iPad Air (5th Generation)

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

There’s certified refurbished iPads on the apple website. Any of them would honestly do you good but if it’s quality you want I’d look for anything above the M1. In my opinion the iPad Air 5th gen is the best and since it’s older it’s significantly cheaper. Just make sure you get enough storage. Lea

I've been daily-driving the iPad Air 5th generation since I started in 2023. Apple Pencil 2, logitech combo touch keyboard. Never had any problems. I use it for note-taking, drawing, web browsing and sometimes writing as well, but I'll always finish writing a paper on my main computer just because f

For gaming in general, any iPad running an M1 chip or newer is recommended. This includes the iPad Pro 11" (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9" (5th generation), or iPad Air (5th generation). If you want to be more future-proofed, go for something with an M3 or newer, like the iPad Air 7th generation. T

The cheapest iPad on Apple’s site (11th gen), which is $349 (you can use the education discount to get it for $329), is more than enough then. You can go down to the 10th generation iPad, iPad Air 5 (the M1 iPad Air), or an iPad Pro 11 inch 3rd gen/iPad Pro 12.9 inch 5th gen (the iPad pros with the

literally the worst company ever, I’ve bought an iPad Air 5th gen 2022 in month of September 2025 in their so called “superb” condition after a few months I noticed an issue which was the Touch ID wasn’t working on charging so I contacted Cashify and they told me it can be repaired under warranty th

It's good iPad Air 5th generation but 64 GB it's not enough for actual iPadOS data necesities. I recommend you 128 GB or more...

Background: Next fall I am going to be a freshman in college studying Computer Science. I am hoping to get an iPad for notetaking throughout college and want to decide what the best option is. I want something that will last at least through 4 years of college and that can handle notetaking, watchin

Installed iOS 26 Beta (6) today on my iPad Air 5th generation 256 and now it won't run ANY of my apps, nor will it let me turn off the pad, beware!!!