9.7-inch iPad Pro review: What makes something “Pro†anyway? - Ars Technica
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The 9.7-inch iPad Pro with its Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
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The 9.7-inch iPad Pro with its Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
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From the front, it looks a lot like an iPad Air 2.
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The 9.7-inch iPad Pro (right) next to the big version.
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Let's take a look at the True Tone display mode. The iPad Pro with True Tone turned off is on the left, iPad Air 2 on the right. Both displays have white points on the cool/blue side.
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With True Tone turned on. The iPad Pro's display is subtly warmer to match the dim yellow light put out by the hotel lamp. It's a subtle effect, even more so in pictures, but it's actually nice.
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Smart Connector. There's nothing stopping 12.9-inch iPad Pro accessories from working with this one. They'll just look weird.
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Yes, despite the embedded Apple SIM, there's a nano SIM slot.
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The back of the iPad. The cutout for the cellular antenna is a bit more refined-looking—in older iPads it's just a giant plastic strip on the top of the tablet.
iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard.
If you're Apple, how do you decide what constitutes a "Pro" device? Is it in the specs? Usually Pro products are faster and offer more storage and RAM than their non-Pro counterparts. Is it something special about the hardware and software? Often, yes, Pro products have specialized features that non-Pro products either get later or don't get at all. Is it about the kinds of tasks they can perform? Sort of. Most Pro and non-Pro products run the same software, but the Pro can perform actions faster and better thanks to the aforementioned hardware improvements.
Some Pro products are also more "Pro" than others. There's a huge gap between the lowest-end Mac Pro and the highest-end version of the same machine. The 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro offers all kinds of performance improvements that the 13-inch version doesn't.
Keep all of this in mind as you consider the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. In some ways, it is decidedly more "Pro" than the iPad Air 2 it kind of, sort of replaces—the new iPad Pro is faster, and it supports the Smart Connector and Apple Pencil. Its screen technology is more advanced, and in some ways it's even better than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Apple released in the fall. But this new release isn't quite as big and it isn't quite as fast. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro also shares a few areas of overlap with the iPad Air 2, which is still hanging around at lower new and refurbished price points. It's Pro, in the context of the rest of the iPad lineup, but it's not the most Pro.
Look, feel, and screenThe 9.7-inch iPad Pro is a whole lot like an iPad Air 2 in many ways. The size, screen resolution, and weight are all identical, as are Apple's stated battery life figures for both tablets (10 hours of Wi-Fi Web usage, nine hours of cellular usage). If you use your iPad primarily as a consumption device, there frankly isn't much here to encourage you to upgrade.
The screen dominates the experience while you're using a tablet, so let's talk about that first. Most improvements are hard to spot unless you're looking for them. The screen, for instance, is nice. But it's only nice in ways that you'll really notice if you're a stickler for color accuracy or see an older and newer iPad side-by-side.
For instance, the screen's DCI P3 color gamut (a feature originally implemented in the most recent 4K and 5K iMacs) means it can display deeper and more accurate shades of green and red, but it's not nearly as impactful as the switch from a non-Retina display to a Retina one or even the switch from the original iPad Air's non-laminated display to the Air 2's laminated one. The screen's brightness goes up to about 500 nits, a nice increase from the 400-or-so nits of the big iPad Pro and the Air 2. However, if you're not outside or in harsh light, you won't need the screen to be quite that bright.
Specs at a glance: 9.7-inch Apple iPad Pro Screen 2048×1536 9.7-inch (264 PPI) touchscreen OS iOS 9.3 CPU 2.12GHz dual-core Apple A9X RAM 2GB GPU Apple A9X GPU Storage 32GB, 128GB, or 256GB NAND flash Networking 866Mbps 802.11a/b/g/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1900 MHz) LTE Advanced (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41) Camera 12MP rear camera, 5MP front camera Ports Lightning connector, headphone jack Size 9.4" × 6.6" × 0.24" (240 × 169.5 × 6.1 mm) Weight 0.96 pounds (437g) Wi-Fi, 0.98 pounds (444g) with cellular Battery 27.5WHr Starting price $599, plus $149 for the Smart Keyboard and $99 for the Apple Pencil Price as reviewed $1,029 Other perks Charger, Lightning cableThe True Tone feature is subtle but easier to appreciate. The screen has "four-channel ambient light sensors" that detect not just the brightness of ambient light, but also the color of that light. This subtly changes the display's white point, making it more orangey in warm light and more bluish under cool light. This feature makes the iPad's screen more accurately resemble a sheet of paper.
The screen I'm looking at is just a little orange right now because of the dim ambient lighting of the room I'm in. Turning the True Tone feature off (something you'll probably want to do if you're adjusting photos for color accuracy) makes the screen look unexpectedly cool and harsh, though I know for a fact it's not something I would have complained about before seeing the new iPad Pro. Just like the DCI P3 color gamut migrated from the iMacs to the iPad, the True Tone feature will surely find its way into other Apple products going forward.
One screen improvement may be more noticeable, at least if you're working outdoors or somewhere with a lot of light sources and reflections. Apple claims that the iPad Pro's screen is 40 percent less reflective than the Air 2, and the screen really does reflect less light. It's no matte display, but it keeps getting better.
Moving on to other hardware features, the new iPad Pro picks up some things from the iPhone 6S but not others. The A9X enables always-on Hey Siri even when the tablet isn't plugged in, which is a great feature if (like me) you like to use your iPad in the kitchen while cooking to look up recipes and set timers. An iPad with always-on Hey Siri is about as close as Apple gets to something like Amazon's Echo right now. But it's missing the faster TouchID sensor and 3D Touch, two features that still haven't shown up anyway outside the 6S.
Another common question is about the "embedded Apple SIM" that the company lists on the iPad Pro's product pages. The Apple SIM is a multi-carrier SIM card that lets the iPad connect to some cellular networks without a carrier-specific SIM card, which presumably simplifies the manufacturing and sale of the LTE-enabled iPads. But for carriers that don't work with the Apple SIM (including Verizon in the US, apparently, because Verizon), Apple still provides a good old, regular old nano SIM tray on the edge of the device.
Finally, a quick note about that camera bump, a bump that exists because this iPad uses the same camera as the current high-end iPhone (a first; iPads typically use serviceable but inferior cameras). In the iPhones, that camera bump causes the body of the phone to wobble a bit when placed on a flat surface. A similar sort of wobble would be bad for the iPad Pro, particularly for people who want to lay the tablet flat on a table and draw on it with the Apple Pencil. Happily, the iPad is so big that it doesn't wobble at all—the camera bump is just an aesthetic annoyance, not a functional one.
SoftwareThe hardware may have changed, but iOS 9 stays the same, so many of the problems I commented on in my 12.9-inch iPad Pro review and our main iOS 9 review are still present here. The Split View multitasking mode is a truly useful and welcome change, and it makes the iPad a device you'd actually want to work on rather than one that is merely capable of doing work in a pinch. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
I'll run down the list quickly to save some time if you've already read those reviews. The biggest problem is that iOS won't let you open two copies of the same app next to each other at the same time, which would be especially useful for productivity apps like Pages or Word or Google Docs and browsers like Safari and Chrome (though you can kind of, sort of dance around this one by using two browsers or a hack like "Sidefari"). It's a legacy of the one-full-screen-app-at-a-time model that defined iOS up until really recently.
The second-largest issue is that the UI for switching apps still needs work. There's no way to "pin" secondary apps. Only three app icons are shown in the current app switcher at once, and there's no preview of what you were doing in the app as there is in the primary multitasking switcher. Your list of apps is only shown in reverse-chronological order, which means a lot of swiping if you use a wide variety of apps or if you want to launch one you haven't used in a while.
There's no easy way to swap your apps—if you want the secondary app to become the primary app, you've got to drag the divider all the way to the left to close the primary app and then re-open it as a secondary app. While you're typing in one app, the formatting shortcuts bar obscures the bottom of the other one. This can obscure the text entry field in chat apps like Slack that work especially well in the secondary app spot, and you have to dismiss the formatting bar and then tap the field, an extra step that doesn't feel like it should have to exist (Apple fixed it for Messages in iOS 9.3, so it ought to be possible).
And while the 12.9-inch screen of the iPad Pro gives all apps plenty of room no matter how you divide them, on a 9.7-inch screen things can still get cramped. It can be difficult, for example, to read Word documents or sites without responsive designs in Split View mode; things just look too small. Your experience will vary depending on how good your eyes are and what apps you use. I was using Split View 100 percent of the time on the big iPad Pro, but I only wanted to use it 80 or 90 percent of the time on the smaller one (that's still a lot, though).
The device has some flaws, but we're dealing with Apple's first-generation tablet multitasking interface here. Samsung, Microsoft, and now Google are all trying some version of the same thing, and none of those implementations have been perfect. The one-app-at-a-time model feels limiting for power users (an especially important consideration for any product with Pro in the name), but the relative simplicity of iOS is a selling point for many people, and you can't completely throw that out.
There is good news, too. The big iPad Pro and iOS 9 have both been out for around six months at this point, which means that a lot of apps have picked up Split View and Apple Pencil support. And if an app already supports the Apple Pencil on the big iPad Pro, it's supported on the little iPad Pro for free. If you're using an older iPad and you upgrade now, you'll find that most of the ecosystem is ready for Split View in a way it just wasn't six months ago.
As for iOS, the 9.3 update improved iOS 9's hardware keyboard support—I'll just list the relevant section of the release notes:
For as long as iOS exists in its current iteration, there will be people who complain that it's not a "real OS" and that you can't get work done on it. Both of those complaints may well be valid if your narrow definition of a "real OS" limits you to traditional windowed OSes with an exposed filesystem and without App Store restrictions, and your work involves coding or strenuous 3D work (though there are a fair number of CAD apps in the App Store now). But it's all relative. iOS is by no means perfect, but it's evolved enough and the ecosystem is strong enough that people can easily use it to do more than watch Netflix.
Speakers and cameraThe 9.7-inch iPad Pro gets a four-speaker configuration similar to the one in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro—most of this iPad's additions are aimed at "pro" users, but this one is aimed at the traditional consumption-focused iPad user. The speakers put out higher tones through the two top speakers and deeper tones through the bottom speakers, and the software is smart enough to know which are the "top" and which are the "bottom" speakers based on the way the tablet is oriented.
The sound gets much louder than it does in an Air 2, and the quality of the sound is noticeably better. The bass actually sounds pretty good, and you can hear more "space" around the sound, where in the standard Air 2 it's more muffled. It gets loud enough to fill a large room or small apartment with sound, though at the absolute highest volumes certain sounds (drums, especially) begin to distort slightly. The 12.9-inch Pro's speakers are better by virtue of being larger, and a decent Bluetooth speaker is still probably a better way to play music for an impromptu party, but the 9.7-inch iPad Pro's speakers make it a respectable portable jukebox and a better mobile Netflix machine.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, indoor good light.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, indoor good light.
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iPhone 6S.
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12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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Air 2.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, indoor low light.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, indoor low light.
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iPhone 6S.
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12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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Air 2.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, close up.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro, close up.
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iPhone 6S.
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12.9-inch Pro.
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Air 2.
We won't spend a ton of time on the camera because it's exactly identical to the one in the iPhone 6S: same True Tone dual-LED flash, same lens, same 12MP sensor. The only thing it's missing is the optical image stabilization (OIS) feature from the iPhone 6S Plus. If you prefer taking pictures with your tablet—I don't understand it, really, but it's absolutely a thing people do—you've finally got an iPad that can snap photos like an iPhone.
The ability to capture and edit 4K video actually makes more sense on the iPad Pro than it does on the iPhone 6S. You've got more storage space to use for video, more room to view multiple video streams, and more pixels to use to actually see the extra detail you're capturing. It's still a relatively niche use case, but it's a better fit for an iPad than an iPhone in a lot of ways.
Peripherals: Smart Keyboard, Apple Pencil, covers, and cases
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The Apple Pencil.
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The Apple Pencil.
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Laid out: Cap, adapter for connecting to a standard Lightning cable, pencil, and unscrewed tip.
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Adapter for charging with a Lightning cable.
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The Smart Keyboard is usable, but it's smaller and more cramped than the one for the big iPad Pro.
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Smart Keyboard in profile. Looks the same as the larger version.
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And yes, it still looks awkward when closed.
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The Smart Cover for the iPad Pro has what I have dubbed "overflap." It overhangs the edge of the screen slightly in a way the iPad Air's cover doesn't.
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The Smart Cover seems to have been designed with the Silicone Case in mind. Once both are attached, the overflop is gone.
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The back of an iPad Pro Silicone Case. Note the cutout for the camera and flash.
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When you put an iPad Air cover on the iPad Pro, it attaches to the side, but the magnets have been changed enough that it doesn't stick to the front or turn the tablet off.
Let's begin with the Smart Cover. iPad Air and Air 2 Smart Covers won't work with the iPad Pro, not because they won't physically fit but because Apple has changed the layout of the magnets that make the Smart Cover stick. Old Smart Covers will attach to the side of the tablet, but they won't stick to the front or put the tablet to sleep automatically.
The new Smart Covers are pretty much the same as the old ones, but when you're just using the cover by itself it hangs over the edge of the tablet just a little when closed in a way that looks and feels awkward when you're handling it. I have dubbed this phenomenon "overflap," and it seems to be happening because Apple designed this particular Smart Cover to fit better with the Silicone Case rather than the iPad itself. Put on a Silicone Case (which covers the rear of the tablet and joins with the Smart Cover to provide full protection) and the Cover fits perfectly. But if you're holding the tablet in portrait mode with the Smart Cover folded flat to the back of the tablet, there's just enough extra material to cause it to bunch up awkwardly.
The Apple Pencil works great with the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and it may in fact be its killer feature, the one thing the Pro does that you absolutely, positively can't replicate on an iPad Air 2. The Air 2 can multitask, the Air 2 can use a Bluetooth keyboard case instead of a Smart Keyboard, but the capacitive styluses that work with older iPads come nowhere near the Apple Pencil's accuracy.
I'm not an artist, so when I'm using the Apple Pencil I'm primarily making rough sketches (drawing out rudimentary maps for Dungeons and Dragons games) or putting together mock-ups for Web page or graphic designs that I then want someone with actual design experience to expand upon. For this kind of project, the big iPad Pro is overkill, and it can feel large and unwieldy. The smaller iPad Pro is much better-suited to life as a scratchpad.
The Apple Pencil works exactly the same way on this iPad Pro as it does on the larger one—pressure sensitivity, tilting the Pencil to change the kind of line you're drawing, and palm rejection all work great. The Pencil can still be used to type or launch apps or navigate through most of iOS' user interface, though edge swipes like those used for the Control or Notification Centers or the multitasking UI don't work by design. My one complaint is that it's easier to block more of the screen if you've got your arm or hand on the display, an unavoidable side effect of using a smaller screen.
Finally, the Smart Keyboard. The technology being used here is the same as in the big Smart Keyboard—this looks and acts like a Smart Cover with a keyboard flap attached to the end, and it still looks awkward and sort of unfinished when it's closed because of the unevenness the keyboard creates. The cover itself is a conductive material that provides a power and data connection to the keyboard through the iPad's Smart Connector, no Bluetooth pairing required. It uses the same love-it-or-hate-it switch mechanism as the big Pro and the Retina MacBook, which means very shallow key travel but firm, clicky keys. I've grown used to it and find that the firmness of the keys makes typing feel fairly satisfying, but if you're looking for something more conventional you'll have to get it from a third party.
When I originally wrote about this smaller Smart Keyboard, I criticized it for being frustrating because it's noticeably smaller than the full-sized version on the big iPad Pro. Since then, I've warmed to it a little more. When you've got so little space to fit a keyboard, you've either got to shrink some or all of the keys or reduce the amount of space between each key, and each compromise has its own problems. Smaller keys are harder to hit, and keys that are closer together make it easier to mistype. Apple has noticeably reduced the size of each keycap but left the amount of space between keys exactly the same, and this decision ultimately redeems the keyboard once you're used to it—there's enough space between keys to keep you from hitting multiple keys at once.
Like the big Smart Keyboard, this one doesn't let you tilt the iPad's screen at multiple angles, but it does form a relatively solid base for the tablet if you're using it on your lap. Having one solid piece of material makes it feel more stable than a Surface tablet on your lap, but the smaller size of the tablet means it's also going to move more while you're typing on it. The size of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and its Smart Keyboard actually makes it an ideal airplane computer, one that's usable no matter how far back the inconsiderate monster in front of you decides to lean his or her seat. Its one major downside in these scenarios is that it isn't backlit, so if you're typing in the dark prepare to make some extra errors.
Internals and performanceThe smaller iPad Pro uses an Apple A9X SoC, an amped up version of the Apple A9 introduced in the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. It's also very similar to the A9X that shipped in the big iPad Pro, with a couple of key differences. The charts below focus primarily on iPad-vs-iPad comparisons since those will be the most relevant to the people who are in the market for one of these, but we did some Apple-versus-Intel benchmarking in our original iPad Pro review if you'd like to see how the A9X stands up to the Surface Pro 4 and Apple's Retina MacBook.
First, the dual-core CPU appears to be clocked slightly lower than the CPU in the 12.9-inch Pro. Geekbench says it's running at around 2.15GHz instead of 2.25GHz, and the scores reflect that small drop. Its multi-threaded CPU performance also isn't drastically better than the A8X in the iPad Air 2—the Air's CPU cores are slower, but there are three of them to the A9X's two. Single-threaded performance is still very good, though, and in Safari and other apps the excellent single-threaded performance will make it feel much faster than the A8X.
Second, the memory scores are around 25 percent lower, and that memory bandwidth reduction shows up in the GPU scores, too. The GFXBench onscreen tests, which render scenes at the respective tablets' native resolution, show that the two A9Xs are performing about the same. It's only in the offscreen tests, in which all GPUs are put on even footing, that you can see how much slower the 9.7-inch iPad's A9X is relative to the one in the 12.9-inch version.
We're not sure what to blame for the reduction in memory bandwidth. The memory bus could be narrower (the 12.9-inch iPad uses a 128-bit memory interface, as opposed to 64-bit in the iPhone), but the scores are still substantially higher than they are in the iPhone 6S, and we'd expect them to be lower if the memory interface had actually been scaled back. The smaller Pro could be using DDR3 RAM like the iPad Air and Air 2 did instead of DDR4, but every A9-equipped device has used DDR4 memory, and the A9 and A9X memory controller might not even support the older DDR3 standard. We'll need to wait for additional insight from iFixit or Chipworks before we have enough information to say for sure.
Some of our more technically inclined readers—theoretically, the target audience for a "Pro" version of the iPad—are also worried about the tablet's RAM. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro has 2GB of RAM instead of the 4GB of the 12.9-inch version.
RAM doesn't have quite the same effect in an iOS device as it does in laptops and desktops—iOS was originally designed for low RAM devices, and even though current iPhones and iPads have much more RAM than the 128MB in the first iPhone, the OS is still aggressive about ejecting apps from memory. Giving an iPhone or iPad more RAM doesn't necessarily speed up general performance, but it does mean that apps and browser tabs need to be ejected from memory less often. Today this is particularly beneficial in Safari, which needs to reload tabs when they're ejected from RAM—at best this process adds a couple of extra seconds to what ought to be a simple tab switch, and at worst you don't have connectivity and so can't see the tab you're trying to open.
For the iPad Pro, the consequences could be more far-reaching, just because developers are going to be able to do things with 4GB of RAM that just won't fit into 2GB of RAM. And Apple has occasionally stopped supporting certain devices because of RAM limitations rather than raw performance limitations—the original iPad had 256MB of RAM and didn't get either iOS 6 or iOS 7, while the 512MB iPhone 4 with the same A4 chip got both updates. It's going to be fine for now (many actively supported iPads still have 1GB or even 512MB of RAM), but it could one day be a problem nevertheless.
If this A9X had shown up in an iPad Air 3 and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro didn't exist, it would have blown us away. It still represents a tangible improvement over the A8X in the Air 2. It's only next to the full-fat, 4GB-of-RAM A9X in the big Pro that this one looks a little disappointing.
Battery life
Apple gives the same battery life figures for every one of its iPads, from the aging iPad Mini 2 to the top-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro: 10 hours of Wi-Fi Web browsing and nine hours of cellular Web browsing. In our battery tests, the 9.7-inch Pro nevertheless significantly outperforms the larger Pro and the iPad Air 2 (for reference, our tests are run with all screens set to 200 nits, and True Tone was disabled on the new iPad Pro).
The Pro and the iPad Air 2 have batteries that are roughly the same size: 27.5WHr in the Pro and 27.3WHr in the Air 2. I'm inclined to attribute the improvement to the A9X's newer manufacturing process. The A9X is apparently built solely on TSMC's 16nm process, while the A8X is built on a 20nm TSMC process. Our Web browsing test loads a series of pages in a loop until the tablet dies, and the WebGL test puts a moderate but constant load on the SoC—in both of these scenarios, the A9X appears to consume less power than the A8X before it.
The big questions: When should you upgrade and which should you pick?When I reviewed the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, I said that I was having trouble envisioning the type of user who would choose it over a "real" computer like a MacBook Air or Pro. I still feel the same way today. The full-size Pro is large enough and expensive enough that you could buy any number of high-end Macs or Windows PCs for the same price, and you wouldn't have to put up with the potentially frustrating limitations of iOS.
The equation is a little different for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, which is both smaller and cheaper. The tablet is still "Pro" insofar as it is very fast and supports the Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil, but expectations are a little lower. At $599 (plus the cost of accessories), this tablet is competing more against midrange Windows PCs, and it's substantially cheaper than any MacBook that Apple offers. For many active but less-demanding users, the strength of the hardware and the relative simplicity of the software could be enough to recommend it, though for the time being there are things that regular old Windows PCs are just better at than iOS is (including running legacy apps and connecting to just about anything that needs a standard USB port). It really depends on how you work and what you need to do, and we can't answer all of those questions for you.
If you've already got an iPad and are looking for a newer one, the math is a little simpler. If you have an iPad 2, the third- or fourth-generation Retina iPads, or the original iPad Air and you find yourself using your iPad more often than whatever other computer you have in your house, the iPad Pro is a no-brainer upgrade. It's fast and light, and its Apple Pencil and multitasking support make it a surprisingly capable computer if you don't have some specific app or use case that demands a PC. If you have an iPad Air 2 and don't desperately want Apple Pencil support, ignore the Pro for now. Buy a good Bluetooth keyboard case, and you can still enjoy all the multitasking capabilities and hardware keyboard features that the Pro has. If you're new to iPad, ask yourself whether you really want Apple Pencil support and make a decision from there. You can buy a refurbished 64GB iPad Air 2 for $419, and there's so much overlap between it and the new iPad Pro that new buyers s hould seriously consider it before they go pro.
And if you're choosing between this tablet and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, compare Apple's iPad lineup to the current MacBook Air and Pro lineups. The 12.9-inch iPad, like the 15-inch MacBook, is larger and more capable than its 13-inch sibling. The 9.7-inch iPad, like the 13-inch MacBook, shares a few features in common with its larger sibling but also overlaps with the iPad Air 2, just as the 13-inch MacBook Pro overlaps with the 13-inch Air. The iPad Mini and the 11-inch MacBook Airs both sit at the bottom of the range, waiting for people who want the cheapest product possible or people who just know that they prefer small screens and have modest needs.
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