EVERYTHING New On the 2021 iPad Pro! 11" & 12.9" Models! By AppleInsider

Hey, everyone welcome to apple insider. It is Andrew here you can find me on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU, and I don't know about all of you watching this video right now, but I am riding a high from that Apple event. Where apple announced a ton of things, we got air tag. We got a new Apple TV with a new Siri, remote uh. We got new iMacs. Furthermore, we just got a lot of stuff, but in this video right here right now, I'm going to walk you through every single thing, changed from the 20 20 11 and 12.9-inch iPad pros to the 2021 11 and 12.9-inch iPad pros and before you guys start commenting. No, this is not the new iPad.

This is simply the last generation iPad with a fancy wallpaper, but it's a good uh display device. I can point at things and gesture at things to help them make sense as we dive through this video. So let us go ahead start off with what is new on the 2020 iPad pros start things off pretty basic. The design has stayed the same, which is fantastic because a lot of people out there have cases they've got the magic keyboard. They have things like that.

That already work with the existing 11 and 12.9-inch iPad pros. So the fact that apple kept them the same design is absolutely a good thing. Now I will say that the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro is both heavier about half a pound heavier and is about a half a millimeter thicker than the prior generation. Fortunately, it's only half a millimeter, so it shouldn't make a huge difference for a lot of accessories out there. The magic keyboard still works.

A bridge keyboards all should still work, there's a lot of stuff out there. That should still work with this updated model. But of course you have to get it in our hands to fully test when these guys launch in the second half of may so same design pretty much overall, I did mention the magic keyboard. It does come in a new white color, so both the black and the white ones will be available. The black one is currently available now, but the white one will be coming when these new models launch include in the box.

Apple is now upgrading the charger. It is going from an 18 watt charger to a new 20 watt charger and since we're talking about chargers, I have to mention the sponsor for this video real quick bear with me. It's a logic. So a logic has come out with this new line of an chargers that are perfect for the iPad pros, as well as the newer iPhones that have all moved over to charging a via USB or even an USB-C to lightning cable. There is several new ones in this lineup, and they're all amazing.

So these gallium nitride chargers. They are smaller and create less heat than a normal silicon based charger, and they look pretty stellar as well. So we got the whole line here. This guy is a solo charger.65 watt, look how small that is: 65 watt charger right there, uh USB, perfect folds up great for on the go, so one output there. They also have a dual output.

This can do up to uh 68 watts of power, two USB c ports on there, one at 18 watt, one up to 60 watts of power, so a dual output. There, then we have a single watt charger, look at this guy right there, that is, nice, 100, watt, USB charger, single output and then finally, finally, my favorite of the bunch, this 100 watt charger, the top USB c port- can do up to a hundred watts of output and there's also a second USB c port on there come on camera there. It is a second USB c port and two USB a port, so lots of power output. Here this is about the size as apple's regular brick that ships with the MacBook Pro, but it has four outputs on it and can do 100 watts instead of just 85. So this is the one that I'm buying not only these great chargers, but they actually come with a cable.

They come with braided 100 watt, USB cables. They are sturdy. Furthermore, they are strong nylon, braided, so they're not going to kind of degrade over time, USB. So any USB stuff you got lying around, whether it's your existing your new iPad pros or even if you've got a mac grab any of these guys. These just launched seriously just launched.

You can find the links for these down below. Thank you again to a logic for sponsoring this video moving on with all the changes here. So we've talked about a slight difference in the designs we've talked about the new charges that are coming in the box. The biggest thing for that 12.9 inch model here is probably going to be the refresh display, so Apple is now using a mini, LED display just on the 12.9 inch model, they're calling a liquid retina Dr display, similar to the Pro Display XDR. The biggest thing is here, even though it has the same resolution in all of that the same PPI.

It has a new uh, it's made of mini LEDs. Now it has a 2d backlighting system with 2596 full ray local dimming zones. It has 1 000 nits as the max full screen brightness and a million to one contrast: ratio that contrast ratio is gonna, be the biggest one. So content is going to look absolutely incredible on the new iPad pros, especially that 12.9 inch model the 11-inch iPad Pro. It has the same liquid running display that it had before so no big changes coming to that 11 inch.

As far as the display is concerned, if you want the best most powerful display, you got to go with the 12.9 inch model internally apple made. Some changes. Apple has moved to the m1 processor on the iPad line. Yeah, the powerful processor that apple is running in its max is now the same one on the iPad Pro. So the m1 is in here, which has a bunch of benefits.

It is up to 50 percent faster in terms of the CPU. The GPU is up to 40 percent faster than the a12 bionic processor that we had in the last generation iPad pros. It has twice as fast storage thanks to that updated processor and a new 16 core neural engines. This also has a new ISP, but we're going to talk about the ISP a little more, we'll get to the cameras, the port on here. It is still an USB c port, but Apple has moved from just an USB c port to a new USB 4 port with type c that also supports thunderbolt.

So we're getting a lot of backward compatibility here we get full thunderbolt, which has 40 gigabits per second in transfer speeds. You can now do up to 10 gigabit ethernets, which is pretty incredible um. It also supports USB 4, which is 40 gigabits per second USB 3.1 gen 2, which is 10 gigabits per second and, of course thunderbolt 3. So a lot of new technology. Imagine all the accessories that connect that now work via thunderbolt, instead of just USB, so that include by the way the Pro Display XDR at up to 6k resolution.

That's pretty incredible, and that's actually one of my only things that apple didn't include in this upgrade, which is proper, proper external display support. You can still connect an external display, like the pro display, Dr full 6k resolution, but it doesn't it more or less mirrors unless you're in an app that kind of takes advantage of it. But you can't have like side-by-side monitors that you do that. You interact with really even with when you're using a mouse, so it is a downside. I do wish apple would have corrected that, but we still are getting.

You know crazy output via thunderbolt or that new USB port. Let's go ahead. Turn this guy around, and we're going to talk about some cameras. Talking about the cameras, you can't even see that on the display, guys that is dark. Let me hurt there.

We go a little better, the better view for you guys it's really shiny. Now it's right here either way. Uh cameras, we're talking about camera, so Apple has upgraded cameras. They call them pro cameras now, even though the wide and ultra-wide are still the same resolutions, 12 megapixels for the wide and 10 megapixels for the ultra-wide. But there are some changes here.

Thanks to that new ISP and everything the new camera supports smart hdr3. For the first time we have lens correction. For that ultra riding lens. We saw that on the iPhone 12 line, uh there's advanced red eye correction on the new ones. We have audio zoom when you are doing a video which actually kind of like zooms in the audio.

So what you're listening too far away it looks at that subject and boosts that audio a little, so you can hear it better thanks to all the mics on this guy. It still has the same mics as before, but audio zoom comes the iPad pros. We have extended dynamic range for video up to 30 frames per second. There are cinematic video stabilization on 4k before it was available on 1080p and 720p, so new cinematic stabilization on 4k videos, if you're shooting them on your iPad, and it can record audio in stereo. So those are all the changes coming to the camera.

Some big changes. I think those are important. There's a lot of people a lot of like uh. You know news, crews and stuff they're shooting on iPads, not because it Is mean it still looks a little ridiculous, but the idea, just being is that you have this wonderful display. At the same time, it's really easy to see it.

It's a lot easier to do rather than on an iPhone. So the fact they're upgrading those cameras in such a meaningful way, I think, is important for a lot of pros getting stuff done on the new iPads. We also want to talk about the new FaceTime cameras here. So Apple did update its true depth camera system. So I guess not a FaceTime camera, the true depth camera system.

It's been upgraded from 7 megapixels to 12 megapixels on this guy. There is a new 122 fields of view super wide, and thanks to that, if you were on a video call like FaceTime, it has a feature called center stage, which actually is using that new. You know neural engine and the new processor to be able to actually see the subject in the video and then scope in on them and always keep them in frame and even moves it around, and if someone else comes into frame, it'll pop them into frame two and zoom out, so everyone can get in the shot. So it's really cool this new center stage feature I'm interested in wondering if third parties can take advantage of that as well or if they have to do their own version. If you're in, like zoom versus a FaceTime call, so we do have a new higher resolution, FaceTime camera on here or true depth, camera system on here um that new front-facing camera.

There is a lens correction which is important for that really wide point of view. We have smart HDR three, come to that front-facing camera there we have new 1080p video that can be shot in 25 frames per second, alongside 30 and 60, like we had before, and there's extended dynamic range for videos at up to 30 frames per second and finally, cinematic video stabilization before those only available on the rear facing cameras. Now it works on the front facing true depth camera system as well. Let's round out this video, the last couple of things that I want to mention that are important big changes from the prior gen to this one. We are seeing increased capacity now there are two terabyte capacities that you can get before.

It was capped at one terabyte, so there's new two terabyte options and the ram has been increased, so the base models before the highest- an option before I think had six gigs of ram. Now the uh, 512 and 256 options will have eight gigs of ram on them and then the higher one terabyte and two terabyte sizes will have uh 16 gigs of ram installed on them, so up to 16 gigs of ram part of that is driven by the new m1 processor there, the storage on the inside- I think I mentioned this before, but it will be twice as fast up to twice as fast. So we have new capacities as well as up to twice as fast storage, pretty darn awesome. There is technically a larger battery on the inside, especially the 12.9 version, but it doesn't get anything longer in terms of battery life, apple's, giving it the same rating that it had before. Just probably increases it due to that new mini led liquid retina MTR display uh, then.

Lastly, we have 5g coming to the iPad 5g, just like we saw on the iPhone 12 line is now coming to the iPad, so that rounds it out guys. That is a lot of changes. In my opinion, I mean the biggest things for especially on this 12.9 inch model pro display or the liquid red display, Dr m1 processor, on the inside up to twice as fast storage, with up to twice the capacity improved cameras on the back, hugely improved cameras on the front. Um 5g support here, more ram support here, it's a lot of stuff, and it's important not to mention that USB c port that is now usb4 with thunderbolt. That's amazing.

I have a lot of thunderbolt accessories, and I'm really excited to be able to bring them and use them on my iPad. So that's it stay tuned to apple insider. We will have our hands on with the new iPads for real as soon as they are released, and I would be loving to show you guys all the differences in person and highlight all the best features of these new tablets. Let me know what you guys think over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU, if you guys want to grab any of these guys when they are available, which is, I believe in the second half of May start off at 800 for the 11-inch version same as before, and the 12.9 inch version is going up, 100 bucks to 10.99 as a starting out price uh, but once they are live I'll, put links down below in the description, and let me know what you guys think, and I'll check you guys in the next video you.

Source : AppleInsider