Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “New Apple iPad 2018 hands-on”.
Hey this is Dan Siebert with the verge, and we are here in a high school in Chicago and what we’re looking at is the new iPad from Apple now this is available to both consumers and students. It replaces the old nine point: seven inch iPad, so this has a nine point: seven inch screen and there’s a couple of new features with it. Internally. It’S got the Apple, a 10x processor and then it has support for the Apple pencil which I’ll talk about in a minute, but otherwise it is basically the same iPad that we’ve become familiar with over the past couple of years. Again, it’s a nine point. Seven inch screen it has touch ID on the home button. Here you got speaker on the bottom, of course, your lightning port front facing camera rear facing camera.
Of course, this model is an LTE equipped one. So it’s got the panel here and, of course, your Apple logo, very straightforward. There’S nothing really new in terms of the design here it is very much an iPad, but it is a little bit faster than the one that was released last year. Thanks to that new processor, and then of course, the big new thing, especially for consumers and educators alike, is the support for the Apple pencil. This is the first time that the Apple pencil has worked with an iPad outside of the pro line, so you can use the pencil, of course, to navigate things, but one of the things that they’ve been showing off here is new iWork suite and one of the New ones is keynote here: you can create presentations and draw and animate them with the pencil. So, even if you are creating a presentation – and you make a drawing on there – you can actually, let’s get to my drawing this – is I apologize? It’S really bad, but there’s my plant growing up out of the soil there, which I drew with the pencil just a couple of minutes ago. So of course, and then it’ll class works with all of the other Apple pencil supported apps. So you can use it to take notes, you can use it to draw, you can use it with any other app.
That’S uses the Apple pencil. The pencil is not included in it. However, it does cost $ 99 extra, which hasn’t changed. It’S not missile, surprise. It looks like an iPad. It feels like an iPad.
It acts like an iPad. It is very much very much an iPad. It’S nice to have the faster processor, it’s going to be a little bit snappier than last year’s model. Of course, the support for the Apple pencil is great. I really would have liked to have seen this our connector here, a lot of the demos that Apple showed off during its presentation, we’re showing off things that were, you were creating for classes and things like that, and they require a lot of typing now. Logitech is making a case for this, which is like a rugged keyboard case which will sell separately.
But it would be great to have the smart connector, because then you can use a smart keyboard, which is a lot slimmer and easier to use with the iPad. But otherwise you know it’s an iPad. That’S really all there is to say about it. It’S going to be available at the same price as the last year’s model.
It’S $ 329 for consumers $ 299 for educators to get a little bit of a discount, and it’s gon na be available this week for more on the new iPad and all the other stuff that Apple announced today at its event here in Chicago, be sure to Check out the Virg calm and subscribe to youtube.com slash The Verge .