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does beg the question are you ready to make your other devices' displays look like crap by getting this? Notably, your Mac laptops?
That is a bummer - I thought it had it. Still itās going to be a big upgrade from my 2nd Gen.
That's a very safe assumption - given the careful approach Apple takes to design and most notably display updates.
Safari will be snappier with M1 and 16GB RAM. For years has the Ipad been as powerful as a laptop/desktop. Typing this from my glorified browser iPad 12.9ā 2020. Will keep it for as long as itās possible - until there are no more OS updates. Buying this fantastic screen at these galactic prices provided the most I do with it is browsing, emailing and reading sheet music makes no sense. Hopefully, a few years from now the iPad Air will be available in 12.9ā/ 256GB. The pro is a dead end as far as I am concerned
True - that would also be fully aligned with Apple's product management strategy.
I haven't been following iPadOS in a while but will this be able to play back ripped 4K HDR bluray files with the correct tone mapping?
Does anyone know if there is a player that can do this for iPadOS? Movist Pro for MacOS you can configure the tone mapping to BT 709.
Does anyone know if there is a player that can do this for iPadOS? Movist Pro for MacOS you can configure the tone mapping to BT 709.
.... it doesn't require additional light output. That's the whole point. TVs with poorer black levels require higher light output to achieve the same effect, but blooming means that detail is lost and colors get washed out.
I wouldn't be so sure, I've had plenty of high end AMOLED devices, including Samsungs Tab S7+ stuff and it hasn't ruined me on non-amoled panels at all... the minled tech is exciting and I'm happy Apple is moving to it, but trust me, it's not going to ruin your experience with other Apple LCD panels, outside of their early stuff it's all excellent.
The UHD Premium certification for HDR on OLEDs is 540 nits minimum peak brightness.
Not everybody has the same work needs as you. In my job, I can do everything I need to do on a machine with an iPad Air, this iPad pro would just be that much better because when I would need to run dual monitors on my work desktop I can just run split screen. The 10.5 air 3 is a little crunched, but the 12.9 would make things a lot easier.
Iād imagine some folks donāt want to pay for 4 speakers or mini-LED. Unfortunately, Apple doesnāt offer those options. You CAN get an iPad Air, though.
Right. Alright letās put it this way: I have a Samsung QLED and an OLED at home, both which meet the HDR specification.
The Samsung looks better during the day, because it has better typical and peak brightness. The black levels are optically not an issue during the day, in real life, because your eyes canāt tell the difference with high ambient light levels.
The OLED looks (much) better at night.
HDR content on the OLED during the day however looks dim and is unclear, especially compared to the QLED.
Basically, black levels arenāt the end-all-be-all and theyāre not the most important factor in perceived image quality in all situations.
One of the exact reasons why I prefer Plasma TV's and the only other option would be OLED. I have a Samsung 64" Plasma and Panasonic Plasma. I'm not sure the iPad Pro would be good with an OLED screen since people keep the screen on for longer periods of time but that's the benefit of Plasma and OLED that there is no blooming or having to worry about which product has more dimming zones than the other. But that's LCD technology for you.
Getting paid $3000 for what you made with an iPad and pencil is hardly something to call āirrelevantā.
But, hey ā it's OK if YOU canāt draw well enough for somebody to actually pay you that kind of money. Just keep on with your āhard-coreā number crunching.
Haters gonna hate.
I sold my 2018 model in Jan (got $1K for it!), and bought this years at 8:01am.
This model is exactly what I hoped. The display, M1, 5G unlimited, will be perfect.
I paid $2K for this, and my wife is perfectly happy still with her iPad that was $229 on a sale. She uses that constantly for video and games, typically falling asleep after me. She hasnāt wanted an upgrade yet but plan on the Air models.
Each person is different, and I appreciate and can use all the extras that the Proās offer.
This model is exactly what I hoped. The display, M1, 5G unlimited, will be perfect.
I paid $2K for this, and my wife is perfectly happy still with her iPad that was $229 on a sale. She uses that constantly for video and games, typically falling asleep after me. She hasnāt wanted an upgrade yet but plan on the Air models.
Each person is different, and I appreciate and can use all the extras that the Proās offer.
They missed me this year by not including the mini LED on the 11". That was the dealbreaker for upgrading from the 2018 iPad Pro, especially since they will likely add it to next year's model. I hate when they do that. They're both PRO devices.
The iPad is stunning but no way could I justify spending so much on a tablet without a full fledged desktop os.
Yea when I googled the zone number all I found were some references to 8K TVs!
- Can you run Command line tools on the iPad, NO!
- Can you do Machine-Learning using Rstudio or Matlab on the iPad, NO!
- Can you make extensive Python algorithms on the iPad, NO!
- Can you do basic statistic using SPSS or R on the iPad, NO!
I do not consider Excel as a good software for data analysisā¦
Yea the 2nd Gen pro added TrueTone, P3 wide color, and ProMotion (maybe other display enhancements) - but that generation radically changed my experience with the iPad over the original pro - this 5th gen is doing that all over again and will be a huge quality of life change.
It seems that everyone who canāt justify purchasing the new iPad Pro is trying desperately to convince everyone else (and themselves) that it would be stupid for anyone to purchase it.
I donāt have an iPad, and since 12.9ā is essential for my use case, I sprung for it this year. Other people have been waiting for a few years to upgrade their older iPads. Some people (graphic and video artists) benefit enough from the new screen to upgrade from even a recent iPad. And some people can simply afford to treat themselves to this upgrade as a luxury. Please allow us to enjoy our purchases, and donāt take cheap shots at the new iPad just because you arenāt getting one.
As far as the screen goes, sure. Itās not as good as oled. But itās still leaps and bounds better than Appleās typical displays. It shares the same technology as the Pro XDR display, which received very positive reviews despite its high price.
I donāt have an iPad, and since 12.9ā is essential for my use case, I sprung for it this year. Other people have been waiting for a few years to upgrade their older iPads. Some people (graphic and video artists) benefit enough from the new screen to upgrade from even a recent iPad. And some people can simply afford to treat themselves to this upgrade as a luxury. Please allow us to enjoy our purchases, and donāt take cheap shots at the new iPad just because you arenāt getting one.
As far as the screen goes, sure. Itās not as good as oled. But itās still leaps and bounds better than Appleās typical displays. It shares the same technology as the Pro XDR display, which received very positive reviews despite its high price.
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I donāt think that was the sort of analysis they were talking about š¤£