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This new iPad Pro is amazing. It gets Apple's next-gen M4 chip.

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No MacBook has that. It gets the most advanced OLED display,

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not found in any MacBook. And look, when I put it on the new Magic Keyboard,

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it's better than a MacBook. Even the prices are comparable, and yet,

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is there a person who can actually use this hardware without the software getting in the way?

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Hmm, let's try and find them. But first, before the logo comes up, let me show you this new Mac Address oxford shirt

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that replaces the old shirt I wore in the first Mac Address video that ripped.

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You can get this at LTTstore.com, and it comes in tall sizes.

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It's great. At 5.1 millimeters, this 13-inch iPad Pro

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is the slimmest device they've ever made.

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I've always found the big iPads to be a lot,

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but this is a lot less. And that's all thanks to this screen.

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It's the largest device Apple has ever fitted an OLED to.

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And that means that each pixel is its own source of light.

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With plebian liquid crystal technology, the light source is separate from the display.

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This means that if you're displaying something dark or black, an OLED pixel can just switch off and be black

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while its neighbor is still shining bright. Whereas older screen technology is trying to block out light

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like a curtain, and pixels that are still shining will at best be grouped into dimming zones,

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leading to or be fireworks. OLED's advantage is also its disadvantage.

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Because each pixel is responsible for output and extra voltage causes them to break down,

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they don't get very bright. Certainly not bright enough for Apple's 1600xDR standard,

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which is why the iPad Pro has been using a mini LED backlight

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as a compromise and only on the larger screen models.

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Until now.

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Apple's solution to this OLED disadvantage is to just use two of them.

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This iPad and the smaller one too has a tandem OLED.

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They call Ultra Retina XDR.

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It really is a sight to behold. The blacks are so deep and the highlights so bright

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that when you're watching HDR content, you really feel like you're peering into another world.

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There's just so much potential here.

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LTT Labs tested this display and found it to be astonishingly bright.

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After half an hour, this display was still blasting a full white screen at 1,000 nits.

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It's impeccably accurate too, especially in reference mode.

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In fact, they compared it to that five-figure professional HDR reference monitor

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editors salivate over. This isn't five figures, but it's most definitely four.

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Because of a $200 price increase, the 11-inch Pro now starts at $1,000.

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Base storage has increased to 256 gigabytes, a nice bone dispassionately thrown our way.

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But it's still a big inflation pill to swallow for what is an iPad.

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A very powerful iPad at that. Only seven months after releasing the M3,

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Apple put the all-new M4 chip in this.

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The chip's main claim to performance is the Neural Engine, which boasts 38 trillion operations per second.

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It's over double the M3. And they're really for all the future

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Apple intelligence stuff they announced at WWDC.

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That's all great, but I can't think of a device in Apple's lineup that needs more power, less than this.

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And it's because of this iPad.

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Both of them are going to get iPadOS 18 in a few months,

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but this iPad uses an iPhone chip

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that's almost eight years old. Now, M-powered iPads are certainly more capable

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with stage manager, virtual memory, and a few exclusive apps.

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But this iPad definitely has its wings clipped because it's running the same OS as this old thing.

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Now, I've been using this fully-kitted-out iPad Pro

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for the past few weeks, and I'm still running into roadblocks.

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When editing the WWDC video a while back, I needed to go through the event video file

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to find the moments for the editor to cut through. I was able to open the almost 200 Gigabyte ProRes file

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in the file app, off our server, and scrub smoothly

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on Wi-Fi. Amazing. But the time code isn't displayed

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like in QuickTime on a Mac. Instead, it only shows the time remaining.

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You have a time-based calculator. What?

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Apple's upgraded $300 plus Magic Keyboard is a dangerous peripheral.

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It's very nice. The typing is amazing, the function row welcome,

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and the haptic touchpad perfect.

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It'll make you think that using this iPad will be just like any MacBook you've used before.

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That is, right up until an app decides to ignore trackpad functionality entirely.

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Google is perhaps the most pernicious offender. Many of the most used buttons in their apps

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just won't work when a mouse or trackpad is involved, like the full-screen button on YouTube if an ad has played,

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or simple text selection in Google Docs. This orb isn't a finger.

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Remember back almost three years ago when I tried to import photos from a shared Google Drive?

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Still can't. It's really shocking. Maybe I should switch to Microsoft apps.

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Oh no, Word still does that cursor delay thing. iPad OS also still only handles one audio source

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at a time in the worst way. So if, say, you're listening to a podcast on YouTube

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and scroll past a muted video on Twitter, your podcast will pause.

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What are we even doing? My MacBook can play everything at once.

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There have just been so many frictitious moments when using this that I can't imagine using an iPad

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instead of a laptop.

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While we're in tablet mode, the new Pencil Pro is a big surprise for me.

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Its 130 price tag is the exact same as the old one, but it's a complete redesign,

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enabling a landscape front camera and a whole host of features.

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There's a squeeze gesture for quick access to tools and menus,

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which you can feel thanks to the haptic feedback. Perhaps the most amazing is the barrel roll feature,

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which sends its rotation when you're using linear brushes and tools.

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And look at this in the Notes app. They render a shadow of the tool you're using when you hover.

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This is so delightful. There's someone in Apple who remembers how magic works.

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It even now has FineMite, though I should know it's not ultra-wideband,

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so it only functions vaguely, like most AirPods.

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And you can only find it with the iPad for some reason. It's in this mess?

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How am I gonna, what the? They didn't add a speaker.

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Where does it beep? Oh, there it is.

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I'm too tall. We already determined that the Apple Pencil

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was worth its price tag a few years ago. This definitely changes the game,

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but I should also know that this is compatible with the less expensive M2 iPad Air 2.

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With every release, I always hope that the iPad will somehow make more sense,

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but Apple keeps pushing the envelope on this device

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in really weird ways. I feel like, because of the iPad's limitations,

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the way you use it is more personal. Someone might love taking handwritten notes,

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whereas for me, it's a couch computer for online shopping,

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article reading, and YouTube video viewing. Someone else might have a killer app they use exclusively.

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And so, perhaps at these exorbitant prices, the iPad is worth it for a select group.

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If you are a display nerd,

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you will definitely want this iPad in your life. The screen is that good.

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If you are a video editor who wants to grade HDR content,

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this screen is that good. I actually got Hoffman to try it, and he said that it's a display he can trust,

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though Sidecar's Apple ID requirements are really annoying.

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And what about the compression? If you are wealthy,

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this is definitely the iPad to get. If you want an iPad that will last a very long time,

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well, because of the M4 processor, upgraded Pencil Pro,

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and this screen, now is the time to buy an iPad Pro,

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because this will last as long and perform just as well as the 2018 iPad Pro.

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I know many people are struggling to upgrade from now.

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That's kind of the ideal iPad for me, come to think of it.

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Unfortunately, it's probably not gonna be supported for much longer.

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I still like using an iPad in my life, but as a supplemental computer, definitely not my main one,

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opening my Mac after using this feels like such a breath of fresh air.

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And there's a good future to think about. LG, the maker of tandem OLED displays,

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just recently announced their manufacturing laptop displays.

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So it's likely we might see this on the next MacBook Pro. Now we're talking.

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Thanks for brightening up this Mac Address to a thousand nits. If you're gonna use an iPad outside, it's gotta be this.

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I am curious in the comments if you would spend the extra money,

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and it is a lot for the tandem OLED screen. And if you wanna watch one of our other videos,

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maybe watch the one we did three years ago on the M1 iPad Pro, just to see how little things have changed

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when it comes to iPad capability.