NEW 13" M4 iPad Pro - A Laptop User's Perspective (HONEST Review)

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You used the iPad when you were a kid oh my god I’m a million years old

The thickness is not just a marketing thing. The 12.9" M2 iPad Pro was VERY heavy and would get uncomfortable to hold and use in little time. They made it thinner to reduce the weight and make it more manageable. It's easy to forget about the weight when you're using it as a laptop, but you do have to remember that it's a tablet first, and therefore it should be optimized to be exactly that, something you can hold in your hands and interact through touch.

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U were probably the only reviewer that said to just use a screen protector instead of getting the nano texture. I couldnt agree more. Real honest review.

It’s such a shame that Apple deliberately keeps the iPad Pro, a 1600 dollar tablet + keyboard, so crippled just because they want to have / sell it all. I love my iPad Pro M1, but just for the stuff the iPad is really good at, it has a lot more potential, but Tim isn’t giving it to us 😢

I previously has the 2020 iPad Pro 11" and was specifically waiting for Apple to move the camera to the landscape orientation before upgrading. Had a Zoom meeting today, used the iPad and the camera tracking feature worked pretty well!

This was an amazing review, Thank you.

Thanks for the review. I don't know but most of the time we use Excel, word, powerpoint while interacting with tech. Is it possible for you to include testing these applications into your review for iPad pro m4? I'm thinking of replacing my laptop with iPad pro m4 and want to to if that will work.

Interesting that you say the nanocoated display is washed out. As someone who has a new iPad Pro 13”, Magic Keyboard and Pencil Pro on order (gotten the latter 2 but it’ll apparently be several weeks before they can deliver my 1TB version, I am curious - did you come to that conclusion (faded/washed out display) based on having seen a new iPad Pro with the nanocoating, or is it based on experience of others’ similar tech? I got the coating due to using my iPad in all types of environments and planning on using it for video and color grading (primarily BMD, but also Premier if possible, and FCP). Great, revealing review - thanks for the details!

Great video 🍎

I live in Canada too and I mostly bought this. You know just to draw because I'm an artist. I really wanted the 1 TB version with the Nano texture but that would have been like $3,000 Canadian. And since I'm an artist, I usually want a bigger screen size so I just opted for the base model. If it was bigger I would have dropped The money money. But I just couldn't justify it just way too much money. But if they do get a bigger screen in the future I'll definitely trade this in for that.

I love how thin the iPad is and the battery life is amazing so idk what this guy is talking about. Plus is so nice being lighter for when you hold it for extended amounts of time

If I have an IMac and I work using it most of my time, but I want to replace my laptop with iPad m4 for occasional travel laptop replacement. Would you say that's a great idea?

Great video. 🎉

I watched the video the whole way through. I so appreciate your DIRECT, no beating around the bush opinions on the product ( I.e. 'Jus get a non-glare screen protector'). I subscribed based on that. Looking forward to more. 🍏

That was a solid review, and agree about the need to unleash it to deliver the promise of being a productivity beast. I too struggle with loving the hardware and yet feeling it underutilized. 🍏

After watching your video and a couple others it has helped me clarify what to do now I’m going to hand in my work MacBook. I had contemplated buying the new iPad Pro 13 and keyboard. I already own an iPad 6 and haven’t needed the Apple Pen. But now I see I would come to dislike having to detach the new iPad from the keyboard to use it standalone and the size would be cumbersome for your average newspaper or Magazine reading. And the fact that I have to carry the keyboard around with it to have the protection for the screen just makes it even less sensible. So at this stage I may just buy a basic MacBook Air and keep my iPad 6 and save a bunch of money.

Hey, fellow Youtuber here. The iPad Pro M2 has been my daily driver since early 2023. I still own a regular PC, but 99% of the time I work on the iPad. Apple had me, when Davinci Resolve was announced and I still am impressed by the iPads capabilities. Editing Videos on it really shows how powerful the hardware is. Despite only having 8GB of RAM it handles 4K log footage like a charm and only starts to slow down, when you go a bit heavier on the effects. Or use a second monitor…or try to multitask while having an edit open. In those cases the lack of RAM results in software crashes. So, from my point of view, 16 GB RAM on the base model would have been a good thing. Especially since Apple is charging more for the new iPad Pro and I actually intend to use it as a work horse not a glorified mediaplayer. But the thing that bugs me most is the way Apple handles basic functions like mouse support. I think, one of the reasons why Black Magic has not released a full version of Davinci Resolve is the weird way, mouse input is handled by iPad OS. All the features were implemented from the day they released Resolve, yet you can‘t access them fully, because they need to rework their interface to make them work properly.  And it is not just DaVinci. Other professional software like the Affinity Photo is borderline unusable with mouse and keyboard, while most of the other multiplatform programs I use or heard of lack certain features to make everything more touch friendly. Things like this make me go back to my PC once in a while, because I need to do stuff, I simply can‘t on my most powerful computer. Because of software limitations Apple is unwilling to get rid of. Why not give it Desktop Mode that lets it behave like a traditional PC? We would have the best of both worlds. This really makes me wonder, if I should get another iPad. With the Snapdragon X Elite army on the horizon I feel like Apple is about to lose it‘s edge, because of their stubborness. When I first got the iPad, it was well ahead of the pack. But it hasn‘t evolved on its weeknesses. Now the competition is getting closer, probably being almost as good in performance and better in productive use cases, while also being cheaper. My next productivity machine could very well be from Microsoft although Windows never really worked that good on touchscreens.

9:44 it has been tested that the nano texture is way better than any paper like or Matt screen protectors. idk why and how did they managed to do this, but its better with less washout effect under strong exposure of light rays.