iPad Air (5th Gen)

this shit was the reason I sold my iPad Air 5 lol. Great device, M1 was so fast even up to point of sale but I could not deal with 64GB constantly

As long as you take care of the device, those M1 devices are something else. My iPad and MacBook Air (both M1) still function amazingly well and the battery life isn’t bad at all.

Honestly, get any iPad with an M chip in it. The general consensus seems to be that iPadOS isn’t even really capable of using the full power of it, and I’ve found that to be true. My iPad Air 5 with the M1 has never shown any signs of slowing down and I am consistently multitasking. My recommendatio

I would say either an iPad with at least 256GB of storage, usb c port & support for either Apple Pencil 2 or Apple Pencil Pro So I would suggest either iPad Air (5th (M1), 6th (M2), 7th (m3) & 8th (m4)) or an iPad Pro (5th (M1), 6th (m2), 7th (M4) & 8th (M5)) I would strongly recommend m4 iPad Pro w

Of course it’s worth it , my m1 iPad Air is on fire on ios26 , 1000% the best this device has ever been, still an overpowered beast of a device and ios26 could not have been any more perfect for my fairly basic everyday usage ,have used developer beta since first AI previews dropped for usa only so

There isn’t a clear answer to get USB-C, decent storage and an M processor for “cheap”. 64GB was the base storage size until the current gen and that’s isn’t great for iPadOS 26. Jumping up in storage adds $100 150 for the models newer than 2019-2020. I just did EXTENSIVE research and the answer is

At that price point, the specifications will be : iPad 11, A16 processor, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage iPad Air 5, M1 processor, 8GB RAM, 64GB storage As somebody who owns the iPad Air 5 / 64GB storage I can tell you that 64GB is not enough in 2026 Get the iPad 11 / A16 with the 128GB storage

specially when sold by third parties and because the 10th gen is not officially sold anymore, sellers dont do sales or depreciate the product over time, its wild bc they can have brand new devices in their boxes sitting for years and not sell them ive seen the 2022 iPad Air 5th gen being sold for mo

Refurbished iPad air, 2022 if you're on a budget? Or just use that one for now and save. You don't need the newest tech to do what you need to do. 32gb is decent if you're just using it for procreate, and when the storage is full just offload your work into a Google drive. Edit: 8th gen iPad support

I bought my Air M1 5th gen in March 2023 and it has around 86% SoH left. I don’t remember the amount of cycles out of my head. The battery life is not far from awful tbh… Sometimes I get around 7 hours of usage and sometimes it burns through 8% of battery in 10 minutes of photo editing (Apple Photos