Gadgetory

last week Apple updated its pro line of iPads and so now we definitely know the difference between a pro iPad and an iPad iPad type iPad here's what it is a iPad pro has a bigger screen a better screen a faster processor four speakers support for an Apple pencil and support for a smart keyboard okay so what does all that mean well it means that this right here is an all-new shape it is a 10.5 inch iPad and it's so good and so powerful it really just feels like Apple showing off now okay so 10.5 inches is an all new size for an iPad and you can see here what Apple has done is they've increased the size of the entire iPad just a little bit but they've also reduced the size of the bezels they're still pretty big on the top and the bottom but they're way smaller on the sides so why bother making a new size well Apple says in part it's so that you can have a full size keyboard now I don't know what Apple's definition of full sizes but it's not the same as mine this is not a full size keyboard but it is just a little bit bigger and it makes a big difference when you're trying to touch type on it that also applies to the smart Keyboard that Apple offers here it is and it is what we expect from a smart keyboard what we've seen before it connects with a little connector on the bottom and it doesn't have shortcut keys so a lot of people prefer the Logitech keyboards which have shortcut keys and they're also backlit but I really do like this keyboard it's a little bit awkward on your lap but it folds up to a really small size so the thing is really compact and portable anyway back to the screen the screen on any iPad is the most important element and the screen on this 10.5 inch iPad is so good it's basically unfair apples like that football team in the fourth quarter that's leading by twenty-something points and they're just running up a score because they can what do you need to know about the screen well it's 20 to 24 by 16 68 whatever it's the same pixel density that we expect from high-end iPads and everything looks great on it it has all the iPad pro screen stuff it has a true tone display so it can ambiently detect the color temperature of the room and change the color of the screen to match it it gets super bright up to 600 nits it's oleophobic so you have fewer fingerprints on it it's less reflective it has a full p3 color gamut it's fully laminated so the pixels feel like they're right there on the glass all that stuff is pretty standard but what's new on this iPad is that there's a higher refresh rate Apple calls it pro motion and what it means is the screen can refresh at 120 Hertz or up to 120 Hertz who cares why does that matter well it matters because when you're doing stuff on the screen like scrolling the pixels stick with your finger a little bit faster there's tiny tiny little bit less lag there and when you're drying with an Apple pencil there's also less latency Apple says it's down to 20 milliseconds which by the way speaking of running up the score is literally one millisecond less than what Microsoft just claimed on its latest product ok here the rest of the specs just to get them out of the way on the back is a 12 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization it's the same camera as on an iPhone 7 I think it's super overkill for an iPad but whatever taking pictures of the nigh pad is a thing it's okay I don't judge it's also really useful document scanning if you want to do that on the front is a seven megapixel camera you've also of course got touch ID which on this one is the latest generation so it's fast there are four speakers you can get it with LTE which this one has it also inside has an a 10x fusion chip it's an apple custom-made chip for iPads and what matters is that it's just ridiculously fast you're not going to have any problems with performance on this thing the other thing you won't have any problems with on this thing is battery life apple claims it gets you can get about 10 hours on it and actually I'm getting really close to that I'm getting close to 9 little over 9 hours a couple of times this past week so that's good Apple never lies about battery life and that applies here this thing should last you all day no problem so I haven't talked to town about software yet and that's because the software that's running on this iPad pro is the same iOS 10 that you already know you hit the home button to go home to a big screen of apps you slide over to get a split view if you want to have two windows at once basically the same stuff that you expect from an iPad and I've seen an iPad for a couple years now but what's coming later this year is iOS 11 and it is going to radically change your ability to use the iPad as your main computer the kind of stuff you're going to see is you're going to swipe up to get a dock just like a Mac where you have a ton of apps on it you can also do split-screen and you can even bring up a third screen you can do drag and drop and it's crazy multi-touch drag drop so you can take multiple objects and drag them together and slide them over to another app and most exciting to me because I'm a nerd is you're going to have a real file system so you can get access to your files without going through crazy who said she used to have to go through whether your files are on Dropbox or onedrive or Google Drive or iCloud they're just going to be there ready to access for any app iOS 11 is going to completely change the dynamic about whether or not this thing can become your main computer but you can get this right now and not wait for iOS 11 it's running iOS 10 and so should you well let's run through it to start this is expensive the iPad pro 10.5 starts at six hundred and fifty dollars and if you're going to spend six hundred fifty bucks on a thing you should probably think about making it your primary device and if you're going to try and make this thing your primary device you probably want to step up to the $750 Edition which has 256 gigs of storage which is enough storage for your main computer now the question the perennial question for iPads is can you make it your main computer well maybe if you know a lot about iOS you know exactly what you need out of a computer you know how to get everything out of it you could probably pull it off for me I can't quite do that there are a few things that I just can't get out of an iPad right now but I think that I change with iOS 11 so if you're not in a hurry I would wait wait for iOS 11 see what it does to iPads see if you can turn this thing into your main computer until then basically if you need an iPad and you must have the best thing the iPad pro 10.5 inch is definitely the best thing you