Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPad pro 12.9 inch with the new M1 chip set in
it has been out for over six months. Time has been really moving quickly,
and this has been my main go to apple device when I'm at home or not creating
videos and editing them where I typically use this for consumption planning and
much more. So I wanted to give you a little bit over six month follow up review.
And so, like I said, this is my main device. When I'm not editing videos.
I absolutely love this device. It's the cellular model.
You can see that with the little antenna lines here.
It also has the 5g antenna in it. So if we go around to the bottom here,
you can see the 5g antenna. So it also has that.
And it's just something I really enjoy using. I wanted to talk about deep, good,
and the bad or positives and negatives about it as well.
And the first thing is the design.
We'll talk about the accessories in a little bit,
but the first thing overall is its design.
The design hasn't changed too much for a little while.
It did get a little bit thicker now that it has the M1 chip set in it.
But it's not something that you're really noticed after using it for about a
week or two. So it's been pretty good that way. Durability wise,
it seems to be pretty good. I haven't had any issues with it,
flexing or bending as some people are concerned with that.
And that's probably because it's been in this case the entire time.
So I use the magic keyboard with it. And if you have it protected like that,
and you're careful with your devices and you don't on them or drop them,
you're going to be fined with this device.
If you're someone that's a bit more clumsy, well,
you may want a little bit more protective case as it could bend.
If you were to maybe put it in a backpack and put a lot of weight on it.
However, it's typically in a backpack for me as well. Now,
the display has held up really well. I don't use a screen protector on it,
and I did notice there is one light action in it,
but I can't even see it under this light. There is a light scratch in it.
I'm not sure what it's from since it's always in that case when I'm not using it
and closed,
but it does have a tendency to get a few light scratches on it here and there.
If something maybe gets in here or you could bump a ring against it or a watch
or something like that, but overall it holds up really, really well.
The anti collective coding works well and the display in general is something
that's incredible. So this is a display that's HDR.
And I absolutely love watching movies on it. If I don't have my TV available,
I watched the entire new matrix movie on this with spatial audio and with its
incredible brightness up to 1600 nits with HDR content.
It it's incredible if you've ever watched HDR video on it.
This is one of my HDR videos.
You'll see here that it's too bright to view on the screen because this video's
not in HDR, but if I bring the brightness way down,
you can see how bright this really is.
So this is typical brightness on an average display,
but when you crank it up to HDR, it's 1600 nits. It's just going to a look,
all washed out to you on here. If the video was in HDR,
you might be able to see it,
but keep in mind the latest iPhones go up to 1200 knits of brightness in HDR.
This goes up to 1600 knits. So it's incredibly bright.
It's great to view HDR content on as it's accurate color accurate,
has good viewing angles and just works really well.
There is some occasional odd background issues.
If you're on a black background and maybe you have some blooming around the
cursor,
that's not really an issue for me as I'm typically on this sort of home screen
or a website or things like that. So don't notice that on this display,
as much as I have on other LED displays or LED back lit displays,
many LED seems to do a great job with this.
You'll notice it in the very darkest of backgrounds though,
when it comes to the speakers, these are something I continue to appreciate.
And I don't think there's any better speakers out there except for maybe the
latest MacBook pro 16 inch. So these speakers having quad speakers,
they sound great.
Have great bass are nice and loud and they resonate well since they use the
whole back of this as sort of a resonance chamber to give you the most accurate
sound and a really nice stereo or surround sound almost when you're watching
movies. I typically use this with AirPods, but if you're using it standalone,
like they you're at home, it's not bothering anyone. It really sounds great.
Now the magic keyboard is something I use all the time.
It's the main accessory I use with it. It's great. And it protects the iPad.
And as you can see, it has a few different marks on it.
So it's sort of a rubberized material. There's a few marks here and there,
but this is protected. The iPad,
whether that comes from being in a bed ag or backpack or something else,
I'm not sure, but these marks don't come off.
They're permanent and they're kind of little divots in here.
So it's protected the iPad from whatever hit this, as far as the keyboard,
it's great. It's back lit. And then the stand of course is magnetic.
So this is something I use on it all of the time. Occasionally though,
there will be some odd issues where sometimes the keyboard doesn't work
properly. This could be bugs with iOS or iPad OS, but I really like that.
It just adheres magnetically. Then you use the keyboard,
then you maybe use the trackpad.
And I typically use this as sort of a laptop media consumption device.
Like I said, so with these things combined, it makes for a great experience.
I would like to see them add maybe the keyboard brightness directly on the
keyboard here or the, the top of the keyboard,
where there's the function keys normally instead of having to go into settings
for the keyboard brightness, but everything else is fine.
You can control brightness of the screen from the control center, of course,
but I would rather have those MacBook function keys here.
If they could add those maybe in a future version.
Otherwise this is my favorite accessory. It's a bit expensive though At $350.
The rear cameras are pretty good on this iPad.
They're definitely something you could use for photos and video regularly.
Although I wouldn't recommend that just because the iPad's so large and you'd
have to carry it around everywhere.
But if maybe you're setting up a video shoot and you wanted to get an idea of
framing or you're scanning something with the LIDAR sensor,
it's quite a nice setup that they've provided here.
Although you don't get HDR video, you can record up to 4k 60.
So if we unlock here and face ID works great on this in both orientation,
something I wish they'd add to the iPhone, but as you can see,
we have up to 4k 60, no HDR.
That's limited to the iPhone 12 and 13 series devices,
but you can record 4k 60 if you want to use it for that.
Also the forward facing camera is great,
especially if you're using it for FaceTime as it has center stage and we'll
follow you around. So you've got studio mics in here as well.
So we'll spin it around now with video, with the forward facing camera,
we're going to get up to HD in 60 frames per second.
So you have a couple different options, 720 P.
And let's see if we can change that here. There we go, HD 30,
but you don't have the option for 4k off the forward facing camera. However,
if I hit record the microphones sound quite good even compared to my studio
microphone I'm using here, they should sound great. The video will be okay,
but it's not as good as of course a 4k video such as the rear cameras have.
So in general, the cameras are quite good. And again, like I said,
if you're in a FaceTime call now within a FaceTime call,
it will track you around. So as I move around, you'll see,
it's tracking me within FaceTime. It's got center age.
And so it's sort of like having your own cameraman looking at you.
If there's two people in the frame,
it will follow both of you and sort of zoom out the apple pencil.
I highly recommend for most people with an iPad. Yes, it's an extra accessory.
It costs about $130 at this point,
but it's super convenient to just have it here.
If you need to sign a document or maybe just fine tune a photo and get more sort
of precise, it really helps with that.
Especially if you're editing video and sort of really sliding along to where you
need precision in iMovie or Luma fusion. So it's something I highly recommend.
And of course, if you're an artist it's going to be great for you as well.
It's pressure sensitive and it's very sensitive to touch and everything
you're using it with. My daughter uses it to create art and it works really,
really well.
It does have a few marks on it after using it for about six months being
attached. It's just where it attaches to the iPad.
You'll see a little bit of wear from the magnets, but other than that,
it's held up really well.
And I find it to be very durable and last without a problem.
So it's something I use all the time,
especially for signing and some things like that.
So most of the things I'm quite positive on. However,
there's a few things that are needing a little bit improvement.
Battery life would be one of those battery life on this is okay.
When I first got it. It easily got eight to 10 hours.
Now we're getting more around six hours.
This might be because I test a lot of betas, but even with public versions,
I've run on this as well. I haven't seen a real increase in that battery life.
So you'll see it was charged well before this video at seven up to 77%.
And it seems to drop throughout the day pretty rapidly.
I'm getting about five hours of screen on time, total, maybe six, if I'm lucky,
but you'll see here. If we go back a couple days, two hours of screen on time,
one hour and 50 minutes of screen off time,
I don't really use this for playing music in the background or anything.
So I'm not sure why there's a bunch of screen off time, again,
two hours and 11 minutes of screen on time,
then another 17 minutes and I needed to charge it. So overall,
it's just not what it used to be.
I think this will be addressed in a software update.
And that's one thing I would like to see in this M1 iPad pro there's something
with this, that now that we have the latest M1, I would really like to see them,
maybe bump it up as close as they can to what you get with the MacBook pro of course
that's constrained by the limitations of the overall sort of design and thinness
of it,
but maybe have additional battery life in the magic keyboard or something along
those lines where we could get a little bit extra battery life closer to that of
the 20 hours of the MacBook pro. Since we have the same chip set,
we know it's efficient, I would love to see them bring it to this.
So in general, this is a phenomenal device.
It has a couple limitations with iPad OS and I think it needs more pro apps such
as final cut and logic pro or logic.
I think they really need to bring those things to the iPad.
Everything else I'm pretty happy with.
Although the portrait orientation is a little odd. So the layout of things,
I wish they'd change this or allow you to change it a little more, expand it.
But in general, I'm quite happy with iPad OS 15,
but I wish they would upgrade this with some pro apps and maybe some additional
functionality. Maybe we'll have to wait until iPadOS 16 for that,
but either way, it's getting to a point where it's quite good.
It doesn't have all the Mac functionality though,
but I could definitely use this to edit video on the go. If they had final cut,
of course, there's Luma fusion in other apps as well.
But that's my main complaint with this device. Otherwise,
it's something I love and use all the time. So after using it for six months,
it's definitely the best iPad I've ever used. If this one's too large for you,
of course you could opt for the smaller one,
but I typically like the larger iPad and then I'll use it with my iPhone on the
side. Let me know. You think about the iPad pro though, in the comments below,
this is something like I said, I really enjoy.
And I use most of the time other than that battery life and a couple limitations
with iPad OS I think it's the best device I apple actually makes right now.
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