Is the iPad Pro Worth It? #Helpful Post

Hey guys this is Austin. Is the iPad Pro worth it? With a larger screen and shiny Pro badge

the new iPad is a departure from previous iPads. Slide open the box and you’ll find

the iPad Pro itself, lift it out of the way and underneath are your accessories. You’ll

find a two meter Lightning cable for charging and syncing, a 12 watt USB power adapter and

paperwork with Apple stickers tucked inside. Unwrap the Pro and you’ll see it’s big,

it’s even a fair bit larger than the 12 inch MacBook. The design is similar to the

smaller iPads with a Lighting port along with a pair of speakers on bottom, another pair

of speakers on top along with a headphone jack, volume buttons, rear camera and sleep

button and three small connectors along the left side for accessories like the Smart Keyboard.

It’s one thing to see it in pictures and video but it’s another thing to actually

try it. The iPad Pro is huge. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, having extra screen

real estate can be nice but at the end of the day it’s a big iPad. It is thin and

light for its size and while you’ll probably want to use two hands with it it’s comfortable

to hold and use. With a 12.9 inch display the screen looks fantastic, I can easily see

watching an entire movie on this especially with the solid speakers on all four corners.

It’s rocking a resolution of 2732 by 2048 which is enough to run two iPad apps side

by side, on a 13 inch screen this is enough detail to even show up most laptops. Where

things get really interesting is performance. The iPad Pro is rocking a dual core Apple

A9X, four gigs of memory and either 32 or 128 gigabytes of storage. This is no joke,

it easily handles any game available in the App Store like Lara Croft GO and Geometry

Wars and gaming on such a large tablet is a pretty cool experience. Get into benchmarks

and it’s even more impressive, it’s competitive with the Core i5 equipped Surface Pro 4 on

the CPU side and in graphics it absolutely destroys every other tablet out there. This

isn’t just a powerful tablet, this is a powerful computer that puts a lot of laptops

to shame. Unfortunately iOS really isn’t up to taking advantage of all that power.

It excels at things like web browsing with buttery smooth performance and there are some

cool creative apps like Paper for sketching ideas and uMake which creates full 3D models

out of your drawings. Apps like iMovie allow you to edit basic 4K video far better than

you would expect out of an iPad and you’ll find Microsoft apps like Word, PowerPoint

and Excel in addition to the Apple equivalents to get real work done. Apps like these really

show off the potential but that’s mostly it for now, there are a ton of pro level apps

that just aren’t available for iOS. There are some accessories available like the Logitech

Create keyboard which is what I used to write this review and while it does work if you

really rely on a keyboard you’re probably better off just buying a MacBook. The same

holds true for the Smart Keyboard, for $170 it’s just ridiculous. Ridiculous. It’s

just, ridiculous. The Apple Pencil is a little cooler as it allows you to sketch a lot better

than a traditional stylus and while it’s nicely designed as a $100 add on it really

only makes sense if you’re serious about design. There’s a lot to like about the

iPad Pro. While I feel like it’s slightly too big having a huge tablet has advantages,

it’s got solid battery life with a great screen and speakers and near overkill levels

of performance. My biggest problem is that at the end of the day it really is just a

big, expensive iPad. For some that’s going to be worth it but for most people you’re

better off getting a MacBook or a Surface. Do you guys think the iPad Pro is worth it?

Let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one!