hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the 12.9 inch iPad pro
been using it every single day since it came out and it's one of my favorite
devices have been waiting since the twelve point nine inch first-generation
to buy a new twelve point nine inch and this is where I use every single day
when I'm not editing a video this is my main computer so I wanted to talk about
whether or not you should get one and we'll talk about all the specs and
everything too so let's take a look now so the iPad itself is very thin in light
it's 1.39 pounds for the Wi-Fi version and just 0.1 pound more 1.4 pounds for
the cellular version now the design is really nice
thinner bezels with a new liquid retina which just means that the corners are
curved it's a 2732 by 2048 264 pixel per inch
display it has p3 wide color gamut true tone and all of the other things you'd
expect from apple's display great viewing angles it looks better than the
10-hour display as far as viewing angles go but it's very very nice either way
and it goes incredibly bright it goes to 600 nits so to give you an idea the new
MacBook Air only goes to half of that 300 minutes it goes very very bright and
I think it's fine in most situations except for maybe direct sunlight now the
design is very reminiscent of the iPhone 5 and 5s era I love it it's actually
really thin and squared off but rounded corners so on this side you do have a
microphone on the bottom we have the all new USBC connector for an iPad anyway
then two speakers here and then on this side we have the spot where we actually
can attach our pencil and I'll talk about that more in a moment and then we
have our volume up and down button we also have our power sleep/wake button
here two more speakers two more microphones for a total of five
microphones one of them is on the back as well so we have a new camera as well
12 megapixel F/1.8 it's basically the same camera sensor that's in the iPhones
but it's not optically image stabilized and has different
Lenz's you also have your Pogo pin adapters for the smart keyboard cover
folio that we'll talk about in a moment now we do have a little bit of an
eyebrow and if you haven't a Wi-Fi model this is what it looks like if you have a
cellular it wraps around the edges here so they're very similar either way now
the overall design is nice in the hands it's it's sturdy and I know some people
have said it's kind of weak but if you try and twist it a little bit it doesn't
really flex very much you might be able to see it here but I'm not applying a
whole lot of pressure but I find that the older ipads such as the iPad air
seems to flex a little bit more now you can see it and I'm not applying much
pressure whatsoever this isn't something you're going to do very often but if you
put it in a bag just know that it could twist a little bit because something is
just little pressing up against it now you'll see it unlocked very quickly
using face ID we have no more home button and it works in any orientation
so if I rotate it here you'll see it it says camera covered and points to it so
let's do that again and it's unlocked if I rotate it this way will lock it
again rotate it this way it's going to tell me to look down to unlock so if I
look down it unlocks so it's great it works really well in any rotation and at
first I thought it was going to be a pain because I really like touch ID but
it turns out it works really well on the iPad and I've rarely had to put in my
password because of it now one thing you may have noticed is we don't have a
headphone jack anywhere around this and that kind of drives me nuts but Apple
says that's because this display goes so close to the edges they call it edge to
edge it's not really edge to edge compared to an iPhone for example but
because it comes so close to the edge they had to make room for the parts that
make the display bright and light it and and make it work so they didn't have
room to put in a headphone jack I'm not sure I buy that I think they could have
fit a headphone jack in here and it's a pain to have to use your ear pods when
you're actually using your iPad because well those don't last as long as the
iPad does now this has a large battery in it it lasts easily 10 hours if we
take a look at the battery here we'll go to the battery settings you'll see that
I'm more recently charged it but if we go back to the last seven days I only
try twice since I've got this so since I've
had this I purchased this myself but since I've had this it took two charges
to bring it up to where I needed and you'll see there's the battery going
down over time although it didn't go back up maybe I plugged in and I don't
remember but it's really held up well it easily will get you ten hours even doing
pretty heavy tasks so I normally using YouTube I use alumina fusion a little
bit to edit in compressed video just to try it out and it works well now talking
about the specs of this iPad it has the a 12X processor in it with the neural
engine and m12 coprocessor also 4GB RAM now if you have the larger
storage model it has 6GB of RAM the larger being one terabyte and
we'll talk about price in a moment but it comes in with 4GB of RAM
which is plenty for most applications the extra RAM is really to manage that
extra storage so this is the 256 gigabyte model this comes in at 11:49
without any of the accessories so it starts at $9.99 and goes up to 1899 so
you can price this over $2000 with the cellular model with a terabyte of
storage now that sounds kind of crazy but Apple says it's over 90% faster or
faster than 90% of laptops sold last year or portable devices sold last year
so those numbers it's hard to say but there are saying it's about core i7
performance and benchmarks actually show that so I did run a benchmark on this so
we'll take a look at that here so it came in at five thousand forty nine for
single core and 17 thousand eight hundred and forty-one for multi-core if
we compare that to something as simple as the iPhone 10's max you'll see eleven
thousand four hundred ninety-two and forty eight oh eight so pretty good
scores that's just compared to the a 12 so the a 12x adds that much more power
and it's incredibly fast there is nothing that will ever slow down now of
course scrolling is going to be super smooth it has a pro motion display at
120 Hz and this is managed by iOS so depending on the app you're in it's
still going to be smooth depending what you're doing the speed is incredible
it just doesn't slow down there's nothing I could throw at it that would
even make it heat up so I went into luma whew
I messed around with this a little bit and this is allows you to edit video so
I'm working on a new monitor video that'll be out in a little bit but if we
go and export this maybe we want to share the movie and we want to share it
too let's just go to the rendered movies folder you can adjust all of your
different settings here and then it's exporting and you'll see it's a minute
and 55 seconds and it's exporting faster than frame a second it looks like it
looks like it's going to finish in a couple minutes which is really good for
4k video and while it's doing this it doesn't heat up at all in fact the
processor is right here in the middle it doesn't even get warm when I was doing
this so we're exporting 4k video which will on a Mac Mini one of the new Mac
minis or my macbook pro will spin the fans up while it's doing it this isn't
even getting hot even warm to the touch it just doesn't feel any different which
is pretty incredible considering what it's doing right now so there's that and
then also the speakers on this are really incredible so let's go into one
of my youtube videos and you'll see here's one recent we'll just play this
and let me move the microphone here so you can hear this and it really sounds
great
so in playing video everything's great and in fact the speakers sit right about
here and they take up a lot of space actually but they sit right here and the
way they've got them configured it sounds like the sound is coming right at
you from the display it doesn't sound like it's off to the left or right it's
right directly at you and that's the incredible part it just sounds so good
and it's always in stereo no matter how you're holding it they've done a great
job their audio engineers they actually have a woofer and a tweeter in it for
sound and they just sound amazing for such a little device now that does take
up space that occupies where the battery could go and they could have put a
larger battery but they decided to do the speakers instead but I think as long
as it hits that 10 hour mark I think they're happy at this point now charging
speed due to that battery is about three to four hours with the included 18 watt
adapter so USB seen a USBC and the adapter works well but I think
you can get a little bit more speed out of a Macbook adapter if you really were
in a pinch I would use this normally and just charge it overnight but if you need
to really get going you could use a Macbook adapter if you have one so as
far as this goes using it it's great but without pro apps this makes it a little
bit difficult no we do have Pro apps for the pencil and this is a hundred and
thirty nine dollar accessory and it works really well it's incredibly
responsive but let's take a look at notes and I'll show you what I mean so
we're in notes and the pencils very responsive it's on pencil right now and
you'll see I can shade just by doing this if I push a little bit harder the
shades even more and that's the great thing this is probably the best artists
pencil out there for a tablet so we can just say hi say Zolo tech and you can go
as fast as you want and it just keeps up and you can go right to the edge so
we'll change it to green I guess we'll go right to the edge here you can't be
throwing a little yellow you can go to the top that's the top of the note there
and the bottom of the note here but right to the edge you can go right to
that very edge and it does a great job so you've got the whole display to use
there's Lag its tilt and pressure-sensitive and
then when you want to charge it it just adheres magnetically and then drops down
and says it's charging it works really well it's a great solution and it feels
much better than the previous pencil now using it with the keyboard cover is
great also but this is a two hundred dollar accessory and this is a little
tricky to pick this up time to time because it's so flat but this is a two
hundred dollar accessory that's a keyboard cover and it's nice that it
protects it but it feels a little bit less apple-like and what I mean by that
is if you want to use it open it's fine so you use it open it's sturdy and
sometimes this slips and it feels like it's gonna slam down but it has two
angles very vertical and about a 45 degree angle or so but then if you want
to flip it around it's got the keyboard on the back this is very much like a
surface and not so much like an Apple product but due to its size it's more
manageable so if I compare it to something like the older iPad you'll see
here this is much more manageable as far as size so it's really good that way and
I think for a lot of people this is going to be a better size just because
it's more manageable it's more portable and it just looks really nice and you
can use it in any orientation you'd like now using this keyboard is really nice
as well it's basically the same as before but the keys have a little bit
more travel than say the MacBook and it works well command space will bring you
all the same shortcuts that you get on a MacBook and command C command V for copy
paste command a for select all you can use it just like a MacBook and that
part's really really nice now one thing though where this is lacking the most
really is the USB-C port in the operating system itself and what I mean
by that is we have looma fusion but we don't have anything like Final Cut Pro
we have procreate for it for drawing but we have iMovie for video and if this is
going to be a $2000 Pro editing device it needs to have Pro apps and I'm really
hoping Apple announces Final Cut Pro for iPad and we have some more changes maybe
with 13 and what I mean by that is a
different operating system may be a dedicated iPad operating system and the
reason I say that is we've got this USB-C port but you can't plug anything into
it as far as storage so let me show you so here is a samsung t5 Drive and this
is what I use to edit video off of its my scratch disk and I have a Thunderbolt
cable plugged into it but it will its backward compatible with USB C and if
you plug it in the iPad doesn't recognize it it doesn't understand what
storage is and it says contents not available cannot read the connected
storage media you need a special app dedicated to this the files app doesn't
understand external storage so this won't work with it now you can plug in
external memory card readers such as this Apple accessory that's $40 for this
but you can plug in memory cards just plug them in through here but everything
opens up in photos and then you import it there and then you have to import it
to another app so this really needs a revamp if this is going to be a pro
editing machine or pro anything quite honestly right now it's a great device
and you can do things like split screen and things like that but it really
doesn't get the job done when you want to do things like create a video edit it
export it and then maybe upload it to youtube and have a full web browser
Chrome or whatever will work but still it's just not a hundred percent there so
I would really like to see a dedicated iPad OS now you can use an external
display but this creates a little bit of a problem when you plug this in it just
mirrors the display so let me show you first what you need is USB C to HDMI you
cannot use Thunderbolt if you plug in Thunderbolt it doesn't understand
thunderbolt and will tell you that but if you plug this into the bottom of the
iPad and plug it into a display it will mirror it now you'll see here's the iPad
if I plug in the bottom plugged in there give it a moment on the display and it
mirrors the display so if I swipe you'll see it's just a mirror of what I'm doing
you can't adjust the resolution and this is a 5k display and it's just down
scaling to make it fit so that's just about everything about the iPad pro it's
a great device but right now it's limited by its operating systems
if you don't have an iPad Pro you'll be very happy with this iPad and I'm really
hoping they bring this design to iPhones next year we'll see though but I'm
really happy with this iPad but I think it's overpriced and it's missing a
headphone jack and those pro abilities and apps that I'm really hoping come to
this device one day so hopefully they'll show up one of these days and we'll get
rid of this goofy icon grid for a pro device so of course you can play
fortnight to but I don't know that you should waste your time with that since
this costs what a decent gaming PC would cost so if you really want to play
fortnight at full resolution get yourself a gaming PC and forget all this
because while the frame rates are incredible on it it doesn't lag at all I
don't know that this is the best way to do this you really should consider a
gaming PC if this is what you're really aiming towards and I'm terrible at this
game and let me know what you think about it though but that's pretty much
it it's not something that I would use this for normally this is more of a
productivity and creativity device for me let me know what you think about the
new iPads in the comments below if you're going to pick one of these up or
maybe you've already picked one of these up I'd love to hear which one you've
picked up what you like maybe like the smaller size let me know in the comments
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