苹果iPad Pro很强，但更推荐你买华为MatePad 11.5"S

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2024-05-11 18:33Posted in Guangdong Digital Creators

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or it's intentional, this week, Apple and Huawei have brought new tablet products. Apple, on its part, brought the iPad Pro, which is known as the most powerful in history, as well as new products such as iPad Air and Apple Pencil Pro. Huawei, on the other hand, has launched a new MatePad 11.5"S. Usually at this time, a question will bother users, they are all new products, how should we choose. After carefully reviewing the parameters and performance of several new products, we will give you an answer.

Let's start with the conclusion, if you are a loyal fan of the apple ecology; Or if you have a lot of money and want to experience Apple's performance ceiling, then you can choose the latest iPad Pro. Other than that, our recommendation is to go for the Huawei MatePad 11.5"S. Why? Let's get into the details.

The new iPad Pro is not so much a ceiling of performance as a superb knife show

Let's look at Apple's side first, this time the iPad Pro is equipped with the M4 chip, which directly skips the M3 chip, allowing the iPad to directly surpass the current MacBook series products in terms of hardware performance. The M4 is equipped with a new NPU that provides 38 trillion floating-point calculations per second, and the CPU performance is 50% higher than the M2 chip of the current iPad Pro, and the overall performance is increased by four times.

The reason why Apple directly pulled the iPad Pro performance so full this time is naturally due to the user portrait of the iPad Pro: it is completely aimed at users who create professionally and want to get the ultimate experience of the iPad. But at the same time, we also saw Apple's extremely precise knife technique on the iPad Pro in the chip part.

Although the whole system is equipped with M4 chips, we will find that only when users choose the 1TB or 2TB version of the iPad Pro, they can experience the full-blooded version of the M4, using a 10-core CPU, as well as 4 performance cores and 6 energy efficiency cores. On the 256GB or 512GB version of the iPad Pro, it becomes a 9-core CPU, as well as 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores. Even if you've opted for the iPad Pro 256GB version starting at 8999, you won't be able to experience the full range of performance.

Another big update of the iPad Pro this time is the screen. This time, the iPad Pro uses Tandem OLED technology, which can reach a maximum brightness of 1000nit and a peak of 1600nit in the HDR excitation state, which is very close to the display effect of the MacBook Pro XDR.

But again, Apple still hasn't given up any opportunity to use its knife skills. On the screen, you can only choose the 1TB or 2TB version, which further shows the "privilege" of the high-end version. Of course, the memory difference that everyone is accustomed to is also vividly expressed on the new iPad Pro, with the 256GB and 512GB versions using 8GB of memory, and the 1TB and 2TB versions will only provide 16GB of memory.

Regardless of the differences in configuration between the versions, after the release of the new iPad Pro, what made me feel the most uncomfortable was actually its high price and its ungrounded attitude. The starting price of 8999 yuan, and when you select all the configurations in order to show its best productivity tool status, the price comes directly to 20,000+, and it is difficult for you to imagine that a tablet can be sold at such a high price. But whether its productivity is strong or not is still a question mark. 

The price of the new iPad Air is not Air

Now that Apple has positioned the iPad Pro as a productivity tool for professional users, perhaps it should be destined to be a niche, let's take a look at the new iPad Air, which is more accessible. Its price starts at 4799 yuan, which is also closer to our other protagonist today, Huawei MatePad 11.5"S.

The new iPad Air is available in a 13-inch version, which is the most significant change from its predecessor. This gives users more options and allows the iPad Air to be compatible with accessories such as the Magic Keyboard previously provided for the 13-inch iPad Pro.

In terms of performance, the iPad Air has been upgraded to the M2 chip, which is a 50% improvement compared to the previous generation of iPad Air with the M1 chip. In terms of storage, the iPad Air has also been adjusted to start at 128GB this time, and has added 512GB and 1TB options, giving users more options. But aside from these upgrades, the new iPad Air can only be described as mediocre, a routine update. Compared to the new iPad Pro, which is at least a little bit bright, the new iPad Air is indeed a bit of a little bit of interest.

The new MatePad 11.5" S tablet: The best value for money

Looking at Huawei's side again, the new MatePad 11.5"S brought this time can be said to be full of highlights. For example, the screen part, the MatePad 11.5"S is equipped with an 11.5-inch 2.8K 144Hz LCD screen, and adopts a 3:2 screen ratio, which is more suitable for reading documents and other operations. But at the same time, we noticed that the refresh rate of the screen of the new iPad Air is only 60Hz, and in the case of being willing to put the M2 chip, even the high brush is reluctant to give, which will only let us see Apple's arrogance.

Continuing back to the MatePad 11.5"S, Huawei has also equipped this tablet with a new generation of PaperMatte technology, which simply means that the screen is covered with a nano coating to form diffuse reflection to reduce the impact of light on the screen, making the screen appear like paper. In addition, thanks to the nano-texture, with the M-Pencil 3, it can also feel like writing on paper.

In the past, one of the most attractive aspects of the iPad series was creation. With Apple Pencil, users can create as much as they want with their iPads. And this time, in addition to updating the screen hardware, Huawei also directly enlarged the move in the software, bringing a new drawing application - Natural Painting, which is directly benchmarked against the Procreate application on the iPad, full of gunpowder, so that Apple's core competitiveness is directly reduced by 1.

In terms of other comprehensive configurations, the MatePad 11.5" S seems to be equipped with an 8-million-pixel camera on the front, a 13-million-pixel camera on the rear, a built-in 8000mAh battery, support for 22.5W charging, and pre-installed HarmonyOS 4.2.

The most important thing is the price, the MatePad 11.5"S starts at 399 euros overseas, which is about 3100 yuan. Huawei has announced that it will hold a domestic launch event on May 15, when we will know the domestic price of the brand. Huawei's consistent pricing strategy must be known to everyone. With this price difference, why shouldn't I choose the MatePad 11.5"S over the iPad Air?

How Apple and Huawei choose, the core is not actually the product itself

In fact, whether it is the new iPad Pro, the new iPad Air, or the Huawei MatePad 11.5"S, how to choose is not essentially the product itself. From the day the iPad was born, it was branded as a productivity tool. But the result? If it's just for the narrow creative productivity of images, videos, and music, maybe the iPad does have the power to fight now. But what if it's being extended to a wider range of areas? Productivity before buying, iQiyi after buying, instant noodle lid has been renewed, these are not just ridicules of users, but a real voice in the face of tablet application scenarios.

Under such a premise, perhaps, a more accessible tablet like the Huawei MatePad 11.5"S will become more and more the first choice of users. Therefore, we see that although Apple still occupies the top spot in the Chinese market last year with 8.995 million shipments and a market share of 32%, Apple has a 10% decline compared to 2022. Huawei, on the other hand, will ship 6.46 million units in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 65%.

At the same time, related to the cost performance, there is also Apple's pricing strategy today. Whether it is the iPhone Pro series or the iPad Pro series, as a flagship product, it has the confidence of a high price. But the price of a mobile phone is tens of thousands at every turn, and a tablet can even be sold for more than 20,000, no matter from which point of view, it cannot be said to be a reasonable price. It's not that Apple can't afford it, but that Huawei is more cost-effective. Of course, we also expect that Apple can continue its past innovation capabilities and bring more and better products, but in terms of price, it may be able to lower its posture and be more accessible to the people.

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