Pad Pro vs Surface Pro 2017! #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and today I'm

going to compare what are arguably two

of the most important tablets out right

now the brand new iPad pro versus the

surface pro this might seem like a weird

comparison but they line up surprisingly

well not even counting that they came

out with him like a couple days of each

other so to start with we have the 2017

version of the surface pro so they

actually hooked us up with a review unit

early which is funny because it has not

packaged for retail sale on the box but

I'm gonna box it anyway because that's

what I do so the surface pro as far as

hardware wise should be very very

similar to the surface pro 4 they've

made a couple of small tweaks mostly

like smoothing out corners and whatnot

but the hardware itself and the

dimensions are pretty much unchanged

inside we have what should be the power

adapter so if you saw our surface laptop

video you know that not only is this

adapter magnetic which is kind of cool

but it also has a USB port on it next we

had the iPad pro 12 point 9 inch again

another new product and again something

that actually really hasn't changed much

since the previous generation at least

on the outside side here we have yet

again pretty straightforward so this is

the actual iPad itself and silver we

also have the lightning cable some Apple

paperwork as well as the very very small

power adapter the problem is this is a

tiny 12 watt adapter so compared to the

44 watt power cable for the actual

surface this takes forever to charge a

big iPad like this it still always

surprised me a little bit when I touch

one of these iPads because it is just so

huge I mean look at this this is an iPad

feel like it's a actually is it figure

than the surface oh yeah

the surface is actually smaller than the

iPad which I guess makes sense it's a

twelve point three versus a twelve point

nine inch display but Wow one area where

the surface definitely does have an

advantage is with ports so again like

the surface laptop we have the magnetic

surface connector which can be used not

to power it but also for the dock but we

also have a full size USB 3 port mini

display there's also a headphone jack on

this side and if you pop open the

kickstand and

here is a tiny little micro SD card slot

the iPad has a lightning connector and a

headphone jack so for basic tablet use

this is fine but it comes to say

connecting a USB device or wanting to

use a second display the surface wins

hands down

so think it's going for the surface is

the kickstand so not only will it stand

up by itself right out of the box but

the kickstand is also very adjustable so

go pretty much all the way flat you

bring it up and it'll stop anywhere

along the way it does add a lot of

flexibility with the iPad you pretty

much have to have a cover or a keyboard

to get it to stand up by itself that is

where these smart keyboard comes in so

like earlier versions all does is just

snap-on with magnets to the side of the

iPad and then once you fold it out get

yourself a pretty decent keyboard that's

going to be attached to the iPad so no

like this is the iPad now support quite

a few different keyboard shortcuts so I

can open up something like spotlight I

can actually command tab to go between

different apps and the keyboard itself

is pretty full size and it feels decent

to type on the issue is there's very

little travel it really does not measure

up to something like a proper laptop

keyboard by comparison the surface type

cover feels a lot better this has an

actual key travel so this actually makes

a big difference and not only is this a

full layout with backlighting which the

iPad is not it also has a trackpad so

well yes the trackpad is not super

necessary on something with a

touchscreen I find I use the touch

screen if I'd like 80% of the time or so

but sometimes it's nice to be able to

reach down and should be able to mouse

over to something this issue is that

neither of these actually come with

their keyboards so the type cover for

the surface is going to run you 130 or

160 for this Alcantara version and the

smart keyboard for the iPad pro is a

hundred and seventy dollars which is a

shame because you really do need the

keyboards to get the most out of these

devices one area you can't complain

about these tablets are the displays so

the surface pro is rocking a twelve

point three inch panel with a resolution

of 27 36 by 1824 this pixels this

display looks phenomenal no one looking

at the surface display is going to be

disappointed but the issue is the iPad

screen is just better

not only does the ipad have a bigger

twelve point nine inch display with a

resolution of 2732 by 2048 but it also

has some cool features such as true tone

to adjust the white balance depending on

what room you're in

it gets really bright with 600 nits of

brightness but what blows all that away

is promotion what that means is

iPad pro has a 120 Hertz refresh rate

display now that's something that you

find on stuff like high-end gaming

monitors and it looks awesome in person

so in video it's a little bit harder to

show but the animations are incredibly

fluid and almost more important than

that it feels super super responsive hey

guys this is Austin

this is the fairphone 2 and it is a

fully modular smartphone the speakers on

the iPad pro are also top-notch so it

actually has 4 speakers so there's gonna

be one on each corner and combined it

sounds better than a lot of laptops the

surface actually does sound pretty good

as well so there's two front-facing

speakers but compared to the iPad it's

just not as loud all models of the iPad

pro now come with the Apple a 10x this

is a monster of a processor with six

cores three performance and three low

power cores paired with four gigabytes

of RAM is a lot for an iPad the surface

comes with quite a few different

configurations so not only can you get

it with a core m3i 5 or i7 processor but

it also has 4 8 and 16 gigabyte RAM

options both the core and 3 and i-5

models are going to be fanless just like

the ipad but regardless of which surface

you pick up they're all going to be dual

core chips based on the new Intel KB

Lake process now that's cool but on

paper the iPad has a big core count

advantage run them through Geekbench and

results are surprising so not only is

the iPad faster when you consider single

core scores

but on the multi-threaded side it is

significantly faster than the surface

now this is a Core i5 processor it's not

even the base model and yet the iPad pro

is still faster that is impressive

also Intel is probably really scared

right now all the power in the world

doesn't mean much without software to

take advantage of it so the iPad pro

ships with iOS 10 now it is not bad

things like split view really make

multitasking a lot more doable on the

iPad however what's really going to

change things is iOS 11 so at first

glance it looks fairly similar but just

like my wardrobe changed there's a lot

going on under the hood so same web

browsing I want to pull up the file menu

all I do is swipe up from the bottom tap

it and then drag it off to the side and

I get my normal split view which I can

then just readjust if I'd like or if I

want I can shrink it back down if I pull

down from the top it becomes a floating

window so I'm still being able to scroll

in Safari but I can also just toss this

off to the side and do whatever I need

to get done this way you can get up to 3

apps on scree

once you know it's not perfect so since

this is the very first beta things are

not quite as smooth as they could be but

this goes a long way making the iPad

feel a lot more usable on the other

hands the surface of course is running

Windows 10 Pro now when this tin has

actually seen some pretty major upgrades

over the last couple years but I've got

to say I am impressed with how much you

can do on the iPad with iOS 11 one area

where I have no complaints is with

battery life so the iPad pro like pretty

much every iPad ever is quoted at 10

hours of battery life whereas the

surface actually can go all the way up

to 13 hours regardless you should easily

be able to take these for a full day of

use without needing the charger both

also have solid stylus support so the

surface pro has an all new surface pen

which is supposedly a lot faster and

when I try it recently actually does

feel pretty solid however the Apple

pencil on the new iPad pro is stupid

fast it really does feel nearly

one-to-one the surface pro is definitely

the safe choice it's a great Windows PC

that just happens to be a tablet the

iPad has a terrific display it's super

fast and I was loving is actually pretty

good but it might not be for everyone so

what do you guys think about these

tablets which one would you pick up let

me know in the comments below and I will

catch you on the next one