Exactly, I find the 9th gen iPad screen one of the most comfortable to look at.
So best suggestion imo would be to wait for iPad 11 to come with A15. Its neural engine is 43% faster than A14’s so it’s likely to get more features in future iPad OS versions. Ipad 10 is available since October 22 so you lose almost one year of support.
It's not the same thing. iPadOS is locked like a sandbox. It's much less likely to get malware via the browser on an iPad than it is on a Mac. The only real way to infect it would be via social engeneering, which can happen also with up-to-date devices. People worry more because of lack of knowledge of how it works than because of actual danger.
So many of these things are so massively overstated. The security aspect is just scaremongering, the support aspect of iOS too, some people who haven’t used outdated iOS versions have said “well, after the device loses support, it’s mostly unusable after two years”, which is... well, not true. Battery health is another aspect which is extremely and widely ballooned as if its influence on battery life were far larger than it is.
Sure I read that, but comparisons based on the "original price" for a 2 year old device is an absurd premise. We live in a world where Apple's price wishes for that iPad are completely irrelevant when it actually comes down to buying one, and this thread is about purchase recommendations. I am trying to stop people from spending more money on refurb devices that contain used parts when new units are available at a lower price point, that is all.
Sorry... typo in my post, it is an iPad Air as others already correctly assumed.
Personally I think buying a 9th generation iPad is a horrible idea regardless of how much one pays for it. I was just trying to highlight how OPs mentality that if a refurbished product from Apple is only 15-20% off you might as well pay full price is silly and a waste of money. Of course that argument disregards the existence of third party stores selling unopened brand new models for less.
Even the 10 year old 5th gen iPad is still on the latest iPadOS right now. Regardless of when support actually ends, you'll have to make a sacrifice somewhere if you want it to be cheap and functional. The only other tablet options for the same price are some older Android tablets that might never see anything beyond the current Android 13, if they even run that. There's basically only the "Lenovo Tab" tablet that initially came with Android 12 and to this day doesn't even run Android 13.
That’s not how anything works. That iPad came out in September of 2021, so its almost a 2 year old iPad, and already 2 years old the day you buy it. If you buy a 2021 year model vehicle, is it new if you buy it new in 2023? No, it’s a 2 year old vehicle (But new to you).
