M4 iPad Air - I edited this entire video on, what do you think?

The first iPad was released almost 16 years ago. And yes, I of course had one. [music] And just looking back at this video, it is so crazy to see how far we've come. Now, this original iPad had a 9.7 in screen, 250 nits brightness, no camera, Wi-Fi 4. It charged using a 30 pin connector port, no Apple Pencil. It ran iPhone OS 3, which essentially made it one large iPhone. And at the time, this was [music] so revolutionary. Now, here we are in 2026 with over 30 plus different iPad models that have been released. We now have a new one to add to the family, the [music] new M4 iPad Air. Now, back in the day, every single release of a new product was so significant because the tech advances each year at the time made it enough to upgrade from the previous. We are in an era where everything is so good that if you have a previous gen of the iPad Air, you probably will not need to upgrade to this one. But, let's find out what's new and you can decide for yourself. This now has the M4 chip with an 8 core CPU, a 9 core GPU, and a 16 core neural engine. It's up to 2.3 times faster than the M1 iPad Air. It comes in two sizes, an 11 in and a 13 in. The display still is liquid retina. You can get up to 600 of brightness, but it doesn't have prootion. So, if you're used to using the iPad Pro screens, this might be a bit of a difference for you. It's got a 12 megapixel front camera in landscape, which is so great for conference calls. As for storage, it starts at 128 and you can upgrade to 256, 512, or 1 TBTE. Now, I decided that I was going to edit this entire video from start to finish on this iPad. Now, I've used Final Cut for iPad before, but I mostly use it on desktop. They do share a lot of the same hotkeys, but there are some fun things that you can do like live drawing, which adds some fun iPad only tricks in Final Cut Pro for iPad. Now, to edit, I actually put all of this footage onto a USBC drive to copy it over. Now, it's nice because you can use the file browser to transfer this footage over to your iPad, or you can edit directly off the drive. This has up to USB 3.0 speeds, which should be good enough for most people. You can also connect it to an external display, which is pretty cool if you want to upgrade your workspace screen real estate. The Apple Pencil Pro brings some functionality to the iPad. It really lets you use this as a drawing or note-taking device. It's super low latency and with some of the new Pro features that were released on the last version of the pencil, you can now squeeze that will allow you to open up a tool palette or switch between brushes. There's barrel rule which can let you change brush orientation. It's also got haptic feedback and I love this hover feature. And the final feature is it has find my support. So if you lose your pencil, you can find it hopefully. Now, if you're coming directly from Final Cut Desktop to Final Cut iPad, even me, who is I'm so fast at the desktop app, this is so different because it is built for touch. Like, they've got the little scroll wheel on the side. So, everything is intuitive when you start thinking with that frame of reference. [music] This is touch. Try not to use the keyboard even though you can still use the keyboard and you can even use the Apple Pencil. But again, it is it's built for touch. The iPad kids today, they [music] get it. Okay, now this is where it's going to get really fun. I am sure many of you are familiar with Punch the Monkey. I'm absolutely obsessed. Like, I'm at I'm so obsessed. You might have seen him in the background of all of my videos. Okay, this isn't Punch. This is Punch's orangutang toy. So, I told my six-year-old niece about Punch the Monkey. And if you guys aren't familiar, I'm going to tell you the same story that I told her. Punch is a sweet little monkey that was born in a zoo outside of Tokyo. His mom abandoned him and then they moved Punch to his new sanctuary and everyone was bullying him and being really mean to him. I tell my niece this, she hangs up on the FaceTime call and starts crying. Clearly, I have a way with children. I told her it would be really fun if she drew punch a card [music] and I would take it to Japan and deliver it to him. So, here's the card. It was so cute that I thought it would be so fun to turn these into t-shirts. So, I'm going to show you how I'm going to use the iPad to turn this into an illustration that I can then upload and make some t-shirts. So, stay tuned to the end so I can show you the final product. The first thing I did is took it into Pixelator Pro and I wanted the image to pop a little bit to make it a little more even. And then I exported it from there and I took it into Procreate. And I wanted to preserve all of her cute little lines that she made. So I sketched over it as close as I could in Procreate. And I also made it a little bit bigger [music] so that when I sent it to print, it would have a much higher quality look to it. Now we're going to upload it to this website and I'm going to put it on this red hoodie. Super cute. And now I hit order. And now we wait. Gaming is also really nice on this iPad if that's something that you're into. Obviously, Apple Arcade has so many games that you can choose from. You can even sync it up to a controller of your choice to make it even more fun. If you haven't used an iPad for a while or you haven't upgraded your current one, you may notice [music] that the windowing system looks a little bit different. It kind of feels a little more like a Mac, which I know can be a little bit confusing. You can choose to use your iPad in three [music] different ways. There's the full screen mode, which kind of makes it feel more like the old school version, or you can use it in the windowed mode or in stage manager mode. In stage manager mode, you'll see that all of your apps will be placed off to the side just like this. We made it to Japan and here's the shirt. Oh my goodness, it turned out way better than I even could have imagined. So, I made it to the end of the video and so did you. I edited everything on the iPad. There is a lot more functionality when you are using Final Cut on desktop. I found myself using the Apple Pencil a lot to scrub the timeline and also mark where I wanted to cut, which was great because the cut was right where my thumb is, which is probably helpful because I'm left-handed. Let me know what you guys think of them. I love how they turned out. I will definitely be wearing it to go visit Punch here in Japan. [music] Okay, I need to go to bed because I'm jet-lagged. See you later. Bye.