

It still offers the same USB-C connectivity as before, but now you can benefit from faster data transfer speeds if you connect it with Thunderbolt-supported external storage drives. Of course, with that many Mini LEDs, you can also make the whole display much brighter.Īnother desktop-grade feature is the Thunderbolt port. There are 2,596 local dimming zones here. This is known as local dimming technology, which allows for finer control of the areas of the screen (called zones) that need to stay bright and the areas that need to stay dark. The more LEDs you pack in, the better you can control the overall screen contrast and the deepness of blacks in any region of the screen. That's essentially Mini LED tech-thousands of tiny LEDs lighting up the display. Whereas previous iPad Pros had 72 LEDs behind the screen to illuminate the display, the latest model bumps that number to more than 10,000. But what's different here is the backlighting technology used to brighten the LCD. The tablet still uses an LCD display, not an OLED. It's pretty much the biggest reason to upgrade to this machine. Apple calls it a Liquid Retina XDR display, but we'll stick with what the rest of the industry calls it: Mini LED. The latter is the model to pay closer attention to this time around, as it boasts a new display technology. I was looking for something that was going to save me time, not eat up my time.As usual, the iPad Pro comes in two sizes: 11 and 12.9 inches. On the flip side, the voices are very nice, and so if you have a bunch of time to prep your text, then download small sections of novel, then join them together into a single file, sure, go for it. It blows me away that you actually have to pay for this software, when you can turn a gutenberg novel into a computer-read audiobook on a mac for free. (2) you can only make an MP3 with 20 pages or less, so forget about it if you are trying to read a gutenberg novel this is simply too much work to be worth it.

(1) The software does not give you any pauses for a line-break (really?), so you have to add a period and a space at the end of every title, or bullet list item, or poem line, in order for it to read naturally. Then, if you are converting to MP3, there are two annoying problems: I had to turn all my M-dashes into semicolons to get a pause. This software has some critical issues which require an awful lot of "prep" to your text, if you want it to sound natural when being read.įor example, if you have a clause that is separated by 2 M-dashes (fairly common in literature), the software does not give you any pause whatsoever.
