I totally agree, Ipad is made for Ipad stuff like watch videos, reading, writing, drawing, checking email....I will buy the Ipad but I will not fork over $300 for a keyboard to make it a laptop....I will use it only for Ipad stuff....so what I want most in an Ipad is the compact size, light weight, face id, promotion, and processor to make switching between apps and scrolling snappier..
An interesting take on the range of computers supplied by apple. A lot of reviews are looking at the M4 chip being used to do more tasks. I hadn’t thought about the fan and heat side of scenario re using an ipad as a laptop. Thanks for the alternative view.
This AI music crap is garbage. Terrible to promote it and it sounds corporate af. Wouldn't recommend supporting companies like this who leech off of the hard work of other musicians and artists.
2:12 ''and you can see I already made a lot of songs'' I don't mean to sound rude, but you didn't make anything apart from clicking at random on stuff or copy/pasting someone else's lyrics... And them ''songs'' sound like generic rubbish, no soul or groove in those, the drums come out as particularly lazy with zero dynamics but some very yucky muddy short delay/reverb. Only a matter of time before all 12 year old kids start strutting around calling themselves ''musicians'' and ''content creators'' - yet never attended a single minute of music school, nor being able to play instruments/use any sort of DAW. They're all inevitably going to all sound the same. I'm glad governments are starting to legislate on AI content, before genuine artists increasingly risk to lose income over inane robots. (35 years spent in the music business, with genuine artists, composers, producers, sound engineers and designers)
Wow, I really did not expect to see someone with this many years in the industry commenting on a video like this. Just wanted to say, as a musician, you've got my utmost respect here friend 🙏
@@TheNeverPoet Thank you - I was classically trained. To me this is extremely obvious that when you have spent your 50 daily free points, they will entice you to put money into it, and ''discover new features not accessible to free members'' Aka selling fake music to those who will buy it, and they will all buy the same McDonalds generic crap. That's not music, that's a guy who has no music skills hiding behind a software paywall. Hollywood writers have the same concerns with ChatGPT, and visual artists have the exact same concerns with video/image AI software. The US government has started to initiate legislation about this, and they hired no less than Mr Rick Beato himself.
Remember friends, it's *never* too late to actually learn a skill, and no amount of cold hardware will ever be able to replace the warm passion, emotion and intent people like you and me can have while creating.
Putting "4 minutes" in the prompt description will, at best, encourage the LLM to write more. But there are two separate layers at work there: an LLM (probably GPT) that takes your prompt and converts it into lyrics, a title, and a genre/style prompt; and the actual music-generating AI model that then gets that prompt and generates the audio. So writing "4 minutes" does nothing much, because the audio model doesn't ever actually see that you wrote that. And even if the LLM writes more lyrics to try and fit your time request, it doesn't actually know how long something takes to sing, so if it gets to the 4 minute mark, that's just blind luck and not because you asked for it.
fuck your music generation, yall will never be as good as actual musicians we put feeling and dedication into our work that music generation will never achieve <3
Affinity is like the half way point from MS paint to Adobe. Its not good enough yet. Its also not really free is it. Just a long trial to try and get you hooked. Until there is a lightroom equivalent nothing comes close to Adobe for photography.
Yep, my partner got screwed by the wording of the adobe subscription. It's messed up that monthly isn't even an option because most would assume it is and that's why someone who just needs to use it briefly would get confused.
Great critique. I'd completely agree with you if not for the fact that Apple forces consumers to buy the 1TB model if they want the nano texture option. What artist needs a minimum 1TB of space in order to take advantage of the best screen and textured surface? It costs an additional USD 600 to upgrade from 256GB to 1TB too - the cost of a new iPad Air.
Não indico comprarem iphone importado, principalmente se for algum modelo sem entrada de chip. Tive uma PÉSSIMA experiência comprando um iphone 14, sem entrada de chip, paguei pra ativar o eSIM e tentaram mais de 5x, indo e vindo da loja e não era compativel o eSIM, pq aparentemente o celular importado veio 'bloqueado', e eles teriam que desbloquear ele, por ser um celular vindo de fora, por isso a operadora não conseguia fazer o eSIM, e eu não sabia disso, parece que nem os vendedores sabiam, e era uma loja revendedora da apple. Tive que voltar pra trocar o celular, gastando ainda mais pra pegar outro no lugar. Enfim, não percam tempo com celulares assim, só um conselho kkkkkk
Great point about the chipset and the thermals. I tested the 10th gen iPad and the 2024 Pro and Air models, all 11". Most people should just buy the 10th gen iPad. $325 on Amazon...it's a steal relative to the competition. I think the Pro was $950 and the Air $550. That said when you use them all side by side, if you can afford it, you'll end up buying the Pro for the screen alone. Once you see it you can't unsee it. For reference, I am 51 with once perfect and now failing vision who can't tell the difference between 720P and 1080P on my 75" Samsung while sitting on the couch. Only a blind person would not be blown away by this screen. As for the M4...it's overkill for anyone not content creating. And it will be overkill still when Apple EOLs it 6 years from now or whatever their schedule is.
Finally someone who can see why we DON’T NEED macOS in an iPad! I’ve been using the iPad for what it is for years and it works fine, most of the time, replacing stuff I do on my MacBook. I suspect those who want macOS on iPad are mostly somewhat Windows and Android fanboys, who don’t really use the iPad deeply enough to know what it is capable of.
2 minutes -> 4 instead of 5 speakers....-> BOT! 4 instead of 5 microphones! and I was out. Typical "quickly produce content with an iPad" rubbish! No research, just nonsense!
This is probably the best review of seen so far on the iPad. Everything you say makes complete sense I think people are expecting that washing machine.😂
Good presentation & ideas ..with few cut-aways to stock footage...😂 .........11" ...really ......go for the extra 2inches..........the speakers on a tablet are not meant "to fill a room" .....just Bluetooth a Bose or Sonos speaker when you are home...😅😅😅
This is one of the most refreshing takes I've heard out there from all the other tech youtubers, and I've watched close to 20 hours of reviews on the M4 iPads, you get it.
I actually use my M1 iPad 12.9” more than I use my iPhone and iMac combined. I older and don’t need to go anywhere to work - I’m a homebody, and I enjoy it. As you said the iPad is a great device for *consuming* and some light creating. I watch RU-vid, TV shows, surf the web, play games, read the NY Times and play the crossword puzzle and Wordle, I answer calls on it, listen to music on it (alone or paired to headphones), I text, email, outline ideas for my writing, take notes, and much more! The screen looks great and is a good size for doing all that stuff. I will probably upgrade my iPhone soon and get around to replacing my iMac 27” with a MacBook Pro and a badass monitor, keyboard and mouse so I can have the full Mac experience when I want it. But honestly, sitting in my chair, on the sofa, or in bed…I’ll probably always be an iPad Pro guy. It just fits my interests and my lifestyle the best. Thanks for the video!
Okay you have a different perspective of it. But I am one of them who uses the iPad only model. I don’t have a mac in any form since I only had the budget to take one and leave another so I thought of buying an iPad Pro 11 inch M1 and am using it since more than 2.5 years. In my profession I could do everything I could on a mac on my iPad. That is how professionally viable is the software and hardware designed but still just coz of the workarounds that I experience daily, I would have been better off the mac then an iPad. For such users like me, I would say, we need the macOS like features for the day to day use. They placed it right in between the mac and iPhone. But made the pro max version of iPhone a better product for content consumption and MacBook Air has no fan and has the same chip and has better user interface than the iPad. They made the iPad have a pencil and a keyboard. This makes us more productive by letting us write tonnes of notes saving 1000s of kilos of paper. They made it support the external monitor thus adding more utility to the overall experience. Now it is no longer just a content machine that you are putting into perspective. There are a plethora of work apps which I use daily which are available for both mac and iPad and equally compatible. Just a tad bit of fine tuning required and completely not available on Samsung products. Why can’t they make the os mac like. Both products would still co-exist. Just that the price would become even more justifiable and more people would join their ecosystem
Living with mine for 6 weeks, no blemishes, no bends, I don’t use a case. I *do* use a screen protector technically - mine came in yesterday and I’ve been using it “naked” with nothing but the magic keyboard, it’s fine. I carry it in my backpack every day for work. You can bend anything with enough force. It’s a $1000 device at start, just don’t people’s elbow it and you’re probably fine.
Thanks for this very interesting perspective. I just bought an iPad M4 Pro that costed five times as much as the android tablet it replaced. I’m trying to justify to myself why I paid so much. Most other reviewers are whining about the lack of laptop features in a device that costs as much as a laptop/desktop. I can sympathize with this, as it would be nice to have one device that could function as a tablet when you need portability and the touchscreen, then as a desktop when you need to take advantage of a full screen and keyboard. Maybe someday there’ll be one MacOS where you could simply switch between tablet and desktop modes. Microsoft Windows has something like this, though I can’t say that I like it very much. I have a touchscreen Windows laptop, which I found to be a miserable failure as a tablet - big and clunky, with lousy battery, life, and loud fan. For now, I only need the iPad to be a tablet. I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max that I use for music production and for other tasks that benefit from a larger screen and multiple windows and files. iPad OS is just not well suited for some types of work. But after using my iPad for less than a week, I can say I’m finding it to be a brilliant tablet - much better than the android. I’m also glad that I got the Magic Keyboard, as I don’t like typing on the screen for emails, notes and such (including RU-vid comments 😊), though I am using the excellent dictation feature more and more. Also, I am finding the keyboard controls and shortcuts very nice, as I am used to them from the MacBook.
@@stevenjohnson8736 I’m not collecting Social Security yet. I had money saved up a few years ago. Was only waiting for the new iPad to come out. The more I use it, the happier I am about spending the extra money.
I use the iPad M4 13” for video conferencing, browsing, note taking, and as a beautiful second monitor for my MacBook Pro - so I feel I’m experiencing a really great value.
I agree with your prospective on iPad and I've always thought of it like that, whoever buys it should know that he will resort to his PC at some tasks but for most of the casual use, the iPad is a great device, the only thing we needed was a bigger battery, much more than a lighter device, even if the ,13" was heavy, if u needed something to hold with your hands u could've gone with the 11"
I just bought today - MBA - 15’ / 24 / 1 tb ssd. And it’s not about the price it’s because I m huge fan of 15 screen . And would like it to last me for years. My previous Intel Mac I had I for 6 years and it still works great for small tasks but not good for video editing. And I found this video and love it. The great nice review. Not like hype RU-vid’s are selling and talking about . Thank you 😊
There are many things I agree with in your video, but there are some parts that I don't. Apple embraces the modularity of the iPad. As someone who accepted my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard as a “laptop alternative,” I was pleasantly surprised that I could legitimately and effectively replace my specific use case for my MacBook after iOS 17. The major perk of this setup is that I only have to carry the iPad with me and can unattach the keyboard when I need it as a super tablet. The combination of the M4 iPad Pro 13 with the Magic Keyboard is now almost the same weight as a MacBook Air. I doubt that's a coincidence. The iPad Pro M4 with the keyboard can handle most light, medium, and even some heavy computer work effectively, but some tasks are frustratingly held back due to seemingly fixable issues in iPadOS. I believe it is safe to say that Apple supports and even advertises overlaps between the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook, as long as they can't completely replace each other.
I do think it can be a laptop alternative, just not a replacement. Many people can probably get work done on the iPad, but I just don't feel like it's the best productivity tool for most. For digital art it's great, some *light* photo and video editing as well, taking notes, etc... But even for "basic" admin tasks, MS Office for iPad is ridiculously limited. Photoshop for iPad lacks over 50% of the features, and most iPad counterparts to Mac/Windows apps fall behind, even Final Cut Pro and Davinci Resolve are still so much better on the Mac. I think the iPad has a lot of potential, but it only shines when developers put effort into making the best out of its form factor and capabilities, finding new ways to achieve the same results, more intuitive ways, iPad ways. But that takes time, money and a lot of dedication. Unfortunately by the time developers make really Pro apps for the iPad the right way, it will probably have been replaced already by something like the Vision Pro. I mean, think how long it took web developers to replace Adobe Flash for online videos and games, it took at least 5 years for most video platforms to work on the iPad's Safari. The transition time sucked, but now we're all better off without it. I don't think using an iPad as their main computer is worth the frustration for most people.
Here’s the dilemma - iPads, Macs, iPhones, Apple Watch, and similar products from Android and Microsoft: They are ALL computers by definition. They have processors of every kind, RAM, storage, and some kind of OS. They perform specific tasks when aksed of them. They are ALL computers. The problem that messes up everything is how society has created many different definitions of this idea of what a computer is, and then ranks them as to what is and isn’t a computer. And then that gets broken down even further into hybridizations. The most common one, and the one that is the most problematic, is defining a computer based on its ability to perform specific tasks. In other words, MANY people believe that the more “professional” tasks a device can perform, the more it’s defined as a computer, and the less (“more casual?”) tasks a device can perform, the less it’s defined as a computer. This…is total BS. For the most part, structurally and functionally, a computer is a computer is a computer. They are designed to do “computer things” at different levels of performance and complexity. Since the topic of this video is about the iPad Pro, this device does exactly what it can do to various levels. The Macbook does exactly what it can do to various levels. Just because one kind of device can do some things better than another doesn’t mean that the latter is “not a computer”. I sometimes cringe every time I hear someone say that putting MacOS on a iPad Pro will make it a “computer’. I mean that’s “professional”, right? 🤦♂️. We have to stop defining these things based on our own personal biases. Someone who makes a living processing Word docs on an entry-level iPad 10 is a professional. Someone who makes a living doing CAD work on a loaded Macbook Pro is a professional. Why do we have categorize one as more “pro” than another? It’s not a matter of being “better or worse” that defines what a computer is - or what a professional is. Seems that very, very few people can grasp this concept.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Most reviews we watch, naturally, come from video creators/editors, so they think a computer is what works well for *those* tasks. Many of them are completely oblivious to the pros and cons of the iPad for many workflows. For example, I rely on Excel and Powerpoint for 90% of my work, and the iPad version of those apps are incredibly limited (no pivot tables or auto-object alignment), to the point that it would take me 5 hours to do something on the iPad compared to 1 hour on Windows or macOS, the same way that I'm sure there are workflows that are actually much faster on the iPad compared to a laptop. Different computers, for different needs, for different people.
