to ask you people with more knowledge than my good self for help in buying an ipad?

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My daughter starts secondary school so want to buy her a gift to stand her in good stead for the first couple of years at least. I've decided on an ipad. I know nothing about them nor have I ever owned one.

I've seen this one www.johnlewis.com/2017-apple-ipad-pro-10-5-a10x-fusion-ios10-ios10-wi-fi-64gb/p3246126?colour=Space Grey

Does anyone know anything about teenagers, what's cool, what's functional, what's practical? What specs should I be looking at?

Just in case anyone wastes their time mentioning android, she wants apple *sigh

I might aswell be looking into a bog-hole as looking at ipad specs so I genuinely appreciate any advice you could give.

I wouldn't get the iPad Pro, they're huge!

Only the iPad Pro 12.9 is huge, Blonde, the 9.7 is the same size as the iPad Air, and the 10.5 is just 1cm longer and half a centimetre wider than my iPad Air (most of the extra screen size comes from slimming down the edges round the screen). It apparently weighs 30g more, but I can't say I've really noticed.

Ok, I can't see her needing a massive amount of storage actually. Maybe just word or excel files from school. Good advice that 64GB is sufficient. I'm 99% sure school is apple oriented as all the pupils have ipads apparently.

Oops rusty yes I meant 9.7, got distracted by op mentioning the 10.5. The other option was the massive one, I recall, and didn't even fit in her school bag.