**The iPad Pro 10 and 11: A Review of Apple's Latest Flagship Tablets**

When it comes to new technology, we often get caught up in the specs. We compare apples to oranges, trying to determine which device will provide us with the best performance, display, and overall user experience. However, as this article will explore, sometimes the most important thing is not about the specs at all.

**Display Refresh: No Need for a 120Hz Display**

The iPad Pro 10 and 11 have one major change when it comes to displays. The 60Hz display on both models is still perfect for general use, such as browsing the web, watching videos, and scrolling through social media. In fact, most people won't even notice the difference between a 60Hz and 120Hz display in their daily usage. The iPad Pro's larger model gets a 120Hz display, but again, this may not be noticeable for general users.

The iPad Air also has a 60Hz display, which is still sufficient for most tasks. So, if you're looking at the smaller iPad Pro, there may not be a compelling reason to upgrade to the larger model just because of the display. In fact, the pricing uplift from the previous generation to the new smaller model seems like a good deal, especially considering the increased storage capacity.

**Pricing: A Good Upgrade or Not?**

The biggest change in the iPad Pro's pricing is the 11-inch model starting at $999 (or £1,000) and going up to $2,600 for the full spec. The larger model starts at $1,299 and goes up to $3,000 with all the add-ons.

For those who want the smaller tablet, the new iPad Pro 11 is a good upgrade. You're getting double the storage (256GB instead of 128GB) and a slightly better display. This may be worth the extra $200 compared to the previous generation.

However, for those who opt for the larger model, the pricing seems less justified. The bigger tablet is only $300 more than the smaller one, despite having the same specs. It's unclear what additional value this brings, especially considering the already excellent display on the mini iPad Pro.

**The Maxed-Out Model: A $3,000 Question**

If you want to get every possible spec bump in your new iPad Pro, you can upgrade it with additional features like Wi-Fi Plus Cellular ($130), a Nano-texture glass finish ($350), or an Apple Pencil ($130). The total cost of this "maxed-out" model would be $2,660.

Is this worth the extra $60? While the Apple Pencil and other accessories can add value to your device, the cost of going full spec seems steep. It's clear that Apple is catering for those who want every possible upgrade, but it may not be necessary for everyone.

**What About the iPad Mini and iPad 9?**

One thing that was noticeably absent from this latest generation is the iPad Mini. Apple has seemingly dropped its smaller tablet in favor of the larger model. This decision will likely disappoint some fans of the mini format, as they were hoping to see an upgrade instead of a discontinuation.

The iPad 9 seems to have also been quietly discontinued. Its removal from the lineup leaves a few gaps, but it's not clear why Apple decided to discontinue this device.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the iPad Pro 10 and 11 are solid upgrades for those looking for a new tablet experience. However, the pricing may be less justified than expected, especially considering the larger model's lack of significant spec bumps.

Whether or not you'll upgrade with this generation depends on your individual needs and preferences. If you want double the storage in the smaller model, it might be worth the extra $200. But if you're looking at the larger model, the additional value is less clear-cut.

Ultimately, the most important thing to consider when buying a new tablet is what will make a difference in your daily usage. Don't get caught up in the specs – focus on what matters most for you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso Apple has updated its lineup of iPads in what they call the biggest update since its launch in this video I want to give my initial thoughts on that some reactions to what was launched yesterday I want to talk about some of the good things and also the things that Apple maybe glossed over and didn't tell us about I just want to apologize for my slightly croaky voice today I've had this sore throat thing for a couple of weeks um but I can't delay making videos any longer so uh you'll have to put up with it sorry about that so let's start with the good stuff and that is the iPad 10 is now available for $349 or £349 here in the UK that for me is a bit of a bargain there is no other tablet you can buy at that price point that is as capable as iPad 10 and for the vast majority of users who are getting an iPad for all the usual stuff content consumption bit of email bit of like gaming all of that kind of stuff the iPad 10 is going to be more than enough iPad for you another piece of good news is the updates to the apple pencil which they're now calling pencil Pro and I think the best piece of news is that Apple resisted the temptation to whack up the price of that new pencil so it's still at $129 but now you're getting a bit more for your money because there are new ways to interact with the pencil you can now squeeze it and also there's a gyro so you can do something called barrel roll now if you're an artist I think that might make a big difference if again you're a general iPad User it probably won't make any difference to you but it's a nice thing to have another thing that's really nice to see on the pencil is haptic feedback and again for artists I imagine that's going to make a bit of a difference when you kind of snap into grid and you get that positive feedback from the pencil itself so that's really nice to see more good news came with the iPad Air now we have a bigger size available so you don't have to go all the way to the iPad Pro to get that larger 13in screen so if you prefer the larger format then iPad Air 13 in gives you a more affordable entry into a large tablet sticking with the iPad Air uh great news in that the base level storage has doubled in size from 64 GB to 128 GB of course in Computing terms 128 gigs is still pretty miserly but I've always found with iPad I don't use all of the storage I went out and bought a one tbte iPad Pro and I found I never actually used more than 128 gigs on it so uh your mileage may vary of course but it's nice to see that base storage being doubled and the price point of the 11 in stays exactly the same at $599 or £599 here in the UK I think some of the best news is that the camera has finally been moved to the landscape edge of the tablet where it always should have been this is on both the iPad Air and the iPad Pro so it means when you use the iPad for video calls in landscape mode which is typically what you're going to do uh then it means that you're looking directly at the person you're talking to rather than having this weird effect of looking off to the side that was something that really bugged me on my M1 iPad Pro which I've since sold so I'm very happy to see that Apple has changed this now when I was originally griping about the position of that camera I had a few people comment on the channel saying that Apple wouldn't have been able to move the camera to the landscape Edge because that's where the pencil attaches but they have been able to do that although there is a caveat to that that I'll come back to later but the pencil the new pencil still attaches to the same location on the iPad when it comes to the iPad Pro of course it gets that new OLED display or what we should say a tandem OLED display that goes super bright we'll talk about that in a moment but I think the best news is that the 11in so the smaller iPad Pro gets the same display as the 13in on previous models if you bought the 13in or the the larger one then you got the mini LED display but if you bought the smaller iPad Pro you got a standard display again we get the front-facing camera on the landscape Edge where it should have always been and we get that base storage being doubled again in this case to 256 gigs and this new display technology means that the iPad can be much thinner so the 11-in model is 5.3 mm and the 13-in model is 5.1 mm and that is very thin indeed of course the most major announcement was the release of the M4 chip and I have to say I saw all the the rumors saying that this was going to happen but it still took me a little bit by surprise because it doesn't make sense to me for Apple to release the M4 chip at this point in time and to release it in an iPad so let's just talk about this and starting with the reason why Apple has done this because they did hinted it during the event and it is all to do with the need for a new display engine for that tandem OLED display so I would guess that the display engine that's in the previous M chips isn't up to the job so they needed to have that and this is one of the problems I guess with having a system on chip where everything is on one chip you can't just change out one part of it you need to tape out a new chip and that's what Apple has done but to do that 7 months after the launch of M3 does feel like a bit of a kick in the teeth for anyone like me who's been out and spent their money on an M3 MacBook Air that's probably the case that the M4 isn't major Leaps and Bounds ahead of M3 it'll probably just be a um a small iteration so it's not something that we need to worry about the M3 is a really capable chip it's not like our M3 MacBook airs have sudden got slower it's just that notion or that feeling when you've spent that much money on something to then feel like it's outdated within 7 months I the gap between the previous chips I think M1 to M2 was about 19 months something like that and uh M2 to M3 was about 16 months so to do this in 7 months is very fast I mean we haven't even seen the M3 Ultra yet we haven't seen the M3 go into the Mac Studio or the Mac Mini and here comes the other problem they're pressing on at a pace with the hardware and they're releasing this chip in an iPad which doesn't have the software that is able to take advantage of that Hardware that that's what I'm finding a bit confusing so we've got this M4 chip and iPad OS is still iPad OS it doesn't allow you to tap into the full performance of an mchip in fact iPad OS can't even use all of the features of the mchip the reason why Apple are putting M chips into iPads is because it's convenient it's cheaper than designing an iPad specific chip uh they just have this one skew and they just use it everywhere because iPad OS can use the same chip but apple is kind of glossing over the fact that this incredible performance this amazing device they've created with this phenomenal Hardware I mean it's it's inconceivable how much power is in this super thin tablet compared to just a few years ago what we were used to with our computers but you really can't tap into that unless you're using some very specific software and my guess is that you're probably all pretty Fed Up of hearing about video editing um because I get those comments quite a lot on the channel when we test something because Apple designed these chips for ultimate performance in things like video editing so typically that's where YouTubers will test it out and of course we're doing video work so it's relevant to us but to a huge part of our audience it's not relevant how many people are actually going to be using an iPad to edit video on either with da Vinci resolve or with the new version of Final Cut although I have to say the new live multicam thing looks amazing and that could be a real game Cher for um people who are starting out with youtubing or podcasting or vlogging and you want to have a multicam setup or do live streaming and you want to just use your iPhone that you've already got as a camera link it to Final Cut brilliant but how many of you out there who are interested in buying an iPad are actually going to be doing that there's probably quite few and even then if you were doing that could you not do that on one of the less powerful iPads well the answer is yes you could and unless you're really pushing the boundaries you're not going to be able to use the full performance of that chip here's the other thing that Apple didn't tell you they talked about the the makeup of the chip so it's now got four performance cores and six efficiency cores now previously with M1 through M3 it's been four of each so now we've got two additional efficiency cores and it is quite clear that apple is prioritized power efficienc with the M4 chip because they're talking about offering the same CPU performance as M2 but with half of the power consumption and presumably that means longer battery life on the iPad although Apple didn't talk about that so that remains to be seen but here's the thing if you buy the iPad Pro you don't get four performance cores unless you're buying the model with at least one terabyte storage so if you buy the 1 TB or 2 terb model you get the full M4 chip if you buy a model with with 256 or 512 storage then you're getting three performance cores now in an iPad again we've just been talking about how iPad OS can't make full use of the performance of the M chips and let's be honest here there's very little that the M4 iPad can do that the M1 iPad can do I think it's probably limited to Graphics things like Hardware Ray tracing uh which the M1 doesn't have do you need that on your iPad I don't know so losing a performance core on an iPad isn't the end of the world but it does paint a dark picture for the future of MacBooks now previously when you have a bined chip so for instance if you buy a 13in MacBook Air and you get the base level model what you're getting is a bin chip and historically those have had uh fewer Graphics cores I think one viewer on M1 and M2 and possibly two viewer on M3 correct me if I'm wrong there in the comments but losing Graphics cores on a MacBook Air I don't think is a big deal losing a performance core and on your CPU that is a big deal I don't like the way that's going so I'm hoping the bend chips when these things come out to the MacBooks probably next year uh I'm hoping they won't be like that there's another thing that happens when you go up to 1 tbte or above a storage and that is that you get double the ram so you go from 8 GB to 16 GB and you might be thinking well that's a fantastic upgrade but yet again there are very few apps that will actually be able to tap into that and it's not like the iPad is doing uh multitasking in the same way that Mac OS is now true if you've got the 16 GB iPad and you like to have lots and lots of apps open then the time it takes to switch from one active app to another is a bit less but in real world use most people aren't going to notice the difference but the thing is you're paying for that difference you got to pay for that extra 8 gbt of ram so it makes that step up from the 512 model to the 1 TB model quite a bit to swallow so I'm just going to spec up an 11in model here uh if you go for 512 then it is $1,199 or pounds and uh if you go up to 1 tbte well that's an extra $400 so yes you are getting double the storage and you're getting double the RAM and you're getting that extra performance core so you might say that's worth $400 but let's not forget you can buy an entire iPad 10 for less than that there's another little gotcha that Apple didn't mention they about the nanog glass option so this helps to reduce reflection so if you want to use your iPad outside which you might do if you're using it say for monitoring a Film Production or something like that and it's got that beautiful bright display where you can reduce reflections with the Nano glass option but it is only available as a $100 option once you're at 1 tbte or above it's not available on the 256 or 512 model and maybe that's not even a problem because do you even want nanotexture glass I would say it's a fairly Niche use case and a very small group of users that would actually want it and bear in mind that when we've seen nanotexture glass before it tends to reduce the contrast of the display reduce the sharpness and can be a little bit fragile as well you got to be very specific about how you clean it not sure that's the right thing for an iPad now I guess another good thing is the fact that they've standardized the sizes of the iPad Air and the iPad Pro so now you've got a a more a aable iPad that's available in little and large and you've got the more expensive iPad also available in little and large and that means that the accessories will work with both so you can use the new pencil Pro with either and you can use the new magic keyboard with either and the new magic keyboard does look very nice indeed and a decent step up over the previous design which had that kind of soft touch finish which always ended up with Tide marks where your your wrist was sitting on the wrist rest now it's aluminium or alumin depending on which part of the world you're in uh so that should be much better looks like the trackpad might be slightly bigger and the best news of all function keys brilliant however it is still $300 for the smaller one or $350 for the larger one is it worth the money when I bought a magic keyboard for my iPad Pro I did find that it increased the utility of the iPad and it did feel like I'd got a new iPad or a new computer because of that additional utility so it possibly is worth the money uh I think you probably need to try one for yourself to decide that obviously if you spec up an iPad with a magic keyboard and a pencil you're well into the area of MacBook Air pricing and the MacBook Air is just such a brilliant laptop so if you're after a laptop I think you're better off with a MacBook Air running Mac OS uh if however you want an iPad but you want to be able to type on it and and increase the utility of your iPad then the magic keyboard is quite a useful thing now that new pencil Pro will only be compatible with the newest iPads and I have a feeling that the newest iPads probably might not be as compatible with the previous pencil because the position of the magnets has changed uh where it attaches to the tablet so again we need to get one and review it to be able to know that for sure but just something to watch out for this might be a case of if you're upgrading to the latest iPad you got to upgrade all your accessories as well and that's a bit of a gotcha if that is the case I guess the final thing that I found a little bit confusing and I did do a video back along about how confusing the iPad lineup has become on the one hand it does seem fairly straightforward yeah we got the cheap one we've got the small one which didn't get any updates this time uh and then we've got the two mainstream iPads a more affordable version which is the air and then the the pro version with the all singing all dancing latest technology but I still find it a little bit of a confusing lineup because the standard iPad 10 is a essentially a very similar design to the smaller iPad Air and yes it does have a a slower chip in it but again for the vast majority of people using the iPad they will not notice the difference so if you just want a basic small iPad the iPad 10 has got you covered and it makes me wonder why you would then go to the iPad Air I mean there are a few things that are better with the iPad Air but it's also quite a bit more money now so it is a big step up and the iPad Air when it was originally launched du remember it was the it was the lightweight version of the iPad it was the premium version of the iPad and now we've got to the point where it's no longer the premium version it's just the Standard Version and it's no longer the lightest iPad either because the new iPad Airs are heavier than the new iPad Pros so I just want to come back now and talk about the iPad Pro display I mean the existing iPad Pro if you go for the larger one with the mini LED display it is a phenomenal display if you're watching HDR content it's incredible but the thing is most of the time you're not watching HDR content so what you really want is just generally good brightness and that's what this new display delivers and it is a th000 nits and that is for both SDR and HDR content Apple has achieved this apparently by layering two OLED screens together so they call it tandem OLED and this is why they needed that new display engine and it is astonishing to have a th000 nits of brightness but it gets even better for HDR content it'll even go as high as 1,600 nits that's really high now my preferred tablet for Content consumption is Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra uh which is a 14-in tablet I love this big screen it's like uh having a TV I don't have a TV in my bedroom so sometimes like to watch YouTube or whatever this screen is great it's got great speakers uh it's a really nice display and it's got Samsung's AMOLED 2x display in it I've never looked at this display and thought that's a rubbish display quite the opposite in fact it was the display that made me buy the tablet but apparently this one Peaks at 930 nits that's Peak and uh normally it's it's like 420 or something like that so 1,600 by comparison that is a lot brighter does that mean it's going to be sort of a a retina burning experience when you look at the iPad no it doesn't really work like that but it it is going to be brighter and where you'll really notice it is in well lit conditions where the iPad will just be able to get brighter than this tablet would be able to the thinness that Apple's talking about this one is actually 5.5 mm SO2 of a millimeter uh thicker than the smaller iPad Pro so Apple's waxing lyrical about how thin their tablets are but In fairness uh the next generation of Samsung's tablets will probably be thinner as well it wouldn't surprise me if it's Samsung that's making the display and there is something else that interesting about this as well because the the chip that's in this tablet which is a Snapdragon chip and it's a good chip there's nothing wrong with it but compared to any of Apple's current chips never going to win in any benchmark test not for graphics or CPU performance but again I've never used this tablet and thought well that's a substandard experience it's really laggy because it isn't it's always buttery smooth and it's great for Content consumption and light productivity which is what I'm using the tablet for and I'm not suggesting that if you're shopping for an iPad you should go out and buy a Samsung tablet not saying that at all but if you're into content consumption and light productivity and a bit of gaming and all of the stuff that I would suggest probably more than 90% of iPad owners and users will be doing you just don't need the fastest chip you don't need the M4 you don't even need the M2 of course the iPad 10 and indeed the iPad Air has a 60 HZ display uh whereas the iPad Pro gets 120 HZ but you aren't going to be doing 120 Fram per second gaming on your iPad in all likelihood and you're not likely to be watching 120 frames per second content so this purely comes down to how the uh interface feels when you're scrolling around and most people don't spend their time scrolling up and down web pages just to see how smooth it is you know they just use the tablet so that might not even be that much of a consideration and this is always the way isn't it when we're buying technology is that we get caught up in the specs you know I watched the event last night and I was caught up in it I was thinking I don't have an iPad at the moment and I would quite like to to have another iPad so I was thinking and I almost went through the purchasing process and the thing that pulled me up was that uh Bend chip and even though I know that performance core isn't going to make a jot of difference to my experience using the iPad it still just irks me that I'm missing something that Apple said I was going to get now finally let's just talk about pricing on the iPad Pro because the pricing has gone up compared to the previous generation I think by $200 from what I can see so the 11-in model starts at $999 let's just call it $1,000 cuz that's what it is $11,000 or £1,000 and if you want the larger model well that's $300 or300 more and I'm sort of torn with these prices if you're buying the 11in iPad I think that $200 or 200 uplift is worthwhile you're getting double the storage so you're getting 256 instead of 128 on the previous generation and you're getting M4 versus M2 okay those are spec bumps but that display previously when you bought the smaller iPad Pro you got the same display as you get in the iPad Air but now you're getting that tandem OLED display just like you get in the larger model that's got to be worth $200 so if you're into that smaller form factor then the new iPad Pro 11 in represents a good upgrade I would say and I think the pricing uplift is fair to go from the smaller to the larger tablet and pay an extra $300 or300 for basically the same specs it's the same chip it's the same storage it's the same display just a bit bigger uh that doesn't seem like quite such a good deal and for that one to cost $200 more than the previous generation again you are getting doubled the storage you're getting a slightly better display but the mini LED display is already brilliant and the M2 Chip is already brilliant and more than the iPad can use so what are you paying that extra 200 for I don't think it's quite such a compelling upgrade and as always it's good fun just to do a maximum spec version so let's just have a go at doing that if we select the 13in model so that's 1,299 straight away choose how much storage well 2 terabytes let's do that I don't imagine many people use that much storage on their iPad let's go for the Nano texture glass let's say Wi-Fi Plus Cellular and we're up to $2,599 so $2,600 then you got to add another 350 for the keyboard if you want that I can get my brain to work that takes us up to what $ 2950 then you got another $130 if you want the pencil so you're over $3,000 for an iPad that is an expensive tablet isn't it let me know what you think in the comments are you going to upgrade with this generation are you just really disappointed that the iPad Mini didn't get included in the upgrade what about the iPad 9 that one seems to have silently been discontinued are you upset to see that one go what do you think about the iPad 10 coming down in price is that a great move from Apple uh please let me know all your thoughts in the comments always enjoy reading all of your comments uh thanks as always for supporting the channel I'm going to put some links in the description for Amazon stuff if you've got anything at all to buy on Amazon doesn't matter what it is if you click on those links the channel earns a small commission doesn't cost you any extra uh but is a big help to us so thank you for all the support that you give to us thank you for your likes and your subscribes and your shares see you again soon for some more geekerso Apple has updated its lineup of iPads in what they call the biggest update since its launch in this video I want to give my initial thoughts on that some reactions to what was launched yesterday I want to talk about some of the good things and also the things that Apple maybe glossed over and didn't tell us about I just want to apologize for my slightly croaky voice today I've had this sore throat thing for a couple of weeks um but I can't delay making videos any longer so uh you'll have to put up with it sorry about that so let's start with the good stuff and that is the iPad 10 is now available for $349 or £349 here in the UK that for me is a bit of a bargain there is no other tablet you can buy at that price point that is as capable as iPad 10 and for the vast majority of users who are getting an iPad for all the usual stuff content consumption bit of email bit of like gaming all of that kind of stuff the iPad 10 is going to be more than enough iPad for you another piece of good news is the updates to the apple pencil which they're now calling pencil Pro and I think the best piece of news is that Apple resisted the temptation to whack up the price of that new pencil so it's still at $129 but now you're getting a bit more for your money because there are new ways to interact with the pencil you can now squeeze it and also there's a gyro so you can do something called barrel roll now if you're an artist I think that might make a big difference if again you're a general iPad User it probably won't make any difference to you but it's a nice thing to have another thing that's really nice to see on the pencil is haptic feedback and again for artists I imagine that's going to make a bit of a difference when you kind of snap into grid and you get that positive feedback from the pencil itself so that's really nice to see more good news came with the iPad Air now we have a bigger size available so you don't have to go all the way to the iPad Pro to get that larger 13in screen so if you prefer the larger format then iPad Air 13 in gives you a more affordable entry into a large tablet sticking with the iPad Air uh great news in that the base level storage has doubled in size from 64 GB to 128 GB of course in Computing terms 128 gigs is still pretty miserly but I've always found with iPad I don't use all of the storage I went out and bought a one tbte iPad Pro and I found I never actually used more than 128 gigs on it so uh your mileage may vary of course but it's nice to see that base storage being doubled and the price point of the 11 in stays exactly the same at $599 or £599 here in the UK I think some of the best news is that the camera has finally been moved to the landscape edge of the tablet where it always should have been this is on both the iPad Air and the iPad Pro so it means when you use the iPad for video calls in landscape mode which is typically what you're going to do uh then it means that you're looking directly at the person you're talking to rather than having this weird effect of looking off to the side that was something that really bugged me on my M1 iPad Pro which I've since sold so I'm very happy to see that Apple has changed this now when I was originally griping about the position of that camera I had a few people comment on the channel saying that Apple wouldn't have been able to move the camera to the landscape Edge because that's where the pencil attaches but they have been able to do that although there is a caveat to that that I'll come back to later but the pencil the new pencil still attaches to the same location on the iPad when it comes to the iPad Pro of course it gets that new OLED display or what we should say a tandem OLED display that goes super bright we'll talk about that in a moment but I think the best news is that the 11in so the smaller iPad Pro gets the same display as the 13in on previous models if you bought the 13in or the the larger one then you got the mini LED display but if you bought the smaller iPad Pro you got a standard display again we get the front-facing camera on the landscape Edge where it should have always been and we get that base storage being doubled again in this case to 256 gigs and this new display technology means that the iPad can be much thinner so the 11-in model is 5.3 mm and the 13-in model is 5.1 mm and that is very thin indeed of course the most major announcement was the release of the M4 chip and I have to say I saw all the the rumors saying that this was going to happen but it still took me a little bit by surprise because it doesn't make sense to me for Apple to release the M4 chip at this point in time and to release it in an iPad so let's just talk about this and starting with the reason why Apple has done this because they did hinted it during the event and it is all to do with the need for a new display engine for that tandem OLED display so I would guess that the display engine that's in the previous M chips isn't up to the job so they needed to have that and this is one of the problems I guess with having a system on chip where everything is on one chip you can't just change out one part of it you need to tape out a new chip and that's what Apple has done but to do that 7 months after the launch of M3 does feel like a bit of a kick in the teeth for anyone like me who's been out and spent their money on an M3 MacBook Air that's probably the case that the M4 isn't major Leaps and Bounds ahead of M3 it'll probably just be a um a small iteration so it's not something that we need to worry about the M3 is a really capable chip it's not like our M3 MacBook airs have sudden got slower it's just that notion or that feeling when you've spent that much money on something to then feel like it's outdated within 7 months I the gap between the previous chips I think M1 to M2 was about 19 months something like that and uh M2 to M3 was about 16 months so to do this in 7 months is very fast I mean we haven't even seen the M3 Ultra yet we haven't seen the M3 go into the Mac Studio or the Mac Mini and here comes the other problem they're pressing on at a pace with the hardware and they're releasing this chip in an iPad which doesn't have the software that is able to take advantage of that Hardware that that's what I'm finding a bit confusing so we've got this M4 chip and iPad OS is still iPad OS it doesn't allow you to tap into the full performance of an mchip in fact iPad OS can't even use all of the features of the mchip the reason why Apple are putting M chips into iPads is because it's convenient it's cheaper than designing an iPad specific chip uh they just have this one skew and they just use it everywhere because iPad OS can use the same chip but apple is kind of glossing over the fact that this incredible performance this amazing device they've created with this phenomenal Hardware I mean it's it's inconceivable how much power is in this super thin tablet compared to just a few years ago what we were used to with our computers but you really can't tap into that unless you're using some very specific software and my guess is that you're probably all pretty Fed Up of hearing about video editing um because I get those comments quite a lot on the channel when we test something because Apple designed these chips for ultimate performance in things like video editing so typically that's where YouTubers will test it out and of course we're doing video work so it's relevant to us but to a huge part of our audience it's not relevant how many people are actually going to be using an iPad to edit video on either with da Vinci resolve or with the new version of Final Cut although I have to say the new live multicam thing looks amazing and that could be a real game Cher for um people who are starting out with youtubing or podcasting or vlogging and you want to have a multicam setup or do live streaming and you want to just use your iPhone that you've already got as a camera link it to Final Cut brilliant but how many of you out there who are interested in buying an iPad are actually going to be doing that there's probably quite few and even then if you were doing that could you not do that on one of the less powerful iPads well the answer is yes you could and unless you're really pushing the boundaries you're not going to be able to use the full performance of that chip here's the other thing that Apple didn't tell you they talked about the the makeup of the chip so it's now got four performance cores and six efficiency cores now previously with M1 through M3 it's been four of each so now we've got two additional efficiency cores and it is quite clear that apple is prioritized power efficienc with the M4 chip because they're talking about offering the same CPU performance as M2 but with half of the power consumption and presumably that means longer battery life on the iPad although Apple didn't talk about that so that remains to be seen but here's the thing if you buy the iPad Pro you don't get four performance cores unless you're buying the model with at least one terabyte storage so if you buy the 1 TB or 2 terb model you get the full M4 chip if you buy a model with with 256 or 512 storage then you're getting three performance cores now in an iPad again we've just been talking about how iPad OS can't make full use of the performance of the M chips and let's be honest here there's very little that the M4 iPad can do that the M1 iPad can do I think it's probably limited to Graphics things like Hardware Ray tracing uh which the M1 doesn't have do you need that on your iPad I don't know so losing a performance core on an iPad isn't the end of the world but it does paint a dark picture for the future of MacBooks now previously when you have a bined chip so for instance if you buy a 13in MacBook Air and you get the base level model what you're getting is a bin chip and historically those have had uh fewer Graphics cores I think one viewer on M1 and M2 and possibly two viewer on M3 correct me if I'm wrong there in the comments but losing Graphics cores on a MacBook Air I don't think is a big deal losing a performance core and on your CPU that is a big deal I don't like the way that's going so I'm hoping the bend chips when these things come out to the MacBooks probably next year uh I'm hoping they won't be like that there's another thing that happens when you go up to 1 tbte or above a storage and that is that you get double the ram so you go from 8 GB to 16 GB and you might be thinking well that's a fantastic upgrade but yet again there are very few apps that will actually be able to tap into that and it's not like the iPad is doing uh multitasking in the same way that Mac OS is now true if you've got the 16 GB iPad and you like to have lots and lots of apps open then the time it takes to switch from one active app to another is a bit less but in real world use most people aren't going to notice the difference but the thing is you're paying for that difference you got to pay for that extra 8 gbt of ram so it makes that step up from the 512 model to the 1 TB model quite a bit to swallow so I'm just going to spec up an 11in model here uh if you go for 512 then it is $1,199 or pounds and uh if you go up to 1 tbte well that's an extra $400 so yes you are getting double the storage and you're getting double the RAM and you're getting that extra performance core so you might say that's worth $400 but let's not forget you can buy an entire iPad 10 for less than that there's another little gotcha that Apple didn't mention they about the nanog glass option so this helps to reduce reflection so if you want to use your iPad outside which you might do if you're using it say for monitoring a Film Production or something like that and it's got that beautiful bright display where you can reduce reflections with the Nano glass option but it is only available as a $100 option once you're at 1 tbte or above it's not available on the 256 or 512 model and maybe that's not even a problem because do you even want nanotexture glass I would say it's a fairly Niche use case and a very small group of users that would actually want it and bear in mind that when we've seen nanotexture glass before it tends to reduce the contrast of the display reduce the sharpness and can be a little bit fragile as well you got to be very specific about how you clean it not sure that's the right thing for an iPad now I guess another good thing is the fact that they've standardized the sizes of the iPad Air and the iPad Pro so now you've got a a more a aable iPad that's available in little and large and you've got the more expensive iPad also available in little and large and that means that the accessories will work with both so you can use the new pencil Pro with either and you can use the new magic keyboard with either and the new magic keyboard does look very nice indeed and a decent step up over the previous design which had that kind of soft touch finish which always ended up with Tide marks where your your wrist was sitting on the wrist rest now it's aluminium or alumin depending on which part of the world you're in uh so that should be much better looks like the trackpad might be slightly bigger and the best news of all function keys brilliant however it is still $300 for the smaller one or $350 for the larger one is it worth the money when I bought a magic keyboard for my iPad Pro I did find that it increased the utility of the iPad and it did feel like I'd got a new iPad or a new computer because of that additional utility so it possibly is worth the money uh I think you probably need to try one for yourself to decide that obviously if you spec up an iPad with a magic keyboard and a pencil you're well into the area of MacBook Air pricing and the MacBook Air is just such a brilliant laptop so if you're after a laptop I think you're better off with a MacBook Air running Mac OS uh if however you want an iPad but you want to be able to type on it and and increase the utility of your iPad then the magic keyboard is quite a useful thing now that new pencil Pro will only be compatible with the newest iPads and I have a feeling that the newest iPads probably might not be as compatible with the previous pencil because the position of the magnets has changed uh where it attaches to the tablet so again we need to get one and review it to be able to know that for sure but just something to watch out for this might be a case of if you're upgrading to the latest iPad you got to upgrade all your accessories as well and that's a bit of a gotcha if that is the case I guess the final thing that I found a little bit confusing and I did do a video back along about how confusing the iPad lineup has become on the one hand it does seem fairly straightforward yeah we got the cheap one we've got the small one which didn't get any updates this time uh and then we've got the two mainstream iPads a more affordable version which is the air and then the the pro version with the all singing all dancing latest technology but I still find it a little bit of a confusing lineup because the standard iPad 10 is a essentially a very similar design to the smaller iPad Air and yes it does have a a slower chip in it but again for the vast majority of people using the iPad they will not notice the difference so if you just want a basic small iPad the iPad 10 has got you covered and it makes me wonder why you would then go to the iPad Air I mean there are a few things that are better with the iPad Air but it's also quite a bit more money now so it is a big step up and the iPad Air when it was originally launched du remember it was the it was the lightweight version of the iPad it was the premium version of the iPad and now we've got to the point where it's no longer the premium version it's just the Standard Version and it's no longer the lightest iPad either because the new iPad Airs are heavier than the new iPad Pros so I just want to come back now and talk about the iPad Pro display I mean the existing iPad Pro if you go for the larger one with the mini LED display it is a phenomenal display if you're watching HDR content it's incredible but the thing is most of the time you're not watching HDR content so what you really want is just generally good brightness and that's what this new display delivers and it is a th000 nits and that is for both SDR and HDR content Apple has achieved this apparently by layering two OLED screens together so they call it tandem OLED and this is why they needed that new display engine and it is astonishing to have a th000 nits of brightness but it gets even better for HDR content it'll even go as high as 1,600 nits that's really high now my preferred tablet for Content consumption is Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra uh which is a 14-in tablet I love this big screen it's like uh having a TV I don't have a TV in my bedroom so sometimes like to watch YouTube or whatever this screen is great it's got great speakers uh it's a really nice display and it's got Samsung's AMOLED 2x display in it I've never looked at this display and thought that's a rubbish display quite the opposite in fact it was the display that made me buy the tablet but apparently this one Peaks at 930 nits that's Peak and uh normally it's it's like 420 or something like that so 1,600 by comparison that is a lot brighter does that mean it's going to be sort of a a retina burning experience when you look at the iPad no it doesn't really work like that but it it is going to be brighter and where you'll really notice it is in well lit conditions where the iPad will just be able to get brighter than this tablet would be able to the thinness that Apple's talking about this one is actually 5.5 mm SO2 of a millimeter uh thicker than the smaller iPad Pro so Apple's waxing lyrical about how thin their tablets are but In fairness uh the next generation of Samsung's tablets will probably be thinner as well it wouldn't surprise me if it's Samsung that's making the display and there is something else that interesting about this as well because the the chip that's in this tablet which is a Snapdragon chip and it's a good chip there's nothing wrong with it but compared to any of Apple's current chips never going to win in any benchmark test not for graphics or CPU performance but again I've never used this tablet and thought well that's a substandard experience it's really laggy because it isn't it's always buttery smooth and it's great for Content consumption and light productivity which is what I'm using the tablet for and I'm not suggesting that if you're shopping for an iPad you should go out and buy a Samsung tablet not saying that at all but if you're into content consumption and light productivity and a bit of gaming and all of the stuff that I would suggest probably more than 90% of iPad owners and users will be doing you just don't need the fastest chip you don't need the M4 you don't even need the M2 of course the iPad 10 and indeed the iPad Air has a 60 HZ display uh whereas the iPad Pro gets 120 HZ but you aren't going to be doing 120 Fram per second gaming on your iPad in all likelihood and you're not likely to be watching 120 frames per second content so this purely comes down to how the uh interface feels when you're scrolling around and most people don't spend their time scrolling up and down web pages just to see how smooth it is you know they just use the tablet so that might not even be that much of a consideration and this is always the way isn't it when we're buying technology is that we get caught up in the specs you know I watched the event last night and I was caught up in it I was thinking I don't have an iPad at the moment and I would quite like to to have another iPad so I was thinking and I almost went through the purchasing process and the thing that pulled me up was that uh Bend chip and even though I know that performance core isn't going to make a jot of difference to my experience using the iPad it still just irks me that I'm missing something that Apple said I was going to get now finally let's just talk about pricing on the iPad Pro because the pricing has gone up compared to the previous generation I think by $200 from what I can see so the 11-in model starts at $999 let's just call it $1,000 cuz that's what it is $11,000 or £1,000 and if you want the larger model well that's $300 or300 more and I'm sort of torn with these prices if you're buying the 11in iPad I think that $200 or 200 uplift is worthwhile you're getting double the storage so you're getting 256 instead of 128 on the previous generation and you're getting M4 versus M2 okay those are spec bumps but that display previously when you bought the smaller iPad Pro you got the same display as you get in the iPad Air but now you're getting that tandem OLED display just like you get in the larger model that's got to be worth $200 so if you're into that smaller form factor then the new iPad Pro 11 in represents a good upgrade I would say and I think the pricing uplift is fair to go from the smaller to the larger tablet and pay an extra $300 or300 for basically the same specs it's the same chip it's the same storage it's the same display just a bit bigger uh that doesn't seem like quite such a good deal and for that one to cost $200 more than the previous generation again you are getting doubled the storage you're getting a slightly better display but the mini LED display is already brilliant and the M2 Chip is already brilliant and more than the iPad can use so what are you paying that extra 200 for I don't think it's quite such a compelling upgrade and as always it's good fun just to do a maximum spec version so let's just have a go at doing that if we select the 13in model so that's 1,299 straight away choose how much storage well 2 terabytes let's do that I don't imagine many people use that much storage on their iPad let's go for the Nano texture glass let's say Wi-Fi Plus Cellular and we're up to $2,599 so $2,600 then you got to add another 350 for the keyboard if you want that I can get my brain to work that takes us up to what $ 2950 then you got another $130 if you want the pencil so you're over $3,000 for an iPad that is an expensive tablet isn't it let me know what you think in the comments are you going to upgrade with this generation are you just really disappointed that the iPad Mini didn't get included in the upgrade what about the iPad 9 that one seems to have silently been discontinued are you upset to see that one go what do you think about the iPad 10 coming 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