M1 iPad Pro vs Galaxy Tab S7+ By Brad Colbow

This video is sponsored by Squarespace. We've got a smackdown going on here. The new 2021 iPad Pro is going head-to-head with Samsung's top of the line: Galaxy Tab, s7, plus, let's see how these devices stack up hello. My name is brad, and I review tech for creative professionals and if you don't know a lot about android tablets, you might be thinking the iPad. Pro is going to stomp the galaxy, but not so fast. Samsung has been pumping out some great hardware and in many ways this is a lot closer than many folks realize.

Today. We've got a tablet: smackdown between Samsung's top-of-the-line, galaxy, tab, s7 and the apple 2021 iPad Pro. So, let's start by taking a look at the displays. The iPad Pro comes in two sizes, 11 inches and 12.9 inches Samsung's Galaxy Tab, s7 also comes in two sizes, 11 inches and 12.4 inches. The larger tab, s7 plus, is almost the same exact width as the iPad Pro, but it's a different aspect ratio making it a little narrower the s7 plus comes in at pixels by 1752 pixels and the iPad Pro is 2732 pixels by 2048 pixels.

Now most of the difference between those numbers comes down to that aspect. Ratio again. This is where things get interesting. The super AMOLED display on the s7 plus might be my favorite tablet screen ever the new liquid retina Dr display looks perfect in many ways, just as good, in fact, but it has one problem- and I mentioned this in my iPad Pro review- you get pixel dimming around the edges of the screen, giving it this inner shadow glow whenever you have any kind of bright colors on the screen, and some people have noticed a glow around really light spots on their iPad if they crank up the brightness in a really dark room. When I put these displays next to each other, they both look amazing, the colors leap off the screens.

They look so good, but when they're sitting here next to each other, I can tell the apple display goes brighter. The whites are definitely whiter. The blacks, the blacks feel about the same. To me, black is black, so I feel from a technical standpoint. I should give this to apple, but this is about what I care about most I'm going to shock the apple fanboys here, and I'm gonna just say it.

The Samsung display it wins. I like it better. Let's go to round two on the outside these tablets. Look a lot alike. I mean visually we're talking about squared off edges and antenna lines along the back, not to mention the brushed aluminum finish on the inside.

The iPad Pro has a m1 processor that everybody's been going gaga over, while the s7 plus has a snapdragon 865 chips. If you look at the benchmarks, this is one area where apple's silicon is just flat out. Beating the world right now, single core processing on the iPad Pro is coming in. Around 1 700. Multi-core processing is 7 300.

On the snapdragon. We have 934 for single core processing with 2828 for the multi-core. What about ram the iPad Pro starts out at 8 gigabytes, and you can go up to 16 gigabytes when you go with the models that have more storage. The galaxy starts at six, but goes up to eight when you get more storage space. Now storage is pretty similar with both of these starting at 128 gigabytes.

The iPad Pro can go all the way up to two gigabytes of storage: the highest configuration for the tab, s7 maxes out at 512, but the tab. Seven plus here has a micro SD card slot. So you could expand your storage further yourself for far less money. So when it comes to hardware, you have to give this one to apple because of that m1 processor. What about the Apple Pencil versus the s pen? Well we're getting to that next.

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These are both rechargeable the iPads recharges, while along the side and the s7s rests along the strip along the back. I personally prefer side charging, but really it's not that big of a deal just means your Galaxy Tab doesn't sit flat when the pen is attached to it. The galaxy tabs pen does come packed in here, whereas the Apple Pencil costs an extra 130 dollars. One thing to note: the Apple Pencil just stops working when that battery dies, whereas the s pen, it'll, keep going on and on and on forever, really what you need. The battery for some extra Bluetooth features not specifically for drawing there's motion gestures on the s pen, for example.

You can swipe through photos or pause videos or take a photo from your camera from a distance. I use those for the review and I haven't used any of those shortcuts, since another thing that is fun to look at is response time of the pen and how much lag you're going to find on the pen in general, I have to slow down the camera in order to see any kind of lag at all, which is a way of saying it's perfect here. Both of these are going to run circles around a drawing tablet that attaches to a mac or PC computer. I also find pen lag varies dramatically from app to app, for example, clip studio. It's its pretty good here you go to something like procreate on the iPad, and it is really well done on Samsung.

The best optimized app as far as the response time of the pen goes is the notes' app, not something you want to draw in, but it shows that the Galaxy Tab, s7 plus, does have a perfect response time. The other accessories I want to talk about are the keyboard cases. I really, really like apple's magic keyboard. It costs a lot, though 300 or 350, depending on the size you get and in a lot of ways. I feel like the magic keyboard is it's very nice, but it's kind of overkill.

If Samsung could just provide a cheaper alternative, I might tilt this one in their favor, but they don't. The trackpad on this thing is the worst I have ever used on any device ever period, the arrow that appears when you're using it probably looks good on a small phone, but here it looks huge it's hard to click on it and also the case itself. It's its not magnetically attached very well. It wiggles around a lot anyway. I could go on and on about the case was not a fan, so this category goes to apple.

The drawing experience on both of these is pretty good. In fact, it's better than pretty good on the iPad. It's great now in the tab. S7 it's up there as well. I've gotten to the point where I really prefer drawing on tablets like this than I do to desktops being able to zoom in and out smoothly by pinching or tapping the screen to undo or mapping gestures to things that you're doing commonly like picking colors or that sort of thing.

I love that just using a tablet for that is so convenient when I go to desktop apps, I miss all of that. Both of these pens are very accurate. Both have great pressure sensitivity. Both are fantastic, drawing experiences, but where the Apple Pencil edges out, the Wacom powered stylus on the s7 is in palm rejection. Whenever I draw on this device, I'm always left with a lot of little lines and dots where my palm was on the screen.

Now one caveat to this: this experience varies from app to app. For example, this has never been a problem for me as much in clip studio. I mean it happens, but not nearly as much. It's amazing how this, like small improvement, dramatically, improves the like user experience for the entire device. Some apps will allow you to toggle off hand gestures on the canvas, so that doesn't happen.

A lot of people like doing that. I've noticed in some apps. It doesn't always turn out great. For example, it takes me longer to zoom in and out it just doesn't always pick up the little gestures, I'm doing like to undo and things like that. So it's a trade-off.

This is something that the Apple Pencil really nailed from day one. The s-pen also has a very tiny small rubber tip, and it gives you some drawing resistance when you're drawing on a smooth glass screen. The Apple Pencil, on the other hand, has a very hard tip. That's why I end up using screen protectors whenever I'm drawing on an iPad, because it just gives me a better feel and the pencil isn't sliding around as much so with all that said, who wins this one's going to go down to the Apple Pencil. The s pen is no slouch, but the pencil really edges it out here software.

This is where things have changed the most over the past year in the past I would get an android tablet and honestly, I just get frustrated mainly by the drawing apps. These were never big problems, just little frustrations that built up over time. I would get into the flow of an app, and it would crash- or I was tired of cleaning up my lines that my palm was leaving behind. Maybe I just couldn't find that brush that I was looking for and there wasn't a big ecosystem of user-made brushes that I could download and oftentimes. It was dumb things like.

It was hard to open the color, picker, or you'd pick your color, and you'd start drawing, and the color picker was still open, so it wouldn't draw on the thing. Every app seems to have one or two little things that would just drive me nuts. So what's changed well over the last year, one the software stability has improved. Maybe it's because the hardware is better, I'm not sure, but infinite painter, art flow really improved. Also, we're seeing other apps start to pop up on there that are much more powerful, like some of the things we've seen on the iPad Krita it's on android.

Now that is a thing, and it's its still pretty buggy. It's definitely still in beta, but there's a lot of promise there. The game changer for me has been clip studio, paint running on android. Initially it only worked on Samsung devices, now it'll work on any android device. This program started out as a desktop app back in the day.

I used to use it all the time. I really like it better on the tablet and goes back to some of the things I talked about earlier, just being able to pinch and zoom and tap to undo it's just so nice, and it's way better than using it on the desktop so head to head. What's our verdict here, I still think the iPad ecosystem is the better software ecosystem. Procreate affinity photo designer on the flip side, even though I am giving this category to the iPad. I still feel that android has come so far and every year it's cool to see how much it improves, and it's cool to see Samsung themselves investing in the android ecosystem to make it better.

The smaller iPad Pro starts at 799 dollars and the s7 starts at 649. We have 10.99 and 8.49 for the larger sizes, it's pretty common for Samsung products to drop in price faster than apple products. In fact, that's that's pretty much guaranteed to happen. That's the case now the s7 plus has been out longer, and I found it on Amazon for about eighty dollars. Under this initial price listing also keep in mind.

The s pen comes packed in with the s7, whereas the Apple Pencil is 130 extra. So that's a pretty big hidden cost if the price of either one of these devices is just too much for you. You have options. You know how I just mentioned: how Samsung lowers their prices over time? The tab s6 lite is currently going for 280. That is a steal, it's not as big as the s7, plus it's not as powerful as the s7 plus, but it's a really solid tablet at that price.

It's kind of amazing. If you're looking at iPads, you could always take a step back, get an older refurbished iPad Pro uh. The other option is you could look at some other iPads. The iPad Air is a very good option and even the lowest end. iPads now have pencil.

Support are fairly inexpensive, and the quality is just perfect. The verdict is Samsung, it's just obviously it's the cheaper price, but I think it's a fantastic value for the price that it's at. So what is my verdict for most artists and illustrators? I still think that the best choice is the iPad. So that's going to be the winner you're, going to love procreate. If you want clip studio, it's there, adobe is slowly very slowly, bringing their apps over and some of that functionality so last fall.

I went all in on the tab. S7 plus- and I used it as my daily driver- and that was a big deal for me. It lasted about two months until I got the iPad Air. Ultimately, the iPad apps specifically procreate are what pulled me back in, but what I learned in that time was that android tablets are ready for prime time. Finally, I think for me, it was clip studio that really turned the tide.

I now have a drawing app. I can use and absolutely love, and I really enjoyed spending more time on android in the past year than I ever have at any other point before. So what do you think? Let me know down below in the comments. Thank you all for watching, and I'll talk to you. In a couple of days you.

Source : Brad Colbow