The ultra-thin iPad Pro is shockingly hard-wearing

For about six seconds after Apple debuted its up-to-date ultra-slim iPad Pro, one question has been asked on the Internet: you can totally break it in half, right?

By God, it is JerryRig Everything is there music! And our favorite gadget destroyer delivered on Thursday, posting an 11-minute dive into the up-to-date Pro. As always, this is a really compelling (and brutal) test of a 13-inch tablet: you’ll see the up-to-date OLED screen on a microscopic scale, open the up-to-date Pencil Pro, see how this incredibly exorbitant device scratches nicely (although it holds up quite well!) and pry out the parts Magic Keyboard. JRE host Zack Nelson’s videos are always both incredibly humorous and a little painful to watch as you watch a handsome piece of engineering get completely destroyed. Excellent.

But about eight and a half minutes into the movie, we get to the main event. And spoiler alert: the iPad Pro holds really well. Even with aggressive bending, “that central spine definitely provides enough structure for horizontal bending.” Vertical bends don’t fare so well, however – the Pro cracks right next to the charging port, which seems to be the main design weakness of the device. Still, regardless of what it is and how you’re likely to exploit it, the Pro should hold up well.

Other creators are also reaching for the up-to-date Pro and getting equally good results. In almost every case, the charging port seems to be the weakest part of the device, but overall it performs better than ever.

This is especially good news because the iPad’s track record in JRE testing is, let’s say, not very good. The first Pro did terribly:

Even the last model bent quite easily, although it was still somewhat fun, functional, even after Nelson turned it into a “wrinkled piece of paper”:

The latest Pro is definitely a large step forward. There’s no news on the up-to-date Air yet, but in terms of a JRE-style loan, if you buy a 10th-gen iPad, don’t put it in your back pocket:

Overall, most testers seem impressed with the Pro, and they do a good job of showing what Apple does to make the device so hard-wearing despite its size. Like any gadget, you can break it if you really try – and you can probably carve a lion out of most things if your knife is pointed enough. But for any up-to-date iPad Pro owners who are worried about how their up-to-date tablet will fare in a backpack, it seems like everything will probably be fine.