The all new iPad Pro. Plenty of new design changes, thinner bezels,and no home button or headphone jack. It’s time to see if this massive tablet isdurable. The iPad Pro is basically the same price asthe iPhone XR, and appears to actually be one of the more reasonably priced Apple products. It even comes with a standard USB-C chargingport. Apple’s moving in the right direction. Let’s get started. [Intro] This is the smaller of the two iPads the11 inch version. Perfect size for a backpack or book bag. Apple has also released an updated versionof the Apple pencil, which is good.Last year’s design included plenty of stupid…pokingout the bottom of the iPad while charging, like an elephant trunk just waiting to snapoff. This year it’s held onto the side of the iPadwith magnets and charges wirelessly. Not quite as smooth as the integrated Note9 s-pen which charges internally in seconds with a super capacitor. Apple doesn’t include this pencil in the box…probablyout of respect to Steve Jobs. [Steve] Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away, andyou lose them. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. [Zack] But let’s be honest, they mostly justwant you to pay extra for it.The tip of the pristine clean white pencildoes not appear to be replaceable like they are on Samsung’s s-pen. So if you want a finer tip, you’ll just haveto sharpen it manually. We all know it’s what’s inside the Apple pencilthat matters most though. Dead center is the weakest point. Probably a tad stronger than your averagewooden pencil This immediately gives us unrepairable access to the wireless charging component. These copper coils absorb energy wirelesslythrough the induction field on the side of the iPad. I’ll skin the rest of the pencil. It has a pressure sensitive tip and a rowof strong magnets along the flat side of the writing utensil. The upper half is a bit harder to get inside. The super white plastic coating is not meantto come off.Inside of the upper half of the stiff metalframe is where the battery resides. I tried opening up the metal to get a betterlook at the battery size and information, but after it squirted battery acid at me,I decided it was not a fun activity. Let’s start with the scratch test. We know glass is glass at this point, butwe still got to check and make sure Apple isn’t pulling a fast one on anyone and usingless durable materials than what we’re used to. It is interesting to see how thin the glassis though. Each scratch of my picks leaves major temporaryimpressions on the pixels. We get the standard scratching at level 6,with deeper grooves at a level 7. So the screen is still made from glass andnot plastic, but it’s super thin. There is a front facing camera. It does the whole face ID thing now that thehome button is gone. The volume buttons up in the right hand cornerare made from metal, along with the whole right side of the iPad.Except for this little patch of plastic inthe middle for the wireless charging. Induction can happen through metal, so Applecut out the metal and added this little plastic layer that allows the power to flow throughto the pencil Hopefully the plastic doesn’t compromise any structural integrity lateron. Down at the bottom we get our two large speakergrilles. We’ll have to see if these are decorationor not during the teardown video. And we also have our USB-C port which canbe used to charge other devices. Pretty cool. Hopefully Apple makes this port the standardacross all their devices in the future. That would be an awesomely beneficial movefor the customer. The left side of the iPad is blank exceptfor one little microphone hole right smack dab in the center. You know how easy it is to rip your jeansafter a hole has already been started? The same thing applies to metal. That hole is a weak point and I can see thisprobably being a problem in the future. There are 2 more microphone holes up at thetop of the iPad in between the two ginormous speaker grilles.There’s also the power button all metal. The back of the iPad Pro is also metal. Apple focused quite a bit on how well peoplecan draw on the iPad Pro, but they never really specified on which side of the iPad the drawingsneed to occur. This is the biggest Art Class with Jerry canvasI’ve ever had. And the anodized aluminum makes a perfectsurface. As an artist, I definitely have to agree withthat on this one.The iPad is really good for drawing. Yeah, the front has liquid retina with a 120Hertz touch sensitivity. But the back has a 120 hurts-your-ears sensitivity. And you can’t beat that. If you guessed I was drawing Spider Man, I’mimpressed with your creative thinking, or maybe the iPad Pro just makes me look betterat drawing than I actually am. Hopefully Stan Lee approves. The Apple logo does kind of distract fromthe overall appearance though, so it’s good to know if you ever want to get rid of theApple logo, or hide any accidental scratches, dbrand has you covered quite literally. This textured Black Matrix feels more professionalthan just the bare aluminum. But the best news is that with dbrand, theApple pencil now looks like an actual pencil, and still connects and charges wirelessly.It doesn’t get any better than that. I’ll leave a link down in the video descriptionif you want to customize your own phone or iPad, and thanks to dbrand for sponsoringthis video. We already know the result of our next test. Apple is once again touting sapphire cameralens covers on their iPad Pro. And as we know, sapphire should scratch ata level 8, making it a very premium, durable, scratch resistant product, more so than glass. Glass scratches at a level 6. But Apple’s sapphire is not the same qualitywe’ve seen in other places, like HTC’s or Tissots. Apple’s sapphire scratches like glass at alevel 6. Super annoying when Apple is bragging aboutpremium materials that don’t actually perform like they should. It makes real sapphire look bad. You would think Apple would be able to affordreal sapphire, but maybe next time. The massive 11 inch display is using Apple’sliquid retina technology, which is just an LCD, and lasted 10 seconds under the heatfrom my lighter before turning off.I’m still impressed that I can buy this wholeiPad Pro for basically the same price as a XR…which is probably just another exampleof that phone being incredibly over priced. Like always with my durability test, it’stime for the bend test. I doubt this tablet will ever end up in aback pocket, but it will be in backpacks and book bags. Or laying around unnoticed on a couch cushion,chair or bed, before someone sits down.Structural integrity is still important, andthe iPad Pro just doesn’t have any of that structural integrity stuff. A tablet the size of a piece of paper, foldslike a piece of paper. I do feel bad for Spider Man though. I’ll try to straighten him out. Perfect. It looks like the 2 weakest points are rightdead center on either side of the iPad Pro. The cracked frame happened right at the poorlyplaced microphone hole. And again over here on the poorly supportedwireless charging dock for the pencil. The thin glass screen isn’t helping out structurally.And neither are the loose uncompartmentalizedpouch style lithium ion batteries. The iPad Pro is a thin, ridge-less aluminumsack with no structure holding things together. Like tin foil wrapped around mashed potatoes. There are 4 massive speakers inside, whichis pretty impressive. At least now I don’t have to make a teardownvideo. Apple focused on making the thinnest iPadthey could without putting much thought into structure or weak points in the frame. So make sure if it’s ever in a backpack, youdon’t lean up against a chair or a wall and make sure grandma doesn’t accidentally siton it because it won’t survive. Poor Spider Man. Customize your own phone or protect your tabletwith the dbrand link in the description. Hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already. And let me know what else you want to seeconstructively durability tested in the comments. Thanks a ton for watching. I’ll see you around..
