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Are you switching colors for a new iPad this year?

  • 2018 Silver switching to Space Gray

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • 2018 Space Gray switching to Silver

    Votes: 11 61.1%
  • Older iPad switching to (....) explain in comments.

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • Total voters
    18

Royksöpp

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I keep going back back and forth on which iPad Pro color to go for. I had the Space Gray 2018 11 inch which I sold before the 2020 release. I decided to go for the same color for 2020 even though I was never a fan of the shade to begin with. I always thought it was too dark. If it was the same shade as the MacBook Pro I would buy it with no regrets. I decided to return the 11 and go for the 12.9 in Silver. Something about it just looks right to me. The camera module looks so much better on the silver. I'm looking forward to changing it up this year and feeling like I actually have a completely different iPad. Who else deiced to make a switch this time?
 
I keep going back back and forth on which iPad Pro color to go for. I had the Space Gray 2018 11 inch which I sold before the 2020 release. I decided to go for the same color for 2020 even though I was never a fan of the shade to begin with. I always thought it was too dark. If it was the same shade as the MacBook Pro I would buy it with no regrets. I decided to return the 11 and go for the 12.9 in Silver. Something about it just looks right to me. The camera module looks so much better on the silver. I'm looking forward to changing it up this year and feeling like I actually have a completely different iPad. Who else deiced to make a switch this time?
I plan on going from silver to space gray. The space gray color looks really nice! :)
 
Most of the marketing material is using the silver iPad Pro. Looks to be having a positive influence going off the votes so far. 😬
 
I almost went from a 2016 Silver iPad Pro to the Space Gray but ended up getting a silver again since the bezel is now dark on both models anyway. I tend to like brightly colored cases and I think silver looks better with those.

However, if Apple ever releases a true black iPad I'd go for that.
 
Would prefer to switch to Silver for a similar aesthetic to the iPad 1-4 (black bezel, silver chassis). However, I'll take whatever 1TB LTE model is in stock on the refurb store.
 
Its a huge missed opportunity to not introduce wild colors with the iPad Pro 2020. Grey and Silver are so similar but new colors would have been the fun differentiator that would actually make the product look “fresh”.
 
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I am not buying iPad Pro 2020 but in general I choose the color based on the bezels color. I do not want white bezels. They distract me more from viewing the screen. Plus in general I avoid white colored tech as it is trickier to maintain clean.
 
I allows go for space grey on all my iDevices. But if I had to get a different color, it wouldn’t matter as a long as the bezel is black, since all my devices have Otterbox cases on them.
 
I wish I'd gone for silver rather than space grey; I had my surname engraved on my new 12.9" but it's really hard to see. I think it would have stood out more on silver.
 
Not planning on upgrading, but I think the silver Face ID iPad Pros look so nice - very reminiscent of the original iPad with the square edges. The Space Grey looks fine, but the lack of contrast makes it a bit more boring in my opinion.
 
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