One big new feature that the iPad Pro (2020) line has is the new LiDAR scanner — a sophisticated ToF camera that can determine object shapes, sizes, and edges much more accurately than we’ve previously seen on a mobile device. Another weird decision on Apple’s part — people generally use tablets for video calls and don’t care that much about their back-mounted cameras. The main camera on the iPad Pro 2020 is pretty great — details and colors are true to life and its dynamic range is fantastic, just like on the iPhone 11.We were able to “trick” it from time to time, usually in indoors shots — you can see that the red guitar below has a slightly brown-ish tint, which isn’t there in real life.
The LED lights on the shelf are pure blue, while the iPad Pro camera gave them a slightly purple-ish tint.
We thought the LiDAR sensor would be used for better Portrat Mode shots with the main camera, but nope — not right now.As far as audio goes — the iPad Pro traditionally rocks quad speakers, placed in a stereo setup. The file system is there to help with transfers, but it won’t really allow you to actively expand your iPad storage without a ton of micro-management on your part.When it comes to workflow, iPadOS 13.4 offers a few solutions to make task-switching fast and easy. Alternatively, you can drag the desired app over your main screen to go into Split View or Slide Over (floating window) modes.How does a wireless mouse work on the iPad Pro? But… that doesn’t make anything different — it’s still a mouse pointer, it just acts like a shape-shifting cartoon character while you swipe around with it.From the description above, you can see that the iPad Pro does offer some multi-tasking.
Apple iPad Pro 2020 Review
One big new feature that the iPad Pro (2020) line has is the new LiDAR scanner — a sophisticated ToF camera that can determine object shapes, sizes, and edges much more accurately than we’ve previously seen on a mobile device. Another weird decision on Apple’s part — people generally use tablets for video calls and don’t care that much about their back-mounted cameras. The main camera on the iPad Pro 2020 is pretty great — details and colors are true to life and its dynamic range is fantastic, just like on the iPhone 11.We were able to “trick” it from time to time, usually in indoors shots — you can see that the red guitar below has a slightly brown-ish tint, which isn’t there in real life.
The LED lights on the shelf are pure blue, while the iPad Pro camera gave them a slightly purple-ish tint.
We thought the LiDAR sensor would be used for better Portrat Mode shots with the main camera, but nope — not right now.As far as audio goes — the iPad Pro traditionally rocks quad speakers, placed in a stereo setup. The file system is there to help with transfers, but it won’t really allow you to actively expand your iPad storage without a ton of micro-management on your part.When it comes to workflow, iPadOS 13.4 offers a few solutions to make task-switching fast and easy.
Alternatively, you can drag the desired app over your main screen to go into Split View or Slide Over (floating window) modes.How does a wireless mouse work on the iPad Pro? But… that doesn’t make anything different — it’s still a mouse pointer, it just acts like a shape-shifting cartoon character while you swipe around with it.From the description above, you can see that the iPad Pro does offer some multi-tasking.
The M1 iPad Pro Cameras – Lux
It’s a bit of a tradition here at Lux to take a deep dive into the latest iPhone camera hardware. The latest iPad Pro packs a new, faster M1 chip, a micro-LED screen on the 12.9 inch version, but most intriguing of all… a new front camera system and a feature called Center Stage.
In my own photo tests, I don’t get any notable difference in quality between the last generation of iPad and the current one. This is a similar ‘upgrade’ as last year, when I also did not see significant changes apart from the addition of a new ultra-wide angle lens on the rear.
Whether that is because the sensor isn’t up to snuff or Apple is ruthlessly prioritizing their engineering hours is something we don’t know. Outside of missing that Portrait and Night mode, you will find that compared to your iPhone the iPad rear cameras have slightly different fields of view.
And no, we didn’t forget about last year’s newcomer: the LIDAR module, through some quick comparison testing, does not seem to have changed. If anything, iPads are probably used more for FaceTime and video calls than photography, and after the pandemic stay-home year of 2020 I’d argue prioritizing a device’s video-calling capabilities is quite understandable. The result is slightly less sharp, but exactly the kind of buttery smooth software-based solution that Apple would want for its Center Stage feature that tracks its subject across a room.
Even with the sensor being utterly tiny, Apple uses its usual computational magic to get a good image out of it, and adds some correction to deal with the distortion that such an ultra-wide lens brings. This image of Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, was making the rounds on Twitter with the hashtag #ShotoniPad There were jokes aplenty about the ultra-wide distortion on the camera, but this is all a fairly cheap jab at what is really a very impressive bit of software.
It’s a classic story of Apple: they did a very clever thing that can only really be achieved when hardware and software work very tightly together. I loved putting the iPhone 12 Pro Max through its paces and seeing what you can get out of it without (most of) Apple’s smart computational photography tricks. When it comes to squeezing the best possible shot out of a sensor with software, Apple must surely be leading the pack.
One final note: the ultra-wide camera combines a wider field of view with regular TrueDepth infrared coverage.
One of the reasons iPads might focus closer than your iPhone is that Apple doesn’t have to worry about the device fitting in your pocket. Interestingly, with the LIDAR sensor assisting autofocus it can sometimes be a bit hard to try this fun attribute of the camera — With Halide for iPad, you can drop into manual focus mode and to get ultra-close-ups of everyday things.
iPad Pro 2020 vs. iPad Pro 2021 Buyer’s Guide
In April 2021, Apple updated its popular iPad Pro lineup, introducing a faster M1 chip, a Liquid Retina XDR display, a Thunderbolt port, and more, replacing the previous models from March 2020. Although the 2020 iPad Pro models have now been discontinued by Apple, it is common to find them available at discounted prices with third-party retailers.
Being only a year apart, the 2020 iPad Pro has more in common with its 2021 successor than it has in contrast, including key features such as the design and rear camera setup. Liquid Retina display with 264 ppi, full lamination, oleophobic and anti-reflective coating, P3 Wide Color, and True Tone
Apple’s specification breakdown shows that the two iPad Pros share an overwhelming majority of features. Even so, there a number of meaningful differences between the 2020 and 2021 iPad Pros that are worth highlighting, including their display technologies, processors, and front-facing cameras.
2020 iPad Pro Liquid Retina LED display with 600 nits max brightness (typical) 2021 iPad Pro Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED display with 1,000 nits max full-screen brightness.
The 12.9-inch 2020 iPad Pro, as well as the two generations of the 11-inch models, have the exact same Liquid Retina LED display, featuring 120Hz ProMotion, full lamination, an anti-reflective coating, P3 wide color, and True Tone. The result is an improved visual experience that captures the brightest highlights and subtle details in even the darkest images.
Now creative professionals, including photographers, videographers, and filmmakers, can view and edit true-to-life HDR content on the iPad Pro. If you can take advantage of the new display by consuming or creating HDR media, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro presents a clear upgrade over the 2020 model.
6GB in the 2020 iPad Pro will be adequate for casual users, but 8GB will be defter at handling multiple windows of the same application and a range of intense background tasks. Ultimately, iPadOS is excellent at memory management, so it is unlikely that the amount of RAM in your iPad will be important in most cases. The improved specifications of the 2021 model’s camera facilitate a 2x optical zoom out and Center Stage for video calls.
As well as being considerably faster, Thunderbolt opens up the potential for compatibility with a much broader range of Thunderbolt-only accessories such as external hard drives and monitors. Therefore, if the 2021 iPad Pro, which starts at $799, is already moving out of your price range and you want an accessory such as the $299 Magic Keyboard, you may need to opt for the older iPad Pro to bring down the overall cost. The iPad Air offers a large number of features shared with the iPad Pro, such as the latest all-screen design, a fast, capable processor, practical features like USB-C, and compatibility with the latest Apple accessories, all at a lower price point.
Unless you need iPad Pro features such as a more advanced camera setup, Face ID, more RAM, or stereo audio recording, the iPad Air is the best option for the average consumer. The M1 chip shows a distinct performance bump over the A12Z, but most users will likely not have workflows that can take advantage of the added power.
5G connectivity is the only other reason that it may be worth buying the 2021 iPad Pro, but again only a minority of users who choose the cellular configuration will likely be able to take advantage of it.
If you are intending to keep your iPad Pro for more than a few years, it may be worth buying the newer model to ensure better performance over time through successive updates and with more demanding apps. For the latest pricing on 2020 and 2021 models, check out the iPad Pro section of our Apple Deals roundup.
Why Are iPad Cameras So Bad? – The Gadget Buyer
It isn’t a full feature camera and the newest iPad only has an 8 MP resolution. Below we will explore the reasons behind low-quality iPad cameras and the ways you can improve them. There are multiple reasons and speculations behind the bad iPad camera quality. These numbers show the reason behind the low-quality photo that the average iPad produces.
The iPad cameras are smaller and aren’t equipped with the same low-light tools that we are used to using on the newer iPhones. iPads are not completely capable of taking quality, clear images when relying on low light technology.
Your iPads quality might be bad simply because your lenses require cleaning and maintenance. Often, an iPad will get small scratches that are barely noticeable to the naked eye but can still affect the quality of the picture being taken.
The best way to see a slight improvement in your iPad camera is to manually go into setting and change the HDR. Changing the HDR will give your images a more crisp look than the automatic settings provide HDR snaps multiple photos and merges them to create a high dynamic range. If you have an older iPad, it is necessary to turn the HDR on manually, and it will likely improve the quality of your pictures.
If you are serious about significantly improving your iPad camera, consider investing in an external lens. An external lens increases the magnification abilities of your camera and allows for actions like wide-angle shots.
Apple iPad Pro review 2020: small spec bump, big camera bump
The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $799 and the 12.9-inch model starts at $999, but in both cases, a more realistic cost is at least a couple hundred dollars more: you should factor in the price of a storage bump over the anemic 128GB of base storage and the price of a keyboard case. Unfortunately, you can’t spend the extra $299 or $349 for the new Magic Keyboard case that Apple announced alongside these new iPads — they won’t arrive until May. Our review of Apple iPad Pro (2020) Verge Score 8 out of 10 Good Stuff Great display
Trackpad support might be the most important feature to come to the iPad this year — I say that not even knowing what Apple has planned at its digital-only Worldwide Developers Conference.
Maybe the Magic Keyboard will change that calculus, but there will likely be plenty of trackpad options for less expensive iPads. Anyway, the bright side of the iPad Pro changing so little from the previous generation is that there is a lot of stuff you don’t have to worry about.
Battery life is all-day for me — though now that I’m using it full time for work, the eight to ten hours I can pull out of a charge really only does manage a single day for me instead of not worrying about it for several. I use regular headphones on my laptop all the time because of their reliability: no lag, no awkwardly messing with Bluetooth settings at the start of a Zoom call while your colleagues patiently wait. Strangely enough, Apple isn’t using the same generation chip as what you’ll find on an iPhone 11 Pro. Apple says that should help with games that run at 120Hz, 4K rendering in video editing apps, and improved AR performance. Apple has put in a 12-megapixel main wide sensor with an f/1.8 aperture, which takes good photos but isn’t able to match the low-light performance of the iPhone 11 Pro. I don’t know why Apple maintains the weird legacy of putting the FaceID sensors and selfie camera on the “top” of the iPad Pro when it’s held in portrait.
Apple added some augmented reality effects to fix your gaze in FaceTime, but that doesn’t help with work conference calls. As long as I’m on the rant, the other problem with using the iPad Pro for conference calls is that in iPadOS, Apple doesn’t allow apps to use the camera unless they’re active in the foreground.
The other immediate benefit you get is with something called “occlusion.” That’s when something gets in between your iPad and the virtual object you’ve set on the floor or table or whatever.
LIDAR means this iPad Pro can — though it’s not quite able to draw a perfectly sharp line.
Apple’s new APIs also are supposed to be able to more accurately identify objects like chairs, windows, tables, and so on. In short, the LIDAR on the iPad Pro seems quite advanced but built for a software future that hasn’t arrived yet.
But when you start trying to get the same sorts of capabilities out of the iPad that you’d expect from a high-end laptop, that curve hockeysticks. The addition of trackpad support doesn’t really change that dynamic much, though it does make it much easier to work with text.
It’s clear to me now why Apple changed the way the cursor and text selection works in iPadOS: it was designed with a mouse or trackpad in mind. I have a lot more to say about trackpad support on the iPad, but here’s the short version: I think Apple came as close to nailing it as possible. Scrolling feels natural and the way the mouse cursor changes shape to match buttons is weird at first but I think I like it. There is some intuitive strangeness in pushing the cursor up against the edge of the screen to bring up the dock, notification center, and Slide Over apps, though.
It’s a powerful and interesting sensor and Apple’s total control over software and hardware means that it “just works” to improve existing apps. The iPad Pro line has always featured incredibly powerful and beautiful hardware alongside software that has struggled to take advantage of it.
But we’re going to start counting exactly how many times you have to hit “agree” to use devices when we review them since these are agreements most people don’t read and definitely can’t negotiate. Much like the iPhone, to use an iPad Pro, you have to agree to: The Apple terms of service agreement, which you can have sent to you by email
iPad Pro 2020 review (12.9 inch)
The iPad Pro 2020 (12.9 inch) is one of the best tablets you can buy, with blazing speed, long battery life, improved cameras and trackpad support. Until now, the iPad Pro has been more like a tablet on steroids, beating a lot of laptops on speed and battery life but certainly not on computing comfort. iPadOS now fully supports cursor input, and there’s a (pricey) Magic Keyboard with a trackpad and satisfying scissor switches.
The iPad Pro 2020 also ups the ante in the performance department with a A12Z Bionic chip with an 8-core graphics engine, a dual-camera system that includes an ultra-wide lens and a LiDAR scanner that offers a more responsive augmented reality experience.
The iPad Pro lasted over 10 hours no our web surfing battery test, which beats most Windows-powered 2-in-1s. When viewed from the front in landscape mode, there’s still a magnetic strip on the top edge for attaching the Apple Pencil.
Like the 2018 model, the iPad Pro houses a TrueDepth camera up front, which enables Face ID for quickly unlocking the device. It’s bright, colorful and leverages ProMotion technology for automatically adjusting the refresh rate up to 120Hz.
When watching the trailer for James Bond No Time to Die, the iPad Pro’s display rendered 007’s Aston Martin DB5 with exquisite detail as its twin machine guns popped out of the headlights.
In another scene, Daniel Craig’s stern and battle-worn face stood in stark contrast to a gorgeous bridge he was throwing himself off of. And in the Photos app, the circle highlighted the Share and Heart icons in a small box as I hovered over them. You can also pull up the dock by pushing the cursor past the bottom of the screen, activate Control Center by clicking the status bar in the upper right corner and pull up Notifications by clicking the status bar in the upper left corner.
iPadOS’ Slide Over and Split View gestures are also fairly easy to activate when using a mouse or trackpad. iPadOS’ recent cursor and trackpad optimizations came just at the right time, and we like how effortless it feels to swap between apps by swiping three fingers left and right on the touchpad.
You can adjust the iPad Pro between about 85 to 130 degrees, which beats the pair of positions the Smart Keyboard Folio allowed, but we still wish it moved a bit more.
The iPad Pro 2020 includes an A12Z Bionic processor that offers an 8-core CPU and a new 8-core GPU that’s designed to provide a big boost in graphics performance. On Geekbench 5, which measures overall performance, the iPad Pro 12.9 scored 4,720 on the multi-core portion and 1,126 on the single-core test. That’s a mild improvement over the last iPad Pro with the A12X Bionic chip, which turned in respective scores of 4,635 and 1,114.
By comparison, the Surface Pro 7 scored a lower 4,443 on the multi-core Geekbench 5 test and a higher 1,241 on single-core, and that’s with a 10th gen Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM. The iPad Pro took only 34 seconds to export a 4K video to 1080p after applying a color filter and transition in the Adobe Rush app.
In this shot of cherry blossoms in bloom, the white flowers in the center look clear but the left side of the frame looks somewhat blurry.
I also snapped this photo of a birdhouse, and the iPad Pro did a fine job capturing the bright yellow roof, the pink ornamental flower and a yellow-and-blue butterfly decoration.
Indoors, the iPad Pro captured a well-balanced pic of a candle, and it’s nice to see that the wick didn’t get blown out. I shot a quick clip of a residential neighborhood, and the tablet did a fine job rendering little details, including a leaf blowing by and a small American flag waving in the wind.
Thanks to this LiDAR scanner, which works in close concert with the A12Z Bionic chip and Apple’s Neural Engine, AR placement is now instantaneous. The iPad Pro continues to support the second-generation Apple Pencil ($129), which lets you draw, take notes and mark up documents. We’re in the process of running our battery test, but in everyday use, the iPad Pro has delivered strong endurance. I have started my workday unplugging at 7 am and have used the tablet for streaming video, taking photos, word processing and checking email, and it was down to 39% by 4 pm, so the iPad Pro should be able to last you through most days.
The new iPad Pro lasted 10 hours and 16 minutes on the Tom’s Guide Battery Test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi on 150 nits of screen brightness. I do think the iPad Pro 2020 can replace a laptop for some, especially those who want to travel very light and creative pros who want to do content creation and editing on the go. I spend a lot of time in Chrome on a daily basis, bouncing between email, real-time traffic reports and Google Docs, and not having a bookmarks bar that’s always visible is a dealbreaker for me. To be fair, iPadOS has only been around as its own thing since September, but I would like to see developers start better optimizing their apps for cursor and keyboard support without sacrificing the iPad Pro’s touch-first approach.
We especially Apple Pencil upgrades, like the new Scribble feature that automatically converts handwriting to text and Shape recognition. Other enhancements include pinned conversations in Messages, site translation in Safari and spatial audio support if you use AirPods Pro. You also get better cameras with the iPad Pro and the ability to run a new class of AR apps, two areas where the Surface Pros are far behind. However, it’s clear that developers have not yet optimized their apps for the new cursor control powers in iPadOS, and Apple and its partners should push the platform even further to make the iPad more touchpad- and keyboard-friendly.
I also wish Apple included a larger charging cable; yes, you get a lot of endurance from this tablet, but the length of this cord now looks like a joke given the bigger ambitions of this device.
A Deeper Look at 2020 iPad Cameras with LiDAR
LiDAR sensor seems to be dedicated just for AR for the moment, with no functionality for photography. It is quite unusual that, even though there are Dual cameras in the back, ultra-wide and wide-angle, there is no Depth mode available for the rear.
Apple iPad Pro (2020) review: still a pro tablet worth buying?
From its improved screen, to its custom processor with extra memory, to its dual-camera setup with LiDAR, to its smart speaker array, we’ll explain why the iPad Pro is so good, but also who will actually benefit from these features. It may even be that for your specific needs, something like the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 would work better, especially if you’re looking for something that’s as much direct laptop replacement as tablet.
We’ll also talk about Apple’s Magic Keyboard, which pretty much turns the iPad into a laptop while you use it, so you can see if that’s a sold-separately add-on you need.
What you don’t get here is a 3.5mm headphone jack, which feels like a big miss for a pro machine that could be ideal for musicians. There’s a small set of volume controls in one corner, and a sleep/wake switch just next to that, though generally you’ll just turn it on by tapping the screen. The iPad Pro uses Face ID security, which works great on the iPhone (when you’re not wearing a mask) because of how you tend to hold a phone.
I tend to use the iPad Pro in landscape most of the time, which means I’m usually holding my hand over the middle of one of the short sides, which gives me a 50/50 chance of it being the end with the Face ID sensor in. Quality from the forward camera is good – it’s capable of Full HD video at up to 60fps, and takes 7MP stills with the option of Portrait Mode, thanks the Face ID scanning tech.
At 600 nits of brightness, the screen is brighter than most laptop displays (including the MacBook Pro M1), and a low reflectivity of 1.8% helps to make it clear enough to use even in sunlight.
It’s an LCD display, so it doesn’t have quite the same deep contrast as the OLED screen you’d find on Samsung’s high-end tablets, but it does offer incredibly colour accuracy and visibility even at angles. The iPad Pro intelligently adjusts its frame rate depending on what you’re doing – start scrolling a page and it will increase it for smoother animation. The main use for the 120Hz screen is for drawing with the Apple Pencil 2, which is unchanged here from the previous version, and so still works excellently.
It’s also pressure sensitive, and has a kind of ‘button’ on the side: you can double tap its flat edge to trigger a command, such as bringing up the tool palette or undoing the last line. When you draw with the iPad, you’ll get a 120Hz refresh rate on the screen, because then you’re seeing the results of your movements more quickly, which helps with accuracy and fine detail. The iPad adjusts which speaker is putting out which frequencies depending on how you hold it, while also throwing in a genuine stereo effect. And as an example of another spot where I personally stumble, I find image editing for my work on T3 much easier on desktop than on iPad – some of that is down to the specific features of the available apps, and some is down to iPadOS, where creating and editing a series of images and exporting the resulting JPEGs into one folder together takes so many more steps on iPad than it does on Mac.
It’s not like everyone in the world needs to do this exact task, but we all have some similar little flow in our work that would annoy us if it were disrupted, and for all the power of the iPad Pro, it’s still sometimes slowed by the simplicity in places of the software. In some areas, there are things I think Apple can do to improve iPadOS (the Share menu, in particular, is creaking under its own weight at this point), but in others this is simply by design to make the overall experience of the iPad touch-friendly, and you just need to be aware that it may hold you back.
The iPad Pro now supports mouse and keyboard control too, but rather than just slap on a cursor, Apple has made it work a little more iPad-y. The iPad magnetically attaches to the top, and it folds up towards you when it’s open so that the screen is basically hovering over the back of the keyboard.
The keyboard quality is excellent – great feedback, good amount of travel – and the trackpad size on the 12.9-inch model is just right (it’s maybe a tad tight on the 11-inch version, but understandably so). The Magic Keyboard also has a passthrough for charging, leaving the iPad Pro’s lone USB-C port free for an accessory. On top of it all, it comes in an extremely dull grey finish that picks up dirt like anything – it’s amazing how scruffy it ends up. When people have looked inside the Magic Keyboard, it turns out to feature elite engineering for its hinges to the point of overkill – much like the AirPods Max – which maybe explains its cost.
The only delays we’ve seen from it are when dealing with massive (hundreds of gigabytes) folders of short videos as it quickly tries to give previews of them all, and even then it’s just a small pause. When it comes to battery life, Apple’s usual target of 10 hours of light use (watching movies, web browsing) is given here, and that tracks with our experience of the 12.9-inch model. It outlasts most laptops comfortable, though as with anything else, it depends on your use – fire up the latest and greatest games and you’ll chew through the battery in much, much less time.
As a laptop replacement, it still has a way to go – for some people, it’ll work like a dream right now, but for others it has some hurdles you may or may not be prepared to clear.
iPad Pro (2020) review: A modest improvement on a great tablet
The 2020 iPad Pro is a fantastic tablet, although you’ll find most of its improvements over the previous model in the camera array. In 2018 the new iPad Pro was bold and sleek, and just what Apple needed to shake up a product line that was starting to show its age. Unlike its predecessors, it featured Face ID, a new and improved Apple Pencil, a USB-C port, thin bezels, and a blazing fast processor. Unfortunately, because of that bump, you won’t be able to reuse a 2018 Smart Keyboard Folio with this case, unless you don’t mind the back cover awkwardly jutting out because of the poor fit. The display still has an upper brightness limit of 600 nits, the resolution for the 12.9-inch model remains at 2732×2048 pixels at 264ppi, and the active battery life still clocks in at around 10 hours. As you can see in the benchmarks below, it’s barely a boost at all in terms of CPU usage, but the A12Z chip pulls a bit ahead in graphical performance because its GPU has eight cores instead of seven.
These are the kinds of upgrades you’d expect to see in a device that’s specifically aimed at people who’d like to use an iPad over a traditional laptop, and Apple hammered home that association with the release of the optional new Magic Keyboard case. Finally, we have an Apple-made keyboard case with a properly adjustable display, backlit keys, and—wonder of wonders—a built-in trackpad.
Leif Johnson/IDG An unedited photo looking toward San Francisco Bay, taken with the new iPad Pro’s ultra-wide lens. Before, augmented reality in the iPad and iPhone relied mainly on machine learning, which interpreted data delivered by the camera and made as much sense out of it as it could. The process was slow, battery-devouring, and prone to inaccuracy, especially when you made the camera deal with similarly colored surfaces or low lighting. With LiDAR, the device is specifically “mapping out” the space by shooting out low-powered lasers and calculating the time it takes for them to return to the sensor.
It doesn’t work too well in the dark (like Apple’s TrueDepth sensors on the front camera do), but it represents a phenomenal improvement in quality and accuracy with even a little ambient light. It’s also certainly not impressive enough to be a chief consideration for buying this device because of the tiny library of worthwhile AR apps, and I can all but guarantee that the novelty will wear off quickly.
With iPadOS 13, Apple recently improved the user experience across many other contemporary iPads, whether by including long-wanted features like proper mouse or trackpad support or allowing us to use thumb drives with our tablets. Apple’s new Magic Keyboard caters to these new features and will enhance your experience on a daily basis in a way the new LiDAR scanner probably won’t.
The fact remains, though, that unless you’re heavily involved in video editing or professional artwork, most people will be served just fine with the $499 iPad Air—although it currently doesn’t come with that spiffy keyboard. If you missed out on the 2018 iPad Pro, this year’s model should come off as a more appealing purchase—and in that case, the new camera capabilities come off as nice side perks.
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