Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPad Pro and iPad Air 2024 (Review): Apple’s Fanciest iPads Aren’t Macs Yet”.
I’Ve got the 2024 iPad Air and iPad Pro and apple pencil Pro. Can these crush the MacBook? Let’S find out? What are you doing? I’M crushing the iPads into a MacBook Air, the 2024 iPad Pro is here and the 2024 iPad Air and they have a lot of new features, but they’re still different than the MacBook Apple has two different lineups and making. That decision is no easier in many ways than it was back in 2022, but there are a whole bunch of features on the new iPad Pro that I like. It’S got a really nice display. It’S got a brand new processor and a bunch more, and I would like to use that as my everyday computer.
If Apple, Let Me by putting Mac OS on it, the thinner design of the iPad Pro means it’s a little better in a bag. I wouldn’t say it’s shockingly different, but it’s definitely the thinnest device that Apple’s ever made, and it looks it especially when you hold it on its own outside of the case when you hold it in your hand, it feels light and it feels like half a laptop. You know like the lid of a laptop, just kind of suspended in my hand, but everything’s in here. It may not be a big deal for a lot of people, but also you’d want to make sure you want to coddle it because it feels like it could be pretty delicate and you’d be putting in it a case, particularly maybe Apple’s magic keyboard case, in which Case it does get thicker, but the overall weight now feels similar to a MacBook Air. The processor inside the iPad Pro is totally new, an M4 processor that looks like it’s a step ahead of where the Macs are right.
Now we’re checking out the speeds on this right now, but it looks super fast apple is upgrading some of its core apps, including Logic Pro 2 and Final Cut Pro 2. We got to play with Logic Pro 2, which has some AI generated session players that gave a little taste of the type of performance that you can get on M series chips. Let me add a uh keyboard and then we’re going to be ready to.
You know release this to the world about the IP Pro in 2024. The display is also new and right now it’s really really nice. It’S a tandem, OLED display Apple calls it an ultra retina xdr. This uses the power of two OLED displays to provide an extra boost in brightness and HDR contrast.
Levels. Apple hasn’t made an OLED display on an iPad before so. This is a welcome addition to the iPad Pro lineup Samsung’s done this for years, but on the iPad. It looks great you’re going to have to pay up to get it.
It is the type of display that I’d want to see across Apple’s Entire Computer lineup. Of course, that would probably also mean spending more money for it. I won’t say it’s necessary for all people, because Apple’s existing iPad displays those LCD liquid retina displays still look really good for most uses. I mean, if you’re doing HDR and you want a faster refresh rate or you’re doing Graphics, work, you’ll notice.
The difference, though, the other thing that is different on these iPads is the camera position, there’s a a front-facing camera now on the landscape Edge. Finally, that took a long time for this to happen. The 10th gen iPad has this too, so does the iPad Air, but the camera quality is better than my MacBooks. So now this feels like my go-to camera, that I’d want to use for media hits or zooms or anything else, hey Bridget hi. This is from my phone. You look sharp like this is the best camera like I’ve seen in the iPad.
There is one thing that’s missing, though, there’s no second camera. On the back of the iPad Pro now there have been two cameras before now. It’S down to one rear, camera plus lar, which does depth scanning for AR, and things like that. I don’t really miss it, because I’m not shooting video on my iPad, but some people might have been and they might feel frustrated by not having that extra lens in there. Two other important things to keep in mind if you’re shopping for an iPad Pro the 12.9. In model might seem like the best version for watching movies, but the aspect ratio is different.
It’S more Square, so you’re going to get more letter boxing. Just keep that in mind. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to get all more movie screen in there. Another thing to keep in mind is that, depending on how much you spend you get different processing power Apple sent me for a review, the higher-end versions of the iPad Pro and iPad Air 13in, which have extra Ram extra processing cores.
I don’t know what the entry level models feel like performance-wise in comparison, but keep that in mind, because that same thing also happens with Apple’s MacBook lineup. The iPad Air feels really familiar. That’S because again Apple takes the iPad Pro Models from the past and basically redesigns them a little bit into what becomes the airline later on, and so I’m getting a lot of deja vu with the 2022 iPad Pro. When I look at the air, there’s never been a 13-in iPad Air Model before so.
If somebody wanted a really large canvas to work on it’s nice that that’s now available at a lower price, but keep in mind, you can often get older model iPads all over the place and iPad Pros for sale prices. So you have to compare against which one might actually be the better deal. It’S not mini LED this time, so, unlike the 2022 iPad Pro, which did have mini LED providing better contrast and black levels, this is just a standard liquid Retina Display. Luckily, Apple’s liquid retina displays already look really good for most purposes.
Maybe if you are doing HDR work, you might not find it as up to task as you’d like there are a couple of things that are left out of the iPad Air versus the iPad Pro there’s no liar on the back. A lot of people are not going to miss that there’s no face ID on the front. Instead, there’s touch um. There’S a fingerprint sensor right over here Touch ID same as the 10th generation iPad and the iPad Mini.
Some people might prefer that, but a lot of the other things feel pretty similar. The iPad Air is compatible with most of the iPad Pro older keyboard accessories, although the thickness of this is slightly different, so your mileage might vary there again, though it doesn’t work with the pencil 2 you’re going to need the pencil Pro or the USBC pencil. There are a lot of pencils out there.
We we’re going to take a look at what the new pencil Pro can do. The pencil Pro looks exactly like the pencil 2. It’S the same design, same nib everything else.
We don’t have a lot of apps that are compatible with the iPad uh pencil pro at the moment, but um right now we’re looking at it on free form. There are two new tricks it can do. One has to do with the brush. You know you can see here that there’s a hover feature, but if you lift it up off the uh Edge, you can rotate the brush and with the gyroscope that little trick. I think it’s useful for art, where you can basically pick a you know, an angle for the brush or Al.
You know rotate the brush. The other thing you can do with this is uh. There’S a squeeze gesture with haptics. When you end up squeezing the barrel, it brings up a new little curvy menu that you can pick tools from and you can hover over them and pick them and there’s a little bit of uh feedback like a little tap feedback. When you squeeze the barrel that wasn’t there before, but it’s not giving haptics when you draw and it’s it’s not doing any other things, it’s really just that one little bit of feedback double tap is still there. But then it’s Additionally, the squeeze, which is a little weird. You cannot pair the pencil Pro to a previous one, which maybe is not surprising, but what is a little more surprising is you cannot put a pencil 2 on the iPad Pro or air either.
There’S no connection message: you basically have to get a whole new pencil. If you do get one of these models, the iPad Air and the iPad Pro prices can start high and go even higher. The iPad Air starts at either $ 600 or $ 800, with 128 GB of storage. The iPad Pro starts at ,000 or $ 1,300 for the 11 and 13in, with 256 gbes of storage, but the configurations that Apple sent me along with the accessories are like this.
For the iPad Air you’re talking for a 512 GB of storage model $ 1,099 $ 150 extra for cellular $ 129 for the pencil Pro and $ 349 for the magic keyboard, that’s $ 1,727. Meanwhile, the iPad Pro you’ve got an $ 1,899 1 tbte configuration $ 200 extra for the cellular $ 129 for pencil Pro and $ 349 for the magic keyboard that is $ 2,577. That is an expensive iPad. My mom called me the other day after Apple’s iPad reveal and asked me which iPad should she buy because she’s way overdue, and I decided to her get the 10th generation iPad with 256 GB of storage. I didn’t even bring up these new models. Why? Because a lot of people just want a basic iPad that works, that basic model iPad is kind of like the MacBook Air, in that it’s the everyday device that I still think does most of the things that we’re talking about here perfectly fine Apple actually has two Stepup lines, though, after that, unlike the MacBook Air, which then goes to the MacBook Pro you’ve got the iPad Air, which is kind of like a pro model, because it has a better chip and extra features.
And you know nicer specs and then you’ve got the iPad Pro, which is almost like a iPad Ultra or a pro pro, which has the OLED display an even better chip and a few nicer extra tweaks, and they both work with new pencils. And neither one of these is a Mac now if these also ran Mac OS, maybe that could be a refr day, computer Apple’s so close to that these things feel like Max, but with touch screens and pencils. Maybe Apple will announce this at WWDC, although I say that every year, but it feels like it’s getting so close I mean I can cross my eyes and look at the MacBook Air and iPad Pro and see kind of the same computer in two different forms. Apple is still keeping them separate, but I think they need to converge. I think we’re getting there and it would make the decision to get an iPad Pro at this price, a lot more pal. So there we go iPads 2024, though this may only be step one.
There could be a more affordable iPad and iPad Mini later on in the year. If you have questions or comments, leave them below and as always, thanks for watching .