iPad Pro - Unboxing, Setup and First Look

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the new 20/20 iPad pro 12.9 inch now this does come in a little bit smaller 11 inch size as well I just prefer the larger size iPads and I also picked up the smart Keyboard folio now the one that they showed in all the videos if you saw the Apple videos where it sort of floats above the keyboard as far as the iPad is concerned that one doesn’t come out until May so this is all that’s available right now so well take a closer look at the accessories in a little while now this one comes in at 1099 because this is the 256 gigabyte model it comes in silver Space Gray and ranges from $9.99 to 1499 if you go for one terabyte of storage if you want cellular also you can pay an additional 150 dollars to get that option this is just the Wi-Fi model I use my phone so let’s go ahead and open it up you can see here that it is the 256 gigabyte Wi-Fi 4th generation iPad pro 12.9 so let’s go ahead and open it up and take a look inside so take off the wrapper here and now that the wrappers out of the way let’s take the top of the box off and there is the iPad pro so well take this out of the box and I got the Space Gray model that’s the one I like the most so well set this aside take a look at what’s inside the box so well take this little pamphlet out here if there’s usually some stickers and things in here and we have iPad pro this is sort of a Quick Start guide on how to use it then we have a warranty card and most likely some stickers in here as well they’re kind of stuck for some reason and we have some stickers they don’t match the space great color so let me set these aside and let’s look at the accessories so inside the box we have the 18 watt USB C charger you can see here it’s just the 18 watt charger along with a USB c2 USBC cable so nothing really exciting there lets go ahead and set this aside.

So here’s the new iPad pro they have not changed the outside dimensions of it at all they’ve just changed the camera in the back but it does come in at point 4-1 pounds so it’s very light and this is my favorite device or at least the last generation was my favorite device that I ever used from Apple I use it all the time as my content consumption device and I also create on it as well lets go ahead and remove this cover now this iPad pro has a lot of similarities with the previous generation and will compare some benchmarks and things like that a little bit later but the first similarity is its display it has the same liquid Retina display its 2732 by 2048 with a pixel density of 264 pixels per inch it also goes up to 600 and its of brightness and it’s a beautiful display and well take a look at that in a little while it also has a brand new CPU in it were sort of a new CPU it’s got an a 12 Z CPU and then they’ve added five studio quality microphones now there were a lot of microphones on here before but they’re supposedly a little bit better and then we have the new camera system well take a look at a little bit later let’s take a look around the outside edge now the outside the first thing we have on the top is a power sleep/wake button with two speakers and two microphones on the right hand side we have our volume buttons up and down and then we have our connector that allows us to charge the Apple pencil 2 well take a look at that in a moment. 

But it’ll charge allows it to pair as well and its magnetic then on the bottom we have two more speakers the USBC connector for charging and this is not a thunderbolt connector so it only charges or does file transfers but not at super high speeds and then on the other side we have another microphone so it’s a really nice iPad one of my favorite designs my favorite iPad was the last one so I’m assuming this will be my favorite as well but based off using that I had a lot of issues with fingerprints and things on the display and even scratches although it was protected all the time and so for this iPad before I even use it I want to put a screen protector on it and I’ve partnered with paper-like who sponsored this video to put a screen protector on here and use it regularly because my previous iPad has finger prints that show it also has some scratches in it and is always in the keyboard case so I never take it out of this but it still has scratch so I’ll go ahead and put that screen protector on and then we’ll continue now I’ve installed the paper-like screen protector on the 20/20 iPad pro on the right and as you can see it drastically reduces glare compared to the 2018 on the left not only does it do that it also reduces fingerprints and just like its name says paper like it feels like paper to write on so if I write on it with the Apple pencil just right so low tech here it feels like paper and sounds like paper here listen to this so you get the sound and feel of paper and its friendly to the tip of the Apple pencil many of these reduce the tip very quickly this should be about the same as writing on the glass itself its much nicer and if you’d like to check it out for yourself go to paper like comma slash is a low tech one and Ill link it in the description below now let’s set up the iPad pro now the iPad pro has booted up lets swipe up and well select our language here and our country and to set this up quickly all I need to do is bring the old iPad or an iPhone next to it to get it set up so let me move this over and I’ll show you what I mean now as I bring the old iPad closer all I need to do is hit continue and set up my Apple ID on this iPad and it uses the camera to do this so I’ll just bring this pattern into view here now it’s going to finish on this iPad I just need to put in the pass code from this iPad onto this one and it says setting up a new iPad so now it wants me to set up face ID I’ll go ahead and do that.

I’ll hit continue it says face ID is now set up I’ll hit continue and it says setting up your Apple ID now I’m going to restore my data from the previous iPad so I’ll go ahead and say update backup before restoring or just restore from today so I don’t need it to back up again I’ll hit restore from today and wait for it to complete now I’ll hit agree Ill allow it to use settings from my backup and I’ll install updates manually as I like to cover those in videos if you follow my channel Ill set up Apple pay later on and Ill click continue or tap continue for Siri and I do not want to share my audio recordings but I will share app data and now it’s going to restore from iCloud this will take a little while to complete so I’ll let it complete and then I’ll come back the iPad pro has been set up and its restoring all the applications that I normally use so before I do anything that like run benchmarks or anything like that I’ll wait for this to finish installing but before we do that lets take a look at a few things like the camera and first the wallpapers that come pre-installed now these are specific to the new iPads so you have a light and dark version of this this wallpaper and this wallpaper so they’re really nice just a couple new ones and I have it set on the background here now let’s first take a look at the cameras and now the forward facing camera is the same 7 megapixels true depth camera but the new thing should be a new mic array that sounds a little bit better or studio mics as Apple is calling it so right now you’re listening to me through my studio mics let me spin this around and go to video and we have 4k 60 video on the back 1080p on the front and now you can hear me through the microphone on the iPad pro 12.9 so I’m not sure what it sounds like but you’re listening to it right now and let me know what you think in the comments below if you think this mic is better or the studio mic that I’m using right now and so hopefully that sounds really impressive like the 16 inch MacBook Pro. 

But I only know by the time I added this video now the rear cameras are all new and we have a wide - 12 megapixel F 1.8 camera we also have an ultra-wide 10 megapixel F 2.2 with a hundred and 25 degree field of view and all new for this year is a lieder camera or a lieder sensor and what that means is we can sense the depth now using a laser and bounce it off things and see how quickly it comes back to determine where things are in space and so you would use this for things like a measuring app or augmented reality and there are not a whole lot of apps to take advantage of this yet so there will be in the future but right now maybe you could do some 3d modeling in the future to 3d print something scan something to print it but right now it’s fairly limited but developers can implement it with all new tools so it should be pretty interesting so well switch over here unlock this with face ID go to the camera the rear-facing camera and if I was to record this here you could use this for range-finding or maybe if we go to the measure app here we go to measure we can measure distances a little bit differently so well wait for it to turn on there we go and immediately it locks on to things so it sees my keyboard in the background maybe I want to measure from here to say here I can measure that and I don’t know how precise it is but we now have the ability to do that so it’s really nice and I think we’ll see a lot of future uses for that light our camera in the future now other than that this feels exactly like the previous generation everything’s basically the same and while we wait for this lets pair the Apple pencil so all we do is connect it here it takes a moment and it should connect us as Apple pencil 100% and there we go now its paired with this device take it off and it should work let’s put this on and take a look at the smart Keyboard accessory and see if there’s any differences with the old one.

Since I have that right here and let’s take a look at the smart Keyboard folio so here’s the old one I’ll set it over here for now and here’s the new one now this is a pretty expensive keyboard this is $200 or 199 dollars so while my apps are installing lets go ahead and open this up so well take the cover off and you can see we have an all-new cutout for the camera array and it looks like there’s nothing else in here lets go ahead and open this up and you can see there’s an apple on the back I don’t know if you can see that but its sideways implying that the Apple keyboard should be used sideways so hers the old one here’s the new one and the new keyboard is a little bit darker so you can see that and you have an Apple logo right here I dent know if you can see it in this light it may be a little bit hard to see but there’s an Apple logo right there and then inside is the new keyboard and it looks like we’ve got some paperwork or literature here so what do we have in here we have a smart keyboard folio and that’s it so we’ve just got some paperwork with it some warranty and things like that no Apple stickers now inside we have a microfiber cloth lining that goes up against the iPad and then outside it’s the same sort of material that we have on the old one now this one should work on the old 2018 iPad but you’ll see here around the corner on the 20:18 there’s some frayed edges so this does not hold up terribly well this is two years old basically at this point so if we take it off and set the iPad over here just for a moment you can see here’s the keyboard and the keyboard is basically the same so you have the same sort of keyboard here the keys the keys feel identical it doesn’t feel like there’s scissors switches or anything special but they feel identical so if you’re looking from the old to the new there’s no change there but if you do have the new one you can use it with the older iPad so if I set my iPad on here it connects the same way with magnets and it just has a bigger opening so you can use the new one with it and again.

There’s that Apple logo but let me set this aside and check out the new iPad now all of the apps finally finished installing the back of this is not warm at all so that’s really nice and lets click it into the keyboard folio case so it’s held on magnetically and then we have a couple angles so we do have two angles just like the previous one and I wish it was a little bit more adjustable but I’m waiting for that magic keyboard that sort of makes this hover but it is three hundred and fifty dollars now one of the things I noticed with the camera when I was waiting for those to install is that you can pinch out for ultra wide or you can tap to go to 1x pinch out for ultra wide its really nice very simple to use and then you can zoom in digitally as well so it’s pretty nice just like you’d expect on the iPhone and let’s take a look at the benchmarks but before we do that this is held on magnetically and there are all sorts of magnets in the back of this this is magnet paper and so as I move this over the surface you can see here’s all the magnets there’s the speakers and it will show you where all the magnets are within the iPad so it’s pretty interesting to see all the magnets that hold on the keyboard case and everything else now let’s go ahead and take a look at Geek bench 5 on this so one thing to note that this does have 6 gigs of RAM or 5.5 2 gigabytes of RAM and you can see it’s got a OS 13.4 pre-installed on it I did not have to update this so let’s go to CPU and run a benchmark and see what we get now here’s some interesting results I just got you can see this is the 3rd generation iPad pro this is the new one it’s not filled out yet its iPad 8 comma 11 and running Geek bench 5 on this I got lower scores I ran this twice let the iPad cool just to see. 

If I could bump the score a little bit and I scored 1130 4410 I got a higher score on the older iPad now that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be any faster or slower that much but there is more RAM on the new iPad however the a 12 Z may not be that much faster than what we have in the iPad pro 12 point 9 from 2018 now if we go to compute score let’s see if there’s any difference here you can see the medal score finished on the new iPad and we have 10000 33 verse nine thousand 160 and that’s because this is where we get the upgrade not so much in the processor as far as the CPU but more the GPU or graphics processing unit so that makes sense see higher numbers we also have some more RAM so the other difference between these two is the new one also supports Wi-Fi six and of course Bluetooth 5.0 so the real question is should you upgrade from the old one to the new one well it depends if you have the 2018 or not and also if you want the new camera system because other than that they are very similar now the microphones are a little bit better and there is a slight difference there but that is not that much of a bump in speed so the nice thing is with the older iPad you’ll be able to upgrade to say this keyboard or even the magic keyboard once it comes out so those Geek bench scores or benchmarks are kind of surprising now when using this iPad pro I’m sure I’ll love it just like the previous generation but I’m not sure.

You should run out and pick one up right away if you already have a 20-18 but I think till be a great device I love the other one and I’m really excited to use it of course you have all the same features you have the same sort of keyboard and track pad support as well that you get on all the others and of course this will have great speakers just like the previous generation now expect the same 10 hours of battery life as well and it also has the same frame or structure so it does flex a little bit if I push it a little more so I’m not so sure they reinforce this or anything but it’s a nice iPad and it replaces the old one with a little bit more RAM some better microphones and some new accessories that were waiting for so that really it for the 20/20 iPad pro 12.9 thanks again see next time.

Apple TV, 2021 iPad Pro, iOS 14.4 Release