![]() Known to Apple as the ‘5th generation’ iPad Pro, there’s usually plenty of stock on the Apple refurbished store, and you can save around £400 over the M2 model if you buy a 128GB version. If you don’t want to spend at least £1,249 on an iPad Pro, there’s another option – the M1 version. Put it this way – I now have two reasons not to send this iPad Pro back to Apple. Now, anyone who wants to use their iPad as an end-to-end video creation tool can shoot footage directly into Final Cut Pro – something you cannot do on the Mac. More needlessly crippled than Logic Pro (the lack of external SSD support is a deal-breaker for me), it does at least reveal the utility of that iPad Pro camera system. Seriously – that app is deeply impressive – overwhelmingly so at times.įinal Cut Pro is impressive in a rather different way. I’d argue that Logic Pro does a more impressive job of this, given that it is practically a like-for-like port of what we have on the Mac. Regardless, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro finally reveal what these iPad Pros are capable of. Now, they’ve done it, and the news was issued with curious nonchalance. This is curious when you consider how important the news was – after all, it wasn’t just myself who had been crying out for Apple to make use of the increasing horsepower in the iPad Pro. Leading up to the unexpected announcement, I’d convinced myself to keep the M2 iPad Pro and dig into DaVinci Resolve, which was, at the time, the only pro video editor touted by Apple on its website.Īpple chose a press release as the method for announcing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on the iPad and only gave them a few seconds of stage time during WWDC a month later. Like many people, this caught me completely off guard and changed everything. Remember that serendipity I spoke about earlier? Well, a few weeks ago, Apple launched Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for the iPad. The result is an iPad which looks and feels pretty much identical to its forefather, but which, when unleashed, is mightily impressive. When comparing the spec sheets of these two iPads, it’s clear that Apple has spent the last five years gently boosting the creative and processing potential. The latter can also capture 4K footage in ProRes and has a far more capable TrueDepth camera for selfie duties. The 2018 iPad Pro has just one 12MP F1.8 camera, whereas the M2 version adds a 10MP ultra-wide. The two biggest differences come in the form of the chip (M2 versus A12X Bionic) and the camera system. The display on the 12.9-inch M2 iPad Pro is brighter and slightly more vibrant thanks to that Liquid Retina XDR display (capable of a max 1,600 nits of brightness), but the 2018 model still shines in the display department. Viewed from the front, they look practically identical. You’d think, therefore, that the five-year gap between my old iPad Pro and the shiny new M2 version should yield some fairly serious upgrades. It’s why, with every iteration that followed, I simply couldn’t find a reason to upgrade. ![]() For all but the most demanding of tasks and pro-focused pro apps, it’s still a super-fast device. Truth be told, that iPad still performs brilliantly today. That’s right – the very first iPad Pro to sport the updated, chiselled design language. Up until April this year, the only 12.9-inch iPad Pro I had access to was the 2018 version. It’s definitely worth adding some context here. From 2018 iPad Pro to M2: first impressions
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