The M4 iPad Pro is Almost Perfect...

This is the new M4 11in iPad Pro. A newly redesigned iPad with a new screen, M4 chip, new accessories and it’s thinner than ever. But is this finally an ipad pro worth upgrading to from your aging ipad? Let’s talk about it.

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[Andy-rcdb]

I keep hearing YouTuber’s say, ‘Nobody wanted the iPad to be thinner and lighter’ - which does cause me to wonder whether you actually use the thing as a productivity device. I use my 13” for real work - at home, at the office, and on the go and the 2018 absolutely needed to be lighter. You try standing in a work setting taking notes, etc. all day long. It gets heavy quickly. The M4 13” is a significant improvement. It’s almost comically light. And the difference that makes is notable and really welcome.

What I do get is that prosumers, gamers, and content consumers won’t necessarily feel the benefit. But I’d argue that’s because this device isn’t targeted at you. Get the Air instead and save your money.

[bobbydemondukes]

I bought the 13Pro 2TB. Wanted some future proofing and no lag issues for my daily workflow. I only use it for E-Mail, YouTube and some light porn on the weekends. Fingers crossed it holds up.

[Aiii]

Since you’re reviewing the 11-inch, I assume that’s what the “nobody was complaining about the iPad’s weight” comments were about. But I’m going to interject here, because the weight reduction is an absolute 100% game changer for the 13-inch iPad Pro. I had the 12.9 M1 model because the 11-inch had the terrible LCD screen (not saying it was a terrible screen, just saying all LCD in general is bad to have on a premium device), but the weight absolutely made it a bad tablet. For that reason I was going to switch back to 11-inch once that got a good screen too, but then I saw the weight reduction in the keynote and finally went to a store to get a feel for both devices and instantly went 13-inch. Now you get the benefits of the big screen while still getting a tablet device that’s a pleasure to hold. This is everything the device needed.

[terrywarnold]

Your “non techy” person type assessment is spot on. My dad just recently upgraded to a 9th gen iPad from his 6th gen and that was only cause he ran out of storage space for his apps. He’s a minister and really only uses his iPad for content consumption and his sermon notes.

[frostyflakes]

The iPad is my drawing tablet, and the features of the pencil pro really are enticing. My M1 doesnt have hover, and with squeeze and find my, definitely considering an upgrade because of that.

[nuggyfresh]

I was complaining a ton about the weight of my 12.9 inch iPad Pro because it was SUPER uncomfortable to hold in bed. This one is perfect.

[mikemckee]

Hey Jimmy. First time I’ve come across your channel, and your straight-forward, common-sense analysis earned an easy subscription from me.

I also wanted to say that I think most reviewers have missed one important benefit to the new iPad Pro that even the average iPad user should at least consider. Virtually everyone with a smart phone uses it for photography, and any relatively recent iPhone can shoot photos in HDR (as well as display them in HDR on the phone). But until the arrival of this new iPad Pro and its spectacular OLED display, there has been no portable device that could accurately display photos exactly as they were captured by the phone. Try to display HDR photos on a pre-2021 iPad Pro, with its standard LED display, and you will get a very flat and dull SDR image, not at all indicative of how the actual photo came out. And even on the more recent, 2021-2023 iPad Pros with mini-LED displays and HDR capability, they are limited to a maximum of 600 nits, which while better, still can’t give you an accurate replication of what the phone captured.

So at least for me, the new iPad Pro is worth it for the screen alone. When I travel, I always take my iPad with me and use it at the end of each day to review the photos I’ve taken to see what I actually captured. You just can’t really tell how a photo really came out by looking at the small phone screen, even when that screen supports HDR. And I don’t think most people even realize they are capturing much better quality photos than they’re actually seeing when they view them afterward on a non-HDR laptop or older iPad. In fact, I noticed that many new iPhone 15 Pro users went online to complain after its release that their photos looked flat and dim. I suspect much of that disappointment is due to viewing the pictures on screens that cannot display them accurately.

It seems such a waste to take photos with a phone camera that is capable of very high dynamic range, but then never see those photos on anything that can show you what you actually captured. This new iPad Pro is a game changer in that regard, if only people were made aware of it.

[toothzombie]

My 2018 12.9 ended up collecting dust. Too close in size to my MBP. M4 11 inch is the way to go, not looking back.

[PSy]

With Canva, Capcut and AI...and other few apps...the future creators are great with iPads only and will probably have more followers, views and profits as they will only focus on SUBSTANCE of their content and not on time consuming editting of videos.

Most people who earn a lot are good with ipads only like business people, real estate etc.

I am probably in a minority here, but yeah, iPad does need to get lighter. Why? Because of the Magic Keyboard. The lighter the iPad, the lighter the base of magic keyboard can get. I bought this iPad Pro M4 with Magic Keyboard. It’s interesting device, I like it, but it still feels like a brick when I am taking it with me. Because the Magic Keyboard has to be heavy in order for it to not tip over when iPad is connected. So this is still an issue.

[PaulMurley]

Still rocking a 2018 Pro and it’s great. I’ll upgrade when it stops getting OS updates.

[ryanclouse]

I upgraded from 2018 ipad pro 11 to m4 ipad pro 13 and it so far has been great. The additional layers from RAM is great, and I didn't expect to like the thinness and the screen as much as I do. I also really love the squeeze, hover, and rotate support that I didn't have before. I was contemplating on the price tag for a while, but for how much I use it, I went ahead with the purchase and I am so glad I did. Also, the 13" Ipad has a better aspect ratio in my opinion for drawing. I noticed at first I was doing the same thing where I was zooming in a bit on the 11 in to do clean line art but after a bit it definitely was nicer on the larger screen. I was worried about the size being unwieldy or too heavy, but so far that has not been a problem.

[pepelinsuarez]

The main reason why I bought the 2024 iPad 13 inch is the oled screen because I do a lot of reading. For me, the screen on the 2024 iPad is much better than the one on the 2022. I had the M2 iPad, but I returned and got the M4 iPad when I saw the quality of the screen at the Apple store. Great video and good luck with your channel!!!

[ricardomilice]

I use my iPad for music recording and I plan on getting the M4 1 tb . The Production community find value in this upgrade.

[Xpuc]

Rocking IPad 6th gen here. With Paperlike and the first pencil. Still good, still does everything, the battery still holds, if it wouldn’t be EOL this year I wouldn’t have to upgrade. Probably the best value for money device I ever had.

[deardhakal]

Interestingly, after watching several reviews of the iPad Pro, it appears that the device is tailored exclusively for niche markets like photo editors, musicians, and those whose profession involves drawing. It's absolutely astonishing that many YouTubers consider 'professionals' to be exclusively those who edit videos, draw, or create music. On the contrary, there are majority of professionals who would like to use an ipad, and professional applications for them consist of mainly the full versions of MS Office, seamless file management systems, and the complete version of Outlook.

[nayibgonzalez]

I traded in both my Macbook Pro M1 and a 2020 iPad Pro for an 11-inch 512GB M4. Two weeks ago I gave it a shot to do everything on my iPad (from video editing on Lumafusion, Logic Pro mixing, photo edits on Photomator and Affinity to everyday mundane tasks like watching content, e-mails, etc.), not really surprisingly but, even with slight performance hiccups, my 2020 iPad Pro did everything. I just love the usage versatility of the device, and the reality is that on this day and age, most tech companies are releasing more compact products like smaller full frame cameras, more content creators are using their phone cameras to make their videos, etc. This doesn’t mean that laptops and computers are getting irrelevant but mobile computing seems now like an alternative option for users.

[georgettewolf]

I’ve used tablets as my primary computers since 2018. That was when I bought a Samsung Galaxy Book on Ebay. It was a full-powered Windows tablet with an OLED screen, two USB-C ports, and a keyboard case that came with it. I’d be using it today if Microsoft would have allowed me to install Windows 11 on it. I finally settled on the iPad Pro and just picked up the 13” M4 model. The previous model did most of what I wanted, but the newest version will be much more future proof because of the processor. And I get to use an OLED screen again — only much improved over what was on the Samsung. At the moment, the only direct improvement I notice in the software is that Microsoft Word runs more smoothly on it than it did on my older iPad Pro.

[JimmyGunawanX]

Someone who got iPad Pro for the first time, getting Apple Pencil Pro, will be quite pleased, they definitely need bigger screen version as well, but soon might feel it feels too big to carry around.

I like my iPad Pro A5 size. The older iPad Pro non M chip still feels good. I bought iPad 2022 last year, it was M2 and I cannot use the Pencil Pro, which makes me sad.

[gerardrosales]

I think you said it best at the beginning of the video. For quite some time now, we've already reached the necessary performance to run the most basic and repetitive mundane tasks. This is the reason why even after being 6 years old, the iPad Pro 2018 with an A12X chip is STILL being compared to the iPads of today. That iPad release was just so good and stood the test of time. Any performance upgrade we get moving forward will have no problem to accommodate the basic tasks we just mentioned, but will just be for future proofing and improving other components of the SoC such as more memory, improved NPU performance, and dedicated chips for encode/decode.

Of course, there's also room for performance improvements not directly associated with the chip, but rather concerning thermals. Using your example, I play Genshin Impact as well on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, but all that power has to throttle simple due to the iPhone's poor thermal management compared to the competition. Even playing with just Medium Graphics with MetalFX enabled and Motion Blur off, I still experience the occasional frame drops even if I lock the FPS to 60.

Hopefully, Apple will continue to invest in better thermal management moving forward.