**Apple iPad Pro Review: A Leap Forward with M1 Chip**

The latest iteration of Apple's iPad Pro has been released, and it brings several exciting features that promise to take the device to new heights. One of the standout features is the introduction of Center Stage, a feature that utilizes the ultra-wide camera to crop in around the subject as they move, allowing for more flexible and dynamic video calls.

Center Stage works surprisingly well, especially when you're using your iPad Pro at home or in a variety of settings. It opens up a whole new way to take video calls, where you don't have to be stationary at a desk. While it doesn't work seamlessly inside other apps like Zoom just yet, it's still a significant improvement over previous generations. With Center Stage, you can move around and capture more of your surroundings without having to worry about being confined to a single spot.

Another notable feature is the 5G network support included on this iPad Pro. While Apple hasn't emphasized the benefits of 5G in their marketing campaign, I've found it to be completely sufficient for my needs. In fact, I paid for an entire year of LTE service last year and only used the device for about four collective minutes on the LTE network. This year, I might be traveling a bit more, but LTE on my iPad Pro has been totally acceptable. While there are some areas where 5G is better, I haven't noticed it in real-world usage. It's possible that 5G will make a difference in specific situations, but for now, it doesn't seem like a dramatic upgrade.

In addition to these features, the new iPad Pro also comes with Thunderbolt 4 connectivity. This means you can plug in your Thunderbolt devices, such as SSDs and monitors, making it easier to work on the go. If you have a Pro Display XDR, you can now display your content on your iPad Pro to your Pro Display XDR in full 6K resolution. However, there's still some limitations – I'm still getting the same black bar mirrored only option that we've had with previous generations.

One notable change is that the new iPad Pro has a slightly different design than its predecessors. The USBC port has been upgraded to Thunderbolt 4, but it also means that the device is slightly thicker and not perfectly compatible with older keyboards. However, I'm pleased to report that the new white keyboard is amazing – it's a huge improvement over the old one, and the white color option looks fantastic.

Finally, if you're considering upgrading from an older iPad model, I would strongly recommend future-proofing yourself with the M1 chip. While it's not a huge price difference between the 2020 model and the new M1 model, it's still worth doing so. The M1 chip provides a significant leap forward in performance compared to previous generations.

**Conclusion**

The new iPad Pro is an incredible device that promises to take your mobile computing experience to new heights. With Center Stage, 5G network support, Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, and the M1 chip, this iPad Pro is ready to tackle any task you throw at it. Whether you're a content creator, entrepreneur, or simply someone who wants a powerful device for everyday use, the new iPad Pro is definitely worth considering.

**The Verdict**

If you've been looking at an M1 iPad Pro and want to know if it's worth it, I'd say go for it. If you're coming from a 2018 model, the M1 chip provides a huge leap forward in performance. While there are some limitations with Center Stage and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, they're still significant improvements over previous generations.

However, if you don't plan on using your iPad Pro for video calls or working on the go, then it might not be worth upgrading. The new features are definitely exciting, but they're also limited to specific use cases.

One last bonus is that the new white keyboard is amazing – it's a huge improvement over the old one, and the white color option looks fantastic. If you're in the market for a new keyboard, I'd highly recommend checking out the new white model.

**Final Thoughts**

Overall, the new iPad Pro is an incredible device that promises to take your mobile computing experience to new heights. With its powerful M1 chip, exciting features like Center Stage and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, and amazing keyboard options, this iPad Pro is definitely worth considering. Whether you're a content creator, entrepreneur, or simply someone who wants a powerful device for everyday use, the new iPad Pro is an excellent choice.

If you have any thoughts on the new iPad Pro, I'd love to hear them in the comments below. Are you looking at an M1 iPad Pro? Do you agree with my assessment? Let me know!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyes you can probably skip upgrading to the m1 ipad pro if you bought an ipad pro back in 2020 and i say this before wwdc where things might change with the m1 ipad pro and i'll explain more of that later but as of right now i'd hang on or save your money just for at least one more year and here's why in my mind there are five potential reasons why someone might think about upgrading and i'm gonna tell you whether i think they're really worth it or not those features being the new liquid retina xdr display found only on the 12.9 inch model so we're only comparing the larger model ipad pro 5g network support the one singular thunderbolt 4 port a new ultra wide camera on the front of the ipad that allows users to take advantage of apple's new center stage feature during video calls and of course the m1 chip so let's start with the one and only feature that you can actually see with your own eyes right off the bat and that's the new liquid retina xdr display this feature is only available on the 12.9 inch model and we did an entire video comparing both displays from each ipad and you can check that out by clicking the card here in the upper right corner but i'll sum it up the benefits of mini led are very similar to oled there are over 10 000 mini leds inside of this ipad pro with 2500 local dimming zones so depending on what content you're watching each zone can adjust the brightness levels accordingly allowing for very deep blacks and high contrast where the colors are at the ipad pro has a 1 million to 1 contrast ratio which is crazy so all of that can really be summed up by this image here both screens are displaying a black background or at least in theory they're supposed to be the ipad pro from 2020 is on the left right now and you can see all of that light bleed and backlight from the leds that are still technically illuminated basically turning this black image into gray the m1 ipad pro well all of these mini leds are essentially off and the only zones that are needed to display content like a menu or play bar are the only ones that need to be illuminated because there are so many zones to do this and adjust accordingly the contrast ratio is really good giving you that feeling that the display is basically turned off everywhere else now this is a very dramatic example i know and it doesn't always look this good or this noticeable but for the most part it's very good when watching hdr content now it isn't all positive there has been some blooming effect going on that could mess with some of the performance of your display but overall it's been a very enjoyable experience is this worth upgrading for probably not unless you're someone who watches literally all of your content on an ipad pro it's your only tv in your house basically and you just think it looks that much better maybe you should test it out before you make this plunge but i don't think it's a good reason to go out and spend a lot of money on a new ipad pro only one year removed from the 2020 version all right so what about the m1 chip it has to be mind blowing and crazy fast right well from a benchmarks perspective yeah it's pretty fast the ipad pro from 2020 was already really powerful and in some instances it would test better than intel macbook pros with higher-end specs but over the course of the last week i don't think there have been any real major performance improvements that were like jaw-dropping or mind-blowing or really even that noticeable it's not like when we compared intel to m1 max and everything was just way faster and more powerful in performance applications on ipad open up just as fast as the other ipad does and the ramp management has been great and applications have rarely needed to reload in the background uh ever since you first opened them up it's just all been working very fluidly the ipad pro was touted by video editors as a crazy device that can cut through 4k footage like butter and this year's m1 ipad pro does the exact same thing and i can't really tell you if it's better or faster than last year's it just feels the same when exporting long project files from lumafusion for example the improvements were minimal so as of right now i don't see a huge benefit to having an m1 chip inside in terms of performance on paper it does look a lot better but that hasn't really fully translated yet in the real world now next month is wwdc and ipad os is on the horizon ipad os 15. apple could dramatically shift the landscape of ipad os but they probably won't and perhaps they'll introduce some features that would be exclusive to the new m1 ipad pro but they probably won't and it might make everything totally different but as of right now 2020 owners are really not missing out now if final cut pro or logic pro come out for the ipad they'll probably still be available for the 2020 model but uh there might be some improvements with the m1 chip and maybe it'll perform better of course we'll have to wait and see if that actually happens okay so this next feature is pretty cool and it's something that might actually make you jealous if you're someone who uses a lot of video calls on your ipad pro the new ultrawide camera is not something i would care about on a tablet for definitely for a photo standpoint i do not take pictures with my ipad at all but the introduction of center stage a feature that takes the ultra wide camera on the new ipad pro and crops in around to follow the subject all throughout wherever you might be moving well that works surprisingly very well and it opens up a whole new way to take video calls you don't actually have to be stationary at a desk if you're in your kitchen you can move around and do things you know don't go too far out of frame but for the most part it's got a pretty wide field of view you're no longer confined to just that one singular spot yes it does work inside of other apps like zoom however this is something that might be a bit niche if you don't use your ipad pro for video calls then this is definitely not a feature you're going to want to upgrade for 5g network support is another feature included on this ipad and it's also going to be something very limited to specific people considering that i traveled absolutely nowhere last year i paid for an entire year of lte service for really no reason basically four collective minutes in which i was using the lte network on my ipad pro this year i might be traveling a little bit more but lte on my ipad pro has been totally acceptable just like it is on my iphone 5g hasn't been a dramatic improvement in my life so far there's some areas where it is better and i have noticed it but what are the odds i'm really going to need that with my ipad when i'm on the go who knows but i think you see where i'm going with this i don't think it's a reason to upgrade strictly for 5g definitely not and last but not least the usbc port on the ipad pro has been upgraded to thunderbolt 4. this means you can now plug in your thunderbolt docs ssds monitors etc if you have a pro display xdr you can display your content on your ipad pro to your pro display xdr in full 6k resolution well kind of as of right now i'm still getting that same black bar mirrored only option that we've had with previous generations the only difference right now is if i'm working on a project inside of lumafusion for example my content being displayed on the viewer can be pushed to my monitor at full resolution and full screen most video content will also be displayed at full screen uh with you know things out of the apple tv app you can absolutely watch full screen content but youtube has not been updated to take advantage of that and so it's still just mirroring everything that's on your ipad it's really kind of a bummer but things could change in ipad os 15 or when developers decide to make that update with all of that said the ipad pro from 2020 was an incredible ipad and the m1 is better but it's a tiny bit better in direct comparison if you're coming from a 2018 model yeah it's a much bigger jump in my opinion and that's a different story if you've been looking at getting an ipad pro at all and you're coming from literally anything else i would still recommend future proofing yourself and getting the m1 model if if it's not a huge um price difference between maybe something like a used 2020. we don't know what's to come with these machines and so that's why i'm saying it might be worth getting the m1 if you're considering it and apple could utilize this machine even more with some software improvements one last bonus comparison magic keyboards now the word on the street was that the 12.9 inch model you have to buy the new keyboard with it that's not technically true the new ipad pro is a bit thicker and it is not technically the same size uh and it's not a 100 perfect fit on the old keyboard but it works totally fine and it can save you 350 bucks i do have a new white keyboard here and i actually really like it the white color option looks very good in my opinion and surprisingly isn't very dirty but it's only been one week aside from the design being adapted to its slightly bigger size everything else is apparently the same but with this white model everything just feels different to me i don't know if it's the finish maybe because it's newer and i haven't worn it out yet the key travel kind of feels different maybe it's a placebo effect because apple does not explicitly state that anything else is different about this keyboard but i just thought i'd point it out of course i'd love to know your thoughts in the comments down below are you looking at an m1 ipad pro do you have a 2020 do you agree with me do you not let me know in those comments down below this has been dan with mac rumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next videoyes you can probably skip upgrading to the m1 ipad pro if you bought an ipad pro back in 2020 and i say this before wwdc where things might change with the m1 ipad pro and i'll explain more of that later but as of right now i'd hang on or save your money just for at least one more year and here's why in my mind there are five potential reasons why someone might think about upgrading and i'm gonna tell you whether i think they're really worth it or not those features being the new liquid retina xdr display found only on the 12.9 inch model so we're only comparing the larger model ipad pro 5g network support the one singular thunderbolt 4 port a new ultra wide camera on the front of the ipad that allows users to take advantage of apple's new center stage feature during video calls and of course the m1 chip so let's start with the one and only feature that you can actually see with your own eyes right off the bat and that's the new liquid retina xdr display this feature is only available on the 12.9 inch model and we did an entire video comparing both displays from each ipad and you can check that out by clicking the card here in the upper right corner but i'll sum it up the benefits of mini led are very similar to oled there are over 10 000 mini leds inside of this ipad pro with 2500 local dimming zones so depending on what content you're watching each zone can adjust the brightness levels accordingly allowing for very deep blacks and high contrast where the colors are at the ipad pro has a 1 million to 1 contrast ratio which is crazy so all of that can really be summed up by this image here both screens are displaying a black background or at least in theory they're supposed to be the ipad pro from 2020 is on the left right now and you can see all of that light bleed and backlight from the leds that are still technically illuminated basically turning this black image into gray the m1 ipad pro well all of these mini leds are essentially off and the only zones that are needed to display content like a menu or play bar are the only ones that need to be illuminated because there are so many zones to do this and adjust accordingly the contrast ratio is really good giving you that feeling that the display is basically turned off everywhere else now this is a very dramatic example i know and it doesn't always look this good or this noticeable but for the most part it's very good when watching hdr content now it isn't all positive there has been some blooming effect going on that could mess with some of the performance of your display but overall it's been a very enjoyable experience is this worth upgrading for probably not unless you're someone who watches literally all of your content on an ipad pro it's your only tv in your house basically and you just think it looks that much better maybe you should test it out before you make this plunge but i don't think it's a good reason to go out and spend a lot of money on a new ipad pro only one year removed from the 2020 version all right so what about the m1 chip it has to be mind blowing and crazy fast right well from a benchmarks perspective yeah it's pretty fast the ipad pro from 2020 was already really powerful and in some instances it would test better than intel macbook pros with higher-end specs but over the course of the last week i don't think there have been any real major performance improvements that were like jaw-dropping or mind-blowing or really even that noticeable it's not like when we compared intel to m1 max and everything was just way faster and more powerful in performance applications on ipad open up just as fast as the other ipad does and the ramp management has been great and applications have rarely needed to reload in the background uh ever since you first opened them up it's just all been working very fluidly the ipad pro was touted by video editors as a crazy device that can cut through 4k footage like butter and this year's m1 ipad pro does the exact same thing and i can't really tell you if it's better or faster than last year's it just feels the same when exporting long project files from lumafusion for example the improvements were minimal so as of right now i don't see a huge benefit to having an m1 chip inside in terms of performance on paper it does look a lot better but that hasn't really fully translated yet in the real world now next month is wwdc and ipad os is on the horizon ipad os 15. apple could dramatically shift the landscape of ipad os but they probably won't and perhaps they'll introduce some features that would be exclusive to the new m1 ipad pro but they probably won't and it might make everything totally different but as of right now 2020 owners are really not missing out now if final cut pro or logic pro come out for the ipad they'll probably still be available for the 2020 model but uh there might be some improvements with the m1 chip and maybe it'll perform better of course we'll have to wait and see if that actually happens okay so this next feature is pretty cool and it's something that might actually make you jealous if you're someone who uses a lot of video calls on your ipad pro the new ultrawide camera is not something i would care about on a tablet for definitely for a photo standpoint i do not take pictures with my ipad at all but the introduction of center stage a feature that takes the ultra wide camera on the new ipad pro and crops in around to follow the subject all throughout wherever you might be moving well that works surprisingly very well and it opens up a whole new way to take video calls you don't actually have to be stationary at a desk if you're in your kitchen you can move around and do things you know don't go too far out of frame but for the most part it's got a pretty wide field of view you're no longer confined to just that one singular spot yes it does work inside of other apps like zoom however this is something that might be a bit niche if you don't use your ipad pro for video calls then this is definitely not a feature you're going to want to upgrade for 5g network support is another feature included on this ipad and it's also going to be something very limited to specific people considering that i traveled absolutely nowhere last year i paid for an entire year of lte service for really no reason basically four collective minutes in which i was using the lte network on my ipad pro this year i might be traveling a little bit more but lte on my ipad pro has been totally acceptable just like it is on my iphone 5g hasn't been a dramatic improvement in my life so far there's some areas where it is better and i have noticed it but what are the odds i'm really going to need that with my ipad when i'm on the go who knows but i think you see where i'm going with this i don't think it's a reason to upgrade strictly for 5g definitely not and last but not least the usbc port on the ipad pro has been upgraded to thunderbolt 4. this means you can now plug in your thunderbolt docs ssds monitors etc if you have a pro display xdr you can display your content on your ipad pro to your pro display xdr in full 6k resolution well kind of as of right now i'm still getting that same black bar mirrored only option that we've had with previous generations the only difference right now is if i'm working on a project inside of lumafusion for example my content being displayed on the viewer can be pushed to my monitor at full resolution and full screen most video content will also be displayed at full screen uh with you know things out of the apple tv app you can absolutely watch full screen content but youtube has not been updated to take advantage of that and so it's still just mirroring everything that's on your ipad it's really kind of a bummer but things could change in ipad os 15 or when developers decide to make that update with all of that said the ipad pro from 2020 was an incredible ipad and the m1 is better but it's a tiny bit better in direct comparison if you're coming from a 2018 model yeah it's a much bigger jump in my opinion and that's a different story if you've been looking at getting an ipad pro at all and you're coming from literally anything else i would still recommend future proofing yourself and getting the m1 model if if it's not a huge um price difference between maybe something like a used 2020. we don't know what's to come with these machines and so that's why i'm saying it might be worth getting the m1 if you're considering it and apple could utilize this machine even more with some software improvements one last bonus comparison magic keyboards now the word on the street was that the 12.9 inch model you have to buy the new keyboard with it that's not technically true the new ipad pro is a bit thicker and it is not technically the same size uh and it's not a 100 perfect fit on the old keyboard but it works totally fine and it can save you 350 bucks i do have a new white keyboard here and i actually really like it the white color option looks very good in my opinion and surprisingly isn't very dirty but it's only been one week aside from the design being adapted to its slightly bigger size everything else is apparently the same but with this white model everything just feels different to me i don't know if it's the finish maybe because it's newer and i haven't worn it out yet the key travel kind of feels different maybe it's a placebo effect because apple does not explicitly state that anything else is different about this keyboard but i just thought i'd point it out of course i'd love to know your thoughts in the comments down below are you looking at an m1 ipad pro do you have a 2020 do you agree with me do you not let me know in those comments down below this has been dan with mac rumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next video\n"