Ive got a ipad air 4 and its great. Nice and smooth with great performance, and even better with the Magic keyboard. In all honesty it can do pretty much everything my ipad pro M4 can do except stage manager on an external monitor. At $360 (£276) its not bad at all. However with Apple intelligence coming up you need an ipad with an M chip (8GB RAM as standard), as the A14 only has 4GB RAM which is not enough for AI but totally fine for general use. If you can get a refurb ipad air with M1 it would be better in the long run imo.