The current fourth generation iPad Air seems to me the tablet more accurate and balanced that Apple currently has. Unless you need a larger screen and you opt for an iPad Pro, the iPad Air is the most balanced value for money, and with almost all the features of its older brother. You will already measure why you want an iPad Pro with M1, without macOS...
compatibility with in Apple Pencil 2, its exterior design and its features make it worth paying a little more than for the basic iPad. And if Apple decides to renew it, updating the processor, the camera and the screen, it will be milk, without a doubt.
It seems to be (and logically, surely it will be) that Apple plans to launch a iPad Air renovated. It will be the fifth generation of the intermediate model of the Apple iPad, straddling the iPad and the iPad Pro.
As published Mac Otakara, Apple plans to soon launch a revision of its current iPad Air, which would maintain its external appearance, and the modifications would be only of its internal components.
This report explains that the fifth generation of the iPad Air would mount a processor A15 Bionic, an ultra wide-angle front camera 12 megapixels with support for Center Stage, 5G connection for LTE models and True Tone flash Quad-LED.
Will we see it in March?
If we take into account that traditionally the first event Apple of the year is usually in March or at the latest in April, it is very likely that Tim Cook and his team will present us with this new generation of the current iPad Air in said keynote.
If all these rumors are true (which they could be, since the current iPad Air was released in October 2020), and Apple introduces all these modifications without increasing the price, it will undoubtedly become the most balanced iPad of the three models, ideal for all types of users, even the most demanding. I repeat the question from the introduction: why do you want a iPad Pro with M1 processor, if you can't squeeze it with macOS?
I tend to think that the 11″ Ipad pro is a better option for extra USD$200, you have Chip M1, which has not been used enough, it is true, but it has greater potential, double the storage, pro motion screen, better cameras, USB type C with Thunderbolt support, better sound, face id and doing a quick review of the page, I opted for the 11″ pro seeing that the price difference was widely justified