This Is Not A Laptop Killer #Helpful Post

hey guys the Austin the iPad pro is a

big upgrade but as much as Apple Mike

claims this is a full computer it is not

ready to replace my laptop just yet this

is a question I took a look at a couple

years ago when the very first iPad pro

came out and it actually came pretty

close to replacing a laptop for me but

inevitably I ran into the limitations of

running iOS on a nine point seven inch

tablet first of all this is coming from

the perspective of someone who spends a

lot of time with some fairly high-grade

video the iPad it just can't handle it

it's not even the hardware that's the

problem

it really is iOS sure there are some

decent editing apps such as I movie

premiere rush and luma fusion for the

iPad but the issue is that none of them

are as powerful as the full desktop

versions of premiere as well as final

kinds to produce videos like this I need

access to fairly high level features

such as LUT support full pro codecs such

as Pro res and red code raw it would be

really helpful if I had a full finder

set up where I can you know access the

file system and import things using that

handy USB C port instead well none of

this stuff really works unless I want to

do some very basic editing and iMovie

it's fine it's definitely capable of it

but I was just isn't there yet a lot of

what I do every day comes down to things

like writing an email and here the iPad

is absolutely terrific I've always

preferred the smaller iPad pro size but

that does mean you have to sacrifice it

on the actual keyboard it's a little bit

smaller than a standard layout but I'd

be using it for long enough that's not

really a big issue it is still a little

bit ridiculous this accessory that is

basically mandatory if I want to get any

work done on iPad cost a full 180

dollars but I mean I guess that's

everyone at this point I mean even

Microsoft doesn't include the keyboard

with the surface if you want to avoid

the Apple tax you can't pick up either a

Bluetooth keyboard or something that

plugs in via USB C or an adapter but at

the end of the day I want to have a

portable setup that is as close to a

laptop as possible which means them

stuck spending $180 on the Apple

keyboard which is just okay but not

really worth that kind of money

something I've been kind of surprised by

is the pencil updated this year with a

much less annoying design as opposed to

plugging it into the Lightning port to

charge instead all you need to do is

attach it to the top of the iPad and not

only does it attach here magnetically

but also wirelessly charges I will give

Apple this the iPad hardware is

incredibly nice this is seriously the

biggest update to the iPad since the

original thanks to the lack of a home

button the bezels are much smaller here

which means that

do we have a bunch of iPhone 10 like

gestures but importantly we get an 11

inch display in the same size chassis is

the old nine point seven inch iPad the

fingerprint sensor has been replaced

with face ID which has been crammed into

the top bezel along with the

front-facing camera it should be no

surprise that the screen is absolutely

excellent importantly we still pro

motion which means that the iPad pro has

a full 120 Hertz display this means that

the iPad screen is running at twice the

frame rate and twice the smoothness of

pretty much any other mobile display out

there the only thing that comes close or

some gaming laptops that do have high

refresh rate displays as well as on the

phone side the razor phone has a high

refresh rate panel but in the tablet

space nothing touches this and it does

make a big difference

things are so so smooth the screen is

absolutely terrific so not only is it

color accurate it gets fairly bright

there's really not a lot to complain

about and that goes double for the

speaker's it does have quad speakers

with one on each corner and this thing

sounds phenomenal as far as watching

video goes this is better than almost

any other laptop out there gone are the

days of lightening in is the glorious

future of the USBC port and this is

proper USB see it's 3.1 gen2 which means

that does support a full tanking a

better transfer speed as well as of

course any kind of video out you do all

the way up to a full 5k monitor it will

also charge up other devices just like a

laptop plug in your phone for example

and the ipad will give it a full charge

in classic ipad fashion however iOS does

hold you back somewhat with that USB C

port then you can't connect it to an

external display and for some apps such

as twitch and Netflix it will give you a

full screen video but for the most part

you're stuck mirroring the iPad display

kind of helpful but nowhere near as good

as it would be if I can you know put a

window on the display and another window

on my iPad you know like every other

laptop on earth it's so close but it's

so annoying I mean this is really close

to being able to fully serve as a laptop

right I mean for me I'll have a monitor

plugged into my laptop all the time when

I'm at home or at work I legitimately

like that extra screen real estate and

the hardware is absolutely capable of it

and even the software's to a degree I

mean I could put a video there but the

issue is that if I'm say watching

Netflix and wanting to work on something

at the same time Netflix will play on

the 4k display ripen to the point where

I alt add to another app in which the

entire thing closes it's like we're so

close we're so close if we take a quick

detour into garbage Tom for a sec I get

the

I'll remove the headphone jack on their

phones a couple years ago but this is a

device that's trying to replace my

laptop I really do like having a pair of

Wired headphones now sure Bluetooth

might be the future for some people but

for me I appreciate having a nice pair

of headphones that have no latency

something that can plug into say a

MacBook Air which coincidentally does

still have a headphone jack

now I get that this thing is completely

packed with technology it's like magnets

and batteries and stuff but having a

headphone jack doesn't seem like that

big of a sacrifice I mean sure I could

use a USBC dongle

but that's annoying I could plug in my

lightning headphones that I bought a

couple years ago oh wait no I can't do

that because it doesn't have lightning

anymore it's just a weird compromise I

mean it's not a deal breaker I can get

away with using other types of

headphones it would be so so nice if

they would have kept the headphone jack

on something that's trying to replace my

laptop I could run through our standard

suite of benchmarks which show that this

is hands-down Alli the fastest mobile

device we've ever tested but right up

there with a lot of proper laptops but

at the end of the day what good is power

if you can't use it which brings us

around to my main issue with the iPad

pro this is where things become very

dependent on what kind of work you do I

legitimately feel like I could edit some

proper 4k video on the iPad pro if I had

those software improvements such as a

full file manager as well as final kind

if you do a lot of work with graphics

for example it actually is a lot better

there great apps such as procreate and

full Photoshop is coming to the iPad but

still for a lot of people the story here

is less about what it can do right now

and more about the potential which is

kind of a bit of a shame because it's

been like that for several years at this

point that's just it though this

absolutely can replace a laptop for some

people and the iPad pro is legitimately

getting better and more powerful every

year but for me this is a great

secondary machine but it is not a laptop

killer at least not yet