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foreign

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doesn't raise the price of the iPad every year instead they only raise it

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when they launch a dramatic redesign or feature Improvement when they introduce

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this flat Edge to liquid retina form factor folding magic keyboard SMART

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connector and Brilliant second generation apple pencil to the iPad Pro

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in 2018 its price jumped 150 dollars

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compared to the previous gen but those price increases and features

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trickle down to the rest of the lineup the mid-range iPad Air got them in 2020

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for 100 and last year's mini got it too

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for 100 as well inflation that leaves

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this the entry-level ninth generation iPad and I was wondering if Apple would

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continue this trend with the 10th Generation well we got the price increase but we

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didn't get everything else

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which iPad to buy is not easy especially

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as there are now four very different models not that you'd be able to tell

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looking at them this the newest 10th generation iPad was released quietly

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with a simple press release NVIDIA at a price of 450 it's not the cheapest

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available because they're still selling the 9th generation for one hundred and

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twenty dollars less but don't go thinking it's a good deal compared to

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the 600 iPad Air this certainly looks familiar flat edges

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check rounded Corners check Touch ID in

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the power button check USBC port check

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rear mounted SMART connector wait it's down here

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second gen pencil dock um what is this for the first time ever

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this new iPad has its Center Stage webcam on the long side of the device

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for people who are in group video calls all the time this is ideal as the camera

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now aligns with your eyes when you set it down horizontally but it demonstrates

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a radical change on how Apple thinks we should use this iPad which is that it's

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not for art because the webcam is up

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here it takes up the space of the second gen charging and pairing module so it

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doesn't work and there's nowhere else to put it

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the solution go back in time this iPad

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supports the fully round first gen apple pencil from the Obama era and there are

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many problems with this let me explain the first generation apple pencil was

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designed to work with iPads that came out before it existed that's why it

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charges and pairs this way with a very sturdy male lightning connector at the

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end under this easy to lose cap just plug it directly into the iPad for 5

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seconds and you get 15 minutes of charge and a pinch for the Next Generation the

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iPad was designed with the pencil in mind so we got this and you might think

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that going back to the old pencil and new iPad design would work just fine but

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it doesn't because even if you already own a first generation apple pencil you

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can't use it say you have a USBC to lightning cable

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like the one that comes with your iPhone plugging the lightning coupler the old

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pencil came with will charge your old pencil but it will not pair to your new

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iPad for that you must buy the new USBC

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to pencil adapter separately or it's included in the box of new first gen

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pencils but even with that it's dumb here's an actual scenario I went to

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sketch out thumbnail ideas with Maria I didn't have my pencil because there's no

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way to carry it along with me however her iPad Pro is dead so we'll use her

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pencil just kidding it won't attach to my iPad so I can't pair it so I walk

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back to my desk to get mine it's also pretty dead so I go back again to get

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the easy to lose USBC to apple pencil adapter I go through the whole rigmarole

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of assembling the pencil to charge it but even though this looks ridiculous I

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can't use it while it's plugged in

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but Jonathan you might say maybe the cable can't send the power and data at

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the same time sure but when I plug my iPad to a monitor we can see that USBC

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is fully capable of sending power and data at the same time so this new iPad

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is 120 more and it doesn't support the

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latest pencil so what about the current magic keyboard that uses the SMART

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connector mounted on the back well it doesn't support that either

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instead this iPad has the SMART connector on the bottom like the old

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style iPads and their keyboards this means that you can only use the new 250

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dollar magic keyboard folio the keyboard attaches to the bottom here and the

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kickstand attaches to the back

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now the magic keyboard already solved

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the lappable problem but this

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I still have to sit like a uniformed grade school student just to use it

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there's no charging pass-through or keyboard backlighting but there is a

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very handy function road that the more expensive keyboard doesn't get so great

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savings alright so I'm ranting about peripherals

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you might not ever buy but the update to the device might be worth it too right

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oh but it is not I'll explain why after

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off your first purchase a USB type-c

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connector on an iPad does increase its capability significantly you can plug

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any USB hub drive or peripheral in and they will just work in a really laptop

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like fashion lightning equipped iPads require a dongle and even then you can't

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expect everything to work but this iPad

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sport only supports the 20 plus year old USB 2.0 standard that's insane as the

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standard supports transmission speeds of just 480 megabits per second this is

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absurd when you consider that the discontinued 4th gen iPad air from 2020

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with the same A14 chip supports USB 3 speeds

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how about the screen yes this is technically a liquid retina

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meaning it has the round corners but this screen is actually no better spec

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wise than the one installed on the 9th gen iPad as well it's not laminated so

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there's a gap between the top of the glass and the bottom of the panel and it

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displays fewer colors too outputting the srgb color palette instead of the DCI P3

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found in more expensive models I don't mind that as much as the fact that it

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doesn't seem to have an anti-reflective coating and is this even oleophobic

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there's so many fingerprints you're going to want a good screen protector

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oh and there's no headphone jack as well so if you want to give one of these

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things to your kids remember that airpods are choking hazard so at 450 is

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this iPad worth it no and things get even weirder when you look in the

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refurbished store at the time of writing a two-year-old iPad Air with the exact

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same chip and none of the compromises is available for only twenty dollars more a

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four-year-old iPad Pro with a chip in the same performance tier remember the

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list I made is also only twenty dollars more if you want a little more storage

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you can get a three-year-old iPad Pro for 100 more and if you want a lot more

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storage that four-year-old iPad Pro is 60 less than the equivalent 10th gen

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compared to this getting one of those is a complete no-brainer and remember

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Apple's refurbished iPads get a completely new chassis and Battery

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though I think because of the more modern chip equivalency I'm going to be

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leaning towards recommending a refurbished air

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but it also shows something else very interesting the iPad Pro has been in the

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B performance tier for four years then two years later the iPad Air joined the

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B performance tier so for a similar price you can get a cheap iPad or one

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that was an expensive model a few years ago or if you think you're going to be using

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your iPad for a long time and you have the cash you could get an expensive one

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now and get all the fancy new features in fact the iPad I daily here at the

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office is a beat up 2017 iPad Pro it has

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that beautiful promotion screen and it still screams it does everything I could

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ever expect an iPad to do incredibly well but the battery is now wearing out

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so that's a 100 repair oh the battery's

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dying well I really get a battery health level in here but if you need a new

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model now I'm still happy to buy use and recommend the 9th generation model or

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look in the refurbished store for the extra 120 dollars the 10th generation

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iPad commands it's only really useful for those who are doing lots of video

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calls and don't need the pressure sensitivity of the apple pencil which

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might be most people just not me

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thanks for forgetting to record the outro for this Mac Address Jonathan if

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you like the colors of the new iPad give this video a like and if you're curious

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about more of my thoughts on the iPad particularly with the pro might as well

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subscribe now I'm curious are you one of those people who will never use the

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pencil and therefore the compromises of this iPad won't matter comment below and

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also I have a little surprise