The New iPads are Here: Why I’m Not Upgrading Yet

Dom Kwolczak
5 min readMay 7, 2024
Photo by Daniel Romero on Unsplash

It’s Apple event day and this time Apple has us excited with the Let Loose Event where they release new iPads, a new Apple Pencil and more.

With that in mind, I’m not expecting any miracles, but I am hoping to see something cool. I don’t know what it is about these events, but they always excite me, even if it’s just the small things.

Apple certainly knows how to keep its audiences excited, I’ll give them that!

With that, all in mind, I have made the decision not to upgrade my iPad this time around and in this article, I’ll discuss why.

Older models are still good!

I know that many will disagree with me on this, but the older models are still perfectly capable devices, and I’m saying that based on my experience with using older models.

My current iPad is the 11-inch iPad Pro from 2020 which doesn’t even have an M1 chip. But I’m fine with that, as it exceeds my expectations by a long way.

I primarily use my iPad as a note-taking device, as a computer I take with me when I travel, for writing blog articles and even some video editing.

I never had any issues with using my iPad in this way, even though it’s a much older model. In fact, after editing videos using this…

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Dom Kwolczak

I'm Dom, a tech and productivity enthusiast living in the UK. I share stories about my experience with tech, reviews, tips and more. www.beacons.ai/techwithdom