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The latest 10th gen iPad and iPad Pros are here are these the iPads to get I wish I could say absolutely yes but it's not that simple I mean iPads used to be simple there was one iPad that came out a year and it would have new features and you get it.
Now there are six variants of iPads if you count all the ones Apple sells the 9th-gen iPad the new 10th-gen iPad the iPad Air the iPad Mini the 11-inch iPad Pro and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro across a whole variety of prices and configurations it's a lot to take in and this new 10th gen iPad which is the entry-level model.
I really was looking forward to this being the iPad for everyone for the price and for its updated features and the answer is it's close but there are things holding it back let's get into those so I love the fact you can spend a little bit of money relatively and get an iPad that's fairly versatile.
This year Apple updated its iPad with a lot of overdue things finally it has USBC finally it has a display and design that are like the rest of the iPad lineup it actually caught up and looks like a member of the family it has an updated chip inside too and it has a fantastic feature with its front camera but it's the price it went up so that's a trade-off I mean I love the fact that it's got USB.
I love the fact that this has a new processor and the front-facing camera being on the landscape Edge thank you that's finally fixed finally I can have a conversation on an iPad and it looks like I'm talking on my laptop things are centered properly.
Apple Center Stage Zoom follows me around and it looks like what I've wanted for years which is that that regular type of a conversation because I'm putting my iPad in landscape mode most of the time when I set it on a table or use it with a keyboard so far using it I'm super happy with the results.
Strangely this is the only iPad that has the camera in the right place no other iPad in the lineup has that for that alone I feel like this iPad may be worth getting however the price has gone up significantly it's now 449 the model which starts with only 64 gigabytes of storage now 64 gigabytes to me just weeks in I don't think it's enough I'd ideally want 128 which Apple doesn't have.
So now you're going to go to the 256-gigabyte storage model which is six hundred dollars that's the entry price for Apple's iPad Air and that's how the Stepping Stone Works from model to model kind of like sizes of popcorn so instead of going to the iPad Air you could stay with the 10th gen iPad but then of course if you want to get apple care or you want to get any sort of accessory or those types of stuff apple pencil a keyboard case you could be spending well over 700 maybe closer to nine hundred dollars for all of this stuff that's not a cheap iPad now who are you buying this for are you buying it for a kid in which case you don't want to spend that much money maybe you just want to get the 9th gen iPad from last year and the fact that apple is still selling that model which is still capable seems like a sign for other people they may look at this 10th gen iPad as the most affordable way to get a modern iPad with most of the stuff they need now in using the iPad it's got a 10.9 inch.
The display looks really good basically indistinguishable from the iPad Air even though the iPad Air technically has a better anti-reflective display and better color gamut but all the experiences of that and the audio look plenty good for me I'm delighted using it.
However, the pencil let's talk about that because that's a situation you have to use the first gen pencil with this entry-level iPad, not the second-gen that's nice and magnetic charging that works with the iPad Mini the iPad Air, and the iPad Pros by doing this not only is Apple made you had to use an older pencil that doesn't have as many accessible tap features and also easier to roll off the table or lose the cap off but it no longer plugs into charge via lightning instead you have to use a separate dongle a USBC to lightning dongle which you plug into the pencil and then you plug that into your USBC charge cable into your iPad that's a lot of dangling and it's really super annoying it's so bad that I feel like if you really care about using the pencil and an iPad I would say skip this model and go with one of the others if you don't care about using a pencil and frankly I don't use a pencil most of the time you might be perfectly fine with this model and find that acceptable when is Apple going to update this one for pencil 2 why isn't there a USBC pencil too good questions I don't know the answer.
But the other thing about this iPad that's weird is it's a slightly different thickness that doesn't sound like a big deal but if you're buying cases and accessories it is the iPad Air and the iPad Pro 11 inch have a similar design and that's gone back a couple of years making a lot of compatible cases that you can buy online you'll have to buy a totally different set of cases that will fit this particular iPad.
Apple has sold its own new keyboard case for this iPad called the magic keyboard folio this one is much more like a Microsoft Surface or a Logitech keyboard accessories that have been out for the iPad for years there's a Snap-On back cover that's magnetic and then there is a keyboard base that snaps onto the side basically you have to kick stand it up on a table and type that way the nice thing about this is that it has an extra row of function keys on top which was missing from Apple's magic keyboard before but the keyboard's not back lit and you have to have a flat surface it's really not lap friendly very floppy and even the case itself doesn't look very protective and I find that the top of the keyboard case kind of slips off a little bit when I hold it from the side it's 250 dollars which is a lot and I feel like other accessories will be out there that will get you similar performance for Less so the iPad 10th gen adds up to a product that I almost love at a price that I do not love with a very strange apple pencil what about the iPad Pro it's basically a spec bump compared to the 2021 model it has a new M2 Chip a step up over the M1 similar to the chip that's in Apple's latest.
Mac Books also it has a slightly better connectivity situation where it has both millimeter wave 5G if you upgrade to that configuration it also has Wi-Fi 6E which is faster and it also has this new feature with apple pencil where it will allow you to hover over the screen and it will pick up at a distance when you're hovering it and bring up these contextual interaction commands possibly ways of even previewing features and and filters before you tap the whole package for this new iPad Pro at a similar price from before is basically something I wouldn't upgrade to if I already had the last Model but if you've been waiting to get one possibly very tempting the thing is it's a super expensive iPad and it's no closer to being a laptop apple is still doing its thing with iPad OS keeping it in a separate Zone own than Mac OS despite having the same chip I think you might even want to wait and see if Apple's going to transform the iPad further unless you really love using the pencil which is something that only exists in the Apple lineup.
The iPad it's a fantastic graphic tool with a great display but I would keep looking at it from that perspective the iPad Air came out in the spring you may get an update in the spring as well do you wait for that or do you feel happy with the lineup as is the answer is it's very confusing I think a lot of people will be happy with the 9 trend iPad which is the cheapest and has still perfectly functional features the 10th gen iPad is the one I'd ideally pick if it didn't have a weird pencil and the price is pretty high or again you might want to wait that's the story of the iPad in 2022.
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