Current iPad Air vs Pro

RedSkyLullaby

I’m looking at upgrading from my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5. Looking at a pro or air.
256gb pro $899 vs Air on sale $649
Benchmark is 2470 vs 2212
I know pro has more cores and m2 vs m1 but not sure whether for music it’s worth the extra for what seems relatively minimal difference. Anyone got any comments/advice on Air vs Pro?

NeuM

Whatever you choose, get as much memory/storage as you possibly can. That’s the one thing you will never have enough of.

RedSkyLullaby

@NeuM said:
Whatever you choose, get as much memory/storage as you possibly can. That’s the one thing you will never have enough of.

Yep def getting 256 or higher

NeuM

@RedSkyLullaby said:

@NeuM said:
Whatever you choose, get as much memory/storage as you possibly can. That’s the one thing you will never have enough of.

Yep def getting 256 or higher

I looked over the promotional material on the Apple site but did not see anything indicating how large the Logic Pro app will be. The additional downloads after installation on desktop are quite massive and I appreciated being able to choose to not download some things, so I opted out of downloading all of the extra samples loops.

RedSkyLullaby

@NeuM said:

@RedSkyLullaby said:

@NeuM said:
Whatever you choose, get as much memory/storage as you possibly can. That’s the one thing you will never have enough of.

Yep def getting 256 or higher

I looked over the promotional material on the Apple site but did not see anything indicating how large the Logic Pro app will be. The additional downloads after installation on desktop are quite massive and I appreciated being able to choose to not download some things, so I opted out of downloading all of the extra samples loops.

Likely I won’t download extra sound packs and such. Interesting to see if logic will use multiple cores at once. Presuming it designed to make use of the hardware

hes

The speakers are different, can be an issue if you listen directly to audio from the device much.

iPad Air has two speakers located on top and bottom, when oriented in portrait, on either side when landscape. In portrait mode, both are on the left side of top and bottom. In landscape, both are on top of the sides, or bottom of the sides depending on which side you have up. There are speaker grills on the other corners, where sound can escape, but no speaker elements producing sounds in those corners.

I originally got an Air a few years ago, and I exchanged for Pro partly because it seemed strange to have the sound coming from speakers on left side of top and bottom when in portrait mode. But I guess you must get used to it.

iPad Pro has four speakers that all produce sound. They're located in same position as the iPad Air's 4 grills, but all of them produce sound.

RedSkyLullaby

@hes said:
The speakers are different, can be an issue if you listen directly to audio from the device much.

iPad Air has two speakers located on top and bottom, when oriented in portrait, on either side when landscape. In portrait mode, both are on the left side of top and bottom. In landscape, both are on top of the sides, or bottom of the sides depending on which side you have up. There are speaker grills on the other corners, where sound can escape, but no speaker elements producing sounds in those corners.

I originally got an Air a few years ago, and I exchanged for Pro partly because it seemed strange to have the sound coming from speakers on left side of top and bottom when in portrait mode. But I guess you must get used to it.

iPad Pro has four speakers that all produce sound. They're located in same position as the iPad Air's 4 grills, but all of them produce sound.

Thanks good to know