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let's say you want to buy a tablet and you want to spend less than I don't know call it 500 bucks well the obvious option is to get this the 6th generation iPad that Apple just announced but what else could you do I guess there's Windows tablets but at that price point they suck Android tablets they're basically dead they don't exist anymore there's only one Chrome OS tablet and who knows what it's any good I don't think it will be that good and Amazon tablets are basically only good for watching Amazon Prime and reading Kindle books so this iPad which starts at $329 isn't just the obvious option it's basically the only option so thank God it's so good so here's the deal with a new iPad Apple announced it at an education event so you might think it's an education on the iPad but it's basically just the new iPad and everything about this iPad is almost exactly the same as last year's iPad it has the same very good screen but it isn't laminated which means there's a tiny little air gap from the glass to the screen unless you're really a pixel pennant it's not going to bother you it has the same touch ID software it's got you know cameras it does not have the smart connector for attaching a keyboard it's basically the same iPad that you know and love okay so what's actually new well only two things one is that has a new processor the a-10 so it's slightly faster and two it supports this the $99 Apple pencil and honestly that's it I said last year that if you need a new iPad you should get a new iPad and you should get this iPad because it's an iPad and that same advice basically holds if your iPad is old and busted and slow or whatever go ahead and get this new iPad and if it's not don't stick with what you got so this year the real question isn't is this iPad any good because of course it's good it's an iPad no the real question is should you spend twice as much to get this thing the iPad pro well let's look at the differences between these two iPads and see if it's worth it so the first thing you'll notice is that the iPad pro has a bigger screen it's 10.5 inches versus 9.7 but the iPad pro also has a nicer screen it has a higher refresh rate Apple calls it pro motion and you can really see it when you scroll really fast but I don't know you're not going to notice it most of the time I don't think the iPad pro hustle has a wider color gamut and it also has this thing called true tone where it adjusts the color temperature of the screen to the room sure that's great I don't know how important it is to most people other iPad pro differences it has four speakers instead of just two so you can hear it in stereo no matter how you're holding it it has a smart connector so that you can attach a smart keyboard to it the iPad pro also has better cameras and it also has a faster touch ID sensor but to me the biggest difference is that the iPad pro has four gigs of RAM and the iPad regular old iPad iPad has two gigs of RAM and you wouldn't think that matters but it does because if you have two apps open in split-screen and you bring a third and slide over on the iPad Pro you can still use the apps in the background but on the regular iPad if you bring up a third app the apps in the background freeze and you have to dismiss this top app before you can go back to what you were doing if I'm honest I think the only way to justify the extra price of the iPad pro is if you really know for sure you're gonna use it for full on computer things if you're gonna be editing movies and editing photos and using it as your main computer and you fully understand all the weird ways that iOS handles files and other like main computer stuff that you want to do if you just want to do tablet stuff if you want to watch Netflix and read books and browse the web and play games then the regular ol iPad iPad is gonna be way better for the vast majority of people yeah if you can't tell I really love this iPad the battery life is great it's fast it does everything I want an iPad to do but if I'm being honest I really do think that Apple basically did the bare minimum here they updated the processor and they added pencil support there's a lot of stuff on the iPad pro I wish they had found a way to put here for example more speakers you could listen in stereo in landscape mode if they put speakers on this side but most importantly I wish that they had added a smart connector on the bottom so you could attach a keyboard to it without having to fuss around with bluetooth keyboards how much would it have cost to add some of that stuff to this iPad I don't know maybe a little maybe a lot but I guess if your Apple you're looking around the tablet market and you're thinking man I might as well keep this thing as cheap as possible so that as many people as possible own iPads and really that's the lesson with this iPad nothing else in the tablet space even comes close to this thing nothing is as fast nothing has as many apps or apps or anywhere near as good really the only competition for this ipad is a more expensive ipad so why not keep the price low other things that annoy me about this iPad yeah of course there's dozens of things that annoy me about this iPad I've mentioned a bunch of them in this video but would I recommend another tablet one that cost less than 500 bucks up against this iPad absolutely not there's nothing else out there just get this iPad do I wish that there was more competition sure I do but until that happens I'm just glad that Apple made this iPad as good as they did everybody thanks for watching you're welcome for me not saying it's an iPad it's an iPad it's an iPad 50 million times but you know what it's an iPad if you want to see more videos about technology please be sure to subscribe to us at youtube.com slash The Verge