Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPad Pro M1 Final Review”.
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I love you so my lick, let’s call it relationship with the ipad has been complicated. I think when it first came out like everybody i’m like that’s a big phone, i don’t need that and then, when they forked the os and got ipad os like this is it. This is finally the path to make the ipad be a pc replacement, and then i bet it was just a giant phone os with a different name, but now that apple’s taking the wraps off ipad os 16, this year’s wwdc i’m more excited about the ipad than I have ever been as we’re finally starting to see it transition to its full potential.
It’S like you can see it like you’re. Looking at your kid. Finally, do that thing you knew they could always do, but is it finally there or are we still waiting for the m2 ipad pro to finally take us to that next level, so big caveat here, ipad, os 16 is not out to general public.
Yet, as of the making of this video – and i do think, i need to bring up and talk about the new changes that are coming to ipad os, the ipad os 16 and ultimately, how that’s going to affect this particular m1 ipad pro. So when it comes to the ipad at least to me, it’s always been the story of software not living up to just the ball or hardware. That is there, but with ipad os 16 sort of makes me look at how i interact with it very differently and sort of how i’ve used interacted with the m1 ipad pro. This entire year has been more or less same as i used every other ipad. Didn’T matter really what processor was in it? I used it to answer emails and write emails. I write scripts and notes on it and videos and facetime with friends and family, but primarily it’s a media consumption device. That’S mostly what i’m using it for them, laying in bed watching obi-wan or the boys. Whatever else i want to watch on youtube to kind of wind at the end of the day, and while it’s been amazing for all of those things, it’s never really been. What i think it always wanted to be what apple tried to make it be more of a computer, so apple announced stage manager which gives sort of a little more of a traditional mac os feel, and so they also added more support for external monitors, although even Just the idea of like docking an ipad to a monitor still seems just internally weird to me, but i do think that we’re finally getting much closer to the software leading up to the hardware and because the fact that there’s an m1 chip inside of this thing, It’S nuts, the ipad was never slow the year before and it wasn’t slow the year before that, but apple keeps upgrading the internals at least making me believe they’ll. Let us do more with it and i kind of feel like they’re finally starting to take positive steps towards that previous years. It was just like speed for speed sake. The ipad never seemed slow, but now it’s 80 times faster you’re, like okay, twitter, launches fast on it or youtube launches quickly or you know, obi-wan looks great, but i would have looked on the exact same stuff on a two-year-old ipad pro and listen even with the Rumors of this m2 ipad pro coming, magsafe charging glass back whatever else they do sort of the upgrades they’re going to flash in front of you at the keynote there’s nothing that this m1 ipad pro won’t be able to do to run from ipad os 16 that The m2 ipad pro will be able to do just from a software standpoint, especially if you’re taking ipad os 16 out of the equation right now, because technically it’s not out yet we have with ipad os 15.
um the m1 ipad pro as it stands. Right now is almost too powerful for its own good, but that’s not to say it’s perfect, even if we’re adding in ipad os 16 to the conversation all right. So that’s the the future um, but since the m1 ipad pro came in all honesty, i have noticed almost no difference from the previous generation ipad pro on how i used it everything i do works just the same, i’m not that impressed that when i’m on a Facetime call and i move the camera moves with me. It’S that’s fine.
I don’t generally think about it. Uh, i’m also not using my ipad as a replacement for apc sort of things like files, app and sort of a lot of apps that i use are still better like as of now in a desktop environment. So i’m still very much using both for different purposes. When i need to reply to emails, when you do some more work stuff, it’s fine and it works, but for the most part i don’t know as much of a difference save for watching hdr content on the mini led display.
That is very noticeable and looks very incredible, but again, the last year screen was still pretty good. Battery life is still a bit incredible for me. I still love the way.
This thing feels the way it performs. I think software is holding it back from its max potential, but i guess i can’t be mad at it. I knew what it was and what it did when i bought it and for those things, especially on the consumption side of stuff, i mean the ipad is still just an absolute beast of a computer so hold on.
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For me, proapps is a new like high res display, like i’m gon na, be out there with my umbrella, saying it’s gon na rain today and we’re gon na get it this year in one year it’s gon na rain. I’M gon na look like a genius, so i do still think it’s coming, but just head scratchers to win so one thing that has changed a little bit over the year that i started using uh. The ipad more with is actually xcloud, so i’m sort of using it to sort of do cloud gaming on as a display for that that’s been awesome.
Being able to take my xbox games with me anywhere. I am is still incredible and seems like the future, and in no way is that unique uh to the m1 ipad, but it’s well. I’Ve changed how i’ve used the ipad, i’m using it more. I love that. That’S a thing that sort of gets me so excited for technology, but using the ipad is just a window to the internet.
It is still as good still is great, and this past update the m1 update is still kind of forgettable. Ipad 16 is obviously going to evolve as as it gets better and as their betas come out, features get released and i imagine when the m2 ipad comes will probably see more features get added, but i don’t think even with the current version of ipad os 169. It is a pc replacement for a lot of people, but for those that can live within its constraints that just need to reply to emails.
Watching videos don’t need a full fleshed out sort of file system. Then yeah, i think, for for college students or professionals who just want to be able to take something light and easy with them on the go. It still works for that, but it’s also still a far cry from a desktop os. So i mean honestly, my opinions from when it first came out are still pretty valid.
Today, it’s great at what it does battery life is still awesome like i haven’t, dropped it or anything to have to worry about durability or anything like that. Um, it’s held up great. It’S held up. Well, it’s as fast now as it was.
When i first got it it’s great. It’S an ipad like you know exactly what you’re getting and thus far there have been no surprises uh when it comes to the ipad. So if you want a device that is not going to overwhelm you with uh crazy pro features, but it’s going to do the things that it does really incredibly well. The m1 ipad pro is still an awesome choice. If you’re the kind of person that’s like ooh.
Damn rumors seem pretty juicy. I want mag save charging. I want to see what comes next. I want to see if m2 brings pro apps maybe exclusively to it, then at this point just wait or find a great discount on an m1 ipad pro.
I love it. I’M so happy that i bought it, but if i didn’t do this for a job, i would have been very happy with my now two-year-old ipad pro. Instead, .