iPad 2018 basically same as 2013?

[muzzy996]

The Pro motion isn't a big deal.

It doesn't make content "look" better and mainly benefit pencil users. Video looks better on my three year old OLED Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and on my 3 month old Dell XPS 13 with a 4k touch screen.

I only bought the Pro because my iPad 3 was unusable. For anyone else with a usable iPad, hold off upgrading until the iPad either has a 4k or OLED screen.

Yeah It’s subjective. For me it is desirable for the higher refresh rate which to my eyes yields noticeably smoother animations and scrolling. It’s the buttery scrolling that gives me the impression of a faster device so it matters to me.

 

[sosumi99]

I only bought the Pro because my iPad 3 was unusable. For anyone else with a usable iPad, hold off upgrading until the iPad either has a 4k or OLED screen.

Usability differs from person to person. For my uses, I don't care about 4K or OLED screen as much as I do about the Pencil and multitasking. The key is to figure out what you need and then decide of the upgrade really addresses those needs.

 

[Mainsail]

2018 iPad vs iPad Air 1:

Much better performance: A10 Chip vs A7 Chip and 2GB RAM vs 1GB RAM
32GB Storage vs 16 GB storage
Touch ID vs No Touch ID
Apple Pencil Support vs No Apple Pencil Support
Supports almost all iOS 12 feature vs some missing features: e.g. Side by Side Apps - which is a big deal for productivity
$329 entry price vs $499 entry price

I am sure I am missing something.

 

[mrex]

I actually bought the latest iPad 128GB model a few hours ago. Sadly, I am unimpressed...

1. Web surfing speeds are only slightly better than my 5 year old Air...and I have a 200Mbit connection so it's not my wifi
2. iPad still uses USB 2.0 technology. Yikes. This is really a slap in the face. It took hours to copy over a few thousand MP3 files. I see that the Pro model (again, for more than double the price) uses USB 3.0.

Likely I will return this and either a)pray the iPad Pro offers a 128GB model (and other bells and whistles) cheaper than last year's model or b)I wait until spring for a new iPad 7th gen to see what Apple releases.

$429 is a great price for this if you have a pre-Air iPad or simply want a lot more storage. But other than storage, it really doesn't offer anything compelling (as an iPad upgrade) to plunk down that much money when so little has changed in 5 years. I actually may consider upgrading the old Air to iOS 11 or 12 if/when the web surfing becomes worse.

Thanks everyone for your feedback!!

get the pro, it has much better screen - not the same hollow screen as ipads (and air1) have.

 

[Falhófnir]

This does make me wonder what they will do as regards the changing face of iOS. The iPad realistically now has all of the X gesture controls baked in anyway, the home button is just also there as a secondary way of interacting - as this is the case they might not have to shift away from the current design for a good while yet. It also makes me wonder if they might eventually shift to the iPad Air 2 chassis for future generations if they don’t redesign it for a few years - once the pros are sufficiently distinct via the redesign that a laminated screen isn’t going to have it encroach too much. Then again the laminated screen was apparently the big sacrifice that allowed them to hit the new lower price point...