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iPad Pro Where are the iPad Pro reviews?
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No, 9AM EST, 2PM GMT, 3PM CET.
ah alright. just the comment above me says it was posted 5:33AM and it's 11:39AM right now so thought that meant 9:30AM lol. not long to go now anyway.
not the person you've quoted. i was disappointed no OLED too because that's what i'm used to now. got an oled phone/oled tv. honestly i think the iPad screen is really good.
i've been comparing the screen on a 2019 iPad 10.2" to my 12 Pro Max. yeah the OLED is better but the LCD displays Apple use are arguably the best out there. I think the display on the iPad is just as good as or even better than my £500 LCD monitor that i calibrated for photo/video work.
I had my iPhone and iPad next to each other trying to tell the difference. OLED is slightly more vibrant but I'm impressed with the colours on the iPad. When comparing app icons with blacks/dark greys the OLED is only slightly darker. Remember I'm comparing them side to side which isn't what people are gonna do. I even checked the display using http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ and again i'm impressed with the contrast/gamma/black levels.
Where the LCD on the iPad falls short is at high brightness displaying blacks. At low levels the blacks are absolutely fine but if you're running an app in dark mode or watching a video (with black bars) then the LCD just can't compare to OLED. The entire screen will glow on the iPad but the oled the backgrounds/black bars are inky black. i cant get HDR on the iPad but i imagine if it did support HDR that it'd be about the same experience as HDR on my monitor. an LCD can only put out a single uniform brightness across the entire panel so when i watch HDR on my monitor it looks better but the blacks are glowing which is not good. the mini led iPad will be able to dim black areas so HDR on that will be much much much better.
now remember i was looking at a budget iPad from 2019. I haven't seen what the displays are like on the iPad Air or Pro. Maybe they are better but i'm not expecting miracles. The quality might be better on higher end models but it's still an LCD.
TL;DR: i think that the iPad has a fantastic display that comes quite close to OLED but where it falls short is when there are lots of dark backgrounds such as using dark mode or watching movies in particular HDR.
Super TL;DR: most people will be happy with LCD unless watching video outside and/or in HDR.
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From Jon Prosser's Twitter, he was right with iMac so assume it's correct for iPad also.
Embargo times for iMac & iPad Pro
iMac - 9:00am EST, Tuesday, May 18th
iPad Pro - 9:00am EST, Wednesday, May 19th
I mostly use it to watch movies/series at evening/night time. For everyday use it's great.
I did like how there were no more page reloads when switching between apps; that used to annoy me.
I’m like. BOrder line canceling my Order. Dave2D, and MKBHD say there’s No benefit to the Mini-LED Display and it’s limited to 8-bit Not 10-bit.
the Side By Side examples. It’s borderline imperceptible.
The same takeaway as the 2018 and 2020 reviews… hopefully iPadOS 15 changes this.
It’s borderline imperceptible to you because you’re likely not viewing the video in an HDR format on an HDR screen…
I’ll be interested to hear Dave2D’s thoughts, haven’t gotten the chance to watch his review yet.
I get what they're saying, but 'holding it back' is a subjective thing if you want to have a fully exposed OS to the end user. The ipad was never that. There may still be a middle ground to open up more features/functions without full blown OSX.
Imperceptible? I can see a clear difference
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Glad I have a 256gb 11” on order. My needs do not require HDR on an iPad. Thrilled to have double the RAM for Procreate. I hope the software experience ramps up though.