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hey are you guys ready for another exciting installment in the confusing

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saga of what the heck is apple doing with the

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ipad great because in this episode apple

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edges the ipad a little more towards the macbook end of the spectrum with a new

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ipad only flavor of mouse and trackpad

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support but just wait until you see the new ultra wide camera and lidar sensor

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that apple also put on the back for some reason yeah

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if you're confused trust me we are too so let's try to make some sense out of

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in our last video about the ipad pro we said that apple

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wasn't trying to make the ipad pro more like a computer but rather that they

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were trying to help the ipad pro be more useful as a computer with ipad os

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specific features they called the ipad pro a new way to

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take notes make music or create a presentation

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a worse way for some people like myself

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but for better or for worse a distinctly different way from both a computer and a

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traditional tablet and that's not a bad thing in the

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initial release of ipad os last year the ipad got better navigation gestures and

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some cool features that negated the need for some keyboard shortcuts like

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pinching your fingers to copy and spreading them to paste those kinds of

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optimizations made us think that the ipad pro might just be a good option for

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people who have to get work done but are less inclined to sit at a desk hunched

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over a tiny screen so then it's a bit confusing to find ourselves playing with

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the 2020 ipad pro running ipad os 13.4

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which now has full-blown mouse and

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trackpad support instead of leaning further into the ipad pro's identity as

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a unique handheld computing device it seems like apple has decided it wants to

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make the ipad pro into a bad macbook

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after all they're even releasing a keyboard folio in may with a built-in

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trackpad i mean they might as well send out an internal memo that goes microsoft

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got it right maybe to see where apple's going we have to take a look at where

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they've come from ipad os pre 13.4

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already had mouse support but the thing is it was buried in the assistive touch

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section of the accessibility options and as we said in our last video it was

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designed as an accessibility feature to help disabled people who might have

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trouble operating a touch screen rather than as a way for every ipad user to

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easily connect a mouse and go ham it was a welcome addition but it was not

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the type of mouse support that a Windows or a macOS user would be accustomed to

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now mouse and trackpad support has been built in as a core part of the os

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connect one via bluetooth or even a usbc dongle and a small gray pointer

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immediately pops up and morphs

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yes my friends this is not your tired old desktop mouse pointer this is an

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ipad pro mouse pointer the ipad pointer

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actually adapts to the shapes of things that it selects which

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is supposed to make clicking them easier i guess i don't know after using it for

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a while we really can't see an obvious benefit to this feature but luckily you

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can just turn it off in the settings or that is you can turn it off in the

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accessibility settings because some of the pointer options are under mouse and

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trackpad in the general settings while the rest are under pointer control in

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accessibility for reasons that continue

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to elude me between the two of them though there are most of the options

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you'd expect like adjusting pointer contrast size and color changing the

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tracking and scrolling speed and you can even assign functions to other buttons

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on the mouse although we were not able to get that last one working properly on

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an mx master 2s so your mileage may vary

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it's definitely not perfect but overall the user experience with a mouse is a

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lot better than in the last version of ipad os where the pointer acted

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basically like a floating finger now you can right click to bring up

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context menus and there's support for scroll wheels although frequent hitches

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and hang ups do make it clear that things have been more optimized for our

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track pad or the touch surface of apple's magic mouse there are also a

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number of new gestures that involve dragging the mouse pointer outside of

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the screen dragging to the right will show or hide slide over apps dragging up

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to the top right brings down control center dragging up anywhere else brings

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down notification center and there's no

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gesture for dragging to the left as far as i can tell but get this in an app

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drag down to bring up the dock drag down further to go home drag down again to

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enter multitasking at which point you can actually drag down one more time to

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go home again by this point we were just jazzed to see how deep this rabbit hole

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goes but apparently that is in fact the bottom

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now these gestures were a little bit confusing at first but we think in less

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than an hour most people are going to find them pretty useful particularly

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dragging right to access slide over there are even more gestures that you

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can do with multiple fingers on a trackpad to go home and switch apps but

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we didn't have a trackpad and if i keep talking about most support i'm going to

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get upset again so we had best move on to the hardware

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the 2020 ipad pro is not a big upgrade

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over the 2018 model in fact it is

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basically the same tablet while the whole 2020 ipad pro lineup does now come

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with six gigs of RAM and they all get the a12z bionic processor on paper that

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is essentially the same chip as the a12x

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bionic that is in the 2018 model with a single additional core in the GPU

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bringing the total up to eight

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that was actually confirmed by our geekbench tests where we saw a very

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slight increase in multi-core performance and

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a lower score on the compute benchmark

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you know what we're just going to chalk that up to some lack of optimization in

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ipad os 13.4 for now the base model of the 2020 ipad pro does

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come with 128 gigs of storage now instead of 64. that is great to see but

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the only other major changes to be found on this device are actually in the

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camera module in addition to the standard 12 megapixel

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lens we now get a new 10 megapixel ultra wide lens for all of those

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people who vlog ipads

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and then next to that really interesting one that's a lidar sensor lidar stands

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for light detection and ranging and it works by sending out infrared light then

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measuring how long it takes for it to hit something and come back

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this new sensor is supposed to be a boon for augmented reality content although

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in our tests for the time being it didn't seem to make ar content on the

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new ipad pro any more compelling object

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occlusion in ikea's ar shopping app was about the same as on the 2018 ipad pro

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and in the measure app the 2018 ipad pro

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actually seemed to do consistently better at measuring length the new one

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was about an inch off some app developers have expressed excitement

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about the new sensor though with some early tests showing the effect that it

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can have on mapping virtual spaces onto

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physical ones and there are rumors going around that apple will include a lidar

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sensor in the next flagship iphone so this new ipad pro might just be serving

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as a test bed so that lidar equipped ar is going to be nice and

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polished up by the fall for now it's a fancy new sensor with not much in the

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way of software support though all right

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ipad pro 2020 then maybe we were wrong when we guessed at

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apple's intentions for the ipad it seemed like they were championing the

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ipad pro as this groundbreaking new way

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for people to do work on the go you know an ipad for pros

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and now that we've got the next iteration of it it's

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well it's an ipad with a mouse attached to it

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and another camera and a light bounce sensor

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which is fine it's big it just leaves me questioning who

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exactly it's for no really though why

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don't you guys let me know like are you jeff are you the unicorn that apple is

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searching for who needs more than an ipad but less than a macbook

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what do you do with it

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you know it's a flipping miracle anyone buys anything from dbrand at this point

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i go all the way up the corporate ladder to the top robot i've got one simple

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request i want an ipad pro

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with unicorns puking rainbows on each

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other what do i get i get two unicorns that are puking

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rainbows i'll give them that but not on each other and two rainbow colored

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unicorns and i'm not even sure if this one is a unicorn i'm pretty sure that

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that horn is photoshopped on there it's disgraceful it's what it is

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in all seriousness though dbrand is your source for awesome textured vinyl skins

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they're available for laptops phones tablets consoles controllers and more

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they're made from high quality 3m vinyl with a patented adhesive that is

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guaranteed to leave no residue on your device if you want to change the skin

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out for a different one although i personally would never change this skin

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their uncompromising precision and cutting the vinyl ensures a factory fit

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for your selected device and they not only look great but they even protect your device against incidental scuffs

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and scratches their customer service robots are easy to work with their

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products are affordable and they ship worldwide what could go wrong oh right

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you could get insulted by their customer service well you know what i guess

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that's just the the risk you gotta take to get a

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nice you know quality vinyl skin all right it's not a risk you gotta take

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if all that sounds good check out the probably insulting link that dbrand put

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in the video description where you can buy their head

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if you guys enjoyed this video check out our recent video reviewing the uh latest

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you know what it's more some more apple pro stuff how about the

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latest macbook pro we really liked that he actually likes the mac pro as well

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just expensive but like what were you expecting