Today is going to be a really long day. It’s Friday before a long weekend here in Ottawa, The weather is finally nice and really warm. And the 2021 iPad Pros have been released and are available for sale finally. I am able to actually pick up a space grey Apple iPad Pro with 12.9” screen, 1TB of storage, 16GB of RAM and the M1 chip. I have my appointment with Apple at 4:45pm today. So I am not waiting until June 9th, 2021 for it to ship. I cancelled my online order once I got notification that my 2021 12.9” screen, M1, 1TB, 16GB Space Grey Apple iPad Pro was reserved and available for pickup. My credit card was charged and I am a confirmed owner of a brand new 2021 Apple iPad Pro. I am just so excited to be a proud owner of this iPad Pro. My 2018 iPad Pro 12.9” screen, 512GB storage still works wonderfully. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I just wanted a faster hard drive, faster processor and more RAM. Apparently the screen on the new iPad Pros is supposed to be amazingly fantastic. I just cannot wait to use the new iPad Pro to edit my photography and videography.
I just hope Apple improves the iPad operating system to take advantage of the hardware. We will find out June 7th, 2021 at Apples WWDC conference. The apps I use the most include, but are not limited to LumaFusion, Apple Photos, Pixelmator Photos, Netflix, Disney+, Blogger, Pages, Numbers, iTunes, YouTube, YouTube Studio, Affinity Photos, Affinity Designer, Firefox, Safari and a few astronomy apps for star gazing.
I’ve put my 2018 Apple iPad Pro up for sale on Kijiji. If I don’t get any bites by 4pm today, I’ll see if I can trade it in when I pick up my new 2021 Apple iPad Pro. If I don’t get a byte on Kijiji and I do a trade-in with Apple and they either take it off my credit card, I’ll just get an Apple Watch for the girlfriend.
On a side note, I did purchase some new photo and video equipment earlier this week. I purchased a Sony RX100 Mark VII and a Sony FDR-AX700B camcorder. I can’t wait to test out the new iPad Pro with these cameras. I hope the software developers take advantage of the new horsepower that the new iPad Pro offers. I hope Apple gets iPad OS to be a more pro operating system. iPad OS is really lacking in some features that it greatly needs. A progress bar when you’re copying over files is one. The ability to format external drives is another. The full use of an external display is another.
