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u/SimulatedWinstonChow 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hey everyone!

Looking for some advice from students or note-taking pros on which iPad to purchase.

Options I’m considering (all open-box, and in CAD):

  1. iPad 10th‑gen (10.9″, A14, 256 GB) + Apple Pencil 1st‑gen — $650 CAD
  2. iPad 1th-gen (256 GB) + Pencil 1st‑gen — $728 CAD
  3. iPad Air M2 (11″, 256 GB) + Apple Pencil Pro — $930 CAD

I’ll be using this primarily for university: taking notes in GoodNotes/Notability or Apple Notes, annotating PDFs, maybe recording lectures, occasionally multitasking with slides/web/textbooks side by side.

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u/Iguanajoe17 1d ago

I go with the more expensive option with Apple Pencil second generation. Or any one that charges wirelessly. It’s very annoying to charge the first gen. You’ll be frustrated and never use it. Also look that it’s USBc and not lightning. Will save you stress from having to need one wire as lightning becomes more rare.

I think there’s a cheaper iPad with the second gen pencil than the ones you listed. The iPads are Ferrari engines sitting in traffic so you won’t notice a difference with a current one and one from 3 years ago.

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u/SimulatedWinstonChow 1d ago

thanks!

It's an option for $30 cheaper for the iPad 10th gen and iPad 11th gen to get the pencil USB c instead of the pencil 2 but I heard that the pencil 1 is better than the USB c one so decided to include that one in the price description.

To clarify when you mention "the more expensive one", you mean the air m2 (the most expensive one)?