 2048 with 264 pixels per
inch but goes up to 1600 nits of brightness when watching hdr content it can go up to a thousand
minutes of brightness with just regular use so if i was to turn this all the way up it will just
almost look white on your display because it's so bright that the camera just picks it up as overly
bright and so this is incredibly bright but with the mini the air and the pro we all have laminated
displays and anti-reflective coatings with the pro we also have pro motion which is super smooth so
while the other displays are nice and fast they go up to 60 hertz with the ipad pro we have 120 hertz
so you have to see this in person to appreciate it but just scrolling going through different
content playing games is very very smooth on the display now like i said there's reflectivity on
all of these in fact you can see that the ipad the traditional ipad has the most reflective screen
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really great displays but the ipad pro stands out when it comes to hdr video the ipad air and
mini are also capable of hdr but the pro is three times as bright and has different dimming zones
that can keep the black areas very dark and then the bright areas very vibrant without lighting the
entire display you can see if we go into youtube we have the capability of hdr even on the mini
here so if we go to the mini select our quality this is one of my youtube videos in hdr you'll
see that we have up to 2160p or 4k hdr however we do not have hdr capabilities on the standard
ipad so if we go into youtube to the same video you'll see we have up to 2160p but just not in
hdr so you won't be able to watch the hdr content on youtube if you go with the standard version
now all of them have pretty decent speakers but again the pro stands above the rest of them and
it should for the price but we have four speakers we have two on each side when you're holding it in
landscape so a top and a bottom you'll see here top and bottom and they're really great sounding
they have good spatial audio and it's definitely the best experience here when it comes to audio
it's really hard to hear that though just from the microphone i'm using for this video
with the ipad air and ipad mini you have two speakers but you still have four openings so
one of them is a speaker and then the other is sort of a resonance chamber to actually give it a
bigger sound overall so you have the same sort of four speaker grilles the same is true on the
ipad mini so the same four grilles there same layout as you can see so no difference there
however on the standard ipad you have two stereo speakers that are on the bottom of the device
on either side of the lightning port so you have only two speakers but at the top you
have one thing the others don't have and that's a stereo jack or a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
so you have that option to use headphones if you want to do that and that may be a big advantage
for you so that's something that the regular ipad even though it's the least expensive still
has that the others don't so you have to use wireless headphones or an adapter with usbc to
3.5 millimeters to use headphones that are wired with the ipad other than the standard one now
price of course is going to be one of the biggest considerations between any of these we start at
329 dollars and go all the way up to ninety nine dollars 2199.we the ipad pro there is a huge
variance between all of the ipads so from the mini 500 or 4.99 it starts at the air starts at 5.99
the 11 inch ipad pro starts at 7.99 and the 12.9 inch ipad pro starts at a thousand ninety nine
now we have a big difference in storage options as well the standard ipad ipad mini and ipad air all
have options for 64 gigabytes or 256 gigabytes of storage where the ipad pro models have
a bunch of different options or five options 128 gigabytes 256 512 one terabyte or two terabyte
storage options and you also can go up to 16 gigs of ram so you have a huge amount of options here
but you don't really see too much of a difference with that ram now you can buy these refurbished
typically from apple and get a bit of a discount with the same warranty so there are opportunities
for cheaper versions also oftentimes on places such as amazon you'll find them discounted
and they're sold directly by apple so there are a lot of options as far as getting these
less expensive than the retail price that apple has them advertised at when it comes
to the overall speed of the ipads this might be a big consideration but if you're using them for
standard things you may not notice a difference and i'll show you that in a moment but with the
standard ipad we have the a13 bionic the mini a15 bionic and the air and pro both have apple's m1
chip in it so both of them are pretty similar as far as that goes with up to 16 gigabytes of ram
in the ipads pro so if you get an ipad pro you can go up to the 2 terabyte or 16 gig option now
i wanted to show you just opening different things to show you if there's any difference because
for most tasks you're really not going to notice a whole lot of things but in other things you may
now if we open a simple app and we're just doing regular tasks on our ipad you'll see if we open
safari it opens pretty quickly basically the same on all of them nice and fast when we open them up
if we close all of these out and maybe go into the app store you'll see a similar experience so
if we go into the app store on all of them as i open them you may have to wait half a second and
then everything just shows up so you really won't notice a difference with just day-to-day tasks
and you can also do heavy tasks even on the standard ipad with the a13 bionic you can
maybe export a 4k video so let me show you that now let's bring in my iphone as a stopwatch here
and let's see if we can export all of these 4k videos recorded at the same time their hevc videos
as well recorded from an iphone so let's see if we can let go at the same time and let's try this
now and see what happens we'll hit start on the stopwatch and see how long it takes to export
now they finished in a time that seems reasonable for all of them about a minute and seven seconds
to export a 4k video so that's pretty impressive by itself and overall the m1s finish faster and
then the ipad mini and then the regular ipad but it's not a huge jump between all of them one area
where you would see a difference between these has to do with the neural engine the neural engine
is faster on the m1 it can process more in the background when it comes to things like augmented
reality or maybe you're scanning a room with the lidar sensor on the back of the ipad pro so
we have a lidar sensor along with our cameras and that lidar sensor can actually throw out different
measurements and understand what the measurement of maybe a room is and then plot that in 3d if
you want to use intensive apps that do things like that or use augmented reality well this would be
the ipad for you but if you don't care about that well you may be able to accomplish your tasks very
easily with the regular ipad so it really depends on what you plan to use them for when it comes to
the cameras we have the same 12 megapixel camera on all of them they're pretty much the same camera
with the exception of the pro where we have a true depth sensor because we have face id on the pro
it allows us to use the true depth sensor for things such as memoji so if we go into messages
within messages we have things like moji where it actually measures your face in real time
where it's angled the depth of it and everything else so you can see that here and you could switch
between whatever you'd like in real time and it's using that true depth camera so you have that but
we also have center stage on all of them now all ipads have center stage center stage allows you
to use the ipad maybe on a conference call or in facetime or something like that and it will track
you around the room so if we go into facetime now in facetime or different conferencing apps you
have the ability to use center stage this is sort of like having a cameraman built into your ipad
if i move over here it will follow me over here the same is true no matter where i move
as long as i'm within the camera's range it also will sort of zoom out if you have multiple people
and then because of the neural engine on all of these you can blur the background and it just has
some nice effects as well so this is something you can do on all these ipads from the least
expensive to the most expensive this year now the rear cameras are different on all of them a little
bit different on all of them you'll see that they do stick out on the back of the ipad air and let
me just turn these over so you can see so on the standard ipad we have an 8 megapixel camera just
a singular camera in the back on the ipad mini and ipad air we have 12 megapixel cameras and then on
the ipad pro we have a 12 megapixel wide and a 10 megapixel ultra wide camera along with that lidar
sensor so we have additional capabilities with the ipad but i wouldn't recommend anyone just buy the
ipad for the rear camera as you probably have a phone that is a little more capable with different
features so you have those options if you need to use it maybe to storyboard something use it for
a conference call or just snap a picture quickly you'll have that ability but they're not as good
as what's on your iphone typically your latest iphone will have a better camera normally now
you do have cellular options on all of the ipads even with the standard ipad for 130 dollars more
you can have 4g connectivity however the ipad mini air and pro all offer 5g but on the pro it's 200
extra where on the ipad mini and air it's 150 extra so there's a bit of a difference there
depending on what you want for cellular now of course accessories are one of the things
that you really probably are going to want to buy with your ipad such as this apple pencil
this is the first generation apple pencil that's compatible with only the standard ipad
so you have the first generation and the second generation apple pencil but the second generation
works with the mini air and pro but does not work back with the standard ipad so you have to pick
which one works for you so if you have a regular apple pencil laying around you can just use this
place the lightning connector into the bottom of the ipad it will sync and then you can use it
with your ipad but on the other ipads they attach magnetically and then you can just use them simply
by attaching them to the side they pair up you can use the apple pencil it recognizes it and then you
can use it with your your device if you want to do that so very simple and straightforward and that's
really all there is to it so it works really well the second generation apple pencil is a must-have
if you're going to edit video or maybe just draw using procreate or some other application
or maybe you just want to use it to take notes or just scroll through things it makes it as more of
a refined pointing device such as a mouse now of course you can use a keyboard or mouse with any
one of these but with the mini the air and the pro you have some different options one of my favorite
accessories is the magic keyboard and to me that's a must-have if you want to use this as sort of a
computer replacement so the magic keyboard is very expensive at about 350 dollars for the
largest ipad but it offers a track pad a backlit keyboard and then allows the the ipad to hover on
it i would highly recommend this if you plan to use this as a desktop replacement you also have
the option to charge on the side you have various covers as well for this so if you don't need a
keyboard of course you can use just the standard cover or you could get a third-party cover as well
so there's a ton of different accessories for this now all of the ipads have the same battery
life apple claims up to 10 hours for all of them so if you're considering an ipad based on battery
they're the same for all of them just pick whichever ipad you want and they'll get the same
also charging is very similar so they all have fast charging you have lightning on the standard
ipad and usbc on the others and so hopefully that helped you decide which ipad would be best for you
whether it's based on speed what the display is like and more so all of them are quite good
personally i like the ipad pro because it's sort of a desktop replacement when i'm not editing
videos this is what i use most of the time so i like the larger display however most people
will probably want to go with the air as it offers more features than the standard ipad but is also
a little bit larger size than the others so we have a nicer display more modern with touch id
and a laminated display less reflective and more so i would recommend the air to a lot of people
or the mini if you just want a smaller one but with the air you get the latest processor
of course the same as the ipad pro with the standard ipad it's definitely something i can
recommend if you don't care about any of that so if you just want a standard ipad to view content
maybe edit a video even on it you could do that but all of these are quite good
but for me personally i typically tell people to go with the air or the pro but again your budget
really determines what you want to go with and you could also get them refurbished or even used
later on now later this year we do expect some new ipad pro launches to come out with maybe
just a 12.9 with some differences but we'll see a new ipad typically
every year to year and a half or so so either way these will be getting updated from time to time
and usually apple supports them for at least five years so ipad os 15 is out now you could
see them supported all the way up to ipad os 20. so no worries there maybe even past that 21 or 22
they'll be supported for many years to come so i'd love to hear which one would work best for you
in the comments below or what ipad you're using i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
of course be sure to check out paperlike if you're looking for a screen protector or just
want to give a little bit different matte texture to your ipad or provide a better writing surface
i think most people that use this really really like it let me know if you're picking
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