Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and today I'm going to compare what are arguably two of the most important tablets all right now the brand new iPad pro versus the surface pro this might seem like a weird comparison but they line up surprisingly well not even counting that they came out looking like a couple days of each other so to start with we have the 2017 version of the surface pro so they actually hooked us up with the review unit early which is funny because it has not packaged for retail sale on the box so I'm going to bust it anyway because that's what I do so the service pro as far as hardware wise should be very very similar to the surface pro 4 they've made it a couple of small feet mostly like smoothing out corners and whatnot but the hardware itself of the dimensions are pretty much unchanged inside we have what should be the power adapter so these are our surface laptop video you know that not only is this adapter magnetic which is kind of cool but it also has a USB port on it next we had the iPad pro 12 point 9 inch again another new product and again something that actually really hasn't changed much since the previous generation at least on the outside side here we have yet again pretty straightforward so this is the actual iPad itself and silver we also have the lightning cable some Apple paperwork as well as the very very small power adapter the problem is this is a tiny 12 watt adapter so compared to the 44 watt power cable for the actual surface this takes forever to charge a big iPad like this it still always surprised me a little bit when I touch one of these iPads because it is just so huge I mean look at this this is an iPad feel like it's a actually is it bigger than the surface oh yeah the surface is actually smaller than the iPad which I guess makes sense to 12.3% of twelve point nine inch display but Wow one area where the surface definitely does have an advantage is with ports so again like the surface laptop we have the magnetic surface connector which can be used not to power it but also for the dock we also have a full size USB 3 port mini display there's also a headphone jack on this side and you pop open the kickstand inside of here is a tiny little micro SD card slot the iPad has a lightning connector and a headphone jack so for basic tablet use this is fine when it comes to say connecting a USB device or wanting to use a second display the surface wins hands down so they all going for this service is the cake stand so not only will have stand up by itself right out of the box but the kickstand is also very adjustable so pretty much all the way flat you bring it up and it'll stop anywhere along the way it does add a lot of flexibility with the ice ahead you pretty much have to have a cover or a keyboard to get it to stand up by itself that is where the smart keyboard comes in so like earlier versions all does just snap-on with magnets to the side of the iPad and then once you fold it out get yourself a pretty decent keyboard that's going to be attached to the iPad so it only does the iPad now support quite a few different keyboard shortcuts so I can open up something like spotlight I can actually command tabs go between different apps and the keyboard itself is finished full-size and it feels easy to type on the issue is there's very little travel it really does not measure up to something like a proper laptop keyboard by comparison the surface type cover feels a lot better this has actual key travel so this actually makes a big difference and not only is this a full layout with backlighting which the iPad is not it also has a trackpad so well yes the trackpad is not super necessary on something with a touchscreen I find I use with touchscreen about like 80% of the time or so but sometimes it's nice to be able to reach down and just be able to mouse over to something the issue is that none of these actually come with their keyboards so the tight cover for the surface is going to run you 130 or 160 for this Alcantara version and the smart keyboard for the iPad pro is a hundred and seventy dollars which is a shame because you really do need the keyboards to get the most out of these devices one area you can't complain about with these tablets are the displays so the surface pro is rocking a twelve point three inch panel with a resolution of 27 36 by 18 24 this pixels this display looks phenomenal no one looking at the surface display is going to be disappointed but the issue is the iPad screen is just better not only does the iPad have a bigger twelve point nine inch display with a resolution of 2732 by 2048 but it also has some cool features such as true tones who adjust the white balance depending on what room you're in it gets really bright with 600 nits of brightness but what blows all that away is promotion what that means is that the iPad pro has a 120 Hertz refresh rate display now that's one that you find on stuff like high-end gaming monitors and it most awesome in person so in video it's a little bit harder to show but the animations are incredibly fluid and also more important than that it feels super super responsive hey guys lonstein this is the fairphone 2 and it is a fully modular smartphone the speakers on the iPad pro are also top-notch so actually has four speakers so there's going to be one on each corner and combined it sounds better than a lot of laptop hey guys Boston this is the fairphone 2 and it is a fully modular smartphone the surface actually does sound pretty good as well so there's two front-facing speakers but compared to the iPad it's just not as loud all models of the iPad pro now come with the Apple a 10 X this is a monster of a processor with six cores three performance and three low power cores paired with four gigabytes of RAM it is a lot for an iPad the surface comes with quite a few different configurations so not only can you get it with a core m3i 5 or i7 processor that also has 4 8 and 16 gigabyte ram options both the core m3 and i-5 models are going to be fanless just like the iPad but regardless of which surface you pick up they're all going to be dual core chips based on the new Intel KB like process now that's cool but on paper the iPad has a big core count advantage run them through deep bench and results are surprising so not only is the iPad faster when you consider single core scores but on the multi-threaded side it is significantly faster than the surface now this is a Core i5 processor it's not even the base model and yet the iPad pro is still faster that is impressive also Intel is probably really scared right now all the power in the world doesn't mean much without software to take advantage of it so the iPad pro ships with iOS 10 so it is not bad things like split view really make multitasking a lot more doable on the iPad however what's really going to change things is iOS 11 so at first glance it looks fairly similar but just like my wardrobe change there's a lot going on into the HUD so Sam what browsing I want to pull up the file menu all I do is swipe up from the bottom tap it and then drag it off to the side and I get my normal split view which I can then just readjust I'd like or if I want I can shrink it back down if I pull down from the top it becomes a floating window so I'm still being able to scroll in Safari but I can also just toss this off to the side and do whatever I need to get done this way you can get up to 3 apps on screen at once now it's not perfect so since this is the very first data things are not quite as smooth as they could be but this goes a long way making the iPad feel a lot more usable on the other hand the surface of course is running Windows 10 Pro now Windows 10 has actually seen some pretty major upgrade to the last couple years I've got to say I am impressed with how much you can do on the iPad with iOS 11 one area where I have no complaints with battery life so the iPad pro like pretty much every iPad ever is quoted at 10 hours of battery life whereas the service actually can go all the way up to 13 hours regardless you should easily be able to take these for a full day of use without needing the charger both also have solid stylus support so the surface pro has an all new surface pen which is supposedly a lot faster and when I try it recently actually does feel pretty solid however the Apple pencil on the new iPad pro is stupid fast it really does feel nearly one-to-one the surface pro is definitely the safe choice it's a great Windows PC that just happens to be a tablet the iPad has a terrific display it's super fast and I always love is actually pretty good but it might not be for everyone so what do you guys think about these tablets which one would you pick up let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one