This iPad WILL Change EVERYTHING - Tech Walks Ep2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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2,343 words · ~11 min read
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all right hit me it's the fastest iPad ever it's got
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more RAM than ever before but in all
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seriousness we all know that I wouldn't be here at the zoo with my poor family
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in toe with whoa hi with Hagrid from
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radical Raptors hanging out with me these guys are super cool they let me
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put the owl in the video freaking awesome and of course Dennis who drove
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over here from the office if this was just another faster iPad no no this is
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so game-changing that I felt compelled to pull again poor Dennis out here to
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the zoo to go for a walk with me and talk about how it is going to change the
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mobile device industry so without further Ado then let's go do that and uh
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or wait actually here Dylan you can have your bird back
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the be quiet! dark Bass Pro 900s modular design supports a variety of different
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layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn
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more it's not really a secret that I've never been a huge fan of this category
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of product back when Apple released the first iPad I denounced it as as an
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unar device and what I mean by that is
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that if it was smaller then I could put
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it in my pocket and I wouldn't have to carry a day pack and if I was you know
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oh I don't know at the zoo for example
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and I did have a bag well it's not functional enough for me
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to not just bring a laptop I mean to be clear I'm not calling the category
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useless I use my iPad 2 all the time it's just that for the aforementioned
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reasons I don't go out with it and everything that I do on it can still be
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done on an iPad too whether that's watching movies on Netflix when
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somebody's on the TV or whether that's shopping on Amazon or giving to my
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daughter to you know kill some time while daddy takes a nap or whatever the
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case may be like I I have no temptation to be out there taking stabilized 4K
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video because it has the same camera as the iPhone 7 and I think this is
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something that Apple themselves has
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acknowledged not directly but by maintaining this iPad Pro category of
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product and by releasing earlier this year the iPad the the most commodity
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product that I think we've seen from Apple in quite some time like it's it
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doesn't give you that Apple premium feels it's like cost down so that every
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student in the classroom can afford one okay so yeah we get the point the
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category is not particularly exciting so then why get so amped up is it the speed
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uh compared to the last iPad uh CPU is what 30% faster GPU is 40% faster it's
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it's got 4 gigs of RAM uh more than ever before on an iOS device no with a tablet
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between so many of the services you use
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being cloud-based where the processing can be offloaded from the device and the
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fact that the user interface on a tablet
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is so much more often my bottleneck when I'm trying to do something compared to
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the processing of the device that's not
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what gets my uh motor humming at all
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okay what about the size then the size is different from previous iPad pros at
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10 1 12 in it's kind of in between uh 9.7 and 13 or whatever it was um but
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even there I'm going to go with no so yes the bezels on a large iPad are now a
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lot more like the bezels on the iPad Mini which which is something new and
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something different sort of because it's different for the iPad but not different
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from the rest of the industry I mean the the race to you know Infinity edges and
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bezeless devices is well underway and
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apple is hardly leading the charge even
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with this kind of screen to bezel ratio but we are getting closer because the
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thing that I'm really excited about is actually the screen and
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no I mean the okay the the the color the
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uh DCI P3 wide color gamut the 600 nits
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Peak brightness and ooh the kappaa okay I am I am going to be a pad
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hole and I'm going to take a picture of the kappaa look at that it's like a
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great big tailess rat I'm not that excited about HDR cuz there's not a ton
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of content yet and even what is there isn't especially well mastered no the
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thing I'm excited about is the refresh
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rate this is in a nutshell where my
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admiration for Apple comes from because I've criticized them a lot and I don't
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like everything that they do but what they do have is the courage to try new
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features and when I talk about courage I am not talking about removing the
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headphone jack that to me is kind of a
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um it's almost a way of kind of bullying the market into adopting their standard
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that's not really courage that's like calling Sony's insistence on memory
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stick courage that's just obnoxious uh
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I'm talking about the courage spend an extra I don't know how much maybe it's
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50 maybe it's $5 on every iPad Pro they
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sell for a more advanced display controller and an IPS panel that's
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capable of a 120 HZ refresh rate and you
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might say yeah sure you know what's five
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bucks let's say it's five bucks the answer is a lot because Apple's going to
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sell this product for a nice round
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number MSRP regardless of what specs
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they put in it it'll be you know $8.99 or
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$999 go ahead I've never been able to do that
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before no problem sorry we're back and uh by the
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time they sell 5 million or 10 million
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of them now we're talking $25 million or
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$50 million that's courage spending
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money on something that nobody asked for
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because you think it's a better experience for the end user because
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that's actually in my mind one of the biggest problems with the rest of the
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electronics Industry only being willing to build something with the features
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that your customers are asking for that's how you end up with 20 laptops on
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the Shelf at best py all of which are
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basically the same and while some people
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seem to think that the 120 HZ display is
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about spec padding and about having something that nobody else has it's not
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it matters a lot more than you probably think and for a lot more use cases than
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you probably realize so let's start with the one that's most obvious when you
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initially pick up the device it feels
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really fast just the fact that the screen is refreshing sooner after you
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interact with it makes the device feel instantly more responsive and even more
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impressively Apple managed to do this without compromizing one of their
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Hallmarks which is great battery life by using adaptive refresh rate technology
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so the refresh rate of the display will actually go down if it's not displaying
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High refresh rate content or if it is displaying a static image and then it'll
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go up when you interact with it and this is one of the things that people love to
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criticize Apple about like oh they didn't invent that no they didn't invent
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adaptive refresh rate Tech but what they
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did do was they implemented in a way that is Meaningful and enhances the user
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experience and gaming is another use case where this makes a ton of sense to
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me it's a way to improve the experience
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of a game on a higher-end device without
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increasing stratification in the App Store so without driving up the
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graphical Fidelity to the point where anything but the 2017 iPad Pro is going
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to be running the game like a slideshow so people who buy the higher-end device
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are going to run the game at 120 frames per second it's going to be butter
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smooth it's going to feel like a really great experience but app developers
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don't have to lock themselves out of being able to access the hordes of
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people that own previous generation devices and honestly that's something
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Apple doesn't really want in the app store anyway they want apps to run on
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all devices that they decide are you know current
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and supported not you app developer you don't get to decide that Apple decides
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that and the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't consider is uh
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Dennis are you keeping up sorry uh here
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we're going to go this way the last one that a lot of people probably wouldn't
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consider is Media consumption so the cool thing about 120
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hertz is that whether we're talking 60 FPS content 30 FPS content or
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24 FPS movie content all of it can run
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even if this wasn't an Adaptive refresh rate display which it is but all of it
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could run on a 120 HZ display without
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any jutter or without any like pull down
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or or any kind of like the Tom Foolery that they do where they'll duplicate a
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frame in order to take non content and run it on a different refresh rate
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display so then back kind of to the
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beginning where I don't care that much about tablets I really don't but what
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I'm excited about is what apple is doing
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to the industry with this product I mean
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to be clear there is no 100% guarantee
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that just because we got a 120 HZ display on the 2017 iPad Pro that we're
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going to get a 120 HZ display on the up
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coming iPhone 8 in fact I mean the iPad Pro the last
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generation had USB 3 the iPhone 7 does
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not and the iPhone 7 has a solid state
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home button whereas this new iPad Pro
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does not but I would say now that Apple's made that investment into the
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display controller now that they've got the feature out there and since there's
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no cost in terms of power consumption to
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putting it on a smaller device there is a very good chance that on Apple's
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premium devices we're just going to see this as a feature moving forward and
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this is something that I have wanted for a long time both High refresh rate and
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variable refresh rate are huge
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experience changing Technologies and
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what's great about this is that once Apple does it everybody else wakes up
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and goes oh oh maybe that's important
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and we start seeing it on you know every tablet and every phone and every
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computer and everything starts to feel a little bit faster and a little bit more
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premium so that ultimately is why I care
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about the iPad Pro 2017 because I don't care about the iPad Pro
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$59.95 so thanks for watching our walk in the park discussion about the iPad
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Pro we had so much fun making the other one out in the rain in Taiwan that I
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figured what the hey we'll do it again also it really was between dragging my
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family to the office and dragging Dennis out here to the zoo with us so we we we
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went with we went with the ladder option if you guys dislike the video you can
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going to go back to watching this Eagle check out that rabbit down there look at
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that he's like yeah I see you rabbit
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rabbit's like yeah I see you're in a cage
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chump still able to get my picture with the owl for 10 bucks