If you're tapping away with the Apple Pencil all day, this may decrease further and you will need to charge it during the day as well. However, the Smart Keyboard accessory draws power from the device, so take it off if you're low on battery. Apple cites 10 hours of battery life and that's about right in our experience.
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The iPad Pro will easily last a day of use. It's entirely possible, for example, to draw on one side of the screen while referring to source material on the other, or keep an eye on your email as you type a document. The big display means that iOS 11's support for multitasking – the ability to run two apps side by side, and/or also have video play in a floating picture-in-picture window – makes such great sense here and works instantly. With Apple's A10 X processor, this is a seriously powerful tablet. The mid-range and treble is then also played out of whichever two speakers are on the top, depending on orientation, for a proper stereo soundstage.) iPad Pro 12.9 performance and battery life (There's some smarts here: there is a speaker at each corner, and for any audio all four always produce bass, since we can't tell what direction bass comes from. Sure, you don’t want to rely on them to fill a room, but everyone who hears them does the same 'Oh, they sound that good?' face. Viewing video on this device is a delight, while the quad speakers are surprisingly beefy. The scale of the screen makes it great not just for painting on, but also – for example – to give you more room for digital audio workstations, for editing movies, for creating diagrams and for sketching out wireframes for print or digital layouts in Adobe Comp (opens in new tab), which you can then export to InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop.Īs we've already touched upon, it's a TrueTone display with support for HDR video. That big screen is, in any case, just terrific: bright, saturated, and with liberal viewing angles. It's also slim, such that when you're using it flat on a table surface, you can just about kid yourself that it's almost not there. It's not light enough that you would want to hold it for the length of time it would take to make even a simple portrait sketch, but it's perfectly reasonable to hold it one-handed for minutes at a time. In part that's because it's lighter than you expect it to be for its size. The first time you see the iPad Pro 12.9 it looks daft – a big, silly joke something ludicrously, pointlessly oversized – but it's amazing how quickly that impression passes.