♪ She the jealous type, drags her girlfriends ♪
♪ Run your mouth, I cannot relate to a word ♪
♪ Savin' up so I can pay you no mind ♪
♪ You could hit me, I won't pick up ♪
♪ 'cause I don't got time, ♪
♪ It's dimmi con chi vai e' ti diro' chi sei ♪
♪ See who you hang with, not much to say ♪
♪ Been out of bounds, you don't know your place ♪
♪ I be on my way out, you're in my way ♪
- Yo, Jonathan here,
and this is my review of the 2021 iPad Pro,
specifically this is the 12.9 inch model,
which yes does have that M1 chip packed inside.
But more importantly, it has a game-changing XDR display.
And I realized most the reviews
you probably watched by now
all echo the same three things.
That's a spicy meatball.
That was pretty good.
One. There's an M1.
Why can't it run Mac OS?
Two. There's all this power, but nothing to
take advantage of that power.
And three, the XDR display looks amazing.
I can't show you it looks amazing,
but it looks amazing.
And let's take that in reverse.
The XDR display does look amazing,
but I want to show you.
This entire video was edited and uploaded
in HDR using this M1 iPad Pro,
but don't worry, I didn't just shoot it on an iPhone.
I used a real camera and everything.
As far as the power, I wholeheartedly agree to an extent.
The M1 chip inside here is
absolutely not being used to its maximum potential.
And honestly, if you're not interested in HDR
whether it's creation or consumption
there's pretty much zero reason to upgrade
from the 2020 iPad Pro or really even the 2018 iPad Pro,
especially when we're talking about the 11 inch model
which doesn't even have an XDR display.
With that said though,
to say that nothing could take advantage of the power
is kind of silly, and believe me
I want Final Cut, and Logic on the iPad Pro
as much as the next person
but I feel like a lot of the tech space right now
is trying to put the square into the triangle.
And if you would just look a little further out
or opposite the right, you would see,
hey there's the matching triangle.
But on top of that, there's a circle.
There's a star.
There are all these tools where if you would
give those a chance you would see,
hey there's some really powerful stuff you can do.
Now, before we jump into the notion of Mac OS on iPad
I want to first preface it with saying
I was disappointed with iPad iOS at this year's WWDC.
Like it was by far the most underwhelming part of the event.
But with that said, I am far more interested in
seeing where iPad iOS continues to go,
instead of just slapping Mac OS on the iPad
as you should hopefully see throughout this video
there are certain things that end up working better
on iPad as opposed to Mac.
And the most important thing I want to drive home is
when I see the comment of "M1 deserves a desktop OS"
I'm like yo, there's a MacBook Air,
a MacBook Pro, a Mac Mini,
and now an iMac with a 4.5K display
that all pack an M1 with a desktop OS.
The one point that I want to drive home is that
Apple didn't throw an M1 Mac chip into the iPad.
They actually through an iPad chip
into a Mac last year when they launched M1,
and somehow we've ended up full circle
where some people tend to forget that.
So if you need the power and the efficiency
and the lack of jet engine fan noise that M1 brings.
Now you have options.
You can go laptop, you can go desktop, or you can go iPad
and take advantage of iPad specific things.
The other thing to remember is that 2020 kind of
changed the world with the global pandemic
everything from working at home to not seeing each other.
So to me, it's clear that because of that
Apple's resources shifted.
Seeing things like Center Stage
or all the attention on FaceTime and SharePlay,
which to me honestly was the highlight of WWDC.
And I think with that, we've got to remember
that those all trickle down and benefit the iPad.
The way I would really look at it is
throw the 2020 or the 2018 iPad Pro out the window.
If you didn't own one of those
and you were looking to buy a new iPad Pro two weeks ago
now you get everything that was great about those.
Plus the option to add an XDR display,
a Thunderbolt port
extra RAM to make it even more future-proof.
And if you don't need all that,
hey, now you can grab one of the 2018 or 2020s
on a refurbished price for even cheaper.
Or, if you don't need XDR or 120hz display
I would honestly recommend checking out the iPad Air
which is a great value.
For me personally, why I got excited for this iPad Pro
was the XDR display.
Because it was something new,
something that I didn't have on a MacBook Pro or an iMac.
And really the only way I could get anything close was
with a display that was over $5,000.
Jumping back into story time.
I talked about my dad, who I lost when I was 18
in the last video
and how he's really the driving force
for my love and passion for tech.
And usually when there's something new
there's a parallel story that kind of reminds me of him.
In this case with the display,
I remember when he was so excited to get an HDTV
but like the early first HDTVs
that was really the jump from 480 up to 720
which is really what we consider to be potato quality now.
It was bulky as hell.
And there were really only like two channels
that supported HD content,
which really are probably what we would call screen savers
to this day because the content was so limited
but the excitement he had to show me that
and to explain the jump from SD to HD
that's what I want to carry with me.
So as excited as he was to show me that 720 PTV
how excited would I be to show him this iPad that can view
and edit true HDR video, that he never got a chance to see?
I think that is what tech should be about.
This here specifically is an HDR video project
I did with my guys over at City Creek, Mark and Dre
who are ridiculously stupid, talented.
Definitely check them out.
But I would say over the past year, year and a half
I have fallen in love with HDR video.
There's been a ton of trial and error,
a ton of messing things up,
but as I've become more comfortable with it
I've watched it become more and more accessible,
which is awesome.
This video in particular was kind of
the eye opening experience for a lot of people
to see what could truly be done with HDR.
And that was shot on an iPhone 12 Mini,
if you want to check that out as well as
the other videos I've worked on in HDR,
I'll put together a playlist
that I'll link up here and down below.
From there beyond things like HDR and Dolby Vision
you then pair Dolby Atmos, and spatial audio.
And all of a sudden you include a pair of AirPods Max
or AirPods Pro.
And you have this cinema movie theater experience
on a package that'll fit in your bag without wires.
So while so many people are laser-focused
on Final Cut Pro not being on the iPad
and assuming maybe iMovie or Adobe Rush
is what you got to work with.
A lot of people are just missing that,
hey, something like LumaFusion,
which is a fraction of the price of Final Cut is there
and it's getting better and better
and more powerful with every release.
I've been lucky enough to check out
the beta version of the next release.
And I gotta say, as a Final Cut user
the upcoming multicam editing is scary close.
The fact that you could do something like this
on a fanless machine
and then potentially do it in HDR, should be mind blowing.
The other nice thing with LumaFusion
is you can actually output 16 by nine video
instead of being trapped in four by three
which was a huge complaint this year
with iPad iOS and its update.
The other really nice thing
with this LumaFusion update is the ability
to truly edit off an external drive.
And when you pair that with the Thunderbolt port
on this iPad Pro
then you're getting 3, 4, 5 times the speed
as you would with USB.
And that is huge.
So, throw video out the window
outside of that, the other area that really surprised me
was music and audio production
and seeing how far things have come.
Again, while most people are looking for Logic Pro
or Pro Tools and giving GarageBand a hard time,
you have programs like Cubasis 3,
sitting off to the side
which blew my mind.
To my surprise, there's a ton of wave plugins available
on the iPad within Cubasis 3.
Pitch correction, delays, compressors,
just tons of different options.
And then branching out even beyond that,
the amount of pro plugins that are currently available
on iPad is kind of shocking.
Like I did not expect to see fully functioning
fab filter plugins on there, but here we are.
From there, I really wanted to push the iPad Pro
because I think there's a giant assumption
that you can't do pro things.
So, initially what I wanted to try
was to see if I could hook up an analog piece of gear,
a compressor into an interface
and then that into the iPad Pro.
The setup is cool.
It surprised me, but then to actually be able to track
and hear everything analog to digital into the iPad
with no latency.
(guitar playing)
- That's also an instance where the Apple Music experience
is better on iPad right now
because within Mac OS, it's kind of a mess where
you have to manually change the music settings
from your system preferences, whereas on iPad
it does it automatically.
As impressive as all of that was.
Then once I finally recorded the music to get it
into Cubasis and to see what you can do,
that was kind of the next light bulb moment for me
I would definitely call myself a Mac user first
over an iPad user.
I think like anything, if you give yourself time
you're going to adjust and get used to something.
And that was where I quickly realized
that if I was going to treat the iPad, like a Mac
I was going to be slower
and I was going to be missing out on things, the wave stuff
the fab filter stuff worked phenomenally,
just like you'd expect on a desktop, for me though.
It was this compressor that truly opened my eyes.
Really the job of a compressor is to even things out.
So you take the peaks down, you take the low parts up
and try to get those closer.
So they're sitting more tightly together
so to visually see how much are we squashing?
How much are we outputting?
And to have it react almost instantaneous
like it was a knob or dial
that's where things get really exciting.
♪ It was you before I decided ♪
♪ Oh-Oh-Oh little ♪
♪ Did I know ♪
♪ Oh-Oh-Oh little ♪
♪ Did I know ♪
♪ Oh-Oh-Oh little ♪
♪ Did I know ♪
♪ Oh-Oh-Oh little ♪
♪ Did I know ♪
♪ The summer before you ♪
♪ You can't spell "drama" with consonants ♪
♪ And I admit, I usually was the cause of it ♪
♪ Now here we are, you got me changing all of it ♪
♪ Slow me down, I want you too ♪
♪ It's different when it comes to you ♪
- And in the spirit of things
if you guys want to hear or watch this video
in what I would call lossless, not YouTube compressed.
I'll post a link
to the full quality video where you can download
and view in your files app or just the wave.
So you can listen to that without any compression.
Again, if you want to see that entire video
from start to finish, I will drop that link up here
and down below, but it really kind of shows you that
there's a ton you can do on the iPad.
If you look in the right direction.
From there then you pile on everything that the iPad
is already great at.
Drawing, photo editing, taking notes, gestures.
So those are the reasons why you'd go with
an iPad over a Mac.
And again, going full circle.
If you need to do desktop type things on M1,
you have that option as well.
I think it's safe to say that the iPad has
all the potential in the world
and that we all just want to see more.
And I think for those that have watched the channel
the ongoing joke is I never continued the 2018 iPad Pro
which almost comes full circle and continues
to this point right now.
There's a sentiment in the tech space where
you shouldn't buy a piece of technology
based off future promises.
And I wholeheartedly agree with that.
My job here isn't to tell you to buy an iPad
or really any piece of tech.
What I want to do, is show you everything
that you can do on it right now.
And if it works for you, amazing,
if not, at least you know.
So hopefully you found this video helpful
if you did, and you were feeling like being
make sure to drop it like down below
hopefully it gave some insight
onto what you can currently do
and then anything in the future is icing on top.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
This is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later.