iPad Pro 12.9" 2nd gen in 2020 | A Whole Lot of Pro... At Half the Cost!! By Noah Herman

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro form factor is very popular. I personally daily drive a fourth generation 2020 model and I love it hell. Even my dad wanted one. I actually gave him my third generation 12.9 inch model, except I get to borrow it if I need it for a video, but anyway, with that said, the problem is these tablets are expensive and if you don't have the budget for them, you know if you can't spend upwards of a thousand to 1500, then you're out of luck, but not quite though, in the past I've suggested looking at previous gen versions like the first generation, one which is great, but the only thing is it doesn't have. Promotion and its processor is a bit outdated. But in this case in this video I want to showcase the second gen 12.9 inch, which solves a couple of these issues. It goes for around 500 to 600 used, and it has promotion and an updated processor, etc.

So it makes a really great user experience and I want to touch on it today and show you just how valuable it is as of 2020, but before we continue. I'd really appreciate it. If you leave a like comment, if you have any questions, suggestions or opinions as the YouTube algorithm likes that and will help push my content to more people, and if you are a recurring viewer, go ahead and click the bell icon and enable all notifications, it does help the channel out a lot before I demo anything with this tablet here. Let's first talk about the hardware, so right off the bat I got to say um, comparing this to my 12.9 inch 2020 and 2018 models. Uh.

This thing is big. It feels like a picture frame. I mean, like you, got these bezels here which just make it feel a bit unwieldy. This is something I didn't like about these tablets back when they were new, but still I mean you get this gorgeous display on here with true tone: it's laminated, it's high resolution. I don't think it's that much different from the new displays at all.

It looks really great and of course it has this awesome high refresh rate. You know pro motion even with the outdated-ish hardware, not really actually, because this device packs the a10x, which is even more powerful than the chip found in the current gen iPad 10.2 inch, which rocks the a10. We can do a little quick benchmark here, just to show you how powerful it is or how it stacks up to the older and newer iPads. So here we have the geek bench scores, 844 single core, 2306 multicore, so definitely not the most powerful thing on the market right now, but still in my experience, this paired with roughly 4 gigs of ram pushes the iPadOS 13, and I would assume 14 experience very smoothly. I don't see any real lag or stutter at least regularly and yeah.

I'm very satisfied with the smoothness of the UI so far here, comparing it to uh scores from its counterparts like the third generation iPad Pro um, it gets like 11 18 single core, so there's definitely a jump up there and then, of course, in multi-core scores um. It's a huge jump so like with the newer gen iPad pros you get like 4 500, so yeah. If you want to do any like 4k, editing or if you are relying on this tablet for work, you know for really heavy end tasks, then, obviously the extra investment, the extra cash is going to be worth it for that increased performance, but we're going to demo a couple of things today, and I'm going to show you just how powerful this device really is in 2020 and also keep in mind here. This is more powerful than even a current gen iPad, which is the iPad 10.2 inch. If I can find it here see we have the iPad 7th gen listed on geek bench.

It gets a 1395 multi-core score, so you get roughly like 900 more points in that category with the a10x and then compared to single core scores. Here you get 756 with the iPad 7 genes, so yeah across the board. This device is more powerful than the 7th gen iPad and, of course, it's bigger and better in a ton of different ways. One of those ways is with these quad speakers here, and I can demo them really quickly with like a YouTube video. You know some non-copyrighted music but yeah.

This is a staple feature of the iPad Pro line for right now, and I love it, so I'll open up YouTube here. Yeah, these speakers sound great. I mean even like three years later right. This was released in 2017, and you know 2020 is coming to a close. I mean we're like more than halfway through it now so yeah.

The quad speakers in here really do hold up, and they are so much better than those in the iPad Air, the current gen 1 and the iPad 10.2 inch once again, but enough talk with hardware, let's actually demo, some things you know stuff that I would do with my iPad. Normally so, let's open up safari. For example, I was looking at this article here, apple's 16-inch MacBook pros are 400 off. I actually might buy one because I'm going to be commuting to school and just being more on campus, so I'm going to need to work on the go here and, let's just say, I wanted to open up a different app how about YouTube. So I can look up a review or a performance test here, another great thing about having an iPad 12.9, which is having this great virtual keyboard. It's huge it's more life-size, so I can look up 16-inch MacBook Pro 5300 m right.

So then I can find a video on that because I might consider buying a baseline one and of course, max tech has some of the best comparisons, and you know like performance tests on YouTube, uh hi max. If you're watching this um you've really helped me with my purchasing decisions but yeah, I'm scrolling through here, beautiful 120, hertz super, super smooth and then of course we got a YouTube video playing here as well. What if I want to open up- I don't know maybe the music app if I actually had Apple Music um. I could open it up right here, and we have this little floating window. I can bring that off to the side or dismiss it.

If I want to, I can resize here there was a little of lag there, but nothing really serious, but yeah there. We go really great experience, multitasking, and I can of course close that up with the multitasking gestures, we can also go over and use an app that I use very frequently good notes and don't worry, we'll cover suffusion in a minute I didn't skip over here. So I can open up my planner that I usually write in and this is for tomorrow, so I can do like Sunday or right Sunday, and then I can write. You know like check my email plan content. This feels super smooth by the way, of course, even though this is older hardware, the 120 hertz, you know the low latency is just really great.

It really doesn't feel at all different compared to my newer, gen iPad pros here. What else can I write? Maybe like go to the mall, slash, see the boys but yeah there you go. I'm planning out my day here and, like I said, the Apple Pencil experience is just stellar, and it should be with other apps too I'll open up another one that uses the apple, pencil, procreate, and I'll make a new untitled piece of artwork. Here I can use a paint brush, for example, and make use of the pressure sensitivity here very beautifully, so there you go. I can maybe zoom in and make use of the pencils so sketching soft pastel that looks cool.

Look at that there we go and yeah I mean it works really, really great here. Obviously you can zoom in and out, there's no stuttering or lag or anything. I can actually open up um a real project here. I don't want to ruin it though, and I can, you know, zoom in and whatever and yeah it's working perfectly. So if you're somebody on a budget- and you want to do some illustration or whatever- is there a need to buy a newer gen iPad? Maybe if you have the money, maybe you want it? Maybe you want use we type c.

Maybe you want. You know the future profess, but this is working just fine for this purpose. I think, and the display once again is just really gorgeous as it is. But what about photo editing? You know Lightroom that should work just fine and yeah it does here um. I can open up my library, which is synced across other devices, on my iMac and my iPads and everything.

So I can look at my most recent thumbnail and scroll through them. So we got this one this one. I can make some edits to a duplicate that I have here. You know I can, you know, adjust exposure, maybe contrast and, as you can see here, all of that is done very quickly. There's no delay with it.

You know, there's no stuttering or hardware bottleneck, it's perfect, and once again this display looks really great for this as well. It's nice and big. You can see what you're doing this also applies to photoshop, although I don't use it on an iPad regularly. You can, you know, use this and make some pretty basic compositions. So how about I make something new here, so I've imported this picture of my cats here, maybe I can like to try to cut them out, so I can like to select this guy right here, and I don't know mask it.

Maybe there we go, so maybe I can like to move him around, transform make him bigger. Do some adjustments as well? How about we and I've like not used this app? So much so, forgive me for not being super literate or able to just find things quickly. How about I make some adjustments effects smart filters, so there are some things that aren't available here, but yeah I'm. Hopefully this is a. You know decent enough look at photoshop and I think that if you are doing some pretty light compositions, you know nothing too insane.

Then this iPad should handle it very nicely, but I'm sure you know some photoshop compositions. Even with this more water endowed mobile, app, can get more intensive, and you may benefit from having two gigs more of ram and a much more powerful processor and then, of course, there's video editing with suffusion um. I can import some footage that I have here real quick, so I can create my first project we'll do 30fps. How will we just keep it 1080p for right now, because I think that's the quality of the footage that I have, so I'll press plus I'm not going to watch tutorial because I'm going to import a video or two. So we got these right here and how about? I drag that to the timeline, drag this to the timeline and drag this on top maybe- and we can scrub through that play this back and there's no trouble at all there, I'm playing two clips at the same time, there's a little of lag.

Maybe let's see yeah, that's working perfectly. How about I try to edit the color or whatever, so I'll, double tap and of course we can adjust the effects here. So how about I don't know high contrast, and then I can edit the levels you know like increase contrast, increase, brightness and, of course, I'm doing this just to do it. I'm not actually like trying to make this look good. I'm just making changes for the sake of change.

We can increase saturation, maybe just make it look, weird, maybe make it more yellow and then, lets you know, play it back here yeah. So I think this is lesser than 4k, but this was 4k footage. It might be, but long story short. You can place two streams of at least 1080p video with this device here and edit so yeah I mean, if you're comfortable air dropping your stuff over or using a lightning to SD card adapter or whatever, because of course there is external storage support with iPadOS with the files' app. Then by all means you could use this device and have a great time video editing, although I will say if you have a more heavy 4k oriented workflow, then you might want to opt for a more powerful iPad.

But yeah I mean even with this older hardware, you can still get some work done quite nicely and finally, let's get to some gaming here I have Minecraft opened up, and I have my controller connected as well here and look at this. This is really smooth actually smoother than my experience with my iPad Pro running the iPadOS 14 public beta yeah. This is quite nice um. I could see myself playing this on this device yeah. This just goes to show even with some older hardware.

You can still have a lot of fun here and the 120 hertz, I do believe, is making a difference if my eyes are not being fooled here. This is a very smooth game, so I can punch a cow- maybe sorry, hopefully the PETA doesn't get on my ass. Let me jump into water, maybe I don't know totally playable totally enjoyable here and with Minecraft demoed. How about we demo Call of Duty mobile, which is another game that makes use of a wireless controller, so we'll open this up. I will play as a guest and, yes, I'm aware some of these players are bots.

I don't think I'm actually good, I'm way better at PC gaming and even in the realm of PC gaming. Furthermore, I'm not that great. So I've gotten comments like this. Kid thinks she's good, and I'm like no I'm just having fun sniper loadout. Where is everybody there? We go, helps that your player just kind of shoots for you, like you, don't have to repeatedly press the trigger yeah these.

These are definitely bots, or you know I have an advantage with the controller. I don't hide so yeah. I mean I'm having fun I'm immersed in the game. If it wasn't, that would kind of tell you that this experience wouldn't be great, but yeah I mean I'm having a lot of fun here, close up snipe somebody here there we go. Am I shooting there? We go okay, I want to get someone from far away, and then I can say somebody hit there.

We go all right. So that concludes the gaming. Oh, there we go victory. That concludes the gaming portion of this video and that about wraps up this video here. This is truly a great budget alternative I've seen these being sold for, like you know, 500 550, for a very good reason.

I mean the fact that you can get this for half the cost of a newer 12.9-inch iPad and get some of the greatest features that come with that newer iPad, like promotion and a decent gaming experience and a great display is really awesome. So I highly recommend looking at one of these on swap or eBay or whatever, and if you can pick one up for a good price, you're going to be really happy with your purchase and that about wraps things up here. I hope this video was helpful once again. I'd appreciate it if you leave a like comment and of course subscribe for more content like this and as always I'm Noah, and I will catch you all in the next one.

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