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this is the iPad pro the nine point seven inch screen it looks a lot well like the iPad air 2 but the difference is this iPad has enough computing power to replace a lot of cheap laptops and Apple says it could actually do that then again Apple said that before about this giant iPad and I don't think that making it smaller is going to make that case any better so remind me what is this thing for again let's start with maybe the most important thing to know about this iPad it starts at five hundred and ninety nine dollars for the 32 gig model the next step up a more reasonable hundred twenty eight gigs cost seven hundred and fifty dollars this is not a cheap iPad you'd better know what you're going to use it for if you're going to buy it it has a nine point seven inch screen that's actually better than any other tablet screen I've seen before part of that is it has this new anti reflective coating but the big deal is this clever new technology called true tone they're hidden sensors in the face of the iPad that detect the color temperature in the room and then it automatically adjusts the color temperature of the screen to match it the idea Apple says is that it's supposed to act more like a physical piece of paper it reflects the color in the room so if you're in a yellow room the screen is going to get a little bit more yellow now that sounds kind of dumb why would I want my screen to get more yellow but I've turned it on and just ignored it and it actually is pretty great when you turn it off all the sudden your screen looks really really blue and it's actually kind of ugly so my suggestion if you get this is turn the thing on and unless you're doing color correction it's just going to look better and you're gonna be way happier it's really neat but what really makes this iPad a pro is a constellation of a bunch of features it supports this $99 Apple pencil if you want to draw you can also get this $150 smart keyboard if you want to type and it has four very loud speakers one on each side and a new 12 megapixel camera but what really makes this thing a pro is that has a powerful new processor the a9x the same one that's in the big iPad pro and keeps things moving along and a really fast clip I never really thought my old iPad air 2 was all that slow but you can really see the difference on the pro especially when you're doing split-screen with a couple of apps it's faster but it's not so much faster that I suddenly feel like my old iPad air 2 is a piece of junk there's all that worth a couple hundred dollars more than the iPad air to come honestly not so sure you can split screen on the iPad air 2 and you can get a decent of Bluetooth keyboard and if you ever encounter lag on the air 2 you can spend that time imagining what all that extra cash is doing in your 401k and the other thing is this pro has the same 2 gigs of ram as that iPad air 2 as opposed the larger pros 4 gigs and that makes a difference especially when you have a lot of Safari tabs open or you jump into an epsilon ok maybe a reason to get this iPad pro is the pencil which is pretty neat but I found that most of the things that supported our illustration apps and drawing apps and you know professional photography apps there's not a whole you can do with productivity and for me it just doesn't seem worth it to carry it around and keep it charged now I'm of two minds about the smart Keyboard the first thing I'll say is once you've got it set up it's actually one of the best typing experiences I've ever had on a keyboard of this size the keys are just really well separated and they're great to type on I seriously got used to it in just a few minutes but it only works at this one angle and there aren't any function keys across the top for playing music or doing other stuff you have to learn a whole bunch of arcane shortcuts in order to figure everything out and so at 150 bucks you're probably gonna be able to find a better option now the camera is easily the best I've ever seen on the town it's 12 megapixels which is the same as the iPhone success but honestly I find it kind of baffling it causes this camera bump on the back and the good news is that it doesn't wobble on the table but I just can't see that it's worth it for iPad photographers and yes that's a thing sure I think it's worth it but otherwise it's a document scanning and I don't know do you really need 12 megapixels for that these speakers though damn but they are loud if you watch a ton of movies let headphones on your iPad you're really going to like them it's almost enough to make you think you won't need a Bluetooth speaker except that the bass on them isn't very good I'll tell you the truth I would like to believe that this iPad even more so than this huge one is the one that you can carry around with you all day and make your main computer and the battery life is actually good enough to make that happen it's also fast enough for switching apps and going to split-screen to Apple says that this is it's a vision for the future of computing and there's a lot to like about that vision this iPad pro can't do everything that you'd expect a future computer to do partially it's that Safari on the iPad pro just isn't as good as a desktop class browser and yes you can do two apps at once but you know what sometimes you want three and there are times when you want to be able to plug in a USB stick or some other peripheral and you know what honestly sometimes you just want a regular old file system and windows and a desktop the iPad can't really do those things it does other things it's the things that make it an iPad some productivity and movies and ebooks and some light web browsing it's really good at that stuff those are the things that Steve Jobs said the iPad was good at when he introduced the very first one and the question is arisen lately is there womb he said I was a third category of devatta computer in the middle and not a phone something that's between a laptop and a smartphone the iPad is its own thing and this is without a doubt and even though it's pretty expensive a stupefyingly good iPad but it's still an iPad gotta see such ridiculous device it's just so crazy you're crazy jerk are you