I’m kind of an iPad hater, but this is MAGICAL. - iPad Pro M4

truth be told I've never been a huge fan

of the iPad if I wanted something

convenient and portable I would simply

use the phone that's already in my

pocket and if I wanted to really get

something done and I wanted to carry

something this big around I would just

use my laptop but there's no denying

that these devices have been incredibly

popular over the years and now we've got

the best one ever this my friends is the

new iPad Pro I'm going to figure out how

to get out of the box at some point

featuring Apple's new M4 processor and

from everything that I've heard about it

so far it wow it really is thin isn't it

that is kind of wild of course the

thinness is not what caught my eye first

it's that

display guys we have run this thing

through the gamut of tests in the lab

and I don't know how to put this other

than to say it is on par if not better

than any display that we have ever

touched before that includes the

$20,000 reference display that we

checked out recently from Flanders

scientific kind of makes the pricing

seem downright reasonable doesn't it

we'll get to that but first let's talk

about what Apple has achieved here

starting with brightness looks unreal my

God the sweat

glisten

Holy balls I don't think I I've ever

seen anything as lifelike as this

through a screen we have seen dual panel

displays before in fact High senses uled

branding was originally used to describe

a dual LCD panel that stacked the two

panels together in order to achieve much

deeper blacks well Apple has kind of

turned that concept on its head with

dual oleds oleds already have great

blacks so what are they using dual

panels for to massively boost the peak

brightness what's really impressive here

is that Apple has managed to deliver an

OLED that does 1,000 knits of brightness

across the entire screen and not only

after half an hour does it not get

dimmer it actually managed to get

brighter as the pixels warmed up so you

are now getting across an entire white

display a th000 flipping knits meanwhile

though it offers a reference mode that

allows you to lock it in at 1,000 nits

with unparalleled accuracy I mean

Brandon have we seen a display that is

more accurate out of the box than this

thing in reference mode only the fs for

what 10 to 20 times the price though I

just don't know how to I don't know how

to

put I don't

think I don't think graphs can convey

the difference in the consumption of HDR

content with this device versus

something lesser it offers 10 to 120 HZ

very able refresh rate it's available

with their Nano texture which we're not

sure if it's the same as the pro display

xdr cuz we've got the not nano texture

one but in a nutshell if what you were

looking for was an iPad with one of the

best displays on the planet then this is

it if what you were looking for however

was just an iPad to hunt and pecket

emails with and to casually have off to

the side while you're cooking I don't

know if the value proposition is going

to be as strong here for funsies I

grabbed some old iPad we had kicking

around do you guys actually know exactly

which one this is iPad Pro 11 in the

that even mean Apple can someone look up

MTX Q2 vc/ a for me 2018 iPad Pro 11 in

perfect you couldn't have just put that

you know what it doesn't matter it

doesn't matter uh I mean I don't

know all right that's a little faster

don't know if it's uh world changing

right

so I guess what I'm trying to say is I

understand both of the major takes on

this product on the one hand very very

cool beautiful display unbelievable on

the other hand if all you need is an

iPad for like doing

iPad is it really that much thinner I

mean yeah but some of this thickness is

our skin from dbrand who happens to be

our sponsor

at least I hope it's from dbrand

apparently all I need to do is read this

I mean that seems simple enough got this

though enjoy your helium is this a

fanfiction I'm going to try and do this

in

one little lonus the pint-sized panderer

might rise with wide eyes to tackle

tricky tag tips swiftly stretching

Skyward from his undisguised child-sized

bedside beside a surprise suspicious

sponsor dbrand hands and commands his

squeaky freaky speech get squeakier and

freakier to cheekier commend their

profoundly precise products pre preface

with a Prelude to their prodigious

pranks deserve no thanks what even is

this s lin.com to buy some iPad

skins wow that makes my voice sound

downright low pitched coming back to the

iPad Pro though just because we didn't

see a huge Earth shattering difference

in day-to-day responsiveness though

doesn't mean that there isn't a big

difference in performance the M4 chip at

the heart of this thing came much

earlier than we were expecting and is

absolutely loaded for bear not only did

it manage GPU performance that's about

on par with a 5500 XT which admittedly

is a relatively low-end desktop graphics

card but is a desktop graphics card but

its CPU performance was a boat on par

with a 13th gen core i7 oh yeah and did

I mention that it managed 17 hours of

battery life in our endurance test

imagine how much battery life you could

get out of this thing if Apple made it

just a couple millimeters thicker and

one of their priorities is making sure

that the iPad never cannibalizes MacBook

sales no matter how close they make this

thing to a Macbook let's have a look at

some of the accessories oh starting with

the ones that came with it you get oh

wow look at that a charging brick Oh and

a usb2 cable wow

thanks Apple USB 2 cable I mean honestly

at this point I'm Stockholm syndrom

enough that I'm just thankful that the

USBC Port which thankfully it has is

Thunderbolt for compliance so you can

hook up all kinds of accessories and

docks you can hook it up to highspeed

storage and transfer your data off of it

that is pretty cool oh yeah while we're

here it's got four speakers two on each

side we've got our lock button over here

man how many microphones this thing got

I spotted one over there four

dang that's pretty cool oh while we're

here there's actually a downgrade we

lost the ultra wide camera but

thankfully we keep the liar scanner so

we can you know gather depth maps of our

environments let's have a look at the

accessories meet the magic keyboard

again it's mager than ever I suppose and

that is what these little Pogo pads are

for

seriously that's it that's how they make

sure that it's not too much like a

MacBook

that hinge could not possibly have

opened any more than that cuz then it

would have been a Macbook the fact that

you can buy an iPad with an M4 processor

you cannot buy a MacBook with an M4

processor and they still don't give you

the option to choose between iPad OS and

Mac OS on this thing absolutely you know

what I don't care because it doesn't

matter to me I'm not going to be daily

driving either of them but it should

matter to you the Apple faithful there

is no argument left for Apple for why

they shouldn't just allow you to use

whichever software you like ooh pencil

Pro now this has been a major source of

controversy I've seen a lot of the usual

arguments against Apple's

intergenerational incompatibility but in

this case I actually don't really agree

with them the compatibility list for the

new pencil Pro is extremely short it's

the new

iPads and that's it and I can understand

why people are upset about this I mean

clearly they are have bought into this

ecosystem and they want to be able to

continue to use their old iPad with the

new pencil and if Apple chose to make

this not compatible with the old ones

that was a design choice that Apple made

but they've added an awful lot of

functionality to this thing that

honestly kind of justifies that it's a

new generation of product designed to

work with new generations of products in

my mind unfortunately all of our artists

they're off today or work from home

which is really awkward are you going to

have one of them come in and actually

like draw okay cool hi I'm Maria I'm a

graphy designer here at

lmg and I love the iPad Pro I've been

using the iPad since 2016 I'm a huge fan

of it and actually I bought this new

iPad Pro M4 because I had an M1 and I

think it was really worth the upgrade

now especially as well because of the

new pencil Pro I use procreate like 100%

of the time oh I like like illustrating

and I love of like how smooth it is like

how easy it is to draw whatever I want

honestly okay yeah the hovering here

with the new pencil Pro I think it's

super cool it would be cool if you hover

over for example this menu here of the

brushes and you can squeeze and you

select the one that it's selected in a

way but I mean maybe they will upgrade

do an upgrade on that hopefully I love

this new feature with the top double top

I can change immediately to eraser so if

I need to erase something here it's

super super easy and then get go double

tap and continue my drawing for now in

procreate we don't have like the squeeze

feature with the menu coming out with

the brushes but I guess this is

something will come out eventually uh

for now there's other apps that support

that feature of the pencil but I mean I

work on this every single day I love

drawing like when I'm home even if I'm

like watching TV or something sometimes

I'll draw while I watch a show or

something it's so perfect how the pencil

takes exactly the pressure that I'm

applying to it so I think I finished my

artwork now I mean overall I love it

Apple you did a great job with this

device and the display is awesome like

the colors look super vibrant it's like

if I just Drew this in real life but

it's now digital and it's way easier and

faster I love it this is so stupid the

fact that I can't just like Fold It Down

180° like why do I have why do I have to

detach it why can't

I you broke it let's go back to the

keyboard for a second here that's

something that I actually am qualified

to evaluate now my ADD brain has a

really hard time with these kinds of

tests but I'm going to do my best at

it that's a darn good keyboard I've been

kind of into the low profile Keys lately

um and the TRU pad is apparently bigger

than last gen once you put the giant

thing on it though like is it really

that thin hold on let's go back to my

let's go back to my RTX 47d gaming

laptop now ah

I don't know man I uh but hey it's a

what is it like half a millimeter

thinner not everyone is going to put

this case on it a lot of people are just

going to use it as an iPad and if that's

the case then uh it's them and

apparently it's not even fragile Zach

from Jerry rever said that it held up

surprisingly well to his bend test this

way although went a little bit easier

than he expected this way I guess they

weren't ready for that oh what I'm ready

for is to check out the speakers

apparently they're flipping awesome

the device is almost too thin to contain

this amount of audio greatness have you

noticed how much it vibrates it's

like in your in your

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hands I mean the only reason I'm not

blown away is because I was expecting

them to be this good they're they're

great oh what about the camera though I

bet it sucks but honestly if you're

taking pictures with an pad you deserve

for your pictures to

suck okay that's pretty bad though that

is dog no that's that's really bad like

like iPhone 6 bad but you know what I

bet the front facing camera is decent

and is in a decent position now back to

my whole seriously Apple this isn't a

Macbook at this point they have moved

the front-facing camera to the side edge

now oh no the front- facing camera is

terrible too it really did cost you

something when you gave up that um that

thickness what else is there for us to

talk about comes in space black and

silver also known as black and silver uh

you can oh you can locate the pencil Pro

with the find my app actually find my

app freaking saved my wife's purse like

two weeks ago find my app ah yes the

elephant in the room the

price good Lord this thing starts at

,000 and that's for like standard glass

that's for no cellular that's for

256 gigs of store do you know how much

256 gigs of nand costs like nothing

these days and you get to pay another

$200 for another 256 gigs of storage no

wonder their customers are so flipping

pissed off at this point wow

it caps out at

$2300 and you know what's even more

remarkable it is somehow not the most

egregiously priced item in Apple's

lineup it's not even second Apple set

the bar extremely low Great Value good

job Apple compared at least to some of

your other stuff and truthfully you know

if I wanted this kind of display I kind

of do this is the only way to get it

nobody else is even close subscribe to

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