2022 iPad Pro Reviews: Minor Spec Bump With 'One Very Nice Surprise'

[ipedro]

Coming from the 2018 iPad Pro A12x Bionic. This will be a significant improvement. I don't know why folks with M1 iPad Pro's are complaining. Who needs to upgrade their iPad Pro every year? It's far more powerful than needed and this year's is an evolution with a better chip and a few new features, making it a better upgrade than the M1 for those whose time it is to upgrade.

 

[w5jck]

Many people can only be happy when they're unhappy and having a good moan. Perplexing.

Many people will drink the poison Apple juice no matter what lackluster garbage Apple throws their way.

 

[LogicalApex]

Coming from the 2018 iPad Pro A12x Bionic. This will be a significant improvement. I don't know why folks with M1 iPad Pro's are complaining. Who needs to upgrade their iPad Pro every year? It's far more powerful than needed and this year's is an evolution with a better chip and a few new features, making it a better upgrade than the M1 for those whose time it is to upgrade.

The complaint isn’t so much the minor spec bump. You expect those. Every year can’t be crazy gains…

The complaint is more that iPad OS is already so limiting and the hardware so far out ahead of it. That people are having trouble finding a compelling reason to look at the top tier. I agree with those people.

The only useful thing the upgrade brings is hover. But is hover worth the cost to upgrade a M1 model? No. Is it with the premium over a 2020 or 2019 model? Not unless you’re an artist. Most people barely touch their pencils.

 

[Populus]

I didn't know an A15 had a dedicated media encoding engine to make exporting faster.

It was a simplified answer, on a context -we always forget the context- of a simplified comparison between the M1 and the A14 that it is based on. I didn’t want to get into a more detailed answer.

Anyways, it is an A15 with more cores, including the media engines.

Oh, and by the way, the M2 supports DDR5 RAM, however people say doubling the memory bandwidth isn’t very noticeable on the day to day use… IDK

 

[cupcakes2000]

Most people barely touch their pencils.

That’s just making things up. How on earth would you have that data?

 

[LogicalApex]

That’s just making things up. How on earth would you have that data?

Calm down. Obviously I don’t have direct data. I am not Apple.

This is the general sentiment gained here.

I use my pencil frequently taking notes during work calls and brainstorming. But neither of those require the power of my M1 iPad Pro and wouldn’t justify an iPad Pro over an Air which lacks Hover.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Calm down. Obviously I don’t have direct data. I am not Apple.

This is the general sentiment gained here.

I use my pencil frequently taking notes during work calls and brainstorming. But neither of those require the power of my M1 iPad Pro and wouldn’t justify an iPad Pro over an Air which lacks Hover.

I don’t need to calm down, baseless hyperbolic claims are why the internet is like it is.

 

[LogicalApex]

I don’t need to calm down, baseless hyperbolic claims are why the internet is like it is.

We will agree to disagree.

I doubt the majority of iPad users are constantly using their pencil unless they are digital artists who draw a lot or are students who spend all day note taking.

So I don’t see my comment as hyperbolic.

But you are entitled to your opinion. 👍🏾

 

[Ener Ji]

Did any of the reviews confirm WiFi 6E support? Some folks appeared to think that 6E was a typo in the previous threads.

 

[pers0n]

The iPad has been plenty powerful for years, it's the OS that needs more functionality and power.

 

[bradman83]

A lot of people are complaining that the expensive iPad Pro didn't get a landscape camera, yet the much, much cheaper 10th generation iPad got it. And I would agree with them. I personally won't buy an iPad Pro at the end of its current form factor iteration, esp. since I've been wanting a landscape camera for just about forever. I figured it'd come to the iPad Pro first, but I was wrong.

For what it's worth the iPad Pro/Air/Mini can't have a landscape mounted camera because the assembly for the Apple Pencil charger simply takes up too much room. Look at a teardown, both it and the camera assembly are both sizable components and they won't both fit in that space. Since the base iPad doesn't use the second generation Pencil it's a non-issue for Apple to put the camera there. There really isn't a better spot to put the charger, so that means the camera has to stay put in the portrait mode position.

 

[EugW]

For what it's worth the iPad Pro/Air/Mini can't have a landscape mounted camera because the assembly for the Apple Pencil charger simply takes up too much room. Look at a teardown, both it and the camera assembly are both sizable components and they won't both fit in that space. Since the base iPad doesn't use the second generation Pencil it's a non-issue for Apple to put the camera there. There really isn't a better spot to put the charger, so that means the camera has to stay put in the portrait mode position.

I think the real reason might be is they don't care and just won't bother until they have a bigger reason to adjust the form factor, like a new screen.

 

[Fandroid killer]

What’s even the point in these reviews lol it’s just the same as the last one

They need to flick Tim's bean to get those free products

 

[Fandroid killer]

Not bringing the hover feature to the other Pro models is BS but is so very Apple.

How else will they sell? M3 ipad will feature exclusive macos, otherwise nobody would buy it

 

[citysnaps]

Coming from the 2018 iPad Pro A12x Bionic. This will be a significant improvement. I don't know why folks with M1 iPad Pro's are complaining.

Spot-on about it being a significant improvement.

About the complaining... A lot of people can only feel good about themselves if they constantly complain about some person or some company. It gives them a little burst of power that's otherwise lacking in their lives. Sadly, that little burst only lasts for a day or so, and then the cycle needs to repeat.

 

[svish]

Very minor improvements. Apple Pencil hover feature is nice.

 

[Hurda]

Last time I checked an A14 chip couldn't support more than 4GB of RAM

iPhone 12 Pro has 6GiB RAM.

 

[The Game 161]

my M1 iPad Pro 12.9 will be here for at least another two years until OLED arrives. my wallet is happy

 

[CarAnalogy]

I’m not better off getting a MBA if I want an iPad, now am I.

And you’re not better off getting a car if you want a horse but one of those is going to be a lot more useful day to day.

 

[Pmperry]

Just save your money and buy last year's models, the upgrades aren't worth it on the pro and the lack of 2nd gen pencil support makes the iPad 10 a bad choice as well.

 

[graphitePro]

Happy with mine.
Not upgrading until 2027 or smth.

 

[vtuberalpha]

It was a simplified answer, on a context -we always forget the context- of a simplified comparison between the M1 and the A14 that it is based on. I didn’t want to get into a more detailed answer.

Anyways, it is an A15 with more cores, including the media engines.

Oh, and by the way, the M2 supports DDR5 RAM, however people say doubling the memory bandwidth isn’t very noticeable on the day to day use… IDK

People are right in that LPDDR5 and the increased memory bandwidth (100 GB/s) on the M2 vs. "just" LPDDR4X and ~68 GB/s on the M1 make absolutely no difference in anything that's not ProRes video editing/exporting.

 

[cupcakes2000]

And you’re not better off getting a car if you want a horse but one of those is going to be a lot more useful day to day.

But which one of those two things is wholly dependent on where I wanted to use it and what I wanted to do with it. But thanks for making my point 👍

 

[CarAnalogy]

But which one of those two things is wholly dependent on where I wanted to use it and what I wanted to do with it. But thanks for making my point 👍

I don’t think iPads and Macs are comparable no matter how much people keep trying to shove the square peg in the round hole. Sounds like you agree.

 

[_Spinn_]

The pencil hover was a great surprise.