The iPad Pro is a big upgrade,

but as much as Apple might claim this is a full computer,

it is not ready to replace my laptop just yet.

This is a question I took a look at

a couple years ago when the very first

iPad Pro came out and it actually came pretty close

to replacing a laptop for me but inevitability I ran through

the limitations of running iOS on a 9.7" tablet.

First of all, this is coming from the perspective

of someone who spends a lot of time

with some fairly high-grade video.

The iPad, it just can't handle it, it's not even

the hardware that's the problem it really is iOS.

Sure there's some decent editing apps,

such as iMovie, Premiere Rush, and LumaFusion

for the iPad but the issue is that none of them

are as powerful as the full desktop versions

of Premiere as well as Final Cut.

To produce videos like this I need access to

fairly high-level features, such as

Lut support, full Pro Codex, such as

Pro Res and Red Code Raw, it'd be really helpful

if I had a full finder set-up where, I could,

you know, access the file system and

import things using that handy USBC port.

Instead, well none of this stuff really works

unless I want to do some very basic editing in iMovie.

It's fine, it's definitely capable

of it, but iOS just isn't there yet.

A lot of what I do everyday comes down

to things like writing an e-mail,

and here the iPad is absolutely terrific.

I've always preferred the smaller iPad Pro size

but that does mean you have to sacrifice then

on the actual keyboard, it's a little bit smaller

than a standard layout, but I've been using it

for long enough that it's not really a big issue.

Maybe it's still a little bit ridiculous

that this accessory that is basically mandatory

if I wanna get any work done on an iPad costs a full $180

but I mean I guess that's everyone at this point.

I mean even Microsoft doesn't include

the keyboard with the Surface.

If you want to avoid the Apple tax,

you can pick up either a blu-tooth keyboard

or something that plugs via USBC,

or an adapter, but at the end of the day

I want to have a portable set up

that is as close to a laptop as possible.

Which means that I'm stuck spending $180 dollars

on the Apple keyboard which is just, okay,

but not really worth that kind of money.

Something I've been kind of surprised by is the pencil.

Updated this year with a much less annoying design

as apposed to plugging it into the lighting port to charge

instead all you need to do is attach it

to the top of the iPad, and not only

does it attach here magnetically,

but it also wirelessly charges.

I will give Apple this, the iPad hardware is

incredibly nice, this is seriously the biggest

update to the iPad since the original.

Thanks to the lack of the home button

the bezels are much smaller here

which means that not only do we have a bunch

of iPhone 10 like gestures, but importantly

we get an 11" inch display and the

same size chaste as the old 9.7" iPad.

The finger print sensor as been replaced

with face I.D. which has been crammed

into the top bezel along with the front facing camera.

It should be no surprise that the screen

is absolutely excellent.

Importantly we still have ProMotion which means

that the iPad Pro has a full 120 hertz display.

This means that the iPad screen

is running at twice the frame rate

and twice the smoothness of pretty much

any other mobile display out there.

The only thing that comes close

are some gaming laptops that do have higher

refresh rate displays, as well as on the phone side

the Razor phone has a higher refresh rate panel

but in the tablet space nothing touches this

and it does make a big difference things are so, so smooth.

- [Speaker] Nick Perry teamed up with

Peter and Jack Margos to fix the daily number game

perry - The screen is absolutely

terrific so not only is it color accurate

it gets fairly bright, there's really

not a lot to complain about and that goes double

for the speakers, it does have quad speakers

with one on each corner, and this thing sounds

phenomenal as far as watching video goes

this is better than almost any other laptop out there.

Gone are the days of lightening

and in is the glorious future of the USBC port

and this is proper USBC it's 3.1 Gen 2

which means that it does support a full tank

it gets better transfer speeds as well as

of course any kind of video out you do

all the way up to a full 5K monitor.

It will also charge up other devices just like a laptop

plug in your phone for example

and the iPad will give it a full charge.

In classic iPad fashion however,

iOS does hold you back some what with that USBC port

that you can't connect it to an external display

and for some apps such as Twitch and Netflix

it will give you a full screen video

but for the most part your stuck mirroring the iPad display.

Kind of helpful but no where near as good as it would be

if I could, you know, put a window on the display

and another window on my iPad, you know,

like every other laptop on earth.

Its so close but it's so annoying.

I mean this is really close to being able

to fully serve as a laptop right?

I mean for me I have a monitor plugged into my laptop

all the time when I'm at home or at work,

I legitimately like that extra screen real estate

and the hardware is absolutely capable of it

and even the software is to degree

I mean I could put a video there

but the issue is that if I'm say,

watching Netflix and wanting to work on something

at the same time Netflix will play on the 4K display

right up until the point where I alt+tab to

another app in which the entire thing closes,

it's like we're so close, we're so close.

If we take a quick detour into garbage town for a sec.

I get that Apple removed the headphone jack

on their phones a couple years ago,

but this is a device that's trying to replace my laptop

I really do like having a pair of wired headphones

and now sure, blu-tooth might be the future for some people

but for me I appreciate having a nice pair of headphones

that have no latency something that I can plug into say,

a MacBook Air which coincidentally

does still have a headphone jack.

Now I get that this thing is completely packed

with technology it's got like magnets

and batteries and stuff but having a headphone jack

doesn't seem like that big of a sacrifice.

I mean sure I could use a USBC dongle

but that's annoying, I could plug in

my lightening headphones that I bought a couple years ago

oh wait no, I can't do that, 'cause

this doesn't have lightening anymore.

It's just a weird compromise, I mean,

it's not a deal breaker I can get away with

using other types of headphones

but it would be so, so nice if they would have kept

the headphone jack on something

that's trying to replace my laptop.

I could run through our standard sweet of benchmarks

which show that this is hands-down not only

the fastest mobile device we've ever tested

but right up there with a lot of proper laptops

but at the end of the day, what good is power

if you can't use it which brings us around to

my main issue with the iPad Pro, this is where things become

very dependent on what kinda work you do.

I legitimately feel like I could edit some

proper 4K video on the iPad Pro

if I had those software improvements

such as full file manager, as well as final cut.

If you do a lot of work with graphics for example

it actually is a lot better, there are great apps such as,

procreate, and full Photoshop is coming to the iPad,

but still for a lot of people the story here is

less about what it can do right now,

and more about the potential which is

kind of a bit of shame because it's been like that

for several years at this point.

That just it though, this absolutely can replace a laptop

for some people and the iPad Pro is legitimately

getting better and more powerful every year,

but for me this is a great secondary machine

but it is not a laptop killer, at least not yet.