- Today we have the new M1 iPad Air,
I'm so excited to check this out.
Not only does it have the new M1 chip, but it also has 5G.
So let's start unboxing and check it out.
Since we're in the kitchen, we use a kitchen knife.
And today we're actually shooting this video at 8Ks
so I thought we would switch up the set a little,
just do a nice little unboxing in the kitchen, why not?
This is actually the new blue color of the iPad.
Can't wait to see it.
So this is the iPad Air 5th gen,
this is the WiFi plus cellular.
It is always so nice having this always connected.
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This blue is so pretty.
This actually looks way a better in-person
than it did online.
Like I thought the blue looked great
but like take a look at this.
This is a great color.
So into it.
Got our paperwork. Oh boy!
Okay, fingers crossed that the Apple sticker is blue.
Okay, it's not, but that's okay.
I'm not upset about it.
So we've got our USBC cable and our power brick.
The new iPad air is also compatible with a Magic Keyboard.
And I love this thing so much.
If you've watched any of my iPad reviews, you guys know
that I am the biggest fan of the Magic Keyboard.
One, because it kind of turns this iPad
into more of a computer laptop type device.
It has the track pad.
It also adds in an additional little USBC port here
that allows for pass through charging.
And this is amazing because that will also give you access
to the USBC port on the iPad.
So that basically gives you a charging port
and a data port, which is incredible
if you're actually using this to do anything
where you need to charge and be able to transfer data.
I also like that they came out
with a white version of it too.
So they do have have two colors,
the black and the white.
Look at you, look at you, look at you.
See here, you see the track pad, your keyboard.
And this is the smart connector that allows
basically the case to connect to your iPad.
And it also allows, like I said,
for the fast through charging.
And of course we have the Apple Pencil.
I'm not gonna lie,
I have spent last three months drawing a project.
If you've been following me on Twitter
you probably have a really good guess of what it is.
The Apple Pencil and my iPad has pretty much been attached
to my body for the past several months.
All that to say,
this is compatible with the Apple Pencil too.
Also the Apple Pencil is an incredible hair tie device.
If you saw my TikTok, you know.
Of course the iPad and Apple Pencil just docks right here,
up at the top, which not only charges it,
but connects it as well.
And one last piece to our new iPad Air puzzle
is the Smart Folio
and this doesn't have a keyboard attached.
This is less expensive
and it basically will just keep your iPad safe.
And you can also do a few different configurations here
for different ways to view your content.
This blue is so perfect.
This is like a perfect shade.
Like I love the compliments
of this light blue with the dark blue.
And that's one thing that Apple really does
such a great job of is making sure
that all of their accessories
have really great complimenting colors.
So let's put this onto the Smart Folio
so you guys can see what that looks like.
And this is so much lighter than the Magic Keyboard.
Like that is one thing is this does,
add a little extra weight.
It's time to set up.
This is always the most exciting part.
This is one of my favorite features about the iPad Air,
is the fact that they have touch ID on the power button
and it's added.
This already has a cellular 5G for Verizon in it.
Ooh, light mode or dark mode?
I think I'm gonna go with light mode.
And that's it.
It's all set up.
Now, I guess I gotta install some apps
and get ready to test.
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(phone ringing)
Hey.
- How is it going?
- Dude, it's going good.
How's everything over there.
- I'm in Hawaii.
- I'm so jealous, that's my favorite place.
So I'm testing Center Stage, check this out.
Watch, I can go all the way over here, my iPhone.
(laughing)
But this is so cool.
- The quality on my end looks great
- Dude, you have actually look incredible too.
Like you've got the bulk behind you too,
which is awesome.
- We got the blurry 'cause I'm using the new iPhone, yeah.
(knives clanking)
- Doing a little cooking.
Okay, I'm going over here, going over here.
- That's great.
I thought how well that works.
- I'm actually kind of impressed with your audio too.
Like it sounds great.
Can you see me all the way over here?
- Yes, it's fine here.
- Have fun in Hawaii.
Bye
- Bye.
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- So it's coffee time and I of course brought the iPad Air.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna film
a little vlog of getting the coffee, ordering the coffee,
whatever are on my iPhone.
What's great about shooting on the iPhone
is I can either take all of this footage
airdrop it to the iPad or what's even better,
is it syncs to the cloud and it's automatically
on the iPad ready to edit in LumaFusion.
I guess I'm just gonna make my little vlog now.
Hello, Justine here.
Really important message.
I'm going to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
and I'm going to get a Pomegranate blueberry tea latte.
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Now I also brought one of my OWC drives
which is great because I can just plug in
and connect this to our USBC port.
Now everything was airdropped from my phone to the iPad.
So I plugged in my drive
'cause I have some music and some clips.
So if this was like a bigger edit
and I wanted to bring some external footage
that I had shot elsewhere, I have all of that on here.
It's really loud here though.
This is not ideal working conditions for me.
Noise canceling Air Pods Promax?
Yes, please.
I'm gonna find some music on my drive
and add this to the mix.
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My edit is complete and I am so in love
with editing on the iPad.
Like I forget how incredible it is
until you actually sit down and learn the program.
It's so awesome having a touch base environment.
Sometimes you just wanna reach out
and just scroll on that timeline.
But yeah, here's the final edit.
It's my best work.
Cheers.
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The one way you could tell if somebody's cool or not
is if they have enough guts to go out in public
and take photos on their iPad.
Look at me, look at me, look at me.
Look how cool, look how cool I look.
I mean, even though you might look silly
taking pictures with such a massive device,
like the camera is pretty incredible.
So more power to you.
Let's normalize taking photos and videos on the iPad.
Yeah, gotta get the shot.
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Hey guys, it's iJustine here.
This is my new body, my new form.
I hope you're into it.
- [Man] Now, drop it.
- (laughs) I love it.
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So there are a lot of iPads in front of me
but this is the one that we're talking about today.
This is the iPad Air.
It's the 5th generation
which is bringing the M1 chip 5G connectivity.
It has an improved ultra wide front camera
featuring Center Stage and CPU eight core graphics
with NextGen neural engine and eight gigs of RAM.
You can get up to 10 hours of battery life on WiFi
or nine hours on cellular.
You can also now record up to 60 frames a second in 1080P
on the front camera and take 12 megapixel photos
which is up from seven on the previous iPad Air.
You can also now shoot with extended dynamic range
in both the front and the rear camera.
I think a lot of people are going to be kind of confused now
with the introduction of another iPad
that has an M1 chip.
So back here, this is the 12.9 inch iPad pro with M1.
This is the 11 inch iPad pro M1.
And this is the new 10.9 inch iPad air with M1 chip.
So looking at the smaller iPad pro in comparison
to the new M1 iPad Air, one of the biggest differences
is that the pro iPad has ProMotion display.
And this gives you an extra fluid feel
when you're actually using it.
Now, this doesn't make that much of a difference
on the usability, but it is really hard to go back
to a non-ProMotion display after using one
with it for so long.
You can get a pro iPad with storage up to two terabytes
whereas the iPad Air, you're maxed out at 256 gigs.
Now you do have upgraded cameras with the pro
with a 12 megapixel wide,
10 megapixel ultra wide plus LIDAR.
Now the Air only has the 12 megapixel wide camera
and there's no LIDAR.
You will get faster transfer speeds with the USB
and Thunderbolt 4 ports in the Pro
and they also do have millimeter wave support.
So that will allow you to have faster 5G.
There are two speakers in the Air
and there's four in the Pro.
and the Pro has face ID but it doesn't have touch ID
like the Air does in the power button.
I am so excited.
I just updated my iPad and the new macOS Monterey
so we can test out universal control.
Now with this, I can use a mouse and a keyboard
and I can control not only my iPad,
but I can also control my MacBook
which these two displays are hooked up to.
And you can also have one other device as well.
So you can have three different Mac products
and I'll control them with one mouse, one keyboard.
And the cool thing about this is being able to drag
and drop files from your iPad to your MacBook.
And then maybe from the MacBook
to another iMac that you have set up.
It kind of gives you this whole little universe, all in one
hence the universal control.
Okay, anyway, let's try it, I'm so excited.
To get this all started you into the display setting.
And in here you'll see
there's a new universal control option.
So let's click it.
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Your cursor and keyboard can be used
on any nearby Mac or iPad signed into your iCloud.
I've got a lot of computers around
so I don't know what's gonna happen.
Oh, look at this link, keyboard and mouse.
Oh, it just popped up.
Look, it's right here.
And what's cool is I love being able
to like move this around
so you can kind of mimic the desktop setup that you have.
Oh, my goodness, look at this!
This is my mouse.
Do you see?
I'm controlling this.
This is game changing.
This is absolutely, the game has been changed.
The game that you knew before, is no more.
So this is kind of a project that I already started,
it was a little animation.
So it kind of like goes like this, look at that.
And then we have some key presses here.
So I drew all of this in Procreate,
all of the various key presses.
I just exported all of these as separate files.
All right, I'm gonna see what's gonna happen
when I drag all of these files over.
They're sliding off of the iPad
onto the MacBook.
And now I'm just gonna drag, oh my God, they're right there.
So this makes it super easy to go through.
And then I made my little animation with each key press.
So that was sort of my first impressions
and first demo testing out universal control.
I'm so excited to test this out further.
I definitely wanna try it using three different devices.
So for now that's how I plan on using my iPad
with the universal control and with my MacBook.
'Cause this is kind of like my main setup.
And this is how I've been working
for the past couple of months
since I got the new MacBook pro.
Now I'm gonna throw it to my friend, Jake,
who's been helping me shoot some photos and videos
and he actually uses his iPad pro
as his main photo editing device.
So I was like, hey, why don't you test out the iPad Air,
show us your workflow and see what you think.
Jake, take it away, and then you take it away.
- [Jake] Okay. - Yep, love it.
Okay.
- Hey, what's going on, everybody?
Jake here, and as Justine just mentioned,
I'm a photographer full time
and I have implemented my iPad pro into my workflow.
And when she gave me a call
about giving this iPad Air a try, I kind of geeked out.
So I'm gonna give you guys a little insight on my workflow.
Now, something that I love
that Apple started doing back in 2018
with their 11 inch iPad pro is implementing the USBC port
on the side.
That means that I can plug in an external hard drive
or better yet for my workflow,
I can put my SD card reader or card reader in general,
straight into the iPad,
throw it into Lightroom and start editing.
Now I do have to keep in mind
that if I'm importing a lot of images,
that I am kind of stuck with how much storage
the iPad has on board.
Now I absolutely love Apple Pencil
especially when it comes to Lightroom mobile.
The first thing that I like to do is go in
and change the color profile to match my camera.
Now that I've got that done,
I'm gonna mess with some of the colors
and some of the exposures until I find something
that I really like.
Okay, so I've definitely got my exposure
in a comfortable place.
I'm gonna jump straight to the masking
and fine tune some details.
And I see over here that it's got some of her in that mask.
And I don't want that.
So I'm gonna subtract from that mask.
Use the brush tool to brush anything that is highlighted
in red away.
Now that I've got the subject masked out of this photo,
I can make any adjustments
to just that specific part of the photo.
I absolutely love just how fast the iPad
is able to compute this.
One of the last places that I like to edit
is in the effects tab.
So let's go ahead and open that up,
pull down a little bit of the clarity
and then pop a little bit of the haze on there
and add a little bit of vignette
so it isolates that iPad even more.
So I'm gonna crop this down to 16 by nine,
so I make sure that everything will fit perfectly
into a 16 by nine thumbnail for YouTube.
Overall, I am very impressed by this iPad.
Comparing it to my 12.9 inch iPad pro,
I really noticed no difference.
That mean the display is nice and bright.
Everything's nice and fast.
And I was able to get the job done
just as easily as I would've on my iPad pro.
And the fact that this is about half the cost of that,
definitely means that there's gonna be a lot of people
giving me a run for my money out there.
- [Justine] Let's see it.
- What do we think?
- Oh, dude, I think that actually,
that might be the thumbnail.
- Oh really?
Here's a little bit before and after for you.
Before and after.
- [Justine] Yeah, that's a huge difference.
- You like it?
- I love it. - [Jake] Sweet.
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- Now cost-wise for WiFi,
you're looking at a starting price of 599 for 64 gigs
in the Air.
And the base pro model starts at 128 gigs for 799.
I think it really comes down to price,
how much internal storage you think you're gonna need,
will you need faster transfer speeds
with a Thunderbolt 4 on the Pro.
But I really think for most people
you're gonna be pretty happy with the new iPad Air
because it can do just about everything that you'd need.
For all of my illustration stuff
I've been using the iPad pro and it's kind of interesting
because when you're using Procreate,
the amount of layers that you're able to create,
depends on the amount of RAM that your device has.
So the 128, the 256 and the 512 gig iPad models,
only have eight gigs of RAM.
But if you choose the one terabyte or two terabyte options
that then gives you a completely specked up iPad
giving you 12 gigs of RAM.
All that being said, price is a huge factor.
So the fact that you can do basically everything
that these M1 pro iPads can do, here on the iPad Air,
yes, there are some limitation,
but I feel like that is something
that you easily can work around if you need it.
So I'm very excited about this introduction
of this new iPad into the family.
I look forward to continuing to test that out
and I am so looking forward
to seeing what you guys think of these devices.
I'm a huge iPad fan, and I am so excited
to kind of see them out in the wild
and see what you guys create.
And if you're not creating, that's fine, consume content.
We're also consumers.
It's also pretty great for playing video games.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
If you guys have any questions,
please leave them in the comments below.
And if you wanna check out my new little project
that I've been working on,
feel free to follow along twitter.com/jpig
and also on Instagram, jpig.farm.
And if you want to also sign up in the mailing list
so you'll be alerted when the alpha is gonna be dropped,
you guys can sign up on the website, jpig.farm.
I love the iPad.
It has honestly changed my life
over the past couple of months, just using it
in a way that I never thought that I would ever use an iPad.
I never really thought that illustration
was something that I would get back into.
So I've been having the best time.
And I hope that you guys can find something
that inspires you to kind of unlock something
that you never thought that you would do again,
like whether it's playing a sport or drawing,
or maybe you wanna start making videos.
And that must be the sign
that I have to plug in my iPad, and it's time to go.
So I'll see you guys later.
(laughing)
Bye, perfect timing little iPad.
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