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we completed the shot on iphone challenge over two years ago that's

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right our amazon ghost store video was shot almost entirely on iphone and none

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of you noticed until we pointed it out now you can accuse the apple evangelists

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of going out of their way to do stuff like that to paint apple in a favorable

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light as for us we only did it because of a

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store policy forbidding real cameras which makes the motivation behind

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today's challenge all the more confusing yeah uh why am i

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what is this what am i doing riley is going to be using our ipad pro to edit a

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video this video in 4k off a

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Windows-based file server it sounds so wrong but it kind of feels right

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the idea for this video really came out of our experience reviewing the magic

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keyboard for the ipad pro in that video we concluded that the ipad pro is now

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in every sense of the word a laptop computer and that now the discussion is

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really more about how to do computer type things on the ipad pro

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so riley replaced his work laptop with

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the ipad pro for a week armed with an external monitor and mouse

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he did research answered emails and worked with files on our company server

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while editing thumbnails and videos and as a notorious lunch break gamer he

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even managed to sneak a little bit of entertainment in on the side with an

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xbox controller and why not since the ipad pro's processor is more powerful

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than an xbox one anyway first off the external monitor situation ipad pros

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have supported external displays since the 2018 model arrived with a usb type-c

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port but despite the massive progress made elsewhere in transforming the ipad

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pro into more of a computer surprisingly little has changed in the display

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department 99 of the time a connected monitor will

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simply mirror the ipad screen with its frustrating 10 by 7 aspect ratio and all

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the other 1 of the time you'll be able to expand the playback window NVIDIA

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editing apps or play a game in full screen but you're

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still not able to simply use a monitor as extra real estate to do with as you

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please like you can on a pc or mac we

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couldn't even find a simple list of ipad apps with external display support we

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did find an app called shift screen that lets you fill up the entire display

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but it's only compatible with a handful of apps it forces you to use its weird

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built-in web browser and it does something nasty to your refresh rate so

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it had us regretting the 14 canadian dollars we spent on it that there could

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have been a big old box of timbits buddy and it's no joke either

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connecting a display requires some sort of dongle or if your monitor has a usbc

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video input you can connect your ipad pro directly we ended up using this lg

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monitor it has a usbc connector that serves as a video input and a hub for

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the two usb 3 ports that are built into the back which we were able to use to

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connect our accessories like an Ethernet adapter or external hard drive

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what you cannot use is a Thunderbolt 3 usbc display or hub we tried a couple of

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models that we have here in the office and none of them worked because the ipad

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does not support Thunderbolt so if you're setting up your own ipad

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workstation at home you'll want to stay away from thunderbolts just like in real

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life whatever setup you use once you get used

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to the pillar boxing the ipad pro as a desktop computer is

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surprisingly great chrome still needs you to specifically request the desktop

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version of a website every time but both safari and firefox can be set up to

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fetch desktop versions of great websites like lttstore.com by default

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awesome come to think of it though actually most of google's apps still kind of suck on

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the ipad particularly gmail and docs i guess they'd just prefer you get a

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chromebook good luck with that otherwise the

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experience of full-on desktop browsing on the ipad pro with a mouse and

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keyboard is pretty smooth most of the time i mean riley did have

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to take the LTT logo out of his email signature because it was causing the

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gmail website to crash in safari but other than that after getting used to

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some ipad specific gestures kind of like a chromebook actually if

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most of what you do is in a browser you might even forget at times that you're

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using an ipad pro and this next bit is actually how you

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know the ipad pro is a computer now it breaks youtube premium so if you use the

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youtube app a video will stop playing when you go to the home screen sometimes

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you'll even see a pop-up asking if you'd like videos to keep playing when you

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close the app because you can do that with youtube premium

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i guess youtube doesn't know that safari and

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firefox will both keep playing youtube audio when you switch to other tabs

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unlike the youtube app and it even works when you lock the screen and close the

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folio you can just listen to music on your bluetooth headphones without

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youtube premium if that's not proof that the ipad pro is a computer i don't know

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what is the biggest weakness of the ipad pro as

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a desktop however is the RAM a bigger display and better input

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devices make it very tempting to push its multitasking boundaries a little

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harder than you normally would and more than three or four apps or safari tabs

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caused them to reload quite frequently now while the standard six gigs of RAM

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found on all the 2020 ipad pro models was an upgrade the problem is it's

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simply not enough for professionals who are constantly jumping between multiple

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apps

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next up in our workstation tests is file

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management iOS 13 brought the ability to connect to servers with smb and we were

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able to connect to our in-office servers no problem but the files app is still

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far from perfect every time we reconnected to the network the files app

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wouldn't show anything in the server until we ejected then re-established the

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smb link and sometimes transferring a folder would elicit the drag and drop

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sound but the files wouldn't actually appear in the new location until we

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happened to check on it later video playback chugged a bit even on a 1080p

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mp4 file and we know it's not because of our network our network's good baby

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trust me there's a few things like that that make it clear that the files app

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still has a ways to go in matching what's available on Windows and macOS

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it was fantastic when apple added support for multiple Windows and

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dragging and dropping files to external drives but the lack of basic things like

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a progress bar so you can check the status of a file transfer while in

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another app really makes you start asking questions like omg i am using a

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tablet as a computer what am i

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stupid what

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no until you start using some of the apps

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that you would think of using a tablet for like for drawing and photo editing

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photoshop has come a long way from its early days on ipad when it sort of

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existed as like three or four different ipad apps like at least it's just

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photoshop for ipad now but unfortunately it's still missing really basic

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functionality like adding drop shadows fortunately apps like affinity photo

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exist which have all the features that the vast majority of people use in

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photoshop and all for a one-time purchase instead of a subscription as

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for video editing if you're a video professional who's used to programs like

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adobe premiere and final cut lumafusion is

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actually pretty impressive in the amount of features that it packs in

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there is definitely a learning curve as there is for every editing program but

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the basics are surprisingly intuitive and there's way more depth than you

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would expect in a mobile editing app we're talking multiple video and audio

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tracks robust color grading with lut support excellent speed ramping video

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and audio keyframing and it was actually really easy to pull footage off of our

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server even if the playback did suck just like in the files app

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now someone like taran our very own taren might turn his nose

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up at the very thought of editing on an ipad but for the average one-man band

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doing simple video editing lumafusion is kind of fantastic unfortunately while

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these creative type apps are future rich and run really smoothly on the ipad pro

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they're really not optimized for use with a mouse and so again they kind of

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break the illusion that the ipad pro is just a more different type of mac

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because it's not a mac it's an ipad pro and apps that take advantage of that

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like the excellent drawing app procreate make the ipad pro a joy to use for

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designers artists basically anyone for whom the apple

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pencil would be a help rather than a hindrance but what about us

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will riley be switching to an ipad pro as his daily drive riley we all see you

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there are you going to switch

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i won't but the fact that i even have to think about that question is

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impressive during my testing for this script i wrote down that it was surprisingly hard

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to be objective about comparisons between the ipad pro and a real laptop

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because it actually feels really good to

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just navigate around ipad os with the trackpad and that's

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dumb but it's also really important the user

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experience here is polished it's apple at their best and going through the

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process of setting up my ipad pro workflow actually made me appreciate why

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people who daily drive the ipad put up with its weaknesses the more stuff that

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i discovered i could actually do with this thing the more fun i was having

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learning about it it makes sense i mean if the ipad pro

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sucked that much as a computer then there wouldn't be this whole genre of

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youtube videos made by people who love their ipad as a computer anyway i

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haven't joined their ranks just yet but when i switch back to my Windows laptop

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a part of me is going to miss the ipad pro

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good night sweet prince no no it's too soon i'm not

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i'm not ready

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hopefully apple and the passionate developers writing third-party apps for

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the ipad continue to make this thing better because as much as it gives me a

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weird feeling to say it out loud i'm actually

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i don't know it's hard to use the word excited

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but i'm definitely open-minded ah come on Linus

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