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The fastest draw in the East

The fastest draw in the East

Apple's new iPad Pro thinks of itself as a powerful laptop it appears to be right

A TABLET that’s actually far more than well, a tablet, particularly when connected it a smart keyboard accessory, the new iPad Pro 12.9 inch is actually more of a highly portable computer.
The new Smart Keyboard Folio, especially designed for the iPad Pro, turns Apple’s powerful tablet into a powerful notebook computer, one that’s more powerful and more portable than most laptops on the market.
The new Smart Keyboard Folio is among several improvements to the new iPad Pro. For example, it comes with a new and better screen design, Face ID technology, a more powerful A12X Bionic processor, advanced cameras, improved audio and a new Apple Pencil.

The fastest draw in the East

The new iPad is powered by Apple’s new A12X Bionic chipset with Neural Engine. Apple says the A12X Bionic is its smartest and most powerful chip ever, making iPad Pro powerful enough to handle apps you use everyday, like Microsoft Office and pro apps like Adobe Photoshop CC.
Apple is confident that its A12X Bionic delivers faster performance than 92 per cent of all portable PCs sold in the last year, including the most popular Intel Core i7 models.
The A12X Bionic has an eight-core fusion design with four performance cores to tackle heavy computational tasks and four high efficiency cores to take on everyday tasks. The new performance controller dynamically divides work across these cores, harnessing all eight when a power boost is needed.
And the new chipset comes with Apple-designed seven-core GPU that delivers performance twice as fast than the A10X Fusion in the previous-generation iPad Pro. Apple says the new GPU offers Xbox One S class performance in a thin and light device and the new GPU delivers 1,000 times the graphics performance of the original iPad.
The A12X comes with Apple Neural Engine, which is built for advanced machine learning in everything from photography to augmented reality. With its eight-core design, the Neural Engine can complete up to five trillion operations per second. In Photos, it intelligently stitches together your photos and videos to create Memories. It improves AR performance by identifying the environment like floors and tables more quickly, and even enables expressive Memoji by mapping up to 50 facial gestures.
In short, compared to the A10x Fusion, the A12X provides up to 35 per cent faster single-core performance, 90 per cent faster multicore performance and 2x faster graphics.
During the test, I found the new iPad Pro handled apps that were designed specially for iPad like Pixelmator and Linea Sketch fast and efficiently. 

The fastest draw in the East

I used AnTuTu Benchmark V7.2.0 to test the new iPad Pro's performance and it got very high scores of 546,454. Compared to the AnTuTu's ever-growing database of iOS users from around the world, the new iPad Pro 12.9 in my hands was ranked third on December 31, after two other iPad Pro apparently of the same model. Actually, this was the highest performance score I have ever seen during my reviews of various mobile devices.
With the new Smart Keyboard Folio, I could type just as if I were using a laptop with a full-size physical keyboard. The new keyboard folio magnetically attaches to the back of iPad Pro and has two viewing angles thus making it easy to use on a desk or your lap. It uses the Smart Connector to connect to iPad Pro, so it never needs to be charged or paired; and when folded, it protects the front and the back of your iPad Pro.
It comes with auto-wake function that allows iPad Pro to wake or sleeps when you open or close it. 
The new iPad Pro also features an all-new, all-screen design with advanced Liquid Retina display. It has beautiful rounded corners that follow the edges of the design to deliver ultrathin bezels.
The new iPad Pro has precision-milled glass, advanced pixel masking, and sub-pixel anti-aliasing to allow the display to follow the curves of the device, while a new backlight design allows the display to extend into the corners. This results in smooth, distortion-free edges, so whatever you are doing looks great from one rounded corner to the next.
And the Liquid Retina display is very bright. Actually, it is the brightest and most colour accurate iPad display so far, featuring P3 wide colour support for true-to-life colours; True Tone, which automatically adapts the display colour to your environment for a more natural viewing experience; and an anti-reflective coating for the best viewing experience indoors and outdoors. 
Moreover, the iPad Pro has ProMotion technology, which automatically adjusts the display refresh rate up to 120Hz for ultrasmooth scrolling and incredible responsiveness on the display, whether using your finger or the Apple Pencil.

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I enjoyed viewing photos and watching HD movies on the Liquid Retina display. Movies streamed on TrueID TV app from TrueVisions played smoothly and looked great. 
And the four-speaker design improves the sound system whether you’re listening to music or watching a movie. Apple comes with a new audio architecture that delivers wider stereo sound for a high-fidelity, cinematic audio experience in any orientation for watching movie, playing a game or a FaceTime call. 
The built-in sensors ensure that when you are holding the iPad Pro either in portrait or landscape orientation, you’ll get best sound experience with bass going to all four speakers while the mid and high frequencies come from the topmost speakers.
The new iPad Pro also comes with five microphones to allow it capture stereo audio when recording video in any orientation.
The new iPad Pro also comes with fast wireless and Internet connections. It uses 802.11ac Wi-Fi and uses fast LTE connection, supporting up to 29 LTE bands.
The new iPad Pro also supports future eSIM, which is available in 180 countries and regions around the world. I tested it on TrueMove H’s LTE, using microSIM and, yes, the connection was very fast. Applications were downloaded quickly and my snapshots were backed up to my Google Photos cloud storage in no time.
I used Ookla Speedtest app to measure the connection speed and I found that the new iPad Pro achieved the download speed of 85.0 Mbps and upload speed of 38.5 Mbps.
The new iPad Pro comes with a 12-megapixel rear camera, which is capable of capturing ultra-detailed still images and Live Photos in wide colour, 63MP panoramas, and 4K video at 60 fps. The Liquid Retina display is an excellent viewfinder for composing shots. The Live Photos is a mode for shooting a still with a short video clip.
With the advanced camera, large display and thin and light design, the new iPad Pro is excellent for enjoying augmented reality.
The test found that the new iPad Pro really captured beautiful, sharp and clean photos in most lighting environments.

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The new iPad Pro uses a TrueDepth camera system for the front camera, allowing the tablet to use Face ID for secure unlocking. The 7-megapixel TrueDepth camera provides features like Portrait mode, Selfie Scenes in Clips, and Animoji and Memoji in Messages and Group FaceTime.
The Face ID begins with data captured by the TrueDepth camera. Sensors read the unique geometry of your face and compare it to information protected by the Secure Enclave of the A12X Bionic chip. If there’s a match, iPad Pro unlocks.
And the TrueDepth camera brings Portrait mode to iPad Pro for the first time, creating a precise depth map to separate the subject from the background. It also features Portrait Lighting for stunning studio-quality selfies.
The new iPad Pro supports the new Apple Pencil that attaches magnetically to iPad Pro and charges wirelessly. The new Apple Pencil comes with double-tap function to allow you to switch tools. With a simple double tap, you can change tools –like from a pencil to an eraser within Notes without interrupting your workflow. You can also customise your taps to easily switch between Apple Pencil functions.
I was happy to see that the iPad Pro now features a high-performance USB-C connector, instead of Apple Lightning port. The USB-C port makes it compatible for using iPad Pro's charger with other mobile devices.
Moreover, it brings a whole new set of capabilities to iPad Pro. You can connect it to accessories that change the way you use the iPad, such as cameras, musical instruments, or even docks or you can connect it to high-resolution external monitors, with up to 5K resolution. USB-C on iPad Pro allows you to connect to data accessories and a display at the same time, which is critical for those creative pros whose workflows require high-bandwidth input and output at the same time.
The new iPad Pro does not come with a 3.5mm headphone jack. If you want to use a pair of headphones, you will need to buy a USB-C to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter.
The new iPad Pro runs on iOS 12 and this brings several new features to the tablet, including Group FaceTime that allows up to 32 participants to join a video call.
The new 12.9-inch iPad Pro has a suggested retail price of Bt35,900 for 64 GB storage, Bt40,900 for 256GB, Bt47,900 for 512 GB and Bt61,900 for 1 terabyte storage. The new Apple Pencil retails for Bt4,490 and Smart Keyboard Folio is priced at Bt7,290.


>> Networks: GSM/EDGE; UMTS/HSPA+; LTE
>> OS: iOS12
>> Chip: A12X Bionic chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture , Neural Engine, Embedded M12 coprocessor
>> Capacity: 64GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB
>> Display: 12.9-inch Liquid Retina LED-backlit display with 2732x2048 pixel resolution.
>> Cameras: 12-MP rear camera with f/1.8 lens; 7-MP TrueDepth front camera with Face ID technology
>> SIM types: eSIM, nano-SIM
>> Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0
>> Connectors: USB-C, Smart connector
>> Sensors: Face ID , Three-axis gyro , Accelerometer , Ambient light sensor , Barometer
>> Battery: Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using cellular data network
>> Dimensions: 280.6 x 214.9 x 5.9mm (HxWxD)
>> Weight: 633g
>> In the box: iPad Pro , USB-C to USB-C Connector, USB-C Power Adapter , Documentation
 

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