Everyone's WRONG about the new M4 iPad Pros!

I use the iPad M4 13” for video conferencing, browsing, note taking, and as a beautiful second monitor for my MacBook Pro - so I feel I’m experiencing a really great value.

i think this is the problem. no one, not even apple, knows what an ipad is suppose to be, so everyone adds their own expectations on this device. It delivers and excels on many points - especially in area of confusion. I am not a content creator, and I am buying an ipad pro - because I want it to work for me.

There was no reduction in speakers from 5 to 4, that was the microphone…

Best perspective of iPads overall I've yet heard!

Excellent video.

Great point about the chipset and the thermals. I tested the 10th gen iPad and the 2024 Pro and Air models, all 11". Most people should just buy the 10th gen iPad. $325 on Amazon...it's a steal relative to the competition. I think the Pro was $950 and the Air $550. That said when you use them all side by side, if you can afford it, you'll end up buying the Pro for the screen alone. Once you see it you can't unsee it. For reference, I am 51 with once perfect and now failing vision who can't tell the difference between 720P and 1080P on my 75" Samsung while sitting on the couch. Only a blind person would not be blown away by this screen. As for the M4...it's overkill for anyone not content creating. And it will be overkill still when Apple EOLs it 6 years from now or whatever their schedule is.

I just bought a 12.9" M1 just because a 512gb+5g is 1/3 of the price of an M4 equivalent (£570 vs £1700), that's just insane value. Plus it's more durable and the speakers sound better (to me anyway). The MiniLED 120hz display also holds up very well, while not as nice as the new OLED, it's a lot nicer than the 11" display of the previous pro or the display on the air. Overall I'm happy with the purchase but I totally agree with you that it is heavy. While having something thinner/lighter would be nice, I find the biggest issue is the 4:3 aspect ratio and size makes it very awkward to type on or reach across the screen with your thumb while holding it. But then on the 11" stage manager is near unusable and you lose quite a lot in terms of ability to multitask.

Hi I think u made very good points and I would like to ask Should I buy it for games and videos? I am worried since I heard u saying it would throttle, cuz it has no fan, no good cooling Does it lagg? Or just get warm And how big are the black bars on videos?

Okay you have a different perspective of it. But I am one of them who uses the iPad only model. I don’t have a mac in any form since I only had the budget to take one and leave another so I thought of buying an iPad Pro 11 inch M1 and am using it since more than 2.5 years. In my profession I could do everything I could on a mac on my iPad. That is how professionally viable is the software and hardware designed but still just coz of the workarounds that I experience daily, I would have been better off the mac then an iPad. For such users like me, I would say, we need the macOS like features for the day to day use. They placed it right in between the mac and iPhone. But made the pro max version of iPhone a better product for content consumption and MacBook Air has no fan and has the same chip and has better user interface than the iPad. They made the iPad have a pencil and a keyboard. This makes us more productive by letting us write tonnes of notes saving 1000s of kilos of paper. They made it support the external monitor thus adding more utility to the overall experience. Now it is no longer just a content machine that you are putting into perspective. There are a plethora of work apps which I use daily which are available for both mac and iPad and equally compatible. Just a tad bit of fine tuning required and completely not available on Samsung products. Why can’t they make the os mac like. Both products would still co-exist. Just that the price would become even more justifiable and more people would join their ecosystem

is it durable? will it bend and damage easily ? thats the only factor stopping me from purchasing it.

I’m studying Business Admin Cert 3.. I’m frustrated that the MS Word app doesn’t have complete features on iPad.. I hate Windows computer.. so I’m thinking of getting a Macbook Air M3😭

This is one of the most refreshing takes I've heard out there from all the other tech youtubers, and I've watched close to 20 hours of reviews on the M4 iPads, you get it.

I agree with your prospective on iPad and I've always thought of it like that, whoever buys it should know that he will resort to his PC at some tasks but for most of the casual use, the iPad is a great device, the only thing we needed was a bigger battery, much more than a lighter device, even if the ,13" was heavy, if u needed something to hold with your hands u could've gone with the 11"

Thank you I am also in the iPad as a tablet camp And as such The new camera location is a real nuisance As my natural hand position blocks faceID

This is probably the best review of seen so far on the iPad. Everything you say makes complete sense I think people are expecting that washing machine.😂

I actually use my M1 iPad 12.9” more than I use my iPhone and iMac combined. I older and don’t need to go anywhere to work – I’m a homebody, and I enjoy it. As you said the iPad is a great device for consuming and some light creating. I watch YouTube, TV shows, surf the web, play games, read the NY Times and play the crossword puzzle and Wordle, I answer calls on it, listen to music on it (alone or paired to headphones), I text, email, outline ideas for my writing, take notes, and much more! The screen looks great and is a good size for doing all that stuff. I will probably upgrade my iPhone soon and get around to replacing my iMac 27” with a MacBook Pro and a badass monitor, keyboard and mouse so I can have the full Mac experience when I want it. But honestly, sitting in my chair, on the sofa, or in bed…I’ll probably always be an iPad Pro guy. It just fits my interests and my lifestyle the best. Thanks for the video!

Also, a little note about the M3 vs M4, the M3 actually uses a much more expensive manufacturing process with much lower yields that has advantages over the M4 when it comes to higher core counts like the Max. So this was a cost decision by Apple :) - but as it also performs better on the low core count chips, it's a bit of a win win for everyone.

There are many things I agree with in your video, but there are some parts that I don't. Apple embraces the modularity of the iPad. As someone who accepted my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard as a “laptop alternative,” I was pleasantly surprised that I could legitimately and effectively replace my specific use case for my MacBook after iOS 17. The major perk of this setup is that I only have to carry the iPad with me and can unattach the keyboard when I need it as a super tablet. The combination of the M4 iPad Pro 13 with the Magic Keyboard is now almost the same weight as a MacBook Air. I doubt that's a coincidence. The iPad Pro M4 with the keyboard can handle most light, medium, and even some heavy computer work effectively, but some tasks are frustratingly held back due to seemingly fixable issues in iPadOS. I believe it is safe to say that Apple supports and even advertises overlaps between the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook, as long as they can't completely replace each other.

Can you boot windows in it

if it was never meant to be anything more than a tablet, then why put a desktop processor in it? makes no sense