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iPad (2025) with A16 review: No Apple Intelligence, no problem


Apple’s latest entry-level tablet isn't very exciting, but it still meets most iPad users where they live.

Pros A16 chip is plenty fast for most things people do with iPads Double the storage and 2GB more RAM than previous model for the same price Build quality and battery life remain solid iPadOS still has the best app library and richest feature set for tablets No Apple Intelligence But in practice, it’s still more than fast enough for the vast majority of things people do with iPads: browsing the web, streaming video, reading ebooks, viewing and editing photos, playing most games and the like. That means the only stylus you can buy with pressure sensitivity — a key feature for digital artists that lets you make darker marks by pressing down harder — is the original Pencil, which is nearly a decade old(!

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