03 Apple iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)

All the power of the M1 chip for music making at a more reasonable price

Here we get an iPad that delivers all the power but perhaps not the glory, and it’s really up to you whether that bothers you. Some might say that the close to 13 inches that the full-on iPad Pro offers is too much and if that’s you, you’ll get all of the best bits of the iPad Pro world here at a much more down to earth price.

That said, you can easily add another grand to the asking price by spec’ing up the 11-inch iMac Pro to the 2TB option (which also doubles the RAM to 16GB). You’ll end up with the most powerful compact iPad there is, albeit for more than you’d pay for a basic 13-inch MacBook Pro.

So, as we say in the Buyers Guide text later, it’s all about the screen size. If you don’t need it, go for the new mini or this smaller iPad Pro. You’ll get all the power you need for music making, without showing off about it.