The Importance of Having the Right Tools for Long-Distance Video Conferencing

We recently bought an iPad Generation 9 to handle all our long-distance video conferencing needs, and it's been a game-changer. We don't live by our family, so we wanted a device that could help us stay connected with them remotely. The Center Stage feature on this iPad is particularly useful, as it allows the camera to adjust its frame to fit everyone in the shot. When I enter the frame, it widens out to include me, while when the other person is in the frame, it tightens up to focus on them.

This feature, combined with the low price of the iPad Generation 9, makes it an attractive option for video conferencing tools. The iPad OS 15 has also received a significant update, which includes new features that enhance productivity. One of the most notable updates is the improved Facetime app, which will allow users to share files and even type messages while on calls.

Another feature that sets this iPad apart from its competitors is its camera system. The 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and 8-megapixel wide-angle camera provide excellent quality for immersive AR apps and other creative uses. This is all made possible by the powerful A13 Bionic chip, which provides fast performance and efficient battery life.

The iPad Generation 9 also comes with the first-generation Apple Pencil, which may not be as advanced as its second-generation counterpart but still offers a great writing experience. The pencil's low cost of entry makes it an attractive option for those who want to use their iPads for design, note-taking, and other creative pursuits.

While there are some limitations to this iPad model, including the lack of USB-C ports and a relatively basic design, its price point is hard to beat. The 64GB Wi-Fi model starts at $329, making it an affordable option for those who want a powerful tool for video conferencing and creativity.

specs

One thing we can confirm about the tech specs is that this iPad has a weight of 1.7 pounds, with buttons and connectors including a front Home button and a Lightning connector. The camera system includes a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and an 8-megapixel wide-angle camera, which will provide excellent quality for video recording and other creative uses.

We also know that this iPad will be able to record videos in 1080p at up to 30 frames per second, making it suitable for a variety of applications. The price point includes Wi-Fi connectivity, but if you want cellular connectivity as well, it adds $130 to the cost.

Ordering Options

The iPad Generation 9 is available for pre-order now, with availability on September 24th. There are two storage options: 64GB and 256GB, both of which come with Wi-Fi connectivity. The 256GB model starts at $479, making it a more expensive option but still a great value.

Cellular connectivity will be available as an add-on, which may appeal to those who want the flexibility to use their iPad from anywhere. However, if you're looking for a more affordable option, the Wi-Fi-only model is still a great choice. For most users, the 64GB model should provide enough storage for their needs.

Conclusion

As I mentioned earlier, our experience with this iPad has been incredibly positive, and we're excited to start using it for content creation. We'd love to hear from you - are you planning on buying an iPad Generation 9? Do you have a standard iPad that you use for different purposes? What features would you like to see in future updates or upgrades?

If you have any questions or comments about the iPad Generation 9, please let us know in the comments below. We're always happy to hear from our readers and provide more information on how this device can help with your productivity and creativity needs.

Also, if you'd like to learn more about how this iPad is still a great deal compared to its predecessor or other alternatives, be sure to check out our playlist of videos for more information.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyesterday was the apple event where they announced a whole bunch of exciting new products but i think one of the most practical and most exciting even though it kind of seems like the most boring one is the brand new ipad generation 9. so what are the updates what are the ordering options and is this a good update over last year's model let's find out what's up everyone i'm the everday dead and if i can figure it out you can figure it out now you might not believe me but the ipad generation 8 from last year is the ipad that i use more often than any other one now i'm not sure if you can see it from here but i actually use my ipad generation 8 as the teleprompter for all of these youtube videos and i think it is just such a great value it's easy to get excited about the new high-end stuff but i think apple sells more of these than anything else and so let's talk about the brand new ipad because i think this has some really great updates inside of it the first one you can see right here from the top of the screen it has the a13 bionic chip yes the new ipad mini the new iphones have the a15 but let's not forget the older processors are still crazy powerful and i think moving up the lowest end budget option to the a13 is going to be incredible a lot of the features that you want to keep seeing unlike all these ipads they're now going to be able to do because of this plus it will have the new ultra wide front camera and it starts at 64 gigabytes of storage which is pretty great and the best part is all of these updates the new storage the new processor the new camera they still have it at 329 dollars and that's the best part about the standard ipad yes it doesn't have all the new bells and whistles of apple's current technology but 329 bucks you cannot beat that because this will still have all of the cool ipad os 15 features that even the high-end ipads get they say powerful easy to use versatile i could not agree more what else do we have they're going to go through a lot of the ipad os 15 stuff like i said a13 bionic chip this will give you up to a 20 faster gpu performance because it will have an updated gpu inside of it if you do play video games on your ipad you'll be able to do it better here because of the new a13 you not only get a better cpu you will get a new neural engine inside of here making things like predictive text or even that text camera capture feature possible now because of the more horsepower you have all-day battery life they say that a lot they say a lot about all-day battery life for all this technology it's just it's hard look and i agree apple has some of the best battery life on the market in all of their devices but once you make the m1 macbook air you call this all-day battery life there's just like the bar set too high to really call anything else all day battery life we can we will continue to have the 10.2 inch retina display not a lot of updates there they did add now true tone to the ipad which is something that i don't normally use on my devices but it will read like the color temperature lights of your environment and it will change the display to make it more optimal now this will change the color information of your display if you are a video editor like me and you need those colors to stay pretty consistent i never turn it on but it's nice to see that a creature comfort feature is coming even to the budget line here's the real kicker that i think is going to be the best part is the new updated front-facing camera like i said earlier it has that ultra wide angle but this also has their new feature from the ipad pros called center stage now what center stage is it takes that ultra wide field of view and then it zooms in on you or what you're focusing on that's in there and it moves the camera around digitally to follow you and i think this is a really neat feature for example on father's day this year we bought my father-in-law a brand new m1 ipad pro that has center stage in it and the reason we bought that was to do all of our long distance video conferencing because we don't live by our family and what's cool about center stage is when he was in the frame it would tighten up make sure that we could see him but then when i came in the frame it widens out to make sure the whole family is in the shot and i think this combined with the low price the ipad generation 9 will make this one of the most attractive video conferencing tools that you're going to find ipad os 15 already has a ton of new feature enhancements to make this like a better productivity tool and at the price you get you're not going to be able to beat this like straight up you're not going to be able to beat this because it is going to have that 12 megapixel ultra wide camera and you'll continue having the eight megapixel wide camera on the back for all of your um immersive ar apps stuff like that which will work better with the a13 bionic already talked about the ipad os 15 updates facetime's going to get a pretty big update uh we'll be able to talk about files and all that stuff write it up type it down again this will continue to work with the first generation ipad pencil like last year's model it's the first generation apple pencil it's not as good as the generation 2 but it's still really good i'm not a designer i'm not a drawer i think every time i mention the pencil i then also give that caveat to like hey i don't actually do it that much but a lot of people use ipads for design and a lot of people use these ipads for design and note taking because of the cost of entry you'll be able to do all the cool multitasking features from ipad os 15 on here and yeah i think that's all the major like updates it is a very basic ipad there's only so much that you can put in here to update on it so let's check the tech specs real quick see if i missed anything and then we'll go into the specs and ordering options we talked about capacity it is 1.7 pounds buttons and connectors we continue to get the front home touch id button which i really like lightning connector this is what the last this is now the last ipad to continue having lightning which yes lightning sucks um yeah i think we talked about it a13 we talked about the camera we talked about video recording this will do 1080p at up to 30 frames per second you can buy the ipad you could have bought it yesterday compared to when this video is up but you can order it now they'll be available on september 24th space gray 64 gigabytes wi-fi 329 whoops and then 479 dollars for the 256 gigabyte model now i think it's the better option to buy the ipads at the lowest base model if you're going to start spending in like the 500 range there are better options out there like the ipad air 4 or even that new ipad mini 64 gigabytes keeping it in the 300 range that's the real key um here and then if you do want wi-fi or cellular it looks like it'll add it'll add 130 on top of the price and look i think that these ipads and i have used these before and i don't mean like years ago i mean this year this ipad has saved me so much hassle in like doing teams meetings just from the ipad you set it down pop it up you're now in a full teams meeting with everybody on your team um that's incredible like that's incredible stuff for this price and then if you really want to be able to do that from wherever by the cellular version i'm telling you they said it in the presentation themselves that ipads are incredibly versatile devices and they really really are okay so 329.00 is what we're going to end up is what it's going to end up costing us so yeah i could read every single specification i could elaborate i could draw out this video but i'm not going to do that to you today what i would like to know is are you planning on buying the ipad generation 9 do you have one of the standard ipads and what do you use it for obviously i already pre-ordered one of these yesterday so i will be making content on it what are some things that you would like to see let me know all of that stuff let me know in the comments below because i would love to know what everybody wants to see and if you like this video and you would like to see more on how the ipad generation 8 is still a fantastic deal and why i think these ipads are such great tools you can find my whole playlist for those by clicking right here click click click click click click click thanks for watchingyesterday was the apple event where they announced a whole bunch of exciting new products but i think one of the most practical and most exciting even though it kind of seems like the most boring one is the brand new ipad generation 9. so what are the updates what are the ordering options and is this a good update over last year's model let's find out what's up everyone i'm the everday dead and if i can figure it out you can figure it out now you might not believe me but the ipad generation 8 from last year is the ipad that i use more often than any other one now i'm not sure if you can see it from here but i actually use my ipad generation 8 as the teleprompter for all of these youtube videos and i think it is just such a great value it's easy to get excited about the new high-end stuff but i think apple sells more of these than anything else and so let's talk about the brand new ipad because i think this has some really great updates inside of it the first one you can see right here from the top of the screen it has the a13 bionic chip yes the new ipad mini the new iphones have the a15 but let's not forget the older processors are still crazy powerful and i think moving up the lowest end budget option to the a13 is going to be incredible a lot of the features that you want to keep seeing unlike all these ipads they're now going to be able to do because of this plus it will have the new ultra wide front camera and it starts at 64 gigabytes of storage which is pretty great and the best part is all of these updates the new storage the new processor the new camera they still have it at 329 dollars and that's the best part about the standard ipad yes it doesn't have all the new bells and whistles of apple's current technology but 329 bucks you cannot beat that because this will still have all of the cool ipad os 15 features that even the high-end ipads get they say powerful easy to use versatile i could not agree more what else do we have they're going to go through a lot of the ipad os 15 stuff like i said a13 bionic chip this will give you up to a 20 faster gpu performance because it will have an updated gpu inside of it if you do play video games on your ipad you'll be able to do it better here because of the new a13 you not only get a better cpu you will get a new neural engine inside of here making things like predictive text or even that text camera capture feature possible now because of the more horsepower you have all-day battery life they say that a lot they say a lot about all-day battery life for all this technology it's just it's hard look and i agree apple has some of the best battery life on the market in all of their devices but once you make the m1 macbook air you call this all-day battery life there's just like the bar set too high to really call anything else all day battery life we can we will continue to have the 10.2 inch retina display not a lot of updates there they did add now true tone to the ipad which is something that i don't normally use on my devices but it will read like the color temperature lights of your environment and it will change the display to make it more optimal now this will change the color information of your display if you are a video editor like me and you need those colors to stay pretty consistent i never turn it on but it's nice to see that a creature comfort feature is coming even to the budget line here's the real kicker that i think is going to be the best part is the new updated front-facing camera like i said earlier it has that ultra wide angle but this also has their new feature from the ipad pros called center stage now what center stage is it takes that ultra wide field of view and then it zooms in on you or what you're focusing on that's in there and it moves the camera around digitally to follow you and i think this is a really neat feature for example on father's day this year we bought my father-in-law a brand new m1 ipad pro that has center stage in it and the reason we bought that was to do all of our long distance video conferencing because we don't live by our family and what's cool about center stage is when he was in the frame it would tighten up make sure that we could see him but then when i came in the frame it widens out to make sure the whole family is in the shot and i think this combined with the low price the ipad generation 9 will make this one of the most attractive video conferencing tools that you're going to find ipad os 15 already has a ton of new feature enhancements to make this like a better productivity tool and at the price you get you're not going to be able to beat this like straight up you're not going to be able to beat this because it is going to have that 12 megapixel ultra wide camera and you'll continue having the eight megapixel wide camera on the back for all of your um immersive ar apps stuff like that which will work better with the a13 bionic already talked about the ipad os 15 updates facetime's going to get a pretty big update uh we'll be able to talk about files and all that stuff write it up type it down again this will continue to work with the first generation ipad pencil like last year's model it's the first generation apple pencil it's not as good as the generation 2 but it's still really good i'm not a designer i'm not a drawer i think every time i mention the pencil i then also give that caveat to like hey i don't actually do it that much but a lot of people use ipads for design and a lot of people use these ipads for design and note taking because of the cost of entry you'll be able to do all the cool multitasking features from ipad os 15 on here and yeah i think that's all the major like updates it is a very basic ipad there's only so much that you can put in here to update on it so let's check the tech specs real quick see if i missed anything and then we'll go into the specs and ordering options we talked about capacity it is 1.7 pounds buttons and connectors we continue to get the front home touch id button which i really like lightning connector this is what the last this is now the last ipad to continue having lightning which yes lightning sucks um yeah i think we talked about it a13 we talked about the camera we talked about video recording this will do 1080p at up to 30 frames per second you can buy the ipad you could have bought it yesterday compared to when this video is up but you can order it now they'll be available on september 24th space gray 64 gigabytes wi-fi 329 whoops and then 479 dollars for the 256 gigabyte model now i think it's the better option to buy the ipads at the lowest base model if you're going to start spending in like the 500 range there are better options out there like the ipad air 4 or even that new ipad mini 64 gigabytes keeping it in the 300 range that's the real key um here and then if you do want wi-fi or cellular it looks like it'll add it'll add 130 on top of the price and look i think that these ipads and i have used these before and i don't mean like years ago i mean this year this ipad has saved me so much hassle in like doing teams meetings just from the ipad you set it down pop it up you're now in a full teams meeting with everybody on your team um that's incredible like that's incredible stuff for this price and then if you really want to be able to do that from wherever by the cellular version i'm telling you they said it in the presentation themselves that ipads are incredibly versatile devices and they really really are okay so 329.00 is what we're going to end up is what it's going to end up costing us so yeah i could read every single specification i could elaborate i could draw out this video but i'm not going to do that to you today what i would like to know is are you planning on buying the ipad generation 9 do you have one of the standard ipads and what do you use it for obviously i already pre-ordered one of these yesterday so i will be making content on it what are some things that you would like to see let me know all of that stuff let me know in the comments below because i would love to know what everybody wants to see and if you like this video and you would like to see more on how the ipad generation 8 is still a fantastic deal and why i think these ipads are such great tools you can find my whole playlist for those by clicking right here click click click click click click click thanks for watching\n"