I came into Avon store 1050 to purchase iPads for Christmas at the Black Friday Price. I encountered Micah Howard, and apologize for missing the survey opportunity but hopefully he still gets recognized. I also shared my experience with his manager as well. Everyone knows how busy and stressful Black Friday shopping can be! Micah was cool as cucumber, and not only pleasant but knowledgeable and accommodating! The store was mostly out of merchandise by the time I visited that evening, but I was still able to purchase the one in stock, and purchase the other two iPads and ship them where they needed to go! As you can imagine with purchasing three iPads, and two having to be ordered and shipped it took quite some time. However, I never felt rushed, and Micah joked and still throughly went over options and storage space options. His attitude never did change, and was just so positive and pleasant the entire time! Best Buy is lucky to have such a wonderful employee especially during the holiday time. I had already got the sense that who he showed is exactly how his character is everyday. My intention is to not review the iPad, but the person who went beyond the necessary job duties to make sure I was not only to purchase the iPads I wanted, but I was satisfied with the entire process! Thank you Micah Howard, and I know this is late, but if there’s another way to review let me know!

If you don't mind the lightning port and have no gimmicky/advanced needs from the ipad, this is the ipad to get

Shipping: fast
Item condition: brand new product in perfect box
Remarks: this ipad model packaging doesn't have the pull tabs we see on recent iphone packaging, which made me suspicious at first, but plain plastic wrap is how apple does it just for this model.

Product remarks: I have nothing negative to say, this is the perfect ipad to purchase for 90% of ipad users. Touch id is perfect, center stage camera feels like magic, everything is super responsive with the new processor and more ram.
The choice of digital stylus is confusing (only apple pencil 1 and apple pencil USB c are compatible here) I bought a generic stylus from ESR and it does what I want for 3.5x cheaper.

Having moved from a dying (battery) ipad air 2, I have no complaints at all. I couldn't be more satisfied with the device, quality, shopping experience, or the value of this purchase.

This IPad is fast even running on my home 5G network or on the 2.4 ghz side. (Dual band for security equipment). The price was too good to resist! My previous I pad was a “renewed” unit and the battery died about a year after I bought it. I suggest you buy one of these new & avoid refreshed, refurbished, renewed products that are old &still have the original battery. They do not automatically install a new battery in those old units. You usually get a tired weak battery. It might be working at 80% now, but remember it has likely been in there for as many as 10 years. Suggest you start off right with brand new IPad that has a new battery. The cost to replace the battery in my 4th generation unit was over $150! So if it lasts 90 days or even a year are you really saving much money buying renewed products? This 9th generation I pad is as good as the 10th unit. I prefer having the home button. I am tossing out the cheap Android tablets too. My Lenovo ( purchased new) is a slug compared to this IPad! They doubled the min storage on this generation compared to generation prior, so 64GB is enough for me. If you start with a brand new unit it easily last until it becomes obsolete. I have no idea what one does with an original IPad? I had a spotless new original generation looking unit I discarded because it couldn’t even handle web browsing on today’s feature filled top pages. Just no resources. I recommend not buying any older generations than this 9th if you can avoid it or at least no older than generation 7 or 8 if you have to. Go for brand new! Display on this unit is better. Cameras are higher megapixels. Just all around better & very close to a 10th gen unit at the top of the heap. Saving $ on a 9th gen over a 10 makes some sense but the older generations do not in most cases.

I'm no fan of Apple, due to their proprietary hardware and software - not very share, or user, friendly with non Apple devices, (without their software and an associated account.) Unfortunately, all of that proprietary "safety" does not prevent the devices from being hacked. Me, I like my ability to send and receive files on my Android and windows devices via bluetooth - something you just cannot do with an Apple device and your desktop, or via a data cable for that matter, absent that Apple software and an apple account: (Nice hardware, bad software.)
It is a very nice tablet, with a lot of value in it's own right for the reasonable price. My wife loves it. Anspecially nice feature it has is the "Center Stage." which tracks your face and keeps you centered in in video chat. If it detects another face, it will zoom out to get the second face in the scene for you automatically. The 600 dollar Samsung tablets can't do that.
It has a good battery life, a pretty powerful mobile processor, a pretty good amount of RAM, (and storage), a very good display, and fast charging.