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iPad 2020 Review - A Big Deal! (10.2” 8th gen)

This is the new 8th generation ipad 10.2 not the air not the pro ipad it's pretty much the same as last year's base model ipad 10.2 except for one major change that makes this ipad model well worth it especially its quite affordable 329 usd or 429 canadian price tag and even cheaper with a student discount so first a quick run through of the design and hardware it's nothing really too new but it's still all right glass and aluminum touch id those front bezels 10.2 inch 2160x1620 resolutions display.

Price:                                       $329.99 

Size:                                       32GB, 128GB

Style:                                       Wifi, WiFi + Cellular

Color:                                      Space Gray, Gold, Silver

Brand:                                     Apple

Technology:                           Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Operating System:               IPadOS

Other camera features:         Rear, Fron

About this item

• Gorgeous 10.2-inch Retina display

• A12 Bionic chip with Neural Engine

• Support for Apple Pencil (1st generation) and Smart Keyboard

• 8MP back camera, 1.2MP FaceTime HD front camera

• Stereo speakers

• 802.11ac Wi-Fi

• Up to 10 hours of battery life

• Lightning connector for charging and accessories

• Touch ID for secure authentication and Apple Pay

• iPadOS brings new capabilities designed specifically for iPad

which is still not laminated and doesn't get super bright but does look fairly good for day-to-day work and there's still no USB-C port on this tablet so it's kind of weak for transferring files as you're stuck with lightning on this device you can either grab lighting to USB adapter or transfer things wirelessly over Bluetooth wi-fi or airdrop if you have other Apple devices but it's definitely a bit of an obstacle for things like a photo or video editing,

When you're transferring a whole bunch of files over wi-fi it takes quite a while and for the iPad's own cameras it has a rear eight-megapixel shooter which is pretty much only good for scanning documents or just quick photos you want to mockup with the apple pencil as well as a not so great 1.2-megapixel 720p video front camera for those video chats seriously it's really not amazing,

but at least it's there and of course, it works with apple's older version of the smart keyboard which is actually a shade darker this year which is kind of sweet it's the same type of experience with fairly low key travel although I'm kind of a fan at this point as well as the multi-angle positions the new smart keyboard and even the magic keyboard doesn't have these angles so that's kind of a bonus but if you feel left out not being able to use the magic keyboard with this iPad Logitech actually makes a fairly good trackpad keyboard case for this device.

So you can use that excellent iPad os mouse cursor functionality with this iPad it also works with the first generation apple pencil and thanks to iPad os 14 the latency of writing and drawing have significantly gone down so there's little to no noticeable input lag when using the pencil on the previous iPad and iPad os 13 you could definitely see some delay so this is a huge improvement okay so that's the hardware and the design but the biggest upgrade this year is the addition of the a12 bionic in this iPad this processor first debuted with the iPhone 10s and 10s max and still in 2020.

It's a pretty solid processor this iPad also has three gigabytes of ram but you're still stuck with either 32 or 128 gigabytes of storage which can definitely be quite limiting if you're planning to use this iPad for just notes drawing and watching videos 32 gigabytes is just enough but for anything more you got to go 128 and there's no in-between and there's no extra.

but I guess that's just one of the ways apple's going to boost you to the iPad air or to the iPad pro but ok back to the processor the previous 7th generation iPad had an apple a10 processor which was fairly decent but at times you would notice some lag dropped frames apps would need to be reloaded when multitasking and just the speed wasn't amazing it was usable but not amazing but with this processor things feel more fluid it can handle more tasks and in turn, opens up more possibilities with this iPad, for example, editing raw photos in lightroom with no issues adjusting colors curves contrast all that stuff works great and more intensive things like working on more complex photo edits in affinity photo no problems.

here I can open up large photoshop files make tweaks and even work on my video thumbnails on this iPad from scratch with no issues I also wanted to push this thing even further so I put together a near 30 minute 4k video test in luma fusion0l now it's not really as fast as the new iPad air iPad pro while editing and especially while rendering but the fact that a tablet this price point can even do these sort of tasks and use the exact same pro iPad apps as the more expensive pads that are kind of a win but once again with video editing, especially storage, is an issue,

And for all the students out there like myself if you just want an iPad for taking notes and notability or apple notes sketching in apps like procreate watching videos and online lectures typing essays or notes in word or pages making presentations in PowerPoint or keynote this iPad is perfect for that I've had no issues the last few days using this iPad for classes.

It can certainly keep up now of course if this iPad did everything perfectly there'd be no reason for the more expensive pads to exist there are some things it just can't do for example in procreating I've been working on a high-resolution art file on my iPad pro and I sent it over to this iPad and basically straight up said cannot import file so there will definitely be some things this iPad can't do and that's just a given it can pretty much handle most of your day-to-day tasks but if you do lots of intensive pro work definitely check out the new iPad air or the iPad pro over this iPad it also, of course, runs iPad os 14 with all those features that everybody's talking about like widgets the new music app the scribble feature.

All that fun stuff it's here and because it has a newer processor you can likely expect like over five years of software support from apple now it's not going to be as fast five years from now as it is today but you're gonna get all the features security updates all the latest stuff it's gonna come to this ipad and the ipad lasts around 10 hours of usage so for me no problem making through a full day with on enough usage watching videos watching lectures drawing social media all that stuff no problem with a full day of usage okay so this ipad with its new processor and quite affordable price is a pretty great deal whether it's just a media device for watching videos it's your notebook and sketchbook for classes or even a light photo and video editing machine it's a pretty solid experience now sure it doesn't look super modern to have the latest hardware features or accessories but it still works and in the end it's a tool for making things and for all the things you can actually do on this ipad it doesn't cost a lot.