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hey guys this is Austin this is the 2018 iPad and at $330 it seems like the one to get however there's always the question is it worth it take a look at the box and it looks like well every other iPad ever flip it over though and what you're going to see is that it is called the 6th generation iPad because you know iPad 6 doesn't have the right ring to it really what this is this is the lower end iPad that slots below not only the iPad Mini which for some reason is still around but also the iPad pro so Apple actually announced this at their education event just a couple days ago and the main idea with this is that the iPad at least on the lower end is trying to be a Chromebook competitor now for schools I get why Chromebooks are so popular and there are some advantages to the iPad especially the pencil support which we'll get into in a few minutes however whether this is actually a good ideas a little bit more questionable open it up and we see it looks exactly like every other iPad ever so if this looks a little bit familiar to you that is because actually really haven't changed the design on this guy for quite a while so previously they did have a lower end $330 iPad and as far as I can tell hardware-wise it is completely identical inside we're going to be getting our paperwork which I'm sure it's gonna include stuff like Apple stickers and other things that you're never gonna want to actually use we do have the USB to lightning cable as well as the power adapter which this guy is going to be 12 Watts which is actually still a little bit slow for something like an iPad it actually was going to take a while to charge but I mean sorry you bought a $300 I had I just imagine Tim Cook in his office like yeah sorry if you wanted to actually charge in less than three hours you're just gonna have to you know buy an iPad pro and a lightning to USB C cable and a macbook charger because money so for some context this is the 2017 ipad which is exactly what this is going to be replacing now this is actually something that we use pretty much every day around the office so while we're shooting we'll usually put like notes up on this or use it to look up specs and that kind of stuff and if I put this side-by-side with the 2018 iPad you're going to see it they look completely identical besides well the different colors one of my main complaints against the 2017 iPad is that there's actually a kind of fairly large air gap with the display so it is still going to be a nine point seven inch Retina display and it looks fine when you look at it directly head-on however unlike the higher-end iPad pros which have a laminated display which makes it look like it's pretty right on the glass take a look at this at any kind of angle and you're going to see it the screen looks like it's sunken in now unfortunately if you take a look at the 2018 iPad it has the exact same screen finally you look at it dead-on if you look at it from the side it definitely looks like there's a huge air gap one of the big upgrades with the new iPad is going to be on the inside so where's the last generation model use the Apple a9 processor from the iPhone 6s this bumps up to the Apple a10 from the iPhone 7 still not going to be super cutting edge but it's fast to the iPhone 7 and it's fast here on the iPad take a look at the Geekbench results and it's pretty much identical to the iPhone which is well a solid thing I mean this is a $300 iPad one thing you should keep in mind though is that this still only has 2 gigs of RAM now for normal apps that's going to be no problem and it does support a lot of the same multitasking features as the bigger iPads however you cannot actually get 3 apps up at the same time like on an iPad pro and of course to show off the power of the iPad we have fortnight so this runs really well on a wide range of hardware and the idea that we do have that Apple a10 processor actually does make a pretty big difference you're running it quite on the same level as something like the iPhone 10 but it still looks really nice for a lot of apps you're actually not going to notice a huge difference with the Apple 810 it's going to be snappier for sure but it's not like a revolutionary difference but considering that this is going to be a 300 hour iPad every little bit of extra performance is going to be helpful and of course one of the biggest things to consider is how long this is going to be having updates how long it's going to actually be supported by apps and having that newer processor does make a difference especially when you're using this three four five years from now it's so we're playing this on an iPad I mean it totally works but man I think with this bigger screen I really wish I did have a controller before they actually add that controller support at some point so the screen is decent like I was saying earlier it doesn't quite match the iPad pro but I mean come on for 300 bucks I don't think you're really going to be complaining now some other areas that it doesn't match the iPad pro end is with audio quality so you do have stereo speakers but they're both on the bottom so they sound decent but I mean you can cover them both with one hand but it's going to be totally fine for casual video watching another new feature of the iPad is going to be Apple pencil support which weirdly up until now has been held back to the iPad pro now it works exactly as you'd expect so you can use it to navigate the interface or you can actually use it to do drawing and typing if I can actually hit the correct thing so if I want to just write out a simple note here it actually is gotta look pretty decent so the only thing this is missing is the promotion display from the iPad pro so that actually does help cut down latency by running the screen at 120 Hertz as opposed to 60 but for most people I think there's gonna be totally fine for writing notes and that kind of thing no one-size the new iPad were a couple of other accessories but the mostly aimed at the education market which i think is kind of the main market that Apple is sort of aiming for with the iPad so so many schools right now are using Chromebooks and I think for most schools the Chromebooks make more sense I mean it's a proper laptop you have a keyboard whereas with this guy you know if you unplug your Apple pencil what you're gonna find is no smart connector so you can't even use the same keyboards as the iPad pro you're going to have to rely on something that's going to be either using bluetooth or you're just gonna have to use something over lightning which is just not an elegant solution sure you can get some typing down on the actual touch screen but I think for most kids you can want an actual keyboard now software wise of course we are running iOS 11 now there are pros and cons here I actually do think that Iowa's 11 was a pretty major update to the iPad so you get some things like I actually have the doc you have the multitasking which all works well here but again it's fine as an iPad as something that's going to replace a computer for some people it's fine but for a lot of people it's not quite there yet I actually think the 2018 iPad is worth it now sure you can get extra features and bigger screen sizes with the iPad pro but it around twice the price on some of the SKUs I don't think it's gonna be worth it for most people this is going to do pretty much everything you need even though it might not be the most exciting update in the world and of course the real question is whether you need an iPad in the first place though and that one's kind of on you but I'm curious what do you think about the 2018 iPad let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one