iPad Air (5th Generation)

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

Perfect. The iPad Air 5th Generation is a powerhouse. Perfect for your needs, for drawing, purchase an Apple Pencil 2. With an M1 chip and 8 GB of RAM, it will be supported with software for years to come. Its battery life is very good, lasting a whole day.

Get the iPad Air 5th generation. The M series chips are a major breakthrough in performance and energy efficiency that anything less isn't worth it. It also supports a better apple pencil which is a 2nd gen and magnetic charging with the air5.

The 11th gen iPad (A16)received a refresh last year and is priced at $349. It should continue receiving software updates until around 2031 or 2032. If you don’t care as much about long term Apple support, the iPad Air 5th generation is still a great option. It offers strong performance with the M1 c

Honestly, the upgrade probably isn’t worth it for your use case. The iPad Air 5th Gen handles reading, streaming, and browsing perfectly fine and since your MacBook Pro M4 covers the heavy lifting, you won’t notice a meaningful difference day to day. As for 128 GB: given that you mainly stream (not

Personally I would not buy an iPad with a scratched screen. The Air 4 is an older model, and has the same processor and RAM as the iPad 10th gen. Even the base model iPad A16 has a more powerful processor and more RAM, and can be found for similar money (albeit with 128gb storage, which should be fi

I have an iPhone 17PM 512GB and an iPad Air 5th generation 256GB and they both work fine, now with ios26.2 dev beta 1.

Are you on the Public or Developer beta? Dev has 26.4 available and contains many quality-of-life improvements and fixes. I'm running it on my iPad Air 5th generation with no major issues to report.