Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the 9th generation ipad this is apple's
least expensive ipad and it gets a few nice upgrades this year now the first thing is it
starts at the exact same price as last year so 329 but they've doubled the amount of storage so
now instead of 32 gigabytes it's now 64 gigabytes you also have another option of 256 gigabytes for
479 now if you want to add cellular data that will bump the price up another 130
on top of the other prices so that's pretty typical for cellular editions for ipad now it only
comes in two different colors this year as well and the two colors are space gray and silver apple
got rid of the gold color for the 9th generation ipad but let's go ahead and unbox this and take a
closer look at some of those new features so here is the latest 9th generation ipad and you can see
that here it's just the wi-fi version but it's the 64 gigabyte model so it was 329 dollars let's go
ahead and remove the wrapper here so i've got my unboxing knife and let's just cut that there we go
and let's remove the wrapper
and we'll remove the top of the box here
and here's the ipad now this is a little bit different it looks like they're using some sort
of paper now maybe for better recyclability and it's a little bit of a different paper there now
inside the box let's see what we've got so we've got some paperwork here just like we do every time
and if i can get this out of here there we go
and it looks like we do get apple stickers in here they're just a
little bit difficult to remove so you have your typical safety and handling paperwork
you've got a quick start guide and you also have two apple stickers so you still get two with the
ipad now in the box you do get a lightning to usbc cable so as you can see here usbc to lightning
and you also do get a charger with this ipad so you get the 20 watt charger but if you
need an additional charger that's where today's channel partner comes in anchors so at about 45
of the size you get the same 20 watt charging i'll talk more about them a little bit later
but thanks to anker for sponsoring this video and so let's set these aside and we'll take a
closer look at the ipad itself now let's remove the cover off of this
so this is more like a macbook plastic paper cover and as you can see here's the ipad so we'll
set the paper aside and this year's ipad is no different than last year's as far as its overall
size and dimensions it's the same size it's the same weight and i have last year's version here
you can see it is a little bit lighter as far as the space gray goes but in my left hand is the
eighth generation in my right hand is the ninth generation everything is identical from every
port to everything else so let's go around the outside edge of it and like i said it's the same
thickness and same weight and on the top we have our power sleep wake button in the middle we have
a microphone and we also have another one on the back here we also have a headphone jack
still this is apple's last device to include a headphone jack and then on the side here we have
our dock connector or pogo pin connector and this is for a smart keyboard or a different accessory
on the bottom we have our lightning port and we also have our speakers on the other side just
like before we have our volume buttons on the back we've got our camera and again this year
it's the exact same camera as before so we have an 8 megapixel camera and it's exactly the same
like i said so what you get is an 8 megapixel camera that has an f 2.4 aperture and 1080p 30
video so nothing particularly different there but the forward-facing camera has been greatly
upgraded and we'll take a closer look at that in a little bit but the forward-facing camera is last
year came in at 1.2 megapixels it was only really useful for video calls and didn't even look that
good then but now we have a front 12 megapixel ultra wide f 2.4 that can record 1080p 30 and
has center stage so that's a big update as well internally it now gets the a13 bionic which is 20
faster as far as its gpu and it has a neural engine that allows for that new live text feature
in ipad os 15. so let's go ahead and turn it on and we'll get it set up and as you can see we do
have that home button here and it's basically what you would expect with touch id so we'll boot it up
here and this display is not a laminated display so it makes it a little bit easier to repair
because the glass is not actually adhered to the screen underneath i can show you that in
a moment when we go to maybe a different setup screen here there we go you'll see it says hello
and it sits a little under the glass because it's not laminated this helps with a little
bit of durability and makes it easier to repair because you don't have to repair them
together it's very hard to separate an lcd from the glass you can do it but it's very difficult
to do now before we set this up the display is the same display as last year 10.2 inches it's also
2160 by 1620 with 264 pixels per inch goes up to 500 nits has true tone and an oleophobic coating
now let's go ahead and set it up it also supports the first generation apple pencil which we'll take
a look at in a moment so let's set it up we can bring in the other ipad to help do that now just
bringing it nearby we can set it up i'll hit continue and then i'll scan this and get it set
up now the ipad is set up manually now because i had some issues where i couldn't agree to terms of
service it was unresponsive but now it's working fine so i'm not sure what happened there but here
we have ipad os 15. now let's take a look at the version installed so we'll go to settings
general and then about and the version that's pre-installed is 19a-340 and so what that means
is if we go to software update there should be an update and there is there's a 332 megabyte update
and i would recommend you do this right away so it fixes some issues you may be having with your ipad
initially they shipped it with that version just to get it out of the factory and now you can
update to this version and you should be good to go as far as that goes now as far as the processor
well this should be super fast we've had the a13 for a little while and it should be fast overall
now let's go ahead and check the ram and then we'll take a look at that center stage front
camera and the apple pencil so i'll download geekbench so i have geekbench installed now
and this will tell us how much ram we have and you can see we have 2.87 gigabytes or three gigabytes
of ram and so with that and the a13 bionic this year we should have an additional performance
boost and we should also have the option for live tax that we get with ipad os 15 due to the neural
engine so if we go into the camera and then we bring in maybe the ipad mini smart folio case
and you'll see that live text does not work in real time on an ipad but if we snap a picture of
it and then we go to that photo now we can select the text so we can select text after the fact you
can't do it through the camera on an ipad for some reason but you can do it after you take the photo
so you can copy and paste that text or whatever you'd like to do with it
look up maybe a definition of something or more so it's a really nice feature now also this is
compatible with the first generation apple pencil so it's not compatible with the second generation
which means you have to use the first gen that uses lightning so you can pair the apple pencil
just through the bottom here and you can also charge the apple pencil that way but we'll give
it just a moment and you can see it says bluetooth pairing request we'll hit pair and there we go it
says apple pencil battery is low so maybe that's why it took a moment so we'll give it a moment
we'll hit continue and it's showing us how to use scribble and more and again we'll just hit
done and now if we take this out of the lightning port with the ipad we can now use features such
as quick note if we drag in from the side here so we can hit get started and then we can write
hello and it works with this apple pencil so you have full compatibility with it and it's the least
expensive apple pencil as well so it's about a hundred dollars for the apple pencil generally
but it works with this and all of the other third-party accessories you've come to know from
before so it's backward compatible with those due to the connector on the side here where you can
use a smart keyboard or more so that's really nice you don't have to go out and buy a bunch of new
accessories if you're coming from an older ipad to this one now the final big update to this is the
forward-facing camera for facetime calls so if we go into facetime you'll see i'm not even signed in
but you'll see it's zooming in automatically if i move it will follow me around so as i move in my
chair it's actually following me on the camera and it's following me in real time as i move
you'll see it's sort of like having a cameraman behind it i've been using this on the ipad pro
and it's a great feature it works in other apps as well so if you're on a zoom call or something
like that the camera will actually follow you around and help you within that call so it's a
great feature and it's something that i'm glad they're adding to this ipad it's also on the
new ipad mini and the ipad pro as well so it's a great feature to have now this should get 10
hours of battery the same as before with regular use and if you need to charge it of course you
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so that's it for the 9th generation ipad now the new ipad does not have any new wallpaper on it
so i wanted to show this i normally show it at the beginning of the video but there wasn't anything
new and these are great ipads for school i see a lot of kids using them it depends on your school
district of course but a lot of elementary schools use these and they're really helpful
i think they're a great price and if you've never used an ipad i highly recommend checking one out
they're super fast they last pretty well they're very durable and they have great battery life as
well so if you've never checked one out these are generally what i recommend for most people
if you just want to see if an ipad is right for you but let me know what you think about the new
ipad in the comments below and of course i'll link anchor in the description and thanks to
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