Apple released their ten point two inch iPad about a week ago and I've
been using as my daily driver and I think this is really gonna be the default
computing experience for many people moving forward.
Even though the tablet doesn't offer a significant spec bump from the six
generation iPad it's still largely I think it's gonna be a great tablet
for a number reasons: "1" because it's three hundred fifty dollars it really
makes tablet computing or computing in general much more accessible to
many more people and then when you compound or add in iPadOS which recently
just came out it's very full featured and I think it almost could replace
a computer for a large percentage of people out there I'm saying somewhere
maybe 70-75 percent.
Now granted there are going to be people that will not be able to replace
all of their tasks with the iPad but that might not be the intention right.
The intention might be to replace most of the tasks and still have your
computer around when you need to do that computing that's computationally intensive.
I mean I don't know if we'll ever see a point in time where you can do
motion graphics or heavy editing on the iPad but if we do that's great.
I mean I love to have a more portable editing rig than having to take my
computer connected to my monitor connected to my external drives connected
to my eGPU.
They we got to a point where we could do this. I mean there's mouse support
in there. You have the ability to go and file access. There are a lot of
great features which I think that you might be underestimating why this
is going to be the best computer under three under fifty dollars.
I am Mike and this is tech 24/7 TV. Let's get started.
As I said the beginning I've been using the ten point two inch iPad as
a replacement for my twelve point nine inch iPad Pro for about a week now.
And I think this is really going to be the default computing experience
for many people out there. When you compare it against the six generation
iPad there's not a lot that has largely changed. And I think that's the point.
Apple felt that the sixth generation iPad was largely a good computing
experience for the target demographic that it was going to appealing to.
When you add in the functionality where you now have this smart connector
you're really kind of broadening the number of people that are going to
go and upgrade into the seventh generation iPad.
I mean people are complaining about the cost the keyboard being one hundred
and fifty nine dollars compared to the cost the iPad at three hundred and thirty.
Now, while I understand the perspective that you're saying that
the iPad is roughly double the cost keyboard think of it this way:
If I were to buy that keyboard today and keep this iPad to keep the iPad
Seventh Generation for you know three four or five years there's a very
good chance that after that point in time I can then upgrade into the iPad
Air 3 which is going to use the same keyboard as it does today so you're
giving people a bit more longevity in a piece of product or in a product
that they own by extending the functionality from one generation of iPads
which is this you know seventh generation into the iPad Air 3 which is
a really nice feature because you think about it.
I don't have to then rebuy that keyboard. Now many people say that the
iPad just because it's running a two year old processor from I think it's
2017 when the iPhone 7 and 7 plus the iPad is not nicely going to be full
featured or can handle a majority of tasks.
Now for someone like me, I use my iPad for 70-80 percent of my computing
tasks because I want to keep it as light as possible when I'm not at home,
it worked fine. I was able to play games I was able to go out and create documents
going create PowerPoints, there was some light video editing.
I mean this works largely fine. But let's talk about the features of the
new ten point two inch iPad so you know first thing it's in the name ten
point two inch iPad comparison to the nine point seven inch iPad.
It's marginally bigger but it's designed I think from the aspect to give
you or to afford you a better experience when you think about iPadOS.
It still has a lighting port here at the bottom, still has speaker grills
at the bottom, it doesn't have four channel audio like the newer iPads do.
Also on the front you're gonna have the same Touch ID. sensor that you
have on the previous generation. I've had it doesn't afford any faster
unlocking experience and obviously there's no Face ID.
You have the same one point two megapixel camera here on the front it doesn't
again if you're thinking about it going to be some some wonderful iPad photographer.
This is not the I for you but I think if you're considering this iPad you're
not really thinking that you're an iPad photographer.
On the back here you have the same eight megapixel camera that's on the
back again. You know if you're worried about taking photos with your iPad
this is not this is not the iPad for you. This is by and large again it's
going to be the same. There's really no difference here still has a lightning port,
still has the three point five millimeter jack that you see here which
is great.
I mean to call that which is gonna be great for people that need that functionality
really the only difference here is gonna be the smart dock connector here
at the bottom that allows you to connect the keyboard to it and
you're off. This is the keyboard. And when you open it.
Now truth be told this keyboard that I have here I've had it since 2017
when I bought the ten point five inch iPad Pro I've been able to reuse
this on you know I've that ten point five inch I've had pro the iPad Air
3 which came out this year and also this. So I get a lot of reuse out of this.
So if you're someone who's kind of debating purchasing the keyboard think
of it this way that if you do purchase it and if you upgrade to a you know
another iPad and in a few years. There is a chance that you might go ahead
and be able to reuse that same keyboard assuming that the iPad keeps the
same constraints from a size perspective
So I think it really really comes down to who is this iPad for? Now,
when I think about that answer I think this is really can be built
for people who are you know you might not be new to computing but you're
new to tablet computing. Right you're coming from an old PC whether it's
Mac or Windows and you want something that's more portable you want something
a little bit more personal you want to you maybe as a media consumption
device maybe this can be for a young teenager or someone who's going off
to school for the first time.
Not just a primary iPad. If you're looking for a secondary pat to use around
the house in the kitchen you like I use mine in the studio to write notes
I use the teleprompter when I've to take notes.
So it's very conformable to many different situations where you could use this.
So I think if you're coming from an older iPad obviously for sure this
is a great pad and you're getting the expanded function out of adding the keyboard.
I would say that this is really at three twenty nine. It's designed for
many many many people and come holiday. I think this is going to sell like hotcakes.
You're going to see this as a gift for a lot of people. So when you think
about getting the iPad here if you have an older iPad Apple's giving trade-in
deals on this so like for my iPad Air 2 which is broken right now I'm able
to trade that into Apple and I may get a hundred bucks for it or they'll
give me a hundred hours off a new product so I could do one or two things
you know that's going to drop the price of this from three thirty nine
or 329 down to 229 or I can get actually even more storage from 429 down
to three twenty nine I think if you need more than hundred 128 gigs there's
no other option you have to move into the iPad Air 3 which is available
at 256 gigs but if you do end up getting that you can still use the same
keyboard so you can reuse ability and even you know I think a couple of
things if you wanted to do.
I would say like video editing maybe using an app like Luma fusion that
certainly would be good. You now have the ability to connect external storage
this if you wanted to using one of the different dongle accessories from
Apple like the camera connection can I believe it's called it's twenty
nine or thirty nine dollars and so you can connect like a USB drive to
that as long as you connect power to it as well and go ahead and use it
to edit content off of. Again I think it's it's more tuned to someone's
I mean upgrading from an older iPad maybe you're going to be using this
as a second computing device students even as a media consumption device.
Again I think it's it's more tuned to someone's I mean upgrading from an
older iPad maybe you're going to be using this as a second computing device,
students even as a media consumption device.
This is still a great deal at three twenty nine for the 64 gig but I wouldn't
know what you think about the new iPad. Are you going to upgrade to it.
And if you are agreeing to it or what are you upgrading from.
I I would think that if you are upgrading it's going to be something that
is pre iPad Air 2 and not running iPadOS.
But again, I would love to hear from you in the comments below.
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