And do you know a good place to buy used? Mainly wan to get from a place who is honest about condition.
The way you ask about used suggests that you may perceive iPads to be like cars: find a good used one and get best value.
Not true with tech. Unlike cars, tech improves hugely and for the better every year.
Every year we get more value for our money.
Each new tech device generation should be perceived as a big jump over the previous generation, and devices fully done in ~7 years or less, even if the device sat unused in the box for that ~7 years. Even if the last generation
seems to be the same it
never is, because newer materials and engineering have been applied under the hood that even nerds here are unaware of.
Not that a device cannot be used for 7 years (probably less for tablets), because they usually can be. But
buying a used tech device is almost always a poor buying proposition unless (
and only if) one is a tech nerd who knows all about a specific device and chases a deal with care and expertise.
For a kid a big risk is that as a tablet ages even a few years it may no longer work with the very latest
thing that her friends are into a few years from now. Buying a newer device postpones how long it will take for the device to age out on what the preteens are up to at any given time. The same process happens with us oldies and our tech, but not quite as quickly and we usually are not as sensitive to the consequences as a preteen is.
The final (and least important) reason to buy new is because new makes for a better gift.
