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Hands-On With Apple's New 10th-Generation iPad and M2 iPad Pro
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Why is the 10.9” iPad being referred to as “no longer low cost”? The original iPad was 9.7”, A4, thick bezel, no TouchID, no cameras, and started at $499 for 16GB. The $449 price on the new model seems reasonable to me.
Reminds me of the days of Scully and all the performa models they were offering. 
Exactly. Until iPads can run MacOS or my 4th gen dies, I don’t foresee upgrading my iPad Pro in the years to come.
From all the comments I've seen online and heard in podcasts since the 10th gen was introduced, I'm beginning to think that lots of gen 1 Pencil owners never realized there was a female Lightning to female Lightning adapter in the gen 1 box.
Btw, both are sold in the box now. And it's curious how they named the new adapter, so who knows if it's got a special chip in it or not. I'd be pissed off if I owned the 1st Gen Pencil, and had a USB-C to Lightning cable (as all newer iPhone owners do) and I had to wait for the back ordered adapter.
Air doesn’t have the M1
The current iPad Air does have the M1.
Nobody should buy the new iPad. Buy an iPad Air 4 instead. Everything except processor is better.
The gen 1 apple pencil I believe came with this little adaptor, as shown in the attached photo (assuming this little thing has not been long since lost). Can you not just plug that into the pencil on one end and a lightning cable on the other, and then the other end of the cable into one of the many 5 watt wall adaptors floating around the world and charge your pencil?
I always thought a pencil sticking out of the iPad was a bit awkward, to say the least.
p.s. sorry for the macro photography grime.
I always thought a pencil sticking out of the iPad was a bit awkward, to say the least.
p.s. sorry for the macro photography grime.
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Because the last gen was $329? A significant jump, I think.
I am still using my 2018 11” iPad Pro for drawing as well as video & photo editing. Works great. I was going to upgrade to the M1 iPad Pro, but the 11” never got the mini LED screen like the 12.9”. So i won’t be upgrading to the M2 either since once again the 11” failed to get the mini LED screen. However, I heard a rumor that both the 11” & 12.9” iPad Pros will be getting OLED screens next year, so I will wait until then to upgrade.
Most device upgrades are not going to be revolutionarily exciting. Most upgrades are going to be evolutionary and incremental. Thats the reality of business and development.
The M1 was the big game changer and from here on for awhile it will be incremental upgrades. And there are limited ways you can design a tablet and for it to remain reconizably a tablet. Ditto with a laptop.
Considering most tablets likely end up in a case where only the bezels and screen are visible the introduction of multiple colours isn't that big a deal. Instead of multpule colours they could have gone with blue and starlight (or something else instead of grey and silver) and called it a day.
The biggest change is the price gouging for the 10th Gen iPad and thats not a change that reflects well on Apple. They parts binned a cheaper iPad Air and essentially told mainstream iPad buyers they could go play with themselves.
The M1 was the big game changer and from here on for awhile it will be incremental upgrades. And there are limited ways you can design a tablet and for it to remain reconizably a tablet. Ditto with a laptop.
Considering most tablets likely end up in a case where only the bezels and screen are visible the introduction of multiple colours isn't that big a deal. Instead of multpule colours they could have gone with blue and starlight (or something else instead of grey and silver) and called it a day.
The biggest change is the price gouging for the 10th Gen iPad and thats not a change that reflects well on Apple. They parts binned a cheaper iPad Air and essentially told mainstream iPad buyers they could go play with themselves.
Good plan. I'll keep my M1 12.9 for a couple more years at least. There are things about iPadOS that really frustrate me, but every time I sit down and use my iPad, I do enjoy it. I had to upload paper log sheets to my school and the ease of using Genius Scan app, converting to a PDF, digital signing with the pencil, and uploading online was just too easy. Now that I've download Ventura on my M1 MBA and can see how merged iPadOS and macOS are becoming, and how good Stage Manger works on macOS where you place and resize windows any way you want, there's a lot of potential still left tin the iPad.
Yes, it came with that adapter. And that was the normal way to charge it when you were at home or office or wherever you kept that little adapter. I keep it in my home office desk and still have it though the Apple Pencil it came with is long since dead and discarded. The stick it into the iPad solution always struck me as a solution for "on the go, but forgot to charge your pencil." It also charged so quick, five minutes of charging basically got me through whatever I might be doing on the go. But my use case was scribbling notes on documents and signing agreements and not stuff like drawing. So it was pretty short term usage.
I ordered my 11 inch iPad Pro yesterday. Past time to update my first generation iPad mini. Bought the case but not the pencil. Maybe later on the pencil but I didn't see a need for one now.
That’s probably what will happen in the interim. Use a usb c to lightning cable to pencil adaptor to 1st gen pencil. Works with the 10th iPad as well.
I’m still using 12.9 pro 2018 as a main work machine. Still a great machine. Interesting that the 2018 beats the 2020 in some stats, though m2 would kill. I know ipados 16 will have some features I will use, fortunately 2018 is supposed to use the new os features. However, might start seeing lag with the multi window feature. We will see. (Editing 1 hour audio files does tax the ram in 2018 though…)
It really is that crazy and confusing. I’ve only ever had the first gen iPad. I couldn’t tell you anything about the current iPads or what separates them or what screen sizes there are or anything else. It’s wild
I got the surface Laptop studio for windows work and the first thing I did was turn off the hover function.
The lack of it on the iPad Pro is something I always enjoyed.
I just find it distracting when using the pencil for sketching / modelling etc.
The lack of it on the iPad Pro is something I always enjoyed.
I just find it distracting when using the pencil for sketching / modelling etc.
Well said. I'm quite content with my shiny new $269 9th generation iPad. And my headphones still work!