HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020)

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In this video we're comparing the two hottest devices on the planet right now - the new, refreshed MacBook Air (2020) and the somewhat new, somewhat refreshed iPad Pro (2020). Which should you buy? Find out in this video.

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[aliabdaal]

Hey friends, you should totally check out these other iPad videos: 

[slimm_hoops]

Sometimes when I buy something fairly EXPENSIVE I like to watch videos which justifys my possibly STUPID purchase

[TheHollyChronicle]

Me: **watches these videos knowing full well I can’t afford either**

[mchristofas]

Has an iPad Pro and pencil. Writes comparison on a notebook with a sharpie! 😂

[tylerp]

I think he mentioned college students maybe twice in this video? In case anyone came to this actually wondering how the iPad works for students, I’ll share my experience. I’m a chemical engineering student and the iPad works as my main computer. I take exclusively hand-written notes because most of what I do is problem sets and taking notes on equations and diagrams. The Apple Pencil with the iPad Pro is by far the best device out there for taking handwritten notes. I also do a fair bit of numerical calculations using excel, Python, Mathematica. While these are available on iPad via cloud or apps, they are much more inconvenient than using on a Macbook, so the iPad does fall short here and I opt for a normal computer when coding. For emails, writing word documents, and browsing the internet, I am actually more productive overall on the iPad, so in these regards I personally think the iPad beats out a computer. Hope this helps any students considering buying one.

[alexandrotheodorou]

“Spend every single waking hour in front of a computer” - basically my life

[armandoc]

I am glad he always tells his conclusion at the beginning.
I was planning to get an Ipad pro with the pencil over the Macbook air.
Now that I know he will convince me not to buy the iPad Pro i just can quit the Video and
persuade myself to still buy an ipad pro.
I can be so clever. :)

[danielntemuse]

As Socrates once said:
“ duhh...the iPad Pro whatchu sayin’ “

[Corporis]

1:33 Molly looks different than I imagined

[kariskhattab]

I have a laptop and a tablet already + zero cash, I should:
Not watch the video and mind my own business ❌
Watch every single bit of the video just because it's ali ✅

[Neverlander]

Yes. Finally someone said, that you can not compare „air” device with „pro” just because they cost more or less the same. Thank you for this video.

[Ghaffar_KH]

I totally disagree. As a university student, most of your studying is gonna be from your lecture slides; an iPad is, without question, the best device to study from for your lecture slides. Also, you could easily take it to your lecture and write your notes with an Apple pencil on the slides themselves or separately, which is something that you can't do as easily on your laptop. You could also download a pdf version of your textbooks and much more, and then place the device in vertical mode and study from it as if you're studying from a piece of paper. The only thing that laptops have over an iPad is when you want to write and essay or presentation, which is much easier to be done on a laptop with the aid of a trackpad. If you decide to get an iPad, get the pro version. The apple pencil in the pro version is the best, and the tablet has the best battery and screen resolution (that's excluding the fact that you have no bezels on it!).

[y.w.]

Me: Only kids make choices. I want both of them!
Wallet: Shut up!

[mayankmittal]

I was justifying to myself asking my parents for an iPad Pro for so long but now imma just get a basic iPad lmao

[mcastro]

I’m a college student and I’m having a hard time deciding between the two

[rajaalahmar]

Look at the bright side..being poor takes away these tough decisions

[theloniousMac]

You’re too young to remember this, but this is exactly the same argument that went around when the Macintosh first came out. Those of us who were “serious professional” computer users felt (and still do btw) that the Mac graphical user interface was horrendously slow compared to a command line interface. We just didn’t see the future being desktop metaphors and wasting all that time dragging things around when I could dash off a command that would accomplish so much more in a fraction of the time. Not to mention the inherent automation capabilities in command lines.

Many of us said the Mac was “not a computer.” Sound familiar?

Well, the iPad is not a Mac.

A Mac is a computer that runs MacOS and is built by Apple. The iPad is a computer, but something all together different. It is evolving before our eyes.

Apple says that the iPad won’t be replacing the Mac. Well give it time. As advanced technologies emerge, Apple seems to bring them to iOS first. The iPhone is still baby Jesus as far as they are concerned, and most of their customers as well.

There are however people who get the iPad. It’s the same sort of foresight that allowed the Mac to become popular with certain people. Apple is spoon feeding us evolutionary steps at a glacial rate. I believe this is to keep us purchasing successive iterations in that way that they do, but at the same time to make sure that changes make sense, fit properly, and don’t utterly undermine the Mac... yet.

There are a lot of little things that need to be addressed to make it easier for people indoctrinated into the classic desktop metaphor to migrate to iOS. It’s not hard as it is, but it could be better.

In the meantime I am enjoying this new computer that has taken over my life and look forward to helping future clients and associates realize just how powerful a little beastie it is.

As Apple says, they have no intention of replacing the Mac with the iPad. Change is, however, inevitable.

[billchen]

There is another factor that needs to be taken into account: the resale value. You can always sell the iPad Pro and get a large portion of your money back. This is a benefit of apples eco system and it helps reduced the “cost” of purchasing the more expensive iPad pros.

[dre]

Hey ali, i completly diagree in this matter. I‘m a german university teacher an i use a non-pro standard ipad (2018) with apple pencil as my main device. Since 2018 I do not have a laptop of any kind. For my tasks the ipad works great: teaching via one note or notabilty with the apple pencil- no way with a laptop ( especially when you do handwriting ). I teach chemistry and biology with many drawings and formulas: that‘s a pain on a laptop. For heavy work ( with happens once in a month or so) i use my imac ( indesign, photoshop, premier) . So I recommend my students an ipad over laptop ( the ipad ( 2018) for 300 isch bugs - it‘s a no brainer ). And I recommend handwriting over typing due to effects on better memorization. Greetings from würzburg -roland

[frontlinebreakthrough]

I just really hate how in all these discussions of the iPad people really ignore the Apple Pencil. Like, yes I know the MacBook can do things that the iPad can’t do, I’m not denying that, but in these arguments you need to also acknowledge what the iPad can do that the laptop can’t - like you can’t highlight and annotate notes, you can’t sketch at all. You can’t really go on a walk with your digitized notes to revise because you were tired of sitting in your room with a Mac. And the feeling of using a touch interface is its own way amazing and for me is so much better of an experience that I don’t mind losing a little efficiency. I have both devices, but for years I had an iPad only, because that was the budget, and I love both devices. I’m not at all saying this to bash on the MacBook. But this argument was just too one sided