Getting My Life Together with the M4 iPad Pro in NYC

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] what's up everyone Jossie here I know it's been like a month since I posted my last video but I'm excited that this is one of those longer Vlogs and that's my way of making it up to you all when I'm not able to show up on a bi-weekly basis so I've been super busy non-stop traveling from New York City to California I've been to California twice in the last 3 weeks to San Francisco for a work trip and then Los Angeles for a content creator trip hence getting my life together or at least regrouping and comparing how I'm doing to the goals I set for my myself at the beginning of the year and because I've been traveling a lot more and I've been more I've been outside more for obvious reasons the days are longer it's warmer it's spring will be in summer in a few months so I spend a good amount of time outside and I want to make sure that I'm able to be almost as productive away from my desk as I am when I'm here at the home office which is the perfect time for me to pick up the M4 iPad Pro now today I have to run to the Apple Store pick up the M4 iPad Pro I'm going to go with the 11in because it'll be able to fit inside my crossbag from air and then of course I'm going to get that extremely expensive Apple magic keyboard for context guys I haven't been using our iPad Air in a long time like I think I haven't consistently used that device in over a year I just don't naturally use tablets for productivity at least not traditionally using tablets for productivity or even traditional tablets for example I use this REM marable tablet 2 as my main device for note taking I don't do a good job with keeping track of notebooks or honestly consistently journaling or writing out my to-do list with physical notebooks I have so many notebooks I think I've lost count however the remarkable tablet has been a great Hardware solution for me to keep track of my to-do list journaling brainstorming all the things no taking and I've also been using the 11-in pixel tablet with the speaker Hub sorry the flection is crazy so I've been using this as my handsfree productivity tablet I use a combination of the Pomodoro Timer and spotifi for Do Not Disturb work because the speaker sounds really good on this tablet and also just asking Google to handle things for me handsfree has made a huge difference and of course I use a timer for when I'm cooking as well and to be honest I think the iPad could technically replace both of those tablets I'm not necessarily saying that it will but the M4 iPad Pro is more than capable enough of replacing my remarkable tablet for note taking and journaling and then the pixel tablet for handsfree productivity I mean obviously the M4 iPad Pro can replace the pixel tablet and the remarkable tablet but I'm just trying to paint a picture here it's a beautiful day today in Brooklyn it's Sunday I have a few errands that I need to run around the city which the main priority is picking up the iPad Pro M4 I think I'm going to go with the silver colorway I also have this Best Buy gift card that I need to use and we need two airpods Max in his household because my wife has essentially [Music] stolen my airpods Max and I think I'm going to go with either a blue or black colorway all right I got like 10 minutes to spare because I needed to run in B&H Photo first and they close at 6:00 and it's 5:49 [Music] Midtown West where I am right now is one of my favorite places in New York to shoot one the background is such a Vibe like you have Pin Station behind me you have one Midtown West behind me it's just this combination of some of the historical buildings and the vibrants of New York City along with some of the more modern buildings like one Manhattan West we got pelaton Studios just ahead of me along with like the NHL shops here theab body and some other stores which I don't care too much about more so the architecture here is like topnotch and perfect for tech [Music] reviews I decided to pull up to the Apple Store on fth Avenue because I don't come here very frequently and it's such a cool experience it's the Apple Store specifically for the entrance there's like a queue that you walk down it it'll make sense in like 2 seconds [Music] [Applause] [Music] I spent the extra few $100 today just because I've been pretty irresponsible for one I accidentally washed and dried my B's Ultra open earbuds and the left earbud doesn't work of course just one earbud so I end up buying a replacement case to figure out whether or not it was the case or the earbud and of course it's the earbud so I'm going have to return that at Amazon but luckily B&H had the ultra open earbuds in stock so I picked them up in the white colorway cuz I just feel like the white and silver looks really clean then I picked up this replacement case case for The Quiet Comfort Ultra earbuds by Bose because I lost the charging case so yeah there you have it and then SD card because you can never have enough of these the moment you guys have been waiting for I actually decided to go with the 13in iPad Pro of course we got the allnew apple pencil Pro okay so I decided to switch the audio because I wanted the audio to feel a bit more premium like this unboxing so this is the silver with standard glass 13-in iPad Pro M4 2024 all right let's go ahead and unbox this thing okay so the reason why I decided to go with the 13in is because I essentially see me like I mentioned earlier replace the pixel tablet and the remarkable however it would be nice to be able to be a power user with a large bright display away from home and I think the 13in will allow me to be able to multitask better in split screen but also feel more com comfortable using applications that I will primarily use with desktop or my MacBook Pro and since this device is a lot lighter than my MacBook Pro and obviously thinner I think it could still serve as a more portable laptop replacement an alternative to my MacBook Pro in terms of specs I already mentioned 256 GB of storage you guys know that this is the thinnest iPad ever thinnest Apple device ever it's a little intimidating you can see how large it looks um compared to my hand I mean this thing is insanely thin let's go ahead and power this on I think what I'm most excited about using this is on Long Haul plane rides where it's like 6 to 8 hours and I'm using this device for everything I'm watching YouTube videos movies shows I'm using free form to brainstorm some ideas and honestly don't have a ton of frame of reference when it comes to unboxing an iPad because I haven't unboxed an iPad in like 3ish Years cuz I had the I think fourth iPad air but uh nonetheless the unboxing is obviously clean modern simplistic you know Apple got the uh braided USBC cord which is something that a lot of tech reviewers love I actually enjoy it it feels more durable then we have the 20 W block honestly I can't have enough blocks now this I'm curious to see how much this enhances my experience and actually how much I use it another thing I need to cop is one of those iPad stands off Amazon so I can so I can use my iPad as a like secondary monitor this magic keyboard was so expensive man honestly can't believe I spent this much money on it this is my first time having like a white case I just feel like the silver it just looks so clean today is my first first faster workout in probably like 2 weeks I do tend to work out early in the morning but I don't really count those as fast at workouts because they're so early specifically I'm using zero you can see that it's been about almost 15 hours since I've ate it's been a long time since I've done that so I'm curious to see what my performance is like for this workout about how long I'm under resistance so time under resistance to develop muscle and Mobility work in order to increase inre my performance like my ability by simply adding more Mobility work and being more flexible didn't come with these exercises on my own Lee and I hired a personal trainer who we've been working with the past few weeks and I feel like it's made such a difference it's kept us more accountable and also feel like I've been challenged in ways that I haven't felt like I've been challenged in [Music] years just got done working out I mentioned earlier that LE and I decided to start doing personal training and it's been great feel like my body's more mobile more flexible the workouts are extremely challenging especially when Duncan comes to our gym and we do our inperson workouts they're extremely challenging so as you can see I got some dirty dishes back there and it's not too bad honestly for a Monday when it comes to filming I like the home to be clean organized things put away there's still clothes everywhere that I need to fold and I need to do these dishes in terms of what I plan on getting done today I lowkey want to run to the Nike store like I mentioned in my last video I'm doing doing this Nike 365 boot camp program it's this affiliate program where I promote Nike products that I'm using and I still have a bit of budget left and I also want to frontload these IG stories that I'm working on where I maybe knock out like five all at once submit them for approval and then I could just post them between now and August [Music] all right so it is the end of the day I spent a good amount of time using the iPad Pro started using it around probably like 10:30 in the morning and it's now 6:30 so that's been about 8 hours of use usage and it started around like 70% battery life and it's at 48% now I definitely could have used this a lot more on a more normal like workday but I think that's pretty good battery life only lost 30% of battery in 8 hours now I will say my initial impressions of the iPad Pro 13in M4 is that I actually enjoy using this a lot more than the 11in I think it has a much more profound presence because it's so much larger than the 11in 2 in really does make it a difference especially when it comes to consuming content so this morning we were catching up on some YouTube videos that we didn't watch on Sunday like we typically do and because the 13in is about the same size as my 14-in MacBook Pro we decided to watch those YouTube videos on the iPad Pro and4 and honestly I actually really enjoyed it there's something more intimate about you know watching YouTube videos consuming content with your significant other at the table without turning the TV on I also get a little weird about turning t TVs on early in the morning it just feels more distracting and technically it is because you can't multitask with a TV like you can with the iPad M4 I started jotting down the to-do list that I have for the day and then on top of that I started playing around with the apple pencil Pro one other way I'm excited about using the 13in M4 iPad Pro is sidecar essentially screen mirroring my studio display with the iPad Pro and using this as a second display so far so good I've really enjoyed using this a lot it's only the first day so I'm curious to see what it's going to be like tomorrow with the normal workday and then Wednesday we're going to be traveling back to our hometown so we're going to be catching a flight it's only like an hour hour and a half long [Music] [Music] oh this is our first time in Loria in like months and we're at the Delta terminal and it's so clean and modern here like we're just blown away we should have got here earlier I can't believe the amenities they offer for domestic flight like we're just going to Ohio and the lounges right was right by Security check and it was better than the Delta Lounge at JFK for international flights it's honestly the best Lounge we've been to [Music] you know people ask me is living in this expensive New York City two-bedroom apartment worth it and I say yes especially after opportunities like yesterday where a brand wanted to specifically shoot in our home because they enjoyed the aesthetic of our home and the home office you know I think sometimes it can be really difficult to be in the moment when you're you have goals you're trying to be successful you don't get complacent but there's a th line I think between being content and complacent and then also just reflecting on the blessings that you've had and the opportunities you have and it's good to just take a moment and like patch yourself on it back so so I finally feel like I'm able to get back into my routine because we just we don't have as much travel going on at least not until beginning of July we do have friends who are staying in Costa Rica that I really want to visit and I did give uh my boy a heads up saying that we might we might come through I don't know I'm just on that summertime you know we can make the money back like we you know we could save a little later kind of vibe now I wouldn't recommend that experiences few extra dollars in a bank so I just got out of personal training uh hence you know the no shirt it's also really hot in New York like it's it's 8:00 and it's still almost 80° with probably like 60 to 60% humidity but I'm about to take a shower all right guys so sorry about that my audio went out because my road mic didn't charge I don't know I I swear I charged it but the battery is dead nonetheless I feel back into my routine like this is the first time I've played basketball on Saturday in like a few weeks workout plans been going good Lee and I have personal training uh yesterday at like 4:45 p.m. which was tough because we don't work out that late let alone on a Friday it actually gave us a nice boost of energy and then we went out to eat to this nice Mexican restaurant in F ey and then we just took took a walk around the city and honestly the past few weeks have been crazy hectic so I have to remind myself that I don't have to do all the things on the weekend I'm still using the iPad Pro almost every day at this point um it's become my like productivity tablet like I I actually did move the uh pixel I I put it in the Husky one of the Husky drawers and I just sit the iPad there I don't use handsfree as much like the pixel tablet I really do wish that Apple creates some sort of Hub I don't know if it needs to be a different device because the iPad Pro is really meant for meant to be used on the go and almost like a laptop but it would be really cool if they had some sort of like speaker that you could attach it to preferably Mac safe and you can essentially turn your iPad into a hub because I know I'm not the only one that uses it that way all I've had today is some coffee I had like half a apple drank some water and I think I've burned it says 1367 calories and it's 4:00 now I really haven't ate anything um had a few blueberries and raspberries and half a protein shake so we about to slide to the [Music] bodega cheese steak on a wrap as well uh no ketchup but everything else is uh yeah like light mayo [Music] so coming to the bodega is one of my favorite things it kind of feels like an Indulgence because it's still not a homecooked meal but I feel like it's it's as close as you can get for real and it's not too expensive the food is always crazy good I just I love how they stage the stores like look at how colorful it is in here like I'm not one to go to a store to get snacks but if I find myself in a bodega I definitely got to get some snacks try some new drinks [Music] I enjoy using a sidecar with the iPad Pro M4 using the iPad Pro as a second screen extending my MacBook Pro display with the M4 iPad Pro has given me a nice boost of productivity especially since I'm working with just one monitor I think it could be a total Game Changer when traveling or working at a cafe and having the ability to have a miniature dual monitor setup juggling multiple tasks and managing my workflow just got a lot easier when I'm away from my home desk setup I also noticed this really neat feature where my Logitech mouse somehow connected to both my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro even after disconnecting the screen mirroring so now if I'm coding I can have my IDE full screen and follow along with a tutorial on the iPad M4 Pro for those of you all who would like to code with your iPad Pro I decided to check out GitHub codes spaces so GitHub codes spaces is a development environment that allows you to develop entirely in the cloud provides you with a fully featured Cloud hosted development environment that spins up in seconds directly within GitHub so you can start contrib contributing to your project immediately so you can just simply copy and paste that URL you're given in your code spaces web application and paste that directly into your favorite web browser that you like to use with your iPad Pro so I tested three packages on code spaces and on my MacBook Pro locally using VSS code material UI material UI is a popular react UI framework Redux Redux I'm using for State Management and then nextjs which is an open source framework that provides server side rendering and static generation when running installations through GitHub code spaces it took 30 seconds for Redux installation a minute and 10 seconds for material UI installation and 23 seconds for the nextjs installation when using my local Visual Studio code IDE with my M3 MacBook Pro it took 14 seconds for my Redux installation 36 seconds for my material UI design installation and then 6 seconds for the nextjs installation so after doing those test do I think you could be a computer science or software engineering student using the M4 MacBook Pro your main device I can't fully answer that question because I honestly haven't built enough with this device can you do some installations run a react application using GitHub code spaces using your M4 iPad Pro for sure if you all are interested in seeing me build a more complex application using the m for iPad Pro maybe even trying like a more simple computer science like project that I could find online somewhere give this video a thumbs up and say programming with the M4 iPad Pro or just say programming with the M4 or just programming whichever is easiest for you now when it came to using the M4 iPad Pro as a second display the time when I really enjoy using it is when I was doing some Spanish lessons at my in-law's house because obviously I didn't have like a second display and I set myself up at the kitchen at a kitchen table specifically and I actually really enjoyed extending this display and multitasking with the MacBook Pro M3 and then the M4 iPad Pro especially when using a lightweight application like Google Docs and just you know creating files and folders and G drive and just watching YouTube videos now I decided to use code spaces some benefits to using iPad OS like for example when I use Edge and I'm using co-pilot I like having a full screen co-pilot application where I'm interacting with AI asking for you know solutions to programming problems it's really powerful like you know if you give it a prompt for how to build something it'll give you all the steps with the installation so it just felt easier to just copy that from Edge into my VSS code opposed to bringing up Edge on my desktop appli application and then going through that same process to show you guys my setup tonight the office is such a Vibe I'm loving this like warm Hue we got going on and you can see the traffic in Brooklyn and it is it's 10:30 p.m. it's non-stop city does not sleep and you can see some of the skyline which is really dope but I want to show you all my setup we got over here we got the M4 iPad Pro we're running Cod spaces so it's kind of switch so we got code spaces running code on the M4 iPad Pro um you can see some of the installations I did earlier and then we're actually using the monitor for the tutorial and then you know writing up my script for this video and then uh you can see that my uh workbench is cluttered like it's cluttered every day like I I don't know what to do to keep this thing clean and decluttered and oh yeah we got the uh Sonos Ace headphones more to come about those First Impressions Heavenly heavenly [Music]