The iPad Air has long been the one to buy out of Apple’s confusing tablet line-up. The iPad Pro is an incredible piece of kit, but hard to financially justify; and the standard iPad is cheap but lacks most of the modern functionality you might want to do on a tablet, and has a pretty subpar screen. The iPad Mini is great, but it’s also so much smaller that it’s not really the same category of device.

The iPad Air then was the one to buy for most people, coming with a great screen, handy stylus support, and a premium look, but without the painful prices of the Pro. That is if you were determined to buy new, and my recommendation was always just to get a refurbished iPad Pro. A 2022 iPad Pro is very similar to the current version, and can be bought renewed for only $580, which is almost half the retail price, and just under the price of a new iPad Air.