Trading in my iPad Pro for a lesser model?

[joojoobean99]

I've got an iPad Pro 12.9" 128gb which I've had since December 2015. I think it cost me around the £950 mark. I also have the keyboard which I believe was another £150, so quite an expensive piece of kit for a tablet.

My issue is that I'm getting a bit fed up with the bloody size of it! At first I was attracted to the larger screen, as the year previous I'd bought an iPhone 6 Plus (which I still have) that I absolutely love, so figured that a bigger iPad was the way forward too. Not so. It's heavy, particularly with the keyboard attached, and I find I don't use it for anything other than sending emails, watching films and a bit of writing here and there. So the additional features that the Pro offers are pretty useless for me day to day.

My MIL has offered me £500 for it, so I could sell it to her and go and buy the latest standard iPad (not a Pro version) for just over £400, but I just hate the idea of 'trading down', even though I have no real reason to need a Pro iPad! Should I keep hold of the Pro, or cut my losses and accept that a standard iPad is good enough for what I need it for?!

I bought the standard iPad Pro a few months ago. The only reason I chose that one is that the camera had the highest spec. It was higher than the bigger iPad Pro. The Pro also allowed me to have a larger storage capacit and I have thousands of photos.I haven't bothered with the keyboard or their expensive pen as the art apps you can download do the same job and meet my needs. Also, it is much lighter than my old iPad which I gave to my husband. I appreciate your dilemma so I suppose it is a case of looking at all the specs and considering what you really need. If only they were not so expensive. Hope you get it sorted and your mum enjoys her purchase. At least you can console yourself that your mum is the one who benefits and not a lucky stranger.