Comparing the old and new 2017 iPad Pro - Should You Upgrade? By MobileTechReview

This is linked to from mobile tech review, and some of you have asked me to compare the old and the new iPad Pro models really I. Think the idea behind that is. Should you upgrade, so that's how I'm going to approach it will cover the smaller iPad? 2 is a ten point. Five inches versus the nine point, seven inches and I think you can see from the very beginning. The difference here is not the physical shape and size, and all that sort of thing it's going to be the screen same picture on both of these one is more vibrant and also more bright. Of course, there's a lot more to it.

You're going to look at them now, one dogie. We got two iPad categories to talk about and two broad use cases that we're going to use to compare them. First, we're going to talk about the twelve point. Nine-inch original iPad Pro on this side right here, and this is the new one, and you can probably tell just looking at it, because this one has some more saturated, vivid, yellow, it's also even brighter. So you get a nicer display.

How important is that? Because the original twelve point, nine-inch iPad still have one of the nicest displays around right, certainly among mobile OS tablets. It was hard to beat this. It's still a gorgeous display, even if it's been shown up right well, if you're, just watching movies and all that sort of thing yes, you'll enjoy the new, pretty display more yeah no kidding, but is that enough to go through the whole hassle of selling your old one and buying a new one or that sort of thing? Probably not so much and that's the way. Apple does things. You know, and people say: oh, my god.

If the problem is the iPad was so good that making it better is too hard. You know Apple, and it has never been a company who wants you to great upgrade every single year, witness the iPhone. We have the 6, the 6s and then the 7, and we have the S here where they keep up with the competition. So the competition doesn't start to take over and beat them, but they're not really intending to force you to upgrade, because a lot of people feel pretty grumpy they have to so there you go you're not going to feel grumpy. If you stick with your original, if you're doing productivity, the Apple A9 x, CPU is already fast enough inside the original model day.

I, don't think anybody's ever said. Oh my god, I bonded it down, you know even doing advanced artwork with many layers and that sort of thing I've never really made it get sluggish and slow down. It still has the same 4 gigs of ram. That said for future proofing and for you folks who aren't really think about upgrading but which one are you going to buy, it's going to be your first iPad Pro 12 point 9 inches. Yes, right now you could say like $100 by getting the old model, but certainly for 100 bucks or so maybe even $200.

If we see enough of a discount eventually on the old model, still you're getting the new CPU you're, getting the better screen, you're getting the better camera and all that sort of thing in the new model, so starting from scratch, yes get the new model, if you're just doing that productivity work. I think that the CPU in the old generation is going to keep you happy for a while. It should be strong enough to run iOS 11, so there you have it for productivity and general consumption. Now, not so much now for art. This is where things get all kind of different, okay and for photo editing.

Tear, because that p3 wide gamut display with the true tone, call the correction on it is just as good as it gets. I mean it just makes art people like me and city graffiti people. Let me get really, really excited happy and giggly in the a. So why is it our original iPad here? Has a blue white color bias like most laptops on the market today ?, it's not exactly color accurate if you're creating content, and you want the colors to be the way you think the color is when you're seeing them. Then it's important to have a color corrected display one, that's accurate one! That's pretty wide gamut and that's where the new iPad Pro 12.9 shines, and let me just show you what I'm talking about okay now this is a painting that I did in pro crane we're in procreate right now, and I think you can see the difference in the color bias going on here. One of these is a lot cooler.

The greens look more blue, green instead of yellowy green, the sky has a little of a no too strong. A blue cast. Almost you need great blues, are a little more natural. So this matters because what happens when I'm? Looking at the gray blue version here, when I put it on my PCs I'm, going to finish up in Photoshop, and you're real fancy-pants or share it with the world or printed whatever. Suddenly it looks more yellowy green than I expected, and it can be very hard when you're creating artwork to try to imagine a warmer version of what you're working on and just can make it kind of crazy.

So the improvement is significant here if you're doing concept art. This is something akin to concept: art, landscape, art. That kind of thing. Now, if you're doing something cartoons comics, it matters a bit less, because your color palette is kind of independent and let's look at a picture of that kind. Instead.

Now here are surprisingly, you think the cartoon would be where you would see the difference even less, but it's more noticeable. That's because the painting had many many colors in it's a more complex thing. You have to have maybe a keener eye to catch. What I'm talking about, but here I created this actually on the original iPad and I, wanted that kind of nice blue screen, a blue sky rather and that kind of cool look, because here we have two fictional bird creatures that I just randomly drew from my imagination and I wanted to be in some place like Alaska, but in reality, what it looks like is this kind of yellowy, blue, green blue and that's a little of a shock. So when you look at that on a coloring calibrated, PC or mag, that's actually what you're going to see there if you go print it up on your printer.

This is what you'll see. So this is where it can be crazy. Making you wanted to make this what you ended up with, that is an output. So that's why it matters and I know. This is starting to turn into a Bob Ross moment here: art instruction and all that sort of thing, but I think you get the idea now photography, no matter what it is always better to have the color accurate display, because there's no division between here's, a fictional world that I created in comics, where my color palette is independent of reality in photography, is always based in reality.

So it's always been a matter now, with our little friend the 10.5-inch iPad Pro versus the nine point. Seven inches. This doesn't really matter because the original nine point, seven-inch iPad Pro, had a true tone display on that wide gamut. P3 display already so there's a difference. You're not really going to get as much of an improvement.

Yeah, it's going to be a brighter display, and even a little better and slightly ever so slightly tweaked, where it mans, you could have the eyes can see the difference. So this particular thing only applies to those. Are you considering the two twelve point? Nine-inch iPad now I'm not sure how much this really matters to people, but you get a big camera. Upgrade to would the latest generation iPad, if you, if you actually do use your camera a lot I make no value judgment. Some people make fun of people use their tablet, cameras, hey whatever you want to do.

It works you, that's cool. It does make sense, because some people use tablets for vertical market applications like insurance are you're, taking pictures that you actually want to use as inspirations for paintings and that sort of thing you're going to get a better camera, obviously on the newer one. But you know the only wasn't terrible, but it's a noticeably improved camera and that's 4k. Video recording quality is pretty darn nice on the newer iPad Pro model. Alright, how about the smaller iPad, the iPad 10.5 versus 29.7 I'm? Sorry, we don't have a nine point. Seven-inch iPad Pro in house.

We don't get to keep all these review and if they go back to the manufacturers and so on, and so and by the way, this is called the stump every time we use this in a tablet. Video you guys and gals asks. This is simply called the stump. It's also around 20 dollars. In fact, it says stump on the bottom and stump store.

There are close of it as well. So some back to this, the big reason to upgrade here would be gaining almost an inch of screen real estate while having a product that gets barely any bigger. So that's the big selling point there and that's kind of nice. If you sell your nine point, seven inches was too cramped. It probably happens.

A lot of people who got a twelve point. Nine-inch iPad Pro said that he was too big to carry around and went for the smaller one, and I feel like it was a little too small. This might be the Goldilocks principle in action. This one feels kind of just right. You know anything went to eleven it'd be even nicer, but beyond that the other reason is, of course the CPU is faster, but same thing applies with the twelve point.

Nine-inch iPad Pro that the existing CPU in the iPad Pro nine point, seven, which is already so fast that I, don't think that's going to matter other than future-proofing, which is more important for people who are making the first time purchase honestly, the other neat thing besides, of course, this gets iPhone.7, though cameras in the two is finally just like the bigger iPad you can use USB-C to charge this. Why is that important, because iPads charge very slowly, so it was a 12 point.9 inches I've been using USB-C chargers with it just using the lightning to USB connector to do that. Well now you can do that with a little guide too, so you get quicker charging there and the other really nice thing. Are you finally get four gigs of ram in this? Just like the twelve point, nine inch models, so you're going to get a ram upgrade and those of you who are using the iPad Pro nine point, seven for art and for photography, especially when you're starting to do layers I know. A lot of people complain that they couldn't use as many layers or the idea would start to slow down, because we had half the RAM of the big model.

So that's no longer a problem good times a reason you might want to upgrade if you again, and all of this is making it pretty clear that if your photography and art centric there's a better case for upgrading, then if you're just using this for fun and productivity kind of stuff. Lastly, there's that 120 Hertz refresh screen, which you know you, can watch our full review and see a lot of that in actually it. You can tell the difference when you look at when you scribble your icons around. Probably our camera can keep up with how static they actually look and paint it on when they're moving back and forth without the blur. But there is a difference in the pen input which once again gets back to probably the photography and art people for note-taking.

The old one. Is its already one of the best on the market. You know in terms of pen latency. How quickly is a line show on screen, but we're going to show you a slow motion, video next of the original iPad 12.9 and the second generation one doing the same test with Jedi lines and then with the circle and when it's slowed down you'll see that there is a significant difference there and yeah I can feel it when I'm doing artwork, particularly if I'm doing fast strokes you can. It feels more natural.

More pencil, like a pencil, always makes a mark exactly at the moment that you put it there's never any delay anything that gets closer to that reality better. So there you have it all the new iPad Pro models compared, so you can figure out if you should upgrade, of course, the new one's going to be better right. That's just what happens, but is it better enough and important to you, and can you afford it only you know if you can afford it. These are not cheap products by any means, they're very expensive, but in the end, I would say primarily if you're buying one of these to do artwork, whether it's photo editing or drawing painting. That sort of thing, then there's a strong case for it.

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