all right hit me it's the fastest iPad ever it's got
more RAM than ever before but in all
seriousness we all know that I wouldn't be here at the zoo with my poor family
in toe with whoa hi with Hagrid from
radical Raptors hanging out with me these guys are super cool they let me
put the owl in the video freaking awesome and of course Dennis who drove
over here from the office if this was just another faster iPad no no this is
so game-changing that I felt compelled to pull again poor Dennis out here to
the zoo to go for a walk with me and talk about how it is going to change the
mobile device industry so without further Ado then let's go do that and uh
or wait actually here Dylan you can have your bird back
the be quiet! dark Bass Pro 900s modular design supports a variety of different
layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn
more it's not really a secret that I've never been a huge fan of this category
of product back when Apple released the first iPad I denounced it as as an
unar device and what I mean by that is
that if it was smaller then I could put
it in my pocket and I wouldn't have to carry a day pack and if I was you know
oh I don't know at the zoo for example
and I did have a bag well it's not functional enough for me
to not just bring a laptop I mean to be clear I'm not calling the category
useless I use my iPad 2 all the time it's just that for the aforementioned
reasons I don't go out with it and everything that I do on it can still be
done on an iPad too whether that's watching movies on Netflix when
somebody's on the TV or whether that's shopping on Amazon or giving to my
daughter to you know kill some time while daddy takes a nap or whatever the
case may be like I I have no temptation to be out there taking stabilized 4K
video because it has the same camera as the iPhone 7 and I think this is
something that Apple themselves has
acknowledged not directly but by maintaining this iPad Pro category of
product and by releasing earlier this year the iPad the the most commodity
product that I think we've seen from Apple in quite some time like it's it
doesn't give you that Apple premium feels it's like cost down so that every
student in the classroom can afford one okay so yeah we get the point the
category is not particularly exciting so then why get so amped up is it the speed
uh compared to the last iPad uh CPU is what 30% faster GPU is 40% faster it's
it's got 4 gigs of RAM uh more than ever before on an iOS device no with a tablet
between so many of the services you use
being cloud-based where the processing can be offloaded from the device and the
fact that the user interface on a tablet
is so much more often my bottleneck when I'm trying to do something compared to
the processing of the device that's not
what gets my uh motor humming at all
okay what about the size then the size is different from previous iPad pros at
10 1 12 in it's kind of in between uh 9.7 and 13 or whatever it was um but
even there I'm going to go with no so yes the bezels on a large iPad are now a
lot more like the bezels on the iPad Mini which which is something new and
something different sort of because it's different for the iPad but not different
from the rest of the industry I mean the the race to you know Infinity edges and
bezeless devices is well underway and
apple is hardly leading the charge even
with this kind of screen to bezel ratio but we are getting closer because the
thing that I'm really excited about is actually the screen and
no I mean the okay the the the color the
uh DCI P3 wide color gamut the 600 nits
Peak brightness and ooh the kappaa okay I am I am going to be a pad
hole and I'm going to take a picture of the kappaa look at that it's like a
great big tailess rat I'm not that excited about HDR cuz there's not a ton
of content yet and even what is there isn't especially well mastered no the
thing I'm excited about is the refresh
rate this is in a nutshell where my
admiration for Apple comes from because I've criticized them a lot and I don't
like everything that they do but what they do have is the courage to try new
features and when I talk about courage I am not talking about removing the
headphone jack that to me is kind of a
um it's almost a way of kind of bullying the market into adopting their standard
that's not really courage that's like calling Sony's insistence on memory
stick courage that's just obnoxious uh
I'm talking about the courage spend an extra I don't know how much maybe it's
50 maybe it's $5 on every iPad Pro they
sell for a more advanced display controller and an IPS panel that's
capable of a 120 HZ refresh rate and you
might say yeah sure you know what's five
bucks let's say it's five bucks the answer is a lot because Apple's going to
sell this product for a nice round
number MSRP regardless of what specs
they put in it it'll be you know $8.99 or
$999 go ahead I've never been able to do that
before no problem sorry we're back and uh by the
time they sell 5 million or 10 million
of them now we're talking $25 million or
$50 million that's courage spending
money on something that nobody asked for
because you think it's a better experience for the end user because
that's actually in my mind one of the biggest problems with the rest of the
electronics Industry only being willing to build something with the features
that your customers are asking for that's how you end up with 20 laptops on
the Shelf at best py all of which are
basically the same and while some people
seem to think that the 120 HZ display is
about spec padding and about having something that nobody else has it's not
it matters a lot more than you probably think and for a lot more use cases than
you probably realize so let's start with the one that's most obvious when you
initially pick up the device it feels
really fast just the fact that the screen is refreshing sooner after you
interact with it makes the device feel instantly more responsive and even more
impressively Apple managed to do this without compromizing one of their
Hallmarks which is great battery life by using adaptive refresh rate technology
so the refresh rate of the display will actually go down if it's not displaying
High refresh rate content or if it is displaying a static image and then it'll
go up when you interact with it and this is one of the things that people love to
criticize Apple about like oh they didn't invent that no they didn't invent
adaptive refresh rate Tech but what they
did do was they implemented in a way that is Meaningful and enhances the user
experience and gaming is another use case where this makes a ton of sense to
me it's a way to improve the experience
of a game on a higher-end device without
increasing stratification in the App Store so without driving up the
graphical Fidelity to the point where anything but the 2017 iPad Pro is going
to be running the game like a slideshow so people who buy the higher-end device
are going to run the game at 120 frames per second it's going to be butter
smooth it's going to feel like a really great experience but app developers
don't have to lock themselves out of being able to access the hordes of
people that own previous generation devices and honestly that's something
Apple doesn't really want in the app store anyway they want apps to run on
all devices that they decide are you know current
and supported not you app developer you don't get to decide that Apple decides
that and the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't consider is uh
Dennis are you keeping up sorry uh here
we're going to go this way the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't
consider is Media consumption so the cool thing about 120
hertz is that whether we're talking 60 FPS content 30 FPS content or
24 FPS movie content all of it can run
even if this wasn't an Adaptive refresh rate display which it is but all of it
could run on a 120 HZ display without
any jutter or without any like pull down
or or any kind of like the Tom Foolery that they do where they'll duplicate a
frame in order to take non content and run it on a different refresh rate
display so then back kind of to the
beginning where I don't care that much about tablets I really don't but what
I'm excited about is what apple is doing
to the industry with this product I mean
to be clear there is no 100% guarantee
that just because we got a 120 HZ display on the 2017 iPad Pro that we're
going to get a 120 HZ display on the up
coming iPhone 8 in fact I mean the iPad Pro the last
generation had USB 3 the iPhone 7 does
not and the iPhone 7 has a solid state
home button whereas this new iPad Pro
does not but I would say now that Apple's made that investment into the
display controller now that they've got the feature out there and since there's
no cost in terms of power consumption to
putting it on a smaller device there is a very good chance that on Apple's
premium devices we're just going to see this as a feature moving forward and
this is something that I have wanted for a long time both High refresh rate and
variable refresh rate are huge
experience changing Technologies and
what's great about this is that once Apple does it everybody else wakes up
and goes oh oh maybe that's important
and we start seeing it on you know every tablet and every phone and every
computer and everything starts to feel a little bit faster and a little bit more
premium so that ultimately is why I care
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