The Ipad Pro: An Analysis Of The Ipad Pro

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The iPad Pro is dauntingly big. It's also surprisingly thin -- 6.9mm thin, which is slimmer than an iPhone 6S. It's not very heavy, clocking in at 1.57 well-balanced pounds. But that weight will become noticeable pretty quick if you're carrying Apple's newest, biggest and most expensive tablet around with you all day long. Add in the weight of a Smart Cover and Smart Case -- you're not really going to walk around with this tablet unprotected, are you? -- and the iPad Pro feels almost like a laptop. Emphasis on almost. It's not a laptop, unless you decide to buy the optional Apple keyboard for $169. With that attached, it's sort of like a laptop, but not exactly. Confused yet? That's natural, since the iPad Pro, which went on sale yesterday, …show more content…

That's important given its cost and the length of time many buyers or businesses are likely to keep it in use. Battery life and charging times Apple says the iPad Pro will last about 10 hours on battery. The battery level of mine was at 83% when I pulled it out of the box, and that charge rapidly dropped as I restored apps and settings from an iCloud backup -- admittedly a pretty intense set of tasks. After a couple of hours, the battery was down to about 53%. So I plugged the iPad Pro into my iMac at work to charge. I glanced at it a few minutes later, and it was still at 53%. I waited a little longer. Same thing. So I hit the iPad Pro's power button and waited. When it awakened from sleep a little while later, the charge had risen to 57%. Progress. In other words, it charges very s-l-o-w-l-y when in use -- especially during a backup restore. Although the iPad Pro has a larger battery (because the case has more room), that battery is also running a more powerful processor than in earlier iPads and it's got to handle a bigger screen. In this case, a bigger battery in a bigger tablet with a bigger screen yields about the same battery life as the smaller iPad Air 2. That should be plenty for most

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