The front-facing camera is the same: It has 7 megapixels and f/2.2, with added
depth information from the IR face recognition camera. HDR, Portrait mode,
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and Zoom.
I compared the current iPad Pro with the 2018 model, which has the same main
and front-facing cameras but without the wide-angle camera or LiDAR sensor.
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wider angle, but you can’t use it in any of the augmented reality apps I tried.
IPAD PRO VS. MACBOOK PRO
The iPad has always been where Apple tries out new paradigms for working.
For years, the company tried to convince people that they didn’t need a mouse
or multiple windows to do all the computing in their lives. Now, it’s going full
tilt on AR, a hardware capability that is waiting for apps. For the new iPad Pro
to justify its price, it needs to do what other devices at its price do, and more.
The new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will probably end up costing you more than the
base $1,299 MacBook Pro, and that’s its problem. The iPad Pro has advantages:
No Mac can use the Pencil for drawing or taking notes, and no Mac has the AR
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still means that even with the new trackpad support, the kinds of multi-
application workloads that high-end professionals need to do are more
awkward on an iPad than on a Mac. If you’re willing to spend upward of $1,500
and really want to sink into the Apple experience, you should do so with a
MacBook Pro.
There are also a wealth of less-expensive options from Apple that do at least
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nonsense laptop replacement should go for the $499 iPad Air, which works with
the same add-on keyboard as the iPad Pro and has just as fast a processor. Of
course, there’s also the 11-inch iPad Pro model, starting at $799, which is much
more manageable all around. If you’re buying a new iPad Pro, it’s the one to get.
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