![]() Oh, and if you use Microsoft Office, there’s another bit of potential cost savings from choosing the smaller iPad. So a full setup of a 32GB Wi-Fi-only iPad Pro, Smart Keyboard, and Pencil is $847 if you choose the smaller iPad Pro, and $1,067 if you choose the larger version. The Lil Pro’s Smart Keyboard is $20 less too, at $149, compared to $169 for the Big Pro’s Smart Keyboard. It’s also worth pointing out that the Lil Pro starts at $200 cheaper than the Big Pro, and the Pencil is $99. The Smart Keyboard isn’t my favorite to type on, but I do like it as a slim protective cover, and its magnetic attachment is more convenient than a full case. With the Big Pro, I felt like I had to be seated, preferably at a table, when I was going to do anything with the Pencil. The Pencil is also better with the Lil Pro because it’s easier to hold the smaller iPad in one hand while you draw or write with the other. I like drawing and coloring with the Pencil to relax, but I’m even taking more meeting notes with it lately, too, just because the “infinite scroll” writing feature in GoodNotes 4 is so fun. In fact, it’s even more so now, just because more apps support it. ![]() The Lil Pro joins the Big Pro in supporting the Apple Pencil, which remains just delightful. In the meantime, there’s always f.lux on the Mac. Anyone who does get hooked on True Tone may start jonesing for it on all their devices, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple starts building these new light sensors into more screens. Still, after a couple of days I stopped noticing it, until I had the Lil Pro side by side with a MacBook, and the MacBook screen’s blueish tint was more visible than ever. I don’t mind keeping it on, but I wish I could tone it down just a tiny bit. This screen is way too nice to yellow it up by layering True Tone and Night Shift together. You can use both Night Shift and True Tone together on this Lil Pro, but it looks terrible, like your screen was suddenly submerged in a bucket of apple juice. (I can’t stand it at any more than about 25 percent, but your mileage may vary.) Night Shift isn’t aimed at matching the color temperature of the room rather it just shifts the temperature of your screen from blue to yellow at night, in case the reduced blue light helps you sleep better-although the research isn’t so conclusive that this particular feature would help. The new Night Shift feature in iOS 9.3, on the other hand, isn’t controlled by sensors, so it does have a slider to let you adjust the intensity. There’s no slider to lessen the intensity of the effect-the whole idea is that it’s automatically adjusted. You can turn this off in System Preferences > Display, but it’s a binary on/off switch. Both sides of the screen stay active in splitscreen mode-I was able to play a Macworld video in Safari on one half of my screen while writing this review in Byword on the other half. That’s not a big deal, and even helps readability. I see a lot more webpages (including Macworld and even ) default to tablet or mobile views in splitscreen Safari, even though they load as the full-size version when Safari has the entire screen. But half of the Lil Pro’s screen still winds up being enough space to work in, even using text-heavy apps like Mail and Safari. With the Big Pro’s 2732×2048 display, each app’s half of the screen winds up being almost as big as the 2048×1536 Lil Pro held in portrait mode. ![]() Even with less real estate, side-by-side is great on the Lil Pro, too. ![]() One of the advantages of the Big Pro’s screen size is that you have plenty of room to run two apps side by side in iOS 9’s splitscreen mode. Lil Pro is exactly the same size as the iPad Air 2-most cases should fit, but old cases might obstruct the new iPad’s extra speakers. Like the iPad mini and iPad Air 2 before it, the Lil Pro seems to disappear into my bag, and I don’t mind taking it everywhere, much to the delight of my iPad-loving 4-year-old son. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro (can we call them Lil Pro and Big Pro, please?) is sized like an iPad Air 2, and it weighs just a hair under a pound. Most of the time, it just sat on my desk. (And, no, I didn’t notice the difference in RAM, but more about that later.) Size mattersĮven though the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is the most powerful iPad I’ve ever used, after I was done reviewing it, I didn’t take it anywhere. I find the big iPad Pro unwieldy-I’d rather just bring my computer, thanks-but the new 9.7-inch version (starting at $599 at the Apple Store) is sized just right, and with nearly all the power, it’s definitely the iPad for me. Yes, at 1.5 pounds, the big iPad Pro is lighter than my 2.4-pound 13-inch MacBook Air, but I didn’t feel those missing ounces in the context of the rest of the junk in my bag, and the footprint of the big iPad versus my laptop is nearly the same. ![]()
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