#MUST HAVE APPS IPAD PRO 10.5 PRO#
The new iPad Pro displays don’t support HDR and as good as the LCD is, it’s no OLED. Its ProMotion feature, which ramps the display refresh rate from 24Hz (for things like reading) all the way up to 120Hz (for things like scrolling and gaming) is a feature of the iPad Pros that I wish the iPhones had.īeautiful as the screens are, Apple could have went further. Not to mention, it’s really bright, the colors are rich, and the resolution (2,732 x 2,048) is beyond sharp. While it lacks any kind of 3D Touch pressure sensitivity or Haptic Touch vibrational feedback, the Liquid Retina display is still stunning from all viewing angles. The display itself is arguably Apple’s best LCD in a device ever, even better than the iPhone XR’s screen in my opinion. I love having a touchscreen to tap and scroll, but I long for a mouse when I want more precision when I'm doing things like scrubbing through a timeline in a video editing app.Īnd as vastly improved as the new Apple Pencil (opens in a new tab) is with its ability to magnetically clip onto the iPad Pro and wirelessly charge it, and as great as the Smart Keyboard Folio’s two angle positions are, they cost extra, and they're not necessarily always a better substitute for a tried and true keyboard (with good key travel) and responsive trackpad.įor certain types of creative professionals who will relish the iPad Pro’s desktop-class performance, the iPad Pros paired with an Apple Pencil are well worth the high price tag - the 11-inch starts at $799 and the 12.9-inch starts at $999, respectively, without any accessories - to unlock a new kind of creative and mobile productivity.
#MUST HAVE APPS IPAD PRO 10.5 PC#
You can multitask with features like opening two or three apps at the same time, but with the way they’re designed to work, it’s slower than a traditional windowed-app experience on a Mac (opens in a new tab) or PC (opens in a new tab). That doesn't, however, mean the iPad Pro's strengths aren't better than its weaknesses, though. There’s no question the new iPad Pros, with their spankin’ boxier design and slimmer bezels, are beautiful slabs of glass Face ID is awesome, they’re even more powerful than any iOS device or competing tablets, and they can do some seriously incredible things with the right apps.īut the tablets are hampered by the same limitations of previous iPads (Pro or not): iOS on an iPad still isn’t as robust for general work as a MacBook (opens in a new tab) running macOS (opens in a new tab). Can it finally replace a laptop the way a Surface Pro can? The answer: Maybe, kinda, sorta. How much of a “real” computer experience can you get with the new iPad Pros (opens in a new tab) is what I wanted to know. With the iPhone XR (opens in a new tab), it mainly came down to the display and not having a secondary camera, so we shot all the product photos for the review with another iPhone XR to see if I’d miss the iPhone XS’s (opens in a new tab) better screen and more versatile camera (spoiler: no).įor Apple’s new iPad Pros (2018) (opens in a new tab), I did my best to use my 12.9-inch review unit to do everything a customer might use it for - things like drawing, editing video, writing, reading, watching videos, listening to music, playing 3D games, and then trying to do as many of these things simultaneously like you might on a laptop or desktop computer. Whenever I get a new gadget to review, I try to focus on its standout features and use them to their fullest to get a deeper understanding of the product's strengths and weaknesses.