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all right hit me it's the fastest iPad ever it's got more RAM than ever before but in all seriousness we all know that I wouldn't be here at the zoo with my poor family in tow yes whoa hi with Hagrid from radical Raptors hanging out with me these guys are super cool they let me put the owl in the video freaking awesome and of course Dennis who drove over here from the office if this was just another faster iPad no no this is so game-changing that I felt compelled to pull again poor Dennis out here to the zoo to go for a walk with me and talk about how it is going to change the mobile device industry so without further ado then let's go do that and or wait actually here Dylan you can have your bird back the be quiet dark BassPro 900s modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn more it's not really a secret that I've never been a huge fan of this category of product back when Apple released the first iPad I denounced it as as an uncharitable device and what I mean by that is that if it was smaller then I could put it in my pocket and I wouldn't have to carry a daypack and if I was you know oh I don't know at the zoo for example and I did have a bag well it's not functional enough for me to not just bring a laptop I mean to be clear I'm not calling the category useless I use my iPad 2 all the time it's just that for the aforementioned reasons I don't go out with it and everything that I do on it can still be done on ipad 2 whether that's watching movies on Netflix when somebody's on the TV or whether that's shopping on Amazon or giving to my daughter to you know kill some time while daddy takes a nap or whatever the case may be like I have no temptation to be out there taking stabilized 4k video because it has the same camera as the iPhone 7 and I think this is something that Apple themselves has acknowledged not directly but by maintaining this iPad pro category of product and by releasing earlier this year the iPad the most commodity product that I think we've seen from Apple in quite some time like it's it doesn't give you that Apple premium feels it's like cost down so that every student in the classroom can afford one okay so yeah we get the point the category is not particularly exciting so then why gets so amped up is it the speed compared to the last iPad CPUs what 30% faster GPUs 40% faster it's got four gigs of RAM more than ever before on an iOS device no with the tablet between so many of the services you use the in cloud-based where the processing can be offloaded from the device and the fact that the user interface on a tablet is so much more often my bottleneck when I'm trying to do something compared to the processing of the device that's not what gets my motor humming at all okay what about the size then the size is different from previous iPad pros at ten and a half inches it's kind of in between nine point seven and thirteen or whatever it was but even there I'm going to go with no so yes the bezels on a large iPad are now a lot more like the bezels on the iPad Mini which which is something new and something different sort of because it's different for the iPad but not different from the rest of the industry I mean the the race - you know infinity edges and bezel less devices is well underway and Apple is hardly leading the charge even with this kind of screen to bezel ratio but we are getting closer because the thing that I'm really excited about is actually the screen and no I mean okay the the color the DCI p3 wide color gamut the 600 nits peak brightness and the capybara okay I am I am going to be a pad whole and I'm going to take a picture of the capybara look at that it's like a great big tailless rat I'm not that excited about HDR because there's not a ton of content yet and even what is there isn't especially well mastered now the thing I'm excited about is the refresh rate this is in a nutshell where my admiration for Apple comes from because I've criticized them a lot and I don't like everything that they do but what they do have is the courage to try new features and when I talk about courage I am NOT talking about removing the headphone jack that to me is kind of a it's almost a way of kind of bullying the market into adopting their standard that's not really hurt that's like calling Sony's insistence on on memory stickers that's just obnoxious I'm talking about the courage to spend an extra I don't know how much maybe it's 50 cents maybe it's five dollars on every iPad Pro they sell for a more advanced this display controller and an IPS panel that's capable of a 120 Hertz refresh rate and you might say yeah sure you know what's five bucks let's say it's five bucks the answer is a lot because Apple is going to sell this product for a nice round number MSRP regardless of what specs they put in it it'll be you know $8.99 or $9.99 good no problem sorry we're back and by the time they sell five million or ten million of them now we're talking twenty five million dollars or 50 million dollars that's courage spending money on something that nobody asked for because you think it's a better experience for the end-user because that's actually in my mind one of the biggest problems with the rest of the electronics industry only being willing to build something with the features that your customers are asking for it that's how you end up with 20 laptops on the shelf at Best Buy all of which are basically the same and while some people seem to think that the 120 Hertz display is about spec padding and about having something that nobody else has it's not it matters a lot more than you probably think and for a lot more use cases than you probably realize so let's start with the one that's most obvious when you initially pick up a device it feels really fast just the fact that the screen is refreshing sooner after you interact with it makes the device feel instantly more responsive even more impressively Apple managed to do this without compromising one of their hallmarks which is great battery life by using adaptive refresh rate technology so the refresh rate of the display will actually go down if it's not displaying high refresh rate content or if it is displaying a static image and then it'll go up when you interact with it and this is one of the things that people love to criticize Apple about like oh they didn't invent that no they didn't invent adaptive refresh rate tech but what they did do was they implemented it in a way that is meaningful and enhances the user experience and Gaming is another use case where this makes a ton of sense to me it's a way to improve the experience of a game on a higher-end device without increasing stratification in the App Store so without driving up the graphical fidelity to the point where anything but the 2017 iPad pro is going to be running the game like a slideshow so people who buy the higher end device are going to run the game at 120 frames per second it's going to be butter smooth it's going to feel like a really great experience but act-- developers don't have to lock themselves out of being able to access the hordes of people that own previous generation devices and honestly that's something Apple doesn't really want in the App Store anyway they want apps to run on all devices that they decide are you know current and supported not you app developer you don't get to decide that Apple decides that and the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't consider is a Senna so you keeping up sorry here we're going to go this way the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't consider is media consumption so the cool thing about 120 Hertz is that whether we're talking 60 FPS content 30 FPS content or 24 FPS movie content all of it can run even if this wasn't an adaptive refresh rate display which it is but all of it could run on a 100 when she hurts display without any gutter or without any like pulldown or any kind of like the tomfoolery that they do where they'll duplicate a frame in order to take non-native content and run it on a different refresh rate display so then back kind of to the beginning where I don't care that much about tablets I really don't but what I'm excited about is what Apple is doing to the industry with this product I mean to be clear there is no 100% guarantee that just because we got a 120 Hertz display on the 2017 iPad pro that we're going to get a 120 Hertz display on the upcoming iPhone 8 in fact I mean the iPad pro the last generation had USB 3 the iPhone 7 does not and the iPhone 7 has a solid state home button whereas this new iPad pro does not but I would say now that Apple has made that investment into the display controller now that they've got the feature out there and since there's no cost in terms of power consumption to putting it on a smaller device there is a very good chance that on Apple's premium devices we're just going to see this as a feature moving forward and this is something that I have wanted for a long time both high refresh rate and variable refresh rate are huge experience changing technologies and what's great about this is that once Apple does it everybody else wakes up the ghost oh oh maybe that's important and we start seeing it on you know every tablet and every phone and every computer and everything starts to feel a little bit faster and a little bit more premium so that ultimately is why I chair about the iPad pro 2017 because I don't care about the iPad pro 2017 I fix it the place to go if you need to tear down or repair pretty much any electronic device they've got guides for so many popular thinking we're talking the galaxy sa the iPhone the Nintendo switch the iMac and they're also leading the charge in the electronic repair tools industry with their iconic black and blue pro tech toolkit don't let the sleek design fool you it's got both beauty and brawn with high-quality steel bits and 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