- Hey guys this is Austin.
The iPad Pro is a big upgrade,
but as much as Apple might claim this is a full computer,
it is not ready to replace my laptop just yet.
This is a question I took a look at
a couple years ago when the very first
iPad Pro came out and it actually came pretty close
to replacing a laptop for me but inevitability I ran through
the limitations of running iOS on a 9.7" tablet.
First of all, this is coming from the perspective
of someone who spends a lot of time
with some fairly high-grade video.
The iPad, it just can't handle it, it's not even
the hardware that's the problem it really is iOS.
Sure there's some decent editing apps,
such as iMovie, Premiere Rush, and LumaFusion
for the iPad but the issue is that none of them
are as powerful as the full desktop versions
of Premiere as well as Final Cut.
To produce videos like this I need access to
fairly high-level features, such as
Lut support, full Pro Codex, such as
Pro Res and Red Code Raw, it'd be really helpful
if I had a full finder set-up where, I could,
you know, access the file system and
import things using that handy USBC port.
Instead, well none of this stuff really works
unless I want to do some very basic editing in iMovie.
It's fine, it's definitely capable
of it, but iOS just isn't there yet.
A lot of what I do everyday comes down
to things like writing an e-mail,
and here the iPad is absolutely terrific.
I've always preferred the smaller iPad Pro size
but that does mean you have to sacrifice then
on the actual keyboard, it's a little bit smaller
than a standard layout, but I've been using it
for long enough that it's not really a big issue.
Maybe it's still a little bit ridiculous
that this accessory that is basically mandatory
if I wanna get any work done on an iPad costs a full $180
but I mean I guess that's everyone at this point.
I mean even Microsoft doesn't include
the keyboard with the Surface.
If you want to avoid the Apple tax,
you can pick up either a blu-tooth keyboard
or something that plugs via USBC,
or an adapter, but at the end of the day
I want to have a portable set up
that is as close to a laptop as possible.
Which means that I'm stuck spending $180 dollars
on the Apple keyboard which is just, okay,
but not really worth that kind of money.
Something I've been kind of surprised by is the pencil.
Updated this year with a much less annoying design
as apposed to plugging it into the lighting port to charge
instead all you need to do is attach it
to the top of the iPad, and not only
does it attach here magnetically,
but it also wirelessly charges.
I will give Apple this, the iPad hardware is
incredibly nice, this is seriously the biggest
update to the iPad since the original.
Thanks to the lack of the home button
the bezels are much smaller here
which means that not only do we have a bunch
of iPhone 10 like gestures, but importantly
we get an 11" inch display and the
same size chaste as the old 9.7" iPad.
The finger print sensor as been replaced
with face I.D. which has been crammed
into the top bezel along with the front facing camera.
It should be no surprise that the screen
is absolutely excellent.
Importantly we still have ProMotion which means
that the iPad Pro has a full 120 hertz display.
This means that the iPad screen
is running at twice the frame rate
and twice the smoothness of pretty much
any other mobile display out there.
The only thing that comes close
are some gaming laptops that do have higher
refresh rate displays, as well as on the phone side
the Razor phone has a higher refresh rate panel
but in the tablet space nothing touches this
and it does make a big difference things are so, so smooth.
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perry - The screen is absolutely
terrific so not only is it color accurate
it gets fairly bright, there's really
not a lot to complain about and that goes double
for the speakers, it does have quad speakers
with one on each corner, and this thing sounds
phenomenal as far as watching video goes
this is better than almost any other laptop out there.
Gone are the days of lightening
and in is the glorious future of the USBC port
and this is proper USBC it's 3.1 Gen 2
which means that it does support a full tank
it gets better transfer speeds as well as
of course any kind of video out you do
all the way up to a full 5K monitor.
It will also charge up other devices just like a laptop
plug in your phone for example
and the iPad will give it a full charge.
In classic iPad fashion however,
iOS does hold you back some what with that USBC port
that you can't connect it to an external display
and for some apps such as Twitch and Netflix
it will give you a full screen video
but for the most part your stuck mirroring the iPad display.
Kind of helpful but no where near as good as it would be
if I could, you know, put a window on the display
and another window on my iPad, you know,
like every other laptop on earth.
Its so close but it's so annoying.
I mean this is really close to being able
to fully serve as a laptop right?
I mean for me I have a monitor plugged into my laptop
all the time when I'm at home or at work,
I legitimately like that extra screen real estate
and the hardware is absolutely capable of it
and even the software is to degree
I mean I could put a video there
but the issue is that if I'm say,
watching Netflix and wanting to work on something
at the same time Netflix will play on the 4K display
right up until the point where I alt+tab to
another app in which the entire thing closes,
it's like we're so close, we're so close.
If we take a quick detour into garbage town for a sec.
I get that Apple removed the headphone jack
on their phones a couple years ago,
but this is a device that's trying to replace my laptop
I really do like having a pair of wired headphones
and now sure, blu-tooth might be the future for some people
but for me I appreciate having a nice pair of headphones
that have no latency something that I can plug into say,
a MacBook Air which coincidentally
does still have a headphone jack.
Now I get that this thing is completely packed
with technology it's got like magnets
and batteries and stuff but having a headphone jack
doesn't seem like that big of a sacrifice.
I mean sure I could use a USBC dongle
but that's annoying, I could plug in
my lightening headphones that I bought a couple years ago
oh wait no, I can't do that, 'cause
this doesn't have lightening anymore.
It's just a weird compromise, I mean,
it's not a deal breaker I can get away with
using other types of headphones
but it would be so, so nice if they would have kept
the headphone jack on something
that's trying to replace my laptop.
I could run through our standard sweet of benchmarks
which show that this is hands-down not only
the fastest mobile device we've ever tested
but right up there with a lot of proper laptops
but at the end of the day, what good is power
if you can't use it which brings us around to
my main issue with the iPad Pro, this is where things become
very dependent on what kinda work you do.
I legitimately feel like I could edit some
proper 4K video on the iPad Pro
if I had those software improvements
such as full file manager, as well as final cut.
If you do a lot of work with graphics for example
it actually is a lot better, there are great apps such as,
procreate, and full Photoshop is coming to the iPad,
but still for a lot of people the story here is
less about what it can do right now,
and more about the potential which is
kind of a bit of shame because it's been like that
for several years at this point.
That just it though, this absolutely can replace a laptop
for some people and the iPad Pro is legitimately
getting better and more powerful every year,
but for me this is a great secondary machine
but it is not a laptop killer, at least not yet.