1 Year with the M5 iPad Pro: The Brutal Truth (and I respect your time) — Transcript

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1. 0:00The M5 iPad Pro has now been out for one
2. 0:02whole year, and I'm going to respect
3. 0:03your time, so let's talk about it. And
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7. 0:08and it really does help. Okay, so this
8. 0:10is the M5 iPad Pro, and man, it is so
9. 0:13freaking sweet. Like, the amount of
10. 0:15stuff that Apple packed into this is
11. 0:16crazy, especially considering how just
12. 0:19absolutely razor thin this guy is. I
13. 0:22mean, I can't even fathom the fact that
14. 0:24there is a full M5 chip in here that
15. 0:27would be in something like a Mac mini.
16. 0:29So, that's kind of the first thing I
17. 0:30want to get across is this thing has so
18. 0:32much headroom. I don't know a single
19. 0:34person in my whole life that would
20. 0:36actually put the M5 iPad Pro to its full
21. 0:39use. If you're editing video, you can do
22. 0:41that. If you're animating, you can do
23. 0:42that. If you're doing office work and
24. 0:44watching videos and all those kind of
25. 0:45things, the M5 iPad Pro can do that, but
26. 0:48at what cost? I mean, this thing is so
27. 0:51expensive. The M5 iPad Pro starts at
28. 0:53$1,199. That is so much money for an
29. 0:57iPad. Like, I like unfathomable amounts
30. 1:00of money. Now, they do pack so much tech
31. 1:02into here, the beautiful screen, all of
32. 1:03that, but that's just so much money,
33. 1:05especially when you think about this.
34. 1:07You're probably still going to need a
35. 1:09full laptop. Now, I hear you keyboard
36. 1:11warriors, you say, "No, but I use an
37. 1:12iPad Pro for my full computer." I get
38. 1:15it, but for most people, the workarounds
39. 1:17that you're going to have to do are
40. 1:18still bit clunky. So, to pay $1,200 for
41. 1:21this plus having to get a laptop on top
42. 1:23of that or a Mac mini, it is hard to
43. 1:25recommend. But, if your concern is,
44. 1:26"Man, can this actually pull off the
45. 1:28workflow that I have?" The answer is
46. 1:30probably. I mean, it is an absolute
47. 1:31beast of a iPad, and you're going to be
48. 1:33able to get a lot of stuff done with it,
49. 1:34but you have to be a specific type of
50. 1:36person with a specific type of workflow.
51. 1:37If you don't know what you're going to
52. 1:39be working on in the next 5 months, you
53. 1:40can't really go with this because you
54. 1:41don't know what type of stuff you're
55. 1:43going to run into. All right, let's talk
56. 1:44the screen. It is a tandem OLED screen.
57. 1:46It is the single most gorgeous screen
58. 1:47I've ever seen on any device. I mean,
59. 1:49look at this screen. Beautiful dark inky
60. 1:52blacks, the colors pop, it is so
61. 1:55incredibly gorgeous. I cannot explain to
62. 1:57you how gorgeous it is. You're seeing it
63. 1:59through YouTube and the compression and
64. 2:00all that, but it's amazing. Having the
65. 2:01120 Hz display is fantastic. I do always
66. 2:04say that you do get used to a 60 Hz
67. 2:06display, so if you go with the Air, I
68. 2:08don't think that big of a deal, but if
69. 2:09you're paying this much money, you want
70. 2:10the best screen possible. But what
71. 2:11really makes me love the iPad Pro is not
72. 2:13even the iPad Pro, it's actually the
73. 2:15Magic Keyboard. I absolutely love the
74. 2:17Magic Keyboard. If you are trying to
75. 2:19replace your laptop with it, you have to
76. 2:21get that Magic Keyboard. It feels great
77. 2:23to type on. this is my my like favorite
78. 2:26thing to type on is this Magic Keyboard.
79. 2:28It feels smooth, the sound is great, and
80. 2:31even the key travel is pretty solid.
81. 2:32Yes, there are some keyboards out there
82. 2:34with more key travel, but this one is
83. 2:36definitely good enough for my needs. The
84. 2:38trackpad on here feels really nice and
85. 2:40responsive. I get feels like a MacBook
86. 2:42trackpad. The Apple Pencil Pro is
87. 2:44awesome. I don't really use it all that
88. 2:46much. I don't I really don't feel like
89. 2:47unless you are somebody who's actually
90. 2:49doing animations, you're probably not
91. 2:51going to use the Apple Pencil Pro. It's
92. 2:52very expensive. But having used it
93. 2:54earlier in the year, it is definitely
94. 2:55good if that's that's kind of your need,
95. 2:57but for most people, probably not what
96. 2:59you're into. Saying if that's what
97. 3:00you're into always reminds me of Flight
98. 3:02of the Conchords. So here's the bottom
99. 3:03line for me, the iPad Pro the M5 is just
100. 3:06absolutely phenomenal. It is There's no
101. 3:07way that Apple can beat it right now.
102. 3:09It's just absolutely fantastic. But you
103. 3:11better be willing to shell out that kind
104. 3:12of money for something that's this good
105. 3:14without having the need to add anything
106. 3:17else to your workflow. So you don't need
107. 3:18a full laptop or a desktop computer. And
108. 3:20I think most people would be better
109. 3:22served by just getting themselves a
110. 3:24laptop because there is no weird
111. 3:26workarounds that you have to do with the
112. 3:27file system and all that kind of stuff.
113. 3:29iPadOS has come a really, really long
114. 3:31way, but it's still not macOS. And we
115. 3:33know this, Apple could put macOS on
116. 3:35this, but they decided not to cuz
117. 3:36they're not going to cannibalize the
118. 3:38different sections of their company.
119. 3:39They're very smart as business people.
120. 3:41So 1 year later, can I recommend the M5
121. 3:43iPad Pro? Only if this is going to be
122. 3:44your only computing device. If you're
123. 3:46going to use anything else, it is not
124. 3:48worth the money. I would say go to the
125. 3:50iPad Air because you're going to get
126. 3:52almost like 90% of the way there as you
127. 3:54would with a Pro, but you're going to
128. 3:55save a lot of money in the process. Let
129. 3:57me know in the comments below, what do
130. 3:58you think of the M5 iPad Pro? Let me
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