The Pro Display XDR at Full 6K Resolution: A Disappointing Reality for iPad Pro Users

I was excited to see the latest iPad Pro, thinking that it would finally support all displays at full resolution. I mean, who wouldn't want a device that can drive every screen at its full potential? Unfortunately, that's not the case. There are certain apps like Lumafusion or Disney Plus that will unlock this feature for specific uses, but outside of those, you're stuck with a 4:3 monitor for everything else. Even YouTube isn't immune to this limitation. The iPad Pro isn't a 16:9 display, so it's not surprising that it can't take advantage of this feature.

Addressing this issue is not as easy as clicking a button. It requires significant software updates and changes to the operating system. Apple needs to do more to address this problem, especially since it works with their own 16:9 monitors. Not being able to utilize a hundred percent of the screen gets in the way of productivity, and it's just plain weird when you're working on a device that can't handle its full potential. The black bars on either side of the screen when connecting an iPad Pro to a display are also a distraction.

On the other hand, one feature that does work well is Center Stage. This allows you to take advantage of the wide-angle selfie camera in a unique way – it uses digital zoom to track your face around the frame when making FaceTime calls. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this feature. It's not meant to track people moving at highway speeds, but rather to smoothly follow you around the room. This is especially useful for video conferencing with multiple people.

I think applications like Zoom could greatly benefit from being able to take advantage of this API. In some cases, the camera can get a bit confused when multiple people are moving around in different directions, but overall, it's a great feature. When you zoom out in the Camera app, you can see the entirety of the room, and it's wide enough to capture everything.

The iPad Pro is indeed the physical representation of bleeding-edge tablet technology, especially with the 12.9-inch model featuring the M1 processor. This device has more power than anyone could ever want in a device that's this small. Thunderbolt takes things even further with its throughput capability.

However, the one major problem with the iPad Pro is still iPad OS. There are great pro apps that work well with the device, but it just isn't enough to replace a laptop... yet. WWDC is just around the corner, and we're hoping for some changes in this regard.

In conclusion, the M1 iPad Pro is like a thousand-horsepower supercar running on 200 tires – it's technically fast, but you can only do so much with it. We need significant software updates to unlock its full potential. Hopefully, iPad OS 15 will be that "sticky pair of trofeos" we've been wanting for the iPad Pro since its release.

M1 MacBook vs. iPad Pro: Which One Reigns Supreme?

If you're considering an M1 MacBook versus the latest iPad Pro, there are a few things to keep in mind. The M1 iPad Pro is like that supercar mentioned earlier – it has incredible hardware, but sometimes feels limited by software. On the other hand, the M1 MacBook offers more comprehensive software support and functionality.

Let's break down some key differences between these two devices. One major advantage of the MacBook is its ability to run a wide range of apps that aren't compatible with iPad OS. This makes it an excellent choice for users who need to work on documents, spreadsheets, or presentations – things that are just not well-suited for tablets.

In contrast, the iPad Pro excels at tasks like graphic design, video editing, and gaming. The 12.9-inch model features a beautiful display that's perfect for creating art or watching movies. And with the M1 processor, it has more power than anyone could ever need in a device this small.

Thunderbolt on the iPad Pro takes things even further, offering incredible throughput capability. However, when it comes to software support, the MacBook is still the clear winner.

That being said, there are some situations where an iPad Pro might be the better choice. If you just want the tablet experience in the tablet form factor, then the iPad Pro might be the way to go. And with Center Stage, it's already offering some impressive features that set it apart from other tablets on the market.

The M1 iPad Pro is like a car that has all the horsepower and speed, but can't quite reach its full potential because of software limitations. We need more comprehensive support for this device before we can truly consider it as a viable alternative to a laptop.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endo what's up guys smiles here with 905 mac and if you're a fan of good ideas and intros like that consider subscribing to the channel for future content like this the 11 inch ipad pro was a really interesting device in a lot of ways it's now got an m1 processor thunderbolt connectivity and no mini led display on this model at least not to mention it's running ipad os 14 which has its limits for sure so today we're going to be finding out if the cheapest m1 ipad pro you can get is worth the money but first a word from our sponsor thanks to vectornator for sponsoring nine to five mac on youtube vectornator is an all-in-one illustration ui design and publications app that's available for iphone ipad and mac and linearity has released the next major update to vectornator in version 4.0 which comes with a bunch of new changes and features one of them being the new quick actions feature which allows you to easily access core actions like changing opacity stack order boolean operations and much more you've got support for blend modes you can do ar previews for photos or illustrations you've got built-in joystick controls for precise values and a bunch of hypography tools vectornator also gives you access to iconator which is their library of over 80 000 different icons and thanks to a unified codebase you're getting all the updates on all platforms iphone ipad and mac click the link in the description to download vectornator today the unboxing experience is pretty much identical to last year's ipad pro you've got the tablet itself a usbc charging cable a 20 watt apple charger and of course your apple stickers and just to go over my spec this is the silver 128 gigabyte model and i did not opt for 5g because 5g is well you know 5g since everyone is naturally gravitating towards the larger 12.9 inch model for its mini led display let's talk about the 11 inch models display first and my perspective on this is a little interesting because while i have not yet seen the 12.9 inch model in the flesh i do use a mini led monitor every day in addition to producing hdr content every week so i'm pretty much used to high brightness displays and hdr content in some form this display may not be as bright or as contrasty as the larger 12.9 inch model but it's still so so good on this model you're getting 600 nits of peak brightness and it's not going to blow you away with how bright it is but generally speaking it's more than sufficient for indoor use from what i can tell this display is identical to last year's 11 inch pro so you're still getting the same excellent color reproduction and range that you get with the 20 20 11 inch ipad pro and of course you're still getting that butter smooth 120 hertz display the pros had this feature for years now but it's still so good and compared to the air mini and standard ipad 120 hertz really does enhance the overall experience the smoothness just makes you always want to find a reason to pick it up and start using it overall this display is great for what they're charging for this tablet and if you're still not convinced that you don't exactly need the 12.9 inch models display i can give you a few reasons why firstly the pixel per inch count is the same so the 12.9 inch model won't look any sharper or detailed generally speaking secondly if you're not in a bright room constantly you won't really be utilizing the 1000 peak nits of brightness that the 12.9 inch model has and lastly if you're not constantly watching hdr content which hopefully you are because you know that's what we shoot in then you're not going to be taking advantage of that 1 600 peak nits of brightness all the time but like i said this tablet still got a great display and you shouldn't let all the fancy tech specs get in the way of you making an accurate purchase decision because honestly the majority of people won't be really taking full advantage of the xdr technology the star of the show here is the apple m1 processor in this tablet and last year's model was already wicked fast now it's just too fast when taking a look at geekbench and other benchmarking applications you can tell that the m1 ipad is notably faster than last year's model but with the ipad pro we're kind of past the point of just comparing numbers so i did some tests to see how much better it is for productivity and hardcore work i did some video editing in lumafusion and i only use footage from my camera the one i'm shooting on right now which is 8k and 4k hevc footage and i was quite surprised to see that i can playback footage with literally no stutter or lag and this is definitely something i did not experience with the 2018 or even 2020 ipad pro it couldn't quite handle footage from my camera 100 but now it's smooth sailing i was able to export a 5 minute 4k hdr project consisting of 8k and 4k video files in less than three minutes which is extremely impressive and i'm not sure if you can really ask for a tablet faster than this at this point the only thing left for apple to do now as far as video editing software is release a proper version of final cut pro for the ipad please and thank you i also tested out photo editing on the ipad pro in lightroom and i honestly couldn't tell a difference in performance there may be a slight speed improvement as far as rendering changes but other than that m1 isn't really going to provide a substantially better experience for photo editing than last year's or even 2018 ipad pro so if photo work on the ipad is your thing i wouldn't buy this for any improvements in that area and by my estimation gaming on the new ipad pro is pretty much just as good as it is on the 2021 ipad pro i highly doubt a lot of people are buying this tablet primarily for gaming but there really isn't a noticeable improvement here but that's not a bad thing because last year's model was already great everything loads up and plays stutter free and when you're playing a game that takes advantage of the high frame rate display it's a pretty great experience as far as how m1 affects the battery life well i'm not really sure if i could tell a difference between last year's model and this but on the 2020 pro i was pretty much getting a solid eight hours of screen on time with pretty decent usage and you can expect something very similar here unless you're really pushing it all day every day m1 is just further optimizing the already great battery optimization we had on the models prior some people are looking at the 2021 ipad pros as if they're completely new animals because of this new cpu but you got to remember all the previous models were already running their highest end custom silicon so this processor being inside of the ipad isn't really anything new it's just more and a better version of the same thing but overall performance is great and m1 is killer on this machine thunderbolt 3 or usb4 as it's called is now included in the ipad pro we've already had type c in the ipad pro for years now but we've nearly got double the read and write speeds for transferring data and files at least we should unfortunately there's no app for ipad os we can use to see exactly what speeds we're getting through thunderbolt but based on what i've done it seems to be up to par with the other m1 devices when editing videos in lumafusion i copied videos from an external thunderbolt drive and the video clips were three gigabytes 10 gigabytes even 15 gigabytes apiece and it copied over into the tablet within a minute which is pretty impressive and when importing photos into lightroom all those raw files copied over it in pretty much an instant which is also really helpful for productivity in general thunderbolt on the ipad pro isn't going to be a game changer for the average user but when you're offloading massive amounts of data you will 100 percent see the difference and you'll appreciate it and i've heard the argument that there should be a second thunderbolt port on the ipad pro but with the inclusion of thunderbolt i think a secondary port on the ipad is even less necessary than it would be if it still had usb 3.0 and that's because of the limitations of ipad os there really isn't much you could do with the second port on the ipad compared to just connecting the pro to a thunderbolt dock when apple announced the new pros they mentioned that with thunderbolt the tablet will have the ability to drive the pro display xdr at full 6k resolution so i thought oh so now the ipad will be able to drive all displays at full resolution that's that's great but no that's that's not the case there are certain apps like lumafusion or disney plus that'll unlock that full screen functionality for certain uses but outside of that you're stuck with a 4x3 monitor for everything else even youtube the ipad pro isn't a 16x9 display so i understand that addressing this isn't as easy as clicking a button but for apple i don't think it's too much to ask for this to be resolved especially when it works with their own 16x9 monitor apple it's time this is supposed to be a device for productivity and not being able to utilize a hundred percent of the screen you're working on definitely gets in the way of that also it just looks so weird does anyone else get bothered when they take an ipad pro or any ipad and plug it into a display and just notice these huge black bars on the side doesn't that bother you a really cool and exclusive feature on the ipad pro called center stage allows you to take advantage of the wide-angle selfie camera in an interesting way it'll use digital zoom to track your face around the frame when making face facetime calls and before trying it out for myself i didn't really expect it to impress me that much but i really like the way it works it's not meant to track people moving at highway speeds just smoothly follow you around the room if you're walking around the room or calling with multiple people and i think applications like zoom could really benefit from being able to take advantage of this api and i noticed sometimes the camera can get a bit confused when multiple people are moving around in different directions but outside of that it's a really cool feature and when you go into the camera app and zoom out you can see the totality of all that room you've got and it's a wide boy for sure and one way apple could take this further is just by allowing this feature within the stock camera app for video recording i think it'd make for very dynamic videos outside of the increased 16 gigabytes of ram and two-terabyte storage option and 5g there isn't much else that's really new with this ipad but that's not a bad thing because the ipad pro is the physical representation of bleeding edge tablet technology especially with the 12.9 inch model with the m1 processor you've got more power than you could ever want in a device this small and thunderbolt takes things even further with its throughput capability but the glaring problem here is obviously ipad os there are great pro applications that work very well with the ipad but it still just isn't enough to replace a laptop not yet wwdc is right around the corner and so we're hoping to see something that changes the narrative here as far as software but for now there isn't a real reason to consider this tablet over let's say an m1 macbook unless you just want the tablet experience in the tablet form factor i thought i'd end this video with giving you another m1 to cars analogy the m1 ipad pro is like in a thousand horsepower supercar running on 200 tires it's technically super fast but anytime you try to hammer it you're sliding all over the place you've got all this power that you essentially can't do anything with so hopefully ipad os 15 is the sticky pair of trofeo ours that we've been wanting for the ipad pro ever since it came out because it's a great device all the hardware is there we just need the software to match if you're interested in a more general review of the ipad pro or want to get a good sense of all the features click the pop out banner to check out our 2020 ipad pro review and if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe for future content like this we'll be doing some comparisons between this device and some other products in the apple lineup thanks for watching and i'll talk to you guys in the next one thanks to vectornator for sponsoring 95 mac on youtube vectornator is an all-in-one illustration ui design and publications app that's available for iphone ipad and mac and linearity has released the next major update to vectornator in version 4.0 which comes with a bunch of new changes and features one of them being the new quick actions feature which allows you to easily access core actions like changing opacity stack order boolean operations and much more vectornator also gives you access to iconator which is their library of over 80 000 different icons and thanks to a unified code base you're getting all the updates on all platforms iphone ipad and mac click the link in the description to download vectornator today you\n"