Review: 2020 iPad Pro is more about future software than the hardware gains today
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The new 2020 iPad Pro is slightly more powerful than ever, and that minor spec upgrade that it got this time around, it is now more about what can happen with software down the road than hardware improvements today.
11-inch 2020 iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio
When Apple launched iPad back in 2010, it didn't quite know what iPad would be. It went through a number of exploratory phases like going all-in on periodicals with Newsstand before killing it off then coming back with Apple News+ years later, and adopting the Apple Pencil.
During the time of the first iPad, little did we know that iPad would eventually embrace the mouse or trackpad, and cameras would play a huge part of the iPad's feature set.
Yet here we are, in 2020, with the latest iPad Pro that does all of those things. Apple's iPad is no longer just a consumption device or a casual tablet for light work it is a full-on content-creation, multitasking, mouse-wielding, portable device that can get the job done.
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I use a 24inch XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro https://www.xp-pen.com/product/602.html drawing tablet monitor at work and I love it. I had an opportunity to use an iPad + Pencil when i visited my parents a few months ago and I absolutely hated it. Maybe the learning curve is steeper, but using it the first time felt a lot less natural than the first time i used a XP-PEN Artist . Maybe its how smooth the iPad is, how wonky the pressure sensitivity is, the smaller bezels, or that i was using the wrong apps, but i just could not get used to it. The iPad is so much more portable and versatile.
Thanks for sharing the details. I would suggest your read these resources as well:
https://androidcure.com/apple-ipad-pro-2018/
https://techunwrapped.com/mobile/itunes-alternatives/
Cheers!