iPad Pro 11 Inch Review: I Work From an iPad Everyday

I've spent the last two years

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ing strictly from an iPad Pro. I previously owned both generations of the twelve-point-nine-

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iPad Pro and love them. I use them for everything, including writing, editing videos, and recording podcasts. I

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with the iPad because it is interesting. I've always enjoyed the platform, the new development and interesting new apps make it an interesting place to do my work, so I don't think everyone needs to work on the iPad, but for those of us who would like to, here there is a different version. In the new iPad, explore Apple's latest offensive, announcing two new professional iPads with a new design.

I decided to go with the 11-

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, 256GB Space Gray model that I've always gotten from the larger iPad, but I was curious to see if I could work with it. the smallest one, I was originally going to go with the one terabyte model, but they were too expensive for me. I was also planning to get the gold version, but Apple stopped making it for these generations. One of my biggest complaints about modern Apple is that Pro devices cost more money and have fewer color options so far. I am very happy with my decision. I feel like the 11-inch model is functional but also extremely portable right out of the box.

It shows that the iPad has been completely redesigned and rethought from the ground up. The smaller iPad pro has gone from ten and a half inches to an eleven inch screen, the bezels, although minimal, give users a good area to hold the device, this really helps prevent accidental touches. Apple likes to call it edge-to-edge display, and at the same time, I don't agree with that description. I see your point, though it is a completely beautiful display. I would say it has more minimalist bezels. The display is called Liquid Retina, although that sounds impressive. Turns out it just means it has rounded corners.

The rounded corners make the device feel more modern, although it looks and feels clearer than any previous iPad screen and for those artists or people who want to edit videos, its color correction and color reproduction will be incredibly accurate. . It's a stunningly beautiful display. The edges now have a flat design. that reminds me of the days of the iPhone 5. This was clearly designed so that the stylus had a place to store and charge it along one of the long edges. When I first saw the design revealed, I was worried that it would make the device uncomfortable to hold, but I found that's not the case, in fact, I really enjoy the design and would love to see this come to the iPhone.

The iPad Pro's speakers have always been good, but they've now been turned up to 11 on this model. They have separate tweeters and subwoofers for much louder and clearer sound overall. They are smaller speakers than the previous generation, but that doesn't degrade them at all. As someone who edits audio, I would feel comfortable just editing these speakers, but don't do it. that person in the coffee shop doing that, Apple's audio team is seriously killing it with these and other products like the home pod on the iPhone. Since the original iPad with the a4 processor, Apple has been making its own custom chips for its iOS devices every year.

They become faster and more capable. This year's 12X chip is no exception. The way we typically measure CPU performance is using deep bench scores. The higher the score, the better the performance, and the scores for the 12 X chip rival some modern Macs, including the. MacBook Pro I've been working on luma fusion and while my previous 2nd gen was good at it, it sometimes had hiccups working with large 4k video timelines, this new iPad pro just runs through them without any hiccups or slowdowns, the Exporting is also much faster and the same goes for editing podcasts. There's nothing that can tug at this iPad to make it feel sluggish.

The chip is awesome and there is no way I can go back to using one of the older iPads because of it. someone who works and lives off an iPad doing creative work, having a fast device is incredibly important to me with these new iPads, Apple said goodbye to the Lightning port on the iPad pro and hello to USB, see if you're already into the Ecosystem iOS, this may be a bit jarring. I had a ton of Lightning cables and accessories and frankly they can no longer be used with the new iPad pro, including the first generation Apple Pencil.

In the new USBC world, it's all about adapters and I've ordered a few. I'm going to do a separate video focusing on the different types of adapters you can plug into this thing because there are so many of them, but for now let's talk about what USB breaks iPad and Lightning doesn't first. Ability to charge devices such as iPhone and Air Pods. I found this incredibly useful the other day when my Air Potts case failed and I wasn't near a charger. I connected my Nintendo Switch to the iPad and the Switch charged the iPad Pro honestly.

I thought it would be the other way around, but I guess that means I have an extra battery case. If my iPad ever dies, the next thing that matters is from a camera. You can connect a camera and the Photos app will open and you can just start importing photos or videos, this also happens when you connect an iPhone using the Lightning USB c2 cable. Many people have been talking about connecting an external monitor since it is a new feature, but it has actually been around for a long time. like you had the right adapter, but what's new is the ability to output 4k at 60 Hertz.

Unfortunately I don't have a 4k screen, but I do have a 27 inch 2560 by 1440 monitor and it looks great. I can only update it to show something different. content on the external display than what's on the iPad, unfortunately apps I use every day, like luma fusion, could benefit from this, but I haven't updated them to support it. I hope you soon see external monitor support as something of a fad right now. I think if Apple made a monitor that was created for the iPad aspect ratio had touch inputs and could tilt that would be a game changer or Apple could just add mouse support and that would make any monitor work well with the iPad if you are going to buy a monitor.

Specifically for connecting to the iPad, I recommend making sure the app you use is compatible at first. This is a hardware

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, but I can't help but wish the iPad at least had another USB C port. I think with two ports we would be able to use the adapters we need, be it a headphone jack, USB, an SD card reader , HDMI, whatever and also being able to charge at the same time, I don't think we'll see two ports on the iPad pro anytime soon, but I did get it. I think it would be great. I would also like to see the iPad Pro have external storage support now that we have USB.

It would be very trivial for Apple to add external storage support to the Files app. I'm happy. to see USB C coming to the iPad pro, especially before the iPhone, to me this is Apple saying it's a real computer ready to be the center of attention, the headphone jack has now been removed from these devices Apple says which has to do with the liquid Retina display and not having enough space for the port. I wish they could have found some way to keep it. My workflow really benefited from having it, especially when it came time to record a podcast.

I think most people will be fine as they have been transitioning. Wireless headphones anyway as phones have been missing those ports for years for me although I wish it had stayed with the battery life on this computer is crazy when I first bought it I didn't put it down and still 2 days left until I needed to charge it. I was able to record an entire episode of a slab of glass, which takes about 2 to 2 and a half hours with the screen on the entire time. I only used about 20% of the battery, with a Skype call in the background Google Docs and Safari open Apple stopped giving exact numbers for how long the battery should last and started saying it lasts all day, but I found that It's even better than the keyboard for this generation of iPad pro.

Apple now calls it a folio case, which means it covers both the back and the front. I like this because it has better support for the iPad and you don't have to do any weird origami to undo the keyboard, that feels too. much better on your lap since it's a solid piece, the old one because the base wasn't solid it just fell over on my lap all the time. This new one looks like I can use it like a traditional laptop, it's sturdy and won't fall. down in the short term, this is helped by the fact that the cover piece is all one solid piece.

The only thing I will say is that this was Apple's opportunity to make the case colored. This thing by default seems boring. It's black plastic. I added some stickers to it. mine to make it look a little more personal, but it would have been nice to have some colors now that we've gone over what's new and what's different, let's talk about the iPad for work first, first the small iPad pro versus the large iPad pro. The biggest software difference between the two is the fact that you can display full-screen iPad apps side by side on the large one, but the small one can only display full-screen iPhone app versions of those apps one by one. side by side.

It's still there, you only see what you would on the iPhone, so the layout may be a little different. I don't think this is a big deal for most people the week I've been using the smaller one it's been completely fine and Honestly I keep forgetting that this is the case. I think in general, if you're going to do a lot of multitasking, the big ones will be better if you travel a lot, move around at work, go to meetings, work on the couch, or really anything else. Desk area This is where the smaller iPad Pro excels.

It's great for being super portable but at the same time it's a very capable machine. I love the 11 inch iPad pro. It's a great machine to throw in a bag and take to a coffee shop at work. I'm like the 12.9, it's very easy to hold with one hand while I'm sitting on the couch and working on the next shortcut, which I'll do a video on, but I think if you're someone who primarily uses the iPad and spends most of it. of your day working at a desk, you will benefit greatly if you get the biggest one for me.

I feel like I'm constantly hunched over the 11 inch model while sitting at a desk and until we get the western style tablets where they can be unfolded and made bigger. I think the larger iPad is a better option for someone like me who works at a desk a lot. Now I'm not getting rid of my 11-inch iPad Pro. It's my favorite computer I've ever had. I like it. the ability to work with it anywhere, the twelve point nine inch one is too big or uncomfortable to work with primarily on the couch, so I'm probably going to use both.

I know it may sound a little excessive, but I spend a lot of time. Time with these and the 11 inch works really very well in some cases and the twelve point nine inch for me will be my desktop machine, the workhorse. The 11 inch is a sort of backup computer that I can use to retweet and play games via RSS. create shortcuts and do some jobs that don't really require a much larger screen. I would also like to have a second iPad by my side while working this way. I can reference any previous notes or videos I need to resolve. almost like having two monitors and plus if we get a ton of new features in iOS 13 I know I'll want a test machine because putting a beta on your iPad is not a good idea, something that seems to be happening more and more on Pro. apps are coming to the iPad at the iPad event we saw Photoshop being shown off and it was really cool, it really is the full Photoshop.

I'm going to brush up on my Photoshop skills so I can show it to you when it arrives. All these great third-party pro raps are coming out, but we don't have pro apps from Apple yet. I really hope to see the logical final cut and Xcode arrive on the iPad soon. A big area of ​​contention has been the iPad operating system. many

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ers call it a big iPhone and the fact that you can't really do real work on the iPad seems like they are forgetting about features like drag and drop image multitasking and dock images and that's okay because I'm partially According to them, the iPad needs more robust features for many people.

I hear it mentioned all the time that there is no native way to handle zip files and that the best solution is a shortcut, but many people don't want to. to create a shortcut every time they encounter an obstacle. I would also love to see the ability to support external storage come to the iPad and also the ability to have two windows of the same app side by side. I think that isto come, but I think it's completely unfair to say that you can't do real work on the iPad just because you can't do work on it.

Every day I hear from people who work 100% with the iPad and it's great to hear these stories in this video. It was also produced 100% on the iPad. I wrote the script in drafts, recorded the vo and ferrite, imported the video into photos, then ran a shortcut to move those videos to the files app and removed them from the Photos app and then used luma fusion to edit. All this together for almost two years, every one of my videos has been produced with the iPad, so I think it's ready for the real work, but it's not done yet.