My 2024 iPad Pro Review

this is the new 13-in iPad Pro and this

is the new 11-in iPad Pro both of them

new for 2024 and they're both running

Apple's new M4 chip but this product

here is my trusty 2018 iPad Pro this

thing is almost 6 years old at this

point but I've never really been tempted

to upgrade this product I feel like this

has been all the iPad that I could

possibly want but when I went to New

York and checked out these devices I was

like they were so tempting and then

after this review period I absolutely

will be finally upgrading this uh 2018

device it's going to be to this 13-in

device but it's not for the reason that

it originally thought so first thing a

quick note on the unboxing so typically

when it comes to Apple products there's

usually some kind of sticker inside the

package it could be like a white sticker

or a colored sticker depending on the

product but usually there's some kind of

plastic sticker in there but seemingly

in an effort to reduce their plastic

consumption the stickers and Apple

products are gone but the second thing

that was interesting is that on the

13-in iPad Pro and only the 13-in not

the 11-in iPad Pro you get a black

charging cable the part the brick is

still white but black charging cable and

the thought that I had was like why are

they separating the 13 and 11 in and

typically when Apple includes like a

black accessory it's like the pro

product it's the thing that makes it

like the most Pro and you'll see in

terms of the performance the 13in is

actually a a more Pro device in the 11

so I just found it strange that they

included a black charging cable only on

the 13 this is crazy I'm talking about

colors of charging cables but that's

just how Apple does things all right

let's talk about these displays because

these new OLED panels are arguably the

most interesting things about these new

iPads they both have these new super

bright OLED panels and the tech required

to get them this bright is incredible so

it's a pair of OLED panels run in Tandem

and they have these incredibly energy

efficient display engine to be able to

pull it off uh but despite these very

bright screens they still have very good

battery life and even when I crank the

olid panels to full brightness it still

has excellent run times these are

amazing displays and I actually think

these are the first devices out there of

like consumer Tech that uses the type of

screen Tech it's really visible in

bright environments like if you're using

it right beside a super bright window or

Outdoors on a sunny day these new OLED

screens are way better than the stuff

we've seen before but if I'm being

honest with myself aside from the

brightness of these screens outdoors I

don't actually think that these new

panels are that much better than even my

2018 iPad Pro like if you compare these

products in terms of their generation

side by side yes it is noticeable but

you got to have them side by side if I'm

looking at them individually I feel like

they've been amazing displays since 2018

like the 2018 or newer 11-in iPad Pros

they're just regular IPS panels but

they're so high quality that even 6

years later they still look good and

then the 12.9 in iPad Pros with the mini

LED panels those have a little Bloom

sometimes but they look awesome and when

I'm indoors yes these new OLED panels

look amazing but SoDo is basically any

iPad Pro since 2018 that's just the

conclusion I think many people would

draw there is one exception it's that if

you really need color accurate screens

like the best color accuracy is going to

come from the newest Tech uh so if you

work with photo and video and you really

need that Perfect Color accuracy these

are going to do a better job also

there's another thing it's the ghosting

that has appeared in the previous

generations of I guess iPad Pros so yes

2018 and onwards they've all had 120 HZ

promotion but the response time on these

older panels have been a little on the

slow side so if you played like

fast-paced games at high refresh the

response time was slow enough that you

see some ghosting it doesn't have that

issue on these news screens because OLED

Tech has very fast response time uh okay

the other thing that's changed the other

major change is the dimension and weight

so both the 13in and the 11in are

thinner and lighter than the previous

generation of these products and it's

pretty significant on the 13-in device

this is 5.1 mm thin it's really thin and

quite a bit lighter than the previous

generation um I'm someone who's always

appreciated the pursuit of thinness and

the reduction of weight and the way that

Apple did it here it's like even more

commendable because they did not reduce

the performance and they did not reduce

the battery life on these products even

when they shrank them down like this so

that's really cool I will say that

there's something about me that just

doesn't trust a 5.1 in thick or sorry

5.1 mm thick device like these are

review units they're loner so I'm not

I'm not going to bend them there's no

way I would do that um but I'm sure

someone out there's going to do some

testing where you just crank it 5.1 mm

is so thin so we'll see how it holds up

over time they're also both lighter and

the 13-in one again is particularly

impressive but for me I typically have

my iPads like mounted on a stand or

something or just sitting on a table so

the weight reduction isn't that critical

to me but for people that carry these

things around all the time they're on a

job site they're just walking around

with these things or in a hospital that

weight reduction is a nice bonus okay

the M4 chip this is the first device or

these two devices are the first devices

that have the new Apple M4 chip

incredibly fast but still very energy

efficient now both of these are able to

handle their heat output well but the

13-in one is fractionally better that's

why it has the black cable all right uh

the thing is

though aside from these synthetic

benchmarks it's actually really hard for

me to tell the M1 chip devices from

these new M4 chips like they're so

similar and from the perspective of me

who's trying to replace a 2018 device

even then the 2018 model I have

benchmarks way worse than these M4

devices but in terms of the stuff that I

do like streaming shows or taking notes

and the occasional drawing app it still

feels really Snappy even compared to the

new M4 okay I want to move on to the

conversation of the new Apple pencil Pro

so this is the new Apple pencil Pro that

I cannot really use properly because I'm

not an artist but my niece is so I let

her draw in it for a couple hours and

these are some thoughts she had the bar

roll feature where the gyroscope inside

the apple pencil Pro can sense the

rotation degree of the barrel it's neat

but it's seemingly very situational like

very few brushes and or markers can

actually take advantage of it so it's

not necessary for most digital

illustration but the squeeze gesture she

really liked that so in the beginning

she found a little bit cumbersome

because it would trigger a few times by

accident but once she got used to it you

could tell that she was able to switch

colors and access different tools a lot

quicker than using the traditional UI

and she liked that and then the last

thing is the haptic motor that's inside

the apple pencil Pro so when you squeeze

the barrel and you do that squeeze

gesture you you get this little taptic

bump that just tells you that you

squeeze it it's just to make the whole

process of squeezing the barrel and then

like selecting things feel a little bit

more deliberate it's like a very subtle

thing it's nothing crazy but it again

it's just a nice little feature ad on

this device now the issue that I have

with this whole product the whole apple

pencil Pro is that this is only

available on the new iPad Pros you

cannot use this new new apple pencil Pro

with the old generations of iPad Pros

even the one that came out 2 years ago

and to me like okay the reasoning behind

is that because the front-facing camera

is now mounted on the landscape edges

right on the sides of these iPads and

it's a great position right you get just

get better FaceTime angles on the side

there and Face Unlock is a little bit

better on that side

but it just kills me they're claiming

that because the camera's positioned

there the magnetic and charging system

had to be tweaked and therefore these

new ones can't work like it just feels a

little too convenient that now if you

want this uh new apple pencil Pro with

all its new features you have to buy a

whole new iPad toble to get it and I

mean it might be true it's probably true

but it just still kills me that that's

the state of how you get the new Apple

pencil Pro to work I also want to talk

about these new keyboards so this here

is the new magic keyboard for the new

iPad pros and again you can only get

this new keyboard with the new uh iPad

pros and the whole keyboard feels very

good like this is a very similar

keyboard to in terms of like the feel

and even the Aesthetics to the keyboards

that are on the existing MacBook lineup

and it's got this metal keyboard deck

and a trackpad that is also like a a

haptic trackpad this is not a trackpad

that you depress and like it physically

moves up and down down there's a bit

there's a bit of movement but the tap

that you feel the kind of click that you

feel is from a motor on the inside that

generates that kind of tactile feedback

just like their MacBooks but typing on

this keyboard is awesome I type as fast

on this thing as I would on basically

any laptop keyboard it just feels like a

better typing experience than the one

you got from the previous generation of

magic keyboard like the keys on this

just feel a little bit more responsive

uh and also it's a aluminum surface

which some people might like the older

one has that like soft touch rubber

which I didn't mind but it does feel

more premium on this new product but the

pricing between the two magic keyboards

is still the same so this year with the

new iPad Pros you just get a way better

product all around right you get a

better screen better chip better pencil

better keyboard better front-facing

camera position and all while the device

is being thinner and lighter the price

has gone up by about a 100 bucks

depending on the configuration uh but it

does have a higher base configuration

than before so it is more expensive to

get into this whole product line but the

the fact remains this is a just

infinitely it's a better product

compared to anything I've had before now

when I went to New York and I got to see

these things I was like okay for sure

I'm going to be I'm going to be

upgrading but then having gotten the

review units in I'm starting to get a

some cold feet because everything I'm

comparing it to to my 2018 I'm like it's

better but the overall experience didn't

really change for me especially for the

stuff that I do but then yesterday just

as I was like Gathering my thoughts

around this stuff I had this crazy

Epiphany so the way that I shoot my

videos right now if you guys have

noticed I have multiple cameras all

running at the same time usually two

sometimes three or four and they're all

being fed to one computer that's running

OBS and I try to edit my videos in real

time like I'll switch camera angles and

try different transitions while I shoot

my videos and I do all of this through a

stream deck I press buttons I can

control the cameras as I shoot but in

Apple's keynote video they showed this

multicam setup thing that was running on

Final Cut for iPads and I thought it was

kind of neat but then they showed me a

demonstration of it in front of my face

of like how it's all done and I was

blown away I saw this thing being done I

was like this is crazy like they were

running four cameras kind of similar to

what I'm trying to pull off but it was

all done without any wires it was just

done with a single iPad and it was

controlling all things like the Zoom the

focus like just crazy and this setup

that I have here this took me like I

don't know a week and a week and a half

to really kind of configure it and even

now I'm still like fiddling with it but

this has 50 wires and there's so much

stuff that I have to tweak and fix all

the time not so much fix but there's so

much stuff that I need to fiddle with

and all of this thing hinges on that

computer right there a very Decked Out

Mac Studio now before I had that Mac I

used to run it on a regular Windows PC I

had an rxx 490 and a 13th gen Intel

system I also tried an AMD system those

PCS were way too loud for what I'm doing

because we have four 4K cameras that are

being fed into a thing it's encoded live

and sometimes I would stream this stuff

out so all of that processing it can

handle it on a regular Windows system

but the fan noise was really annoying to

work around it so I tried running the

system in a separate room but it's just

like I wanted access to the computer

like it was a pain so I got this M2 or

this M2 Mac Studio in but it's a

borrowed unit this is not mine it has to

go back and I was like okay if I have to

do this whole setup using a stupidly

expensive Mac

computer or I could use this iPad and do

the same kind of thing with no wires I'm

like I want to try that I need to try

that thing now unfortunately that app is

not available for testing right now so

I'm like I couldn't even I the idea was

that I would be able to play with it and

talk to you guys about it but I'm pretty

sure that that's the setup I want to

switch to it just seems so fluid and

effortless and just easy to use and

because I try to do my stuff live and

interact with it live I mean like that's

the dream of what I like how I want to

make content so I'm totally picking up

one of these 13-inch devices uh again

these are laners they have to go back

but I'm going to buy one and hopefully I

can do what they showed in the marketing

material now you might be looking at

this being like dude that's just a

that's marketing material it's that's

not going to work maybe it won't but I

think when I see that I see what that

thing could do and same thing goes with

like the the logic pro and like the

whole like the whole ecosystem that is

available on the high level iPads right

now is incredible like it's actually

kind of strange mean it's changed the

perspective of how I view these products

like the very first time I reviewed one

of the kind of more expensive iPad Pros

and it's still the same sentiment that's

today the whole idea is that it's cool

Hardware but there's nothing to do on

these crazy tablets these crazy powerful

tablets but I think it's changing like

you just have to be open to the idea of

what these things can do I really think

that that that new Final Cut workflow

with the multiple cameras being run

simultaneously where you can control

focus and and zoom off of a single iPad

with all these cameras feeding into it

that is crazy cool to me okay but that's

my iPad Pro review it's a weird one but

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