Which iPad to get

I have an iPad mini and I'm satisfied with it. If you wanna have a larger screen, go for iPad Air 2022. It has a 10,9 inch screen so it is much bigger than iPad mini.. To give you a comparison, an iPad mini is as big as a standard notebook and iPad air is as big as a standard coursebook. It has also an m1 processor. If you can't afford hese two, you have an alternative, I guess it's iPad 10. It has a home button. Hope this helps.

Have the 9 and a bluetooth keyboard. If this is for school get a windows. The keyboard for iPad is not that great, is nice but there are no many hotkeys compare to windows. If is going to be for school, and you are thinking of a iPad, get a pro. It will last you long time and it will be for future school work that might come up.

I’d definitely go for the Newest air. The speakers are a huge improvement over the base model iPad, it fits the Magic Keyboard as well as the Logitech and most importantly it has the M1 which is 60% faster than the a14. At the end of the iPads life thats going to mean a good couple of years extra support. The M1 is a much much more capable processor than the a14 so I’d expect the a14 to start getting dropped a long time before the M1.

I have recomended iPad Air as the price difference between mini and Air is not that big. If you wanna use your device at school, and size of the screen doesn't matter to you, choose the mini version. To be honest, I've read your posts once again and can't get the clear point. I agree that iPad is more handy wfor school but can't get the point why working on MAc hac caused problems to you. Anyway, read what others say, read reviews on the Internet and be happy with your new device.

If it’s real work with no hassle you want then might be best to go for a windows machine. It won’t have the advantage of apple ecosystem but at least phone link will bridge some of that gap. I had forgotten how hassle free a windows laptop with JAWS is. It’s still not perfect but far closer than any apple product for real productivity. I can’t even edit text reliably on a single apple device. Thats just not good enough.

Agree. What are you planning to do on it. Word processor? If so, are you going to use MS word, papers for school, how much typing you are going to do and what else. If you are planning to do alot of that, windows and a keyboard will be better. Microsoft pad along with a keyboard be better.

Hello Dominic,
So, I have the iPad pro 11 inch, which has the m2 processor. While you might not care about speed now, you very much will in a few years when those other devices start to slow down considerably or get dropped by Apple. Even if you don't care about the speed, the years of support you will get is something that must be considered.
I didn't have the chance to use an iPad in school, and as an adult now, my word processing needs are minimal, so can't speak to how well the iPad will work for you, but I think that it should be fine with Pages.
As far as your headphone jack, I am not sure any of the new ipads come with them, but that is easy enough to resolve. Just get a usb C to 3.5 adapter, and done. Or, get a hub, which would give you usb, hdmi, sd card, and headphone jack. You can find some that stick right on the ipad, rather than hanging off with a cable. Then, you can get a keyboard case for it. I can't recommend enough the Brydge that I reviewed, but if you go that route, get the Max+, so you don't have to deal with the weird system they had before which damaged some people's ipads.
I know you were wanting the Mini, but if I were you, I would go for the 11 inch Pro, with either m1 or m2, or the latest Air. These, even with the keyboard, while they might weigh as much as a macbook, will still take up less space in your bag than the macbook.

Remember no matter what apple says it is not a laptopand will never be.

@Holger Fiallo, no it isn’t a laptop, but man it’s incredibly close. Granted, I graduated college in 2011, so never really tried using the iPad for school work, but for what I do, it comes so so close to replacing a laptop for me. Audio editing, no problem. Web browsing, no problem. Email, same. The one area where I still need a laptop is for stuff relating to my online radio station. Unfortunately, there are programs out there that run on Windows that I absolutely have to have. Plus, the NVDA remote app for iOS doesn’t perform quite well enough to not need a Windows laptop, but I can make due with the iPad and a super cheap Windows laptop with a Celeronn processor inside. No beast by any means, and the iPad still sees most use during the day. About 99% of everything I personally need to do can be done on the iPad. I understand though that other use cases will vary.

Bluetooth keyboard do not work all the time. I have a iPad 9 and logitech slin folio. Like it but if I was in school, it would not work. Nothing works better than a laptop.

I honestly have very little trouble with my Brydge, apart from the bug where the iPad does not sleep. That is solved easy enough by just turning the keyboard off. Not hard at all. Thanks to Bluetooth 5, the connection is almost instant, and typing experience is every bit as good as typing on a macbook air.
I get it, everyone will have different needs, but for me, this setup is great, and I think back to when I was in school, and I think I could have gotten the job done.