My personal thoughts on the new iPads

[DiamonDecoden]

I recently purchased the refurbished pro 10.5, before I had the 12 but it was too unwieldy, and heavy so I sold that. I personally prefer a smaller iPad, I am hoping Apple will release a iPad mini pro. I had a choice to update to the newest 2018 but I feel the 2017 performs very well. I do like the FPS on the iPad and you can use the same gestures on the 2017. I also prefer the white bezels. I will definitely sit this one out until Apple release sometimes similar to what I want. I am loving 10.5 so far and I feel that the performance is good enough for 2018 and for a few more years to come.

 

[Macalicious2011]

The design is pretty good but I am a bit annoyed by the viewing angles of the screen and the huge bezels. Form factor is great though.

Same here. I looked at the new iPads today and it’s 2 steps forward for no chin and forehead but one step backward for the winded side bezel.

Personally I don’t think it’s worth taking a £/$200-300 hit for unless you have more money than you can spend.

I will wait for thinner bezels and 4K displays.

 

[SHKLMRE]

This is a common theme on MR. People are insistent they need the most ram, the largest hard drive, etc. So they always quote the highest prices or top end. Why "Most" people would need a TB on an iOS device escapes me.

The 12.9 is the size of a piece of paper now, it's not too big or anything else. The form factor is so much smaller now and it's lighter. I read some of this as "I can't afford" or "it's too expensive" because for some reason they have to have the range topping deal. But the base model and it becomes so much less expensive.

Exactly! It’s common in the 2018 iPad Pro reviews I’ve been reading too. People are calling it a $2k device when in reality not many people are buying the top of the line device. It’s just annoying and unnecessary.

 

[cornerexit]

Exactly! It’s common in the 2018 iPad Pro reviews I’ve been reading too. People are calling it a $2k device when in reality not many people are buying the top of the line device. It’s just annoying and unnecessary.

Agreed. mine was $999. I don't like the $200 price hike either but at least $100 of that is justified to me with face ID, reduced bezels, and a hoss of power. It's what the original 12.9 should have been. I'm in Telco/IT and have been for 20 years. I don't and never will buy into my os or iOS being large storage. Even my mac, my SSD running Mojave runs the OS and progs. I store all files whether they be my iTunes library (full audio not compressed), photos, videos, spreadsheets, financial docs, anything and everything, on external drives and clone them. I've had machines take a dump at work and personal machines and i don't even flinch or bat an eye. My data and files is backed up, stored separately, etc. I keep what I need on the pad, and store the rest via iTunes and external drives. External drives are cheap as hell and Apple robs you blind on storage and RAM. This is why I run a 2014 mac mini quad core as my desktop. I changed the ram and both hard drives myself. I like the Apple Eco very much compared to windoze as I loathe their OS reliability. Do the smart thing with Apple products, whether it be pad, phone, or mac. Flip the bird at Apple on their ram and hard drive prices. They are robbery!

 

[emporiky]

Let's just start with the fact that OLED and LCD are completely different display technologies. On OLED displays you don't use backlighting. On LCD displays, it is the backlight that defines the brightness.

OLED wear happens because individual pixels are worn out at different rates. The blue pixels wears down faster than green and red. A worn down OLED pixel CANNOT be brought back to original brightness.

LCDs don't get burn-in over the years of use. The brightness of the LED backlight might decrease slightly if you use high levels of brightness, but you will never see anything that resembles OLED wear. The LCD simply doesn't work that way. You might have temporary image retention if it's a poor quality display (like the LG displays on the iPad Mini 2).

"Burn-in protection" will help for OLED, but ultimately those shifted pixels will also be worn down.

Just to add to that - at the moment it doesn’t seem possible to have 120 HZ “pro-motion” display on OLED (which explains why you don’t have it on iPhones). I have the iPhone X and my girlfriend has the touchbar MBP, but the iPad Pro (including old 10,5) for me are the best Apple displays.

 

[glhiii]

I also have a gen 1 large iPad pro. Went to the Apple store today to check out the new one, but decided to upgrade to gen 2 instead (don't have to buy a new pencil and keyboard and case, much cheaper on eBay). I actually like the old form factor better than the new one -- with the cover it is easy to keep it slightly raised in landscape mode for writing with the pencil. Also did not like the shape of the new one -- too square, somehow. No doubt I'd get used to it, but it's not worth so much more money. I'm also not sure that facial recognition works as well on an iPad as on the iPhone (which I love).

 

[lisag]

For OLED wishers- Samsung (maker of the laptop size OLED displays used in the past few years in Lenovo, Alienware et. al) announced they weren't going to produce and sell laptop sized OLED displays to other companies any more. Anything above 10.5" seems to be off the table. There were challenges with OLED laptop displays including yield, power consumption and a bit of burn-in.

Apple makes a point of having color accurate displays, and the OLEDs used in laptops were lovely but not nearly color accurate (I've tested them all with a colorimeter for our reviews). The cost of getting one made and tuned for accuracy as Apple did with the little iPhone would likely be too high.

For those wishing for even smaller bezels- be careful what you wish for. With big tablets, you need to grab and hold it by the sides-- sub 5mm bezels make that difficult without accidentally operating the display.

 

[jeremiah256]

For OLED wishers- Samsung (maker of the laptop size OLED displays used in the past few years in Lenovo, Alienware et. al) announced they weren't going to produce and sell laptop sized OLED displays to other companies any more. Anything above 10.5" seems to be off the table. There were challenges with OLED laptop displays including yield, power consumption and a bit of burn-in.

I haven’t seen or heard this in the news and didn’t find a story with a (admittedly) quick Google search.

 

[rowspaxe]

Now here is my biggest annoyance, I have a 10.5” iPad Pro and the screen just doesn’t feel improved, like it’s the same type of screen in my eyes, and when I’ve been using my iPhone XS Max the screen on the iPad just feels dull? Maybe it’s the OLED effect.
Even my 10.5” screen looks meh now since I’ve been using the XS.
iPhones.

The ipad pro screen feels very color accurate to me. I don't need punched up color and contrast.

 

[lisag]

Here’s one article about the subject, via Google: https://www.notebookcheck.net/No-mo...ontinues-to-dominate-the-market.278238.0.html .

I haven’t seen or heard this in the news and didn’t find a story with a (admittedly) quick Google search.

 

[cornerexit]

OLED just means burn in and reduced battery. An OLED screen on this thing and the battery wouldn’t last nearly as long.