The iPad Air and iPad Pro Models Offered by Apple Have Some Key Differences and Similarities

There are some key differences between the new iPad Air and iPad Pro models offered by Apple, as well as similarities with other iPad models. The most noticeable difference is the lack of Face ID on the front of the iPad, instead there's a fingerprint sensor located on the side. This might be a preference for some users, but many people will still find that the iPad Air feels similar to the older iPad Pro model.

One feature that has been added to the new iPad Air and iPad Pro models is compatibility with certain keyboard accessories. The thickness of these accessories can vary slightly, so it's worth noting that they might not work perfectly on both devices. However, the iPad Air is compatible with most of the iPad Pro older keyboard accessories, although this may require a slight adjustment.

The iPad Air is also able to use the pencil 2, but if you want to use the new Pencil Pro model, it's recommended to get one of these models instead. The Pencil Pro looks and feels exactly like the pencil 2, with the same design and nib. However, there are a few tricks that the Pencil Pro can do that the pencil 2 cannot.

One of the main features of the Pencil Pro is its ability to rotate the brush when it's lifted off the edge of the screen. This allows for more precise drawing and art, as you're able to control the angle of the brush with the gyroscope. There's also a squeeze gesture feature that brings up a new menu with tools to choose from, which can be accessed by squeezing the barrel of the pencil. The Pencil Pro also has haptic feedback when the barrel is squeezed, but this only happens while drawing.

Another notable feature of the Pencil Pro is its lack of compatibility with older iPads, such as the 10th generation iPad and the iPad Mini. This means that if you want to use a Pencil Pro on one of these devices, you'll need to get a whole new model. However, if you're looking at the iPad Air or iPad Pro models, the Pencil Pro is a great addition.

When it comes to pricing, the iPad Air starts at $600 for the 128GB model, with an additional $150 for cellular connectivity and $129 for the pencil Pro and $349 for the magic keyboard. The iPad Pro starts at $1,000 for the 11-inch model with 256GB of storage, with prices increasing to $1,300 for the 13-inch model. However, if you're looking at the configurations that Apple sent over with accessories, the total price can be much higher.

The most expensive configuration is an iPad Pro with 1TB of storage, which costs $2,577. This makes it clear that these new models are a significant step up from the standard iPad model, and may not be necessary for everyone. However, if you're looking for a device that offers more advanced features and better performance, the iPad Air or iPad Pro might be worth considering.

One option to consider is the 10th generation iPad with 256GB of storage. This model feels like a solid everyday device, and it's likely to meet most users' needs. Apple has also developed two step-up lines for these devices - the iPad Air, which offers better specs and features than the standard model, but still isn't as advanced as the iPad Pro. The iPad Pro is almost like an Ultra or pro version of the iPad, with OLED displays and more powerful processors.

The fact that these devices can be thought of in terms of 'pro' or 'non-pro' makes them feel closer to Macs than iPads at times. However, Apple has chosen to keep them separate, although it's clear that they're all connected by a thread. The decision to get an iPad Pro at this price point is likely to be more palatable if the rest of the device lineup converges into a single ecosystem.

In conclusion, the new iPad Air and iPad Pro models offer some key differences and similarities compared to other iPad models. While the iPad Air feels similar to the older iPad Pro model, there are also features like compatibility with certain keyboard accessories and the Pencil Pro that set it apart. The pricing of these devices can be high, especially when considering the accessory costs, but they may be worth it for those who want a device that offers more advanced features and better performance.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've got the 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro and apple pencil Pro can these crush the MacBook let's find out what are you doing I'm crushing the iPads into a MacBook Air the 2024 iPad Pro is here and the 2024 iPad Air and they have a lot of new features but they're still different than the MacBook Apple has two different lineups and making that decision is no easier in many ways than it was back in 2022 but there are a whole bunch of features on the new iPad Pro that I like it's got a really nice display it's got a brand new processor and a bunch more and I would like to use that as my everyday computer if Apple Let Me by putting Mac OS on it the thinner design of the iPad Pro means it's a little better in a bag I wouldn't say it's shockingly different but it's definitely the thinnest device that Apple's ever made and it looks it especially when you hold it on its own outside of the case when you hold it in your hand it feels light and it feels like half a laptop you know like the lid of a laptop just kind of suspended in my hand but everything's in here it may not be a big deal for a lot of people but also you'd want to make sure you want to coddle it because it feels like it could be pretty delicate and you'd be putting in it a case particularly maybe Apple's magic keyboard case in which case it does get thicker but the overall weight now feels similar to a MacBook Air the processor inside the iPad Pro is totally new an M4 processor that looks like it's a step ahead of where the Macs are right now we're checking out the speeds on this right now but it looks super fast apple is upgrading some of its core apps including Logic Pro 2 and Final Cut Pro 2 we got to play with Logic Pro 2 which has some AI generated session players that gave a little taste of the type of performance that you can get on M series chips let me add a uh keyboard and then we're going to be ready to you know release this to the world about the IP Pro in 2024 the display is also new and right now it's really really nice it's a tandem OLED display Apple calls it an ultra retina xdr this uses the power of two OLED displays to provide an extra boost in brightness and HDR contrast levels Apple hasn't made an OLED display on an iPad before so this is a welcome addition to the iPad Pro lineup Samsung's done this for years but on the iPad it looks great you're going to have to pay up to get it it is the type of display that I'd want to see across Apple's Entire Computer lineup of course that would probably also mean spending more money for it I won't say it's necessary for all people because Apple's existing iPad displays those LCD liquid retina displays still look really good for most uses I mean if you're doing HDR and you want a faster refresh rate or you're doing Graphics work you'll notice the difference though the other thing that is different on these iPads is the camera position there's a a front-facing camera now on the landscape Edge finally that took a long time for this to happen the 10th gen iPad has this too so does the iPad Air but the camera quality is better than my MacBooks so now this feels like my go-to camera that I'd want to use for media hits or zooms or anything else hey Bridget hi this is from my phone you look sharp like this is the best camera like I've seen in the iPad there is one thing that's missing though there's no second camera on the back of the iPad Pro now there have been two cameras before now it's down to one rear camera plus lar which does depth scanning for AR and things like that I don't really miss it because I'm not shooting video on my iPad but some people might have been and they might feel frustrated by not having that extra lens in there two other important things to keep in mind if you're shopping for an iPad Pro the 12.9 in model might seem like the best version for watching movies but the aspect ratio is different it's more Square so you're going to get more letter boxing just keep that in mind it doesn't mean that you're going to get all more movie screen in there another thing to keep in mind is that depending on how much you spend you get different processing power Apple sent me for a review the higher-end versions of the iPad Pro and iPad Air 13in which have extra Ram extra processing cores I don't know what the entry level models feel like performance-wise in comparison but keep that in mind because that same thing also happens with Apple's MacBook lineup the iPad Air feels really familiar that's because again Apple takes the iPad Pro Models from the past and basically redesigns them a little bit into what becomes the airline later on and so I'm getting a lot of deja vu with the 2022 iPad Pro when I look at the air there's never been a 13-in iPad Air Model before so if somebody wanted a really large canvas to work on it's nice that that's now available at a lower price but keep in mind you can often get older model iPads all over the place and iPad Pros for sale prices so you have to compare against which one might actually be the better deal it's not mini LED this time so unlike the 2022 iPad Pro which did have mini LED providing better contrast and black levels this is just a standard liquid Retina Display luckily Apple's liquid retina displays already look really good for most purposes maybe if you are doing HDR work you might not find it as up to task as you'd like there are a couple of things that are left out of the iPad Air versus the iPad Pro there's no liar on the back a lot of people are not going to miss that there's no face ID on the front instead there's touch um there's a fingerprint sensor right over here Touch ID same as the 10th generation iPad and the iPad Mini some people might prefer that but a lot of the other things feel pretty similar the iPad Air is compatible with most of the iPad Pro older keyboard accessories although the thickness of this is slightly different so your mileage might vary there again though it doesn't work with the pencil 2 you're going to need the pencil Pro or the USBC pencil there are a lot of pencils out there we we're going to take a look at what the new pencil Pro can do the pencil Pro looks exactly like the pencil 2 it's the same design same nib everything else we don't have a lot of apps that are compatible with the iPad uh pencil pro at the moment but um right now we're looking at it on free form there are two new tricks it can do one has to do with the brush you know you can see here that there's a hover feature but if you lift it up off the uh Edge you can rotate the brush and with the gyroscope that little trick I think it's useful for art where you can basically pick a you know an angle for the brush or Al you know rotate the brush the other thing you can do with this is uh there's a squeeze gesture with haptics when you end up squeezing the barrel it brings up a new little curvy menu that you can pick tools from and you can hover over them and pick them and there's a little bit of uh feedback like a little tap feedback when you squeeze the barrel that wasn't there before but it's not giving haptics when you draw and it's it's not doing any other things it's really just that one little bit of feedback double tap is still there but then it's Additionally the squeeze which is a little weird you cannot pair the pencil Pro to a previous one which maybe is not surprising but what is a little more surprising is you cannot put a pencil 2 on the iPad Pro or air either there's no connection message you basically have to get a whole new pencil if you do get one of these models the iPad Air and the iPad Pro prices can start high and go even higher the iPad Air starts at either $600 or $800 with 128 GB of storage the iPad Pro starts at ,000 or $1,300 for the 11 and 13in with 256 gbes of storage but the configurations that Apple sent me along with the accessories are like this for the iPad Air you're talking for a 512 GB of storage model $1,099 $150 extra for cellular $129 for the pencil Pro and $349 for the magic keyboard that's $1,727 meanwhile the iPad Pro you've got an $1,899 1 tbte configuration $200 extra for the cellular $129 for pencil Pro and $349 for the magic keyboard that is $2,577 that is an expensive iPad my mom called me the other day after Apple's iPad reveal and asked me which iPad should she buy because she's way overdue and I decided to her get the 10th generation iPad with 256 GB of storage I didn't even bring up these new models why because a lot of people just want a basic iPad that works that basic model iPad is kind of like the MacBook Air in that it's the everyday device that I still think does most of the things that we're talking about here perfectly fine Apple actually has two stepup lines though after that unlike the MacBook Air which then goes to the MacBook Pro you've got the iPad Air which is kind of like a pro model because it has a better chip and extra features and you know nicer specs and then you've got the iPad Pro which is almost like a iPad Ultra or a pro pro which has the OLED display an even better chip and a few nicer extra tweaks and they both work with new pencils and neither one of these is a Mac now if these also ran Mac OS maybe that could be a refr day computer Apple's so close to that these things feel like Max but with touch screens and pencils maybe Apple will announce this at WWDC although I say that every year but it feels like it's getting so close I mean I can cross my eyes and look at the MacBook Air and iPad Pro and see kind of the same computer in two different forms apple is still keeping them separate but I think they need to converge I think we're getting there and it would make the decision to get an iPad Pro at this price a lot more pal so there we go iPads 2024 though this may only be step one there could be a more affordable iPad and iPad Mini later on in the year if you have questions or comments leave them below and as always thanks for watchingI've got the 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro and apple pencil Pro can these crush the MacBook let's find out what are you doing I'm crushing the iPads into a MacBook Air the 2024 iPad Pro is here and the 2024 iPad Air and they have a lot of new features but they're still different than the MacBook Apple has two different lineups and making that decision is no easier in many ways than it was back in 2022 but there are a whole bunch of features on the new iPad Pro that I like it's got a really nice display it's got a brand new processor and a bunch more and I would like to use that as my everyday computer if Apple Let Me by putting Mac OS on it the thinner design of the iPad Pro means it's a little better in a bag I wouldn't say it's shockingly different but it's definitely the thinnest device that Apple's ever made and it looks it especially when you hold it on its own outside of the case when you hold it in your hand it feels light and it feels like half a laptop you know like the lid of a laptop just kind of suspended in my hand but everything's in here it may not be a big deal for a lot of people but also you'd want to make sure you want to coddle it because it feels like it could be pretty delicate and you'd be putting in it a case particularly maybe Apple's magic keyboard case in which case it does get thicker but the overall weight now feels similar to a MacBook Air the processor inside the iPad Pro is totally new an M4 processor that looks like it's a step ahead of where the Macs are right now we're checking out the speeds on this right now but it looks super fast apple is upgrading some of its core apps including Logic Pro 2 and Final Cut Pro 2 we got to play with Logic Pro 2 which has some AI generated session players that gave a little taste of the type of performance that you can get on M series chips let me add a uh keyboard and then we're going to be ready to you know release this to the world about the IP Pro in 2024 the display is also new and right now it's really really nice it's a tandem OLED display Apple calls it an ultra retina xdr this uses the power of two OLED displays to provide an extra boost in brightness and HDR contrast levels Apple hasn't made an OLED display on an iPad before so this is a welcome addition to the iPad Pro lineup Samsung's done this for years but on the iPad it looks great you're going to have to pay up to get it it is the type of display that I'd want to see across Apple's Entire Computer lineup of course that would probably also mean spending more money for it I won't say it's necessary for all people because Apple's existing iPad displays those LCD liquid retina displays still look really good for most uses I mean if you're doing HDR and you want a faster refresh rate or you're doing Graphics work you'll notice the difference though the other thing that is different on these iPads is the camera position there's a a front-facing camera now on the landscape Edge finally that took a long time for this to happen the 10th gen iPad has this too so does the iPad Air but the camera quality is better than my MacBooks so now this feels like my go-to camera that I'd want to use for media hits or zooms or anything else hey Bridget hi this is from my phone you look sharp like this is the best camera like I've seen in the iPad there is one thing that's missing though there's no second camera on the back of the iPad Pro now there have been two cameras before now it's down to one rear camera plus lar which does depth scanning for AR and things like that I don't really miss it because I'm not shooting video on my iPad but some people might have been and they might feel frustrated by not having that extra lens in there two other important things to keep in mind if you're shopping for an iPad Pro the 12.9 in model might seem like the best version for watching movies but the aspect ratio is different it's more Square so you're going to get more letter boxing just keep that in mind it doesn't mean that you're going to get all more movie screen in there another thing to keep in mind is that depending on how much you spend you get different processing power Apple sent me for a review the higher-end versions of the iPad Pro and iPad Air 13in which have extra Ram extra processing cores I don't know what the entry level models feel like performance-wise in comparison but keep that in mind because that same thing also happens with Apple's MacBook lineup the iPad Air feels really familiar that's because again Apple takes the iPad Pro Models from the past and basically redesigns them a little bit into what becomes the airline later on and so I'm getting a lot of deja vu with the 2022 iPad Pro when I look at the air there's never been a 13-in iPad Air Model before so if somebody wanted a really large canvas to work on it's nice that that's now available at a lower price but keep in mind you can often get older model iPads all over the place and iPad Pros for sale prices so you have to compare against which one might actually be the better deal it's not mini LED this time so unlike the 2022 iPad Pro which did have mini LED providing better contrast and black levels this is just a standard liquid Retina Display luckily Apple's liquid retina displays already look really good for most purposes maybe if you are doing HDR work you might not find it as up to task as you'd like there are a couple of things that are left out of the iPad Air versus the iPad Pro there's no liar on the back a lot of people are not going to miss that there's no face ID on the front instead there's touch um there's a fingerprint sensor right over here Touch ID same as the 10th generation iPad and the iPad Mini some people might prefer that but a lot of the other things feel pretty similar the iPad Air is compatible with most of the iPad Pro older keyboard accessories although the thickness of this is slightly different so your mileage might vary there again though it doesn't work with the pencil 2 you're going to need the pencil Pro or the USBC pencil there are a lot of pencils out there we we're going to take a look at what the new pencil Pro can do the pencil Pro looks exactly like the pencil 2 it's the same design same nib everything else we don't have a lot of apps that are compatible with the iPad uh pencil pro at the moment but um right now we're looking at it on free form there are two new tricks it can do one has to do with the brush you know you can see here that there's a hover feature but if you lift it up off the uh Edge you can rotate the brush and with the gyroscope that little trick I think it's useful for art where you can basically pick a you know an angle for the brush or Al you know rotate the brush the other thing you can do with this is uh there's a squeeze gesture with haptics when you end up squeezing the barrel it brings up a new little curvy menu that you can pick tools from and you can hover over them and pick them and there's a little bit of uh feedback like a little tap feedback when you squeeze the barrel that wasn't there before but it's not giving haptics when you draw and it's it's not doing any other things it's really just that one little bit of feedback double tap is still there but then it's Additionally the squeeze which is a little weird you cannot pair the pencil Pro to a previous one which maybe is not surprising but what is a little more surprising is you cannot put a pencil 2 on the iPad Pro or air either there's no connection message you basically have to get a whole new pencil if you do get one of these models the iPad Air and the iPad Pro prices can start high and go even higher the iPad Air starts at either $600 or $800 with 128 GB of storage the iPad Pro starts at ,000 or $1,300 for the 11 and 13in with 256 gbes of storage but the configurations that Apple sent me along with the accessories are like this for the iPad Air you're talking for a 512 GB of storage model $1,099 $150 extra for cellular $129 for the pencil Pro and $349 for the magic keyboard that's $1,727 meanwhile the iPad Pro you've got an $1,899 1 tbte configuration $200 extra for the cellular $129 for pencil Pro and $349 for the magic keyboard that is $2,577 that is an expensive iPad my mom called me the other day after Apple's iPad reveal and asked me which iPad should she buy because she's way overdue and I decided to her get the 10th generation iPad with 256 GB of storage I didn't even bring up these new models why because a lot of people just want a basic iPad that works that basic model iPad is kind of like the MacBook Air in that it's the everyday device that I still think does most of the things that we're talking about here perfectly fine Apple actually has two stepup lines though after that unlike the MacBook Air which then goes to the MacBook Pro you've got the iPad Air which is kind of like a pro model because it has a better chip and extra features and you know nicer specs and then you've got the iPad Pro which is almost like a iPad Ultra or a pro pro which has the OLED display an even better chip and a few nicer extra tweaks and they both work with new pencils and neither one of these is a Mac now if these also ran Mac OS maybe that could be a refr day computer Apple's so close to that these things feel like Max but with touch screens and pencils maybe Apple will announce this at WWDC although I say that every year but it feels like it's getting so close I mean I can cross my eyes and look at the MacBook Air and iPad Pro and see kind of the same computer in two different forms apple is still keeping them separate but I think they need to converge I think we're getting there and it would make the decision to get an iPad Pro at this price a lot more pal so there we go iPads 2024 though this may only be step one there could be a more affordable iPad and iPad Mini later on in the year if you have questions or comments leave them below and as always thanks for watching\n"