Apple is aiming at the educational market with the new 2018 sixth generation iPad, but the addition of Apple Pencil support has generated a lot of commercial interest in the device. It is obviously superior to the popular iPad 2, but will it replace your iPad Pro

The iPad 9.7 is a great tablet for those that want just that: a tablet. It's short of the power and performance of the iPad Pro range, but the addition of Apple Pencil compatibility and the A10 chipset bring it pretty close, and for a lot less cash. It irks that you need to buy the Pencil separately to unlock a key feature, and design-wise we're seeing something pretty old-school here… but for the price it's hard to criticize too much, and this is still one of the best tablets on the market.

More affordable; Good screen quality; Powerful for the price;

Apple Pencil costs extra; Design unchanged

Bought as pressie for hubby he loves it perfect size clear screen.would defiantly recommend it to anybody.

Apple has done a fine job with the iPad 3rd generation; it is a major upgrade from the iPad 1, and a middle of the road upgrade from the iPad 2. The stability of the IOS is still there, aside from the occasional app crash and Apple bashing article on how IOS is not as functional as Android.

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Sure, there are some compromises compared to the iPad Pro, but the 9.7in iPad (2017) offers everything many people will need in a tablet: good performance, screen and camera, and excellent battery life, at a very competitive price.

Replaced my iPad gen 4 model with this new model, mostly because I wanted more storage space for my apps, games, photos, videos, etc. 128gb is the way to go...plenty of space and room to do it all! ... nad the A9 chip in this puppy races with fast responses to any demands..

My ancient ipad wouldn't work with the reader that I needed to use for online books for school. The new one works great. Apps that I use for online newspapers also work much better. Overall, it was a vast improvement.

We purchased 12 of the Pads for our Service Business. Downloaded our service program onto the Pads and away we went. No extended updates had to be completed, we didn't have to convert any of the existing files in the Pad to operate our software it was a seamless inter action.

The new Apple iPad (2017) surprised everyone when it was revealed on 21 March. We were all expecting the iPad Air 3. At least, that's what all the rumours pointed towards. Instead what we got was a hybrid of the original iPad Air and the iPad Air 2 – simply called the iPad (2017).

Cheap (for an iPad; Great performance; Generous storage

Screen isn't as good as iPad Air 2

Generally speaking, I'm not much of an Apple guy, but i have to admit that when it comes to tablets, I don't think there is a product out there that I would consider over the iPad.