Is the iPad still relevant?

[android6391]

Im thinking about buying an iPad 4 used at a decent price, does anybody here still use one in 2015? How does it run on iOS 9?

 

[android6391]

**Title is meant to say iPad 4**

 

[redbirdsfan]

Air 2 user here. Love it to death!

 

[Soapm]

I like the small tablets so I'm a mini man... Size does matter...

 

[Wotchered]

Still running a gen 3, seems fine on 9.2 once it settled down.

 

[lkveggie]

I have an iPad Air and absolutely love it! It's replaced my laptop since everything I did on my laptop is an app available for the iPad. Plus it's lighter, easier to transport and the battery lasts way longer.

 

[Algus]

The iPad 4's CPU is getting pretty long in the tooth now. Fortunately, with the iPads (and tablets in general) the hardware has far outpaced the software so there aren't a lot of apps, besides a few high end games, that take advantage of the fastest hardware. As long as you aren't looking to be a heavy gamer, the iPad 4 still performs quite well in 2015.

iOS 9 has little difficulty running on older hardware. My experience on my 5th gen iPod Touch has generally been more positive on iOS 9 than it was on iOS 8.

 

[TripleOne]

I'd say save up and wait for the Air 3 that's coming out early next year.

 

[SoxfaninFL]

I love my new iPad Air 2. I love the screen size and the battery life too. Not that my iPhone 6s Plus doesn't have a good battery, but the iPad has a great battery.

I also love the split screen which is not available to most of the other iPads on sale right now. I know it's only available to the Air 2, iPad mini 4 and the iPad Pro. Plus my iPhone doesn't have this feature.

I also love my iPad for watching movies over watching them on my iPhone.

 

[Agristiano]

I came down from iPad Air 2 to iPad 4 (9.2.1), yes..it has tiny lag when I play Marvel Champion or Dead Trigger 2, but overall its still an "OK" device in 2016...

 

[Quis89]

I would say if you already have an iPad 4 in 2016 then you're probably doing alright. But going forward I feel it will start to show it's age. I would recommend at minimum going with the Air 2, personally.

 

[mvpilot172]

I use a 4th Gen iPad as my primary travel computer and for work to view PDF documents. While I am personally going to get a new iPad Pro before the end of the year my current one still is good. If you are getting it for under $200 or less if used I'd say its a good deal still. The machine runs iOS 9.3 smoothly and the only gripe I have that comes up often is the lack of RAM in safari. With more than a few tabs open in safari, pages reload constantly when returning to them.

 

[Honey Beagle]

I still use a iPad 1st generation for use with certain applications. I do own a iPad 4 and a iPad Pro 128GB.