Apple iPad Air 3 10.5" (Wi-Fi) - (Refurbished)

Seven years after it launched, the iPad Air 3 is still running Apple's current operating system. That's the whole case for this tablet: iPadOS 26 installs on it today, so you're getting current apps, current Safari and current security updates on hardware that costs a fraction of a new Air.

The A12 Bionic behind it was Apple's flagship chip, and it still handles what most people actually do on a tablet — multiple Safari tabs, Office and Google Docs, streaming, video calls, drawing, split-screen multitasking — without hesitating.

The 10.5-inch display is the part that dates best. It's fully laminated, with True Tone, the P3 wide colour gamut and an anti-reflective coating — the spec that separated the Air line from the cheaper iPads of its era, and the reason text looks crisp and the glass feels like one solid surface rather than a screen behind a window. At 500 nits it's comfortable outdoors.

This is the 256GB configuration, the largest Apple offered. Enough for a full offline library of films, a working archive of PDFs and photos, or years of notes and sketches without managing storage.

It works with the Apple Pencil (1st generation) for notes and drawing, and with the Smart Keyboard through the Smart Connector — no pairing, no charging, no Bluetooth. Touch ID unlocks it instantly. And there's a real 3.5 mm headphone jack, which no iPad Apple currently sells has.

At 456 g and 6.1 mm, it goes in a bag without you noticing.