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The 2020 generation of the Apple iPad Pros are the best pure tablets you can buy right now
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Sure quite expensive ones, but their screens, performance and accessories are fantastic
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But which size should you get? You can choose between an 11 inch and a 12.9 inch iPad Pro
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Well I'm NJ for mynexttablet.com and that's what we'll discuss in this comparison
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Let's get something important out of the way first
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The 11 inch and 12.9 inch iPad Pro are basically the same tablet
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Both feature the same Apple A12Z processor. Both have 6GB of RAM and you can choose between 128GB up to 1TB of storage for each
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I ran the same benchmarks on both tablets and the performance is identical
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And that goes for real life performance too. No matter whether you're playing Fortnite or are rendering 4K videos and apps like Adobe
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Premiere Rush, the performance is pretty much identical. We get the same 4 speakers on each and the same cameras including the LiDAR sensor
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The version of iPadOS is identical of course and both support and can charge the second
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generation Apple Pencil. Both feature a USB-C port and you can connect tons of accessories to both
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I think you get the point. Besides their screen size, they are the same tablet
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Now let's get to their screens. Even though 12 inches don sound like that much more than 11 inches on paper you can see a huge difference in person The 12 inch iPad Pro 2020 is much bigger and offers much more real estate on the screen
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While both have a pixel density of 264 ppi, and that means both are equally sharp
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that also means that the 12.9 inch one has a higher resolution overall
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It's retina display has 2732x2048 pixels compared to 2388x1668 pixels on the 11-incher
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All other aspects of the screen like Apple's ProMotion and TrueTone technologies are the
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same, and that goes for their 600 nits brightness too. Now with the bigger screen we also get a bigger body and a bigger battery
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And that means it gets physically heavier. The 12.9 inch one is noticeably heavier with 641 grams compared to the 471 grams of the
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11 incher. Speaking of the bigger battery, I did ran two battery tests on each tablet and each time
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the battery life was a bit shorter on the 12.9 inch iPad Pro
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I'm guessing that the bigger screen just needs more energy than the bigger battery
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can provide. When watching HD YouTube videos at maximum brightness on the 11 inch iPad Pro, the battery
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lasted 6 hours. The 12.9 incher got 5 hours of runtime in the same test
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Now when looping an HD video locally, at medium brightness, the 11 inch lasts 14 hours and
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the 12.9 inch 13 hours. Those differences are minor percentage wise and in real life I didn't notice any difference
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Since their bodies have different sizes it also means that the smart folio keyboards of the iPad Pro are different in their sizes too of course While they work the same the keyboard for the 12 inch one is bigger it a full size one and the 11 inch keyboard is a bit smaller
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I've been typing on the 11 inch keyboard for over a year and I've gotten used to it
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quite well. But you certainly have to get used to the tighter space, which is not an issue on the
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bigger one. So now that we talked about the few differences, which iPad Pro should you get
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Well it basically just comes down to the screen size. And since everybody has different needs, everybody has to decide that for themselves
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Generally speaking, I think the 12.9 inch iPad Pro is a better choice if you're using
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it mostly at home. It's nice to have more screen real estate
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Not just for watching movies, but also for editing photos in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop
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for instance. When drawing with the Apple Pencil 2, it's also more convenient to have more room
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And in case you want to replace the laptop with the iPad Pro and it will be your only
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computer then of course it's nice to have a bigger screen. If you connect it to a keyboard and mouse it can almost behave like a normal computer
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now certainly not for everybody of course but if you mostly use the tablet for entertainment
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maybe to edit some photos or videos with and to video chat with your family and your standard
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computing tasks are simple then it can be great for that. On the other hand, I think the 11 inch iPad Pro is the better choice if you're going
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to carry it around a lot. It's as powerful with the same features but in a smaller and lighter package
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Sure, you can use it to watch networks at home and you can connect it to keyboards and
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mouse too but it also is small enough to comfortably use on a train or on a plane even in a tight economy class That how I been using the previous 11 inch iPad Pro and that why I choosing the 11 inch one for myself this time too
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I can do a lot with the iPad but I can't fully replace my notebook with it yet
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So for me it makes no sense to get the 12.9 inch one which is almost as big as my laptop
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Instead I think the 11 inch iPad Pro is the perfect second device
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A great tablet to take with you. I'm traveling a lot and I also like to work outside in cafes
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Not at the moment of course. It's all closed, but usually. And for that the 11 inch is perfect
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About a year ago I've bought a bag that fits the iPad Pro and the camera and one or two lenses
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As I said, I travel a lot and usually I also take a lot of photos in between
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The 11 inch iPad Pro has been perfect for that. It's very light and small so that I don't mind carrying it around all day
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and great for editing photos with and also good enough to get some office work done
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But again, I wouldn't use it as my main computer for that
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and if you're mostly using it at home, I would prefer the 12.9-incher
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Alright, that's the end of my iPad Pro comparison, the size comparison
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Let us know in the comments which size you are getting and also subscribe to this channel
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I'm reviewing pretty much every tablet that is released almost worldwide. I'm Anjay for MyNextTablet.com
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Thanks for watching and see you next time
