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jjrtiger

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Jan 4, 2008
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Boulder, CO
I’ve owned the iPad Pro since day one. Recently, the battery performance has been less than stellar and I have a couple of tiny cracks in the screen.

Rather spend money on a new screen and battery repair, I decided to order the 1 TB iPad Pro M5.

Yes, this thing is insanely fast. There’s so much I like about it. I thought it would feel much lighter but the difference isn’t as pronounced.

While the newest iPad Pro is an incredible device, the big story it’s me is how capable the old iPad is.

If you’re using your 2020 iPad Pro for “non-pro” tasks like side car, web browsing, working on documents/presentations, watching movies, etc. I think it’s still a pretty damn good device for being five years old. And, now that they brought Stage Manger to it, it’s even better. I guess we all know now that Craig’s technical reasoning for the 2020 iPad Pro not getting Stage Manager was BS.

Anyways, I think this goes to show how ahead the hardware is of its software; especially iPadOS.
 
I have the 2018 iPad Pro and it's running iPadOS 26 just fine.
 
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