64GB Apple 10.2" iPad WiFi Tablet (9th Gen, Space Gray or Silver)

64 GB of storage is a no from me. The OS takes up about 20gb alone and no way to expand it without paying for an iCloud subscription. Also, this iPad is hella old. It will be out of updates soon.

Depends on what you're using it for. I picked up a 64GB iPad Air 5th gen in Nov '22, for casual home use, occasional travel and work use. It's currently at 49.8 of 64GB, thus far I've not had to deal with running out of storage. Media is streamed, I'm not transporting large amounts of data--it's been fine with that amount of storage.

I'm using a 4th gen iPad in the garage for vehicle maintenance reference data--that's hella old, and it's slow, but it manages to accomplish that still. The 9th gen is a competent device for general home use--web, email, smaller games, streaming media, etc. It can reasonably be expected to get the latest version of iOS for another three years, and it will get security updates beyond that. If someone's a casual user, needs a cheap iPad for kids, or if it's all they can afford, the 9th gen still brings value. Just not for you.

Not really when that one app is a pretty extreme outlier. It's not "this iPad is crippled by lack of storage". It's Hearthstone is a PIG for storage space and even with that I've got over half my space free still. I could still install several more comparably size apps before getting tight on space.

The next highest app is Facebook at ~1gb but 3/4 of that is documents, probably mostly cached images or videos. Most apps are a couple hundred MB and you could load tons and tons of them without running out of space. Sure, if your primary purpose is as a gaming machine or storing movies locally, then 64GB of storage is probably going to be limiting but for most anything else it would be fine. Even among games Hearthstone is a bit of an outlier. I've got a bunch more games installed on my iPhone and most of them are 1gb or less. If you've got a known use case for lots of storage space then sure go ahead and opt for something bigger but 64GB is hardly crippling. Needed storage space isn't about light usage vs heavy usage but about the type of usage. Just because it might not be enough for your usage doesn't mean it isn't useful for others.

Sure, an iPhone 15 comes with 128GB of storage but it's also several years newer design and starts out at over double the cost. A current gen iPad pro is more comparable on cost and also comes with a base storage of 128GB. As the base iPad is more of a budget device, for Apple, at this point. Sitting below both the iPad Pro and Air lines it's not surprising the base storage stays lower to reach that price point.

You are correct , I'm the same as you

He doesn't know what he's talking about
My ipadOS 17.2 and system data use 14 GB
I have 36 apps installed and still have
39.09 GB available


1080 HD movies are about 5GB
I could still load about 7 full movies and
1,300 songs or picture files

Is it worth dealing with the older design, lightning port, and the other differences to save $100 over the iPad 10th gen?

No but the people who want to defend their outdated 2021 64 GB basic iPad with a trash 60 htz un-laminated screen and almost 5 year old A13 chip will tell you differently.

lol a whole 7 movies? https://static.slickdealscdn.com/ima...s/emot-LOL.gif

For $250, I can't think of anything that has better software support, performance, 3rd party accessories, and the same app library as the iPad 9th gen tho.

Sure, I could look at the Galaxy Tab A9+, but it has touchscreen tapping issues with a very mid-range processor.

Just need something for reading and basic media consumption if anything. 60Hz vs 90Hz vs 120Hz doesn't have any bearings for that.

You are totally correct.

I blocked that guy, he is ridiculous and just an apple hater.

this is a post for a $249 tablet, if a person really needs all those other features he is complaining about, then they have to spend a lot more than $249 regardless if it is apple , samsung or some other manufacturer.

So you really don't think buying this iPad new in 2024 is going to be an issue when future iPad OS updates will continue to eat up the 64 GB storage?

iPad OS uses 10gb currently. It could double in size during the tablets usable life and I'd still have 20gb of free space. Still plenty of space for me to do lots more with the tablet.

Is it possible to fill up that space? Sure. Especially, with a lot of multimedia stuff.
Is 64gb still a fair bit of space? Yup and outside of multimedia stuff I doubt anyone would fill it up quickly.

If you want more space then buy a tablet with more. If you need to take your entire multimedia library with you then get more space. There is nothing stopping you from doing that but you don't need to resort to ridiculous exaggerations or calling this useless. This isn't going to be an Apple Watch Series 3. Its still going to have plenty of space left to install updates and plenty of space for lots of things.

For $250, I can't think of anything that has better software support, performance, 3rd party accessories, and the same app library as the iPad 9th gen tho.

Sure, I could look at the Galaxy Tab A9+, but it has touchscreen tapping issues with a very mid-range processor.

Just need something for reading and basic media consumption if anything. 60Hz vs 90Hz vs 120Hz doesn't have any bearings for that.

How long do you expect an almost 5 year old processor to be supported?