So I've spent some time trying, trying to understand this iPad. I've never been so confused by so many choices in one new product. So this is a new 10th generation baseline iPad and it's in one of those bright new colors too. And this thing has a slightly new design, which is overall improved. The home button is gone and it's a pretty familiar rectangular shape now with flatter sides. The new colors are actually kind of saturated, which is neat. This one here is yellow, but there's also a pink and a blue, on top of the safe bet silver. It's slightly less saturated than it looks on Apple's website though. There's a Touch ID button up top, so you do get biometric unlocking even though there's no home button, thinner bezels, thinner anyway, and a slightly larger 11-inch LCD screen up front. Landscape stereo speakers, a bump from an 8 to a 12-megapixel camera on the back, and an A14 Bionic chip inside. Not their newest, but it's a step up from the A13 Bionic that's in the ninth gen iPad. So none of that is confusing. They're modernizing the baseline iPad. Great. But then that's where some of the weirdness starts. So first of all, upgrades to USB Type-C. Finally, no, it's not thunderbolt speeds or anything, but hey, you can now finally plug in USB-C flash drives. You can charge fast. You can even plug in an external display, up to 4K 30 hertz or 1080p 60 hertz, which you were definitely not doing with a Lightning port before. I had been asking for USB-C, getting it in the base iPad now is great. It's confusing though, because they also announced that this iPad will support the first generation Apple Pencil, which if you remember, it's Lightning. This was the pencil that infamously, hilariously, plugged into the bottom of the old iPads to charge via that Lightning port. But if we're USB-C now, then that means, oh, oh no, it's, it's happening. This needs a USB-C to Lightning adapter to charge the Pencil. I'm sure no one will ever lose this. It also comes in this separate piece of packaging. It doesn't come in the iPad box or in the Apple Pencil box. It's more packaging, which is a little more wasteful. But also, yeah, if you ever do lose it and need another one, nine bucks. But I'm still just thinking like, Apple, you made a new pencil a second gen pencil that's way better. The second generation pencil snaps onto the side of the iPad Air or the iPad Pro with magnets, and charges wirelessly. Where is that one here? I feel like I've been through every version of this in my head, but basically what I've come up with is some people would probably say that Apple knows that there are gonna be groups of people, businesses, schools, that have the older ninth generation iPad and they have pencils, and they're gonna wanna continue using those pencils when they upgrade to this new iPad. That's why they kept support for the old Apple Pencil. And to those people, I would say, but you make both, (speaking foreign language) why not both? So honestly, the real answer is most likely, because this is the first ever iPad to move the webcam to that long side, the long bezel, low key that might be the best change in this whole piece of hardware. So now when you're on video calls or doing anything while looking at the camera, it'll actually look like you're looking at the camera instead of way off to the side, like in every other iPad. So this is a welcome change, but now that means the spot that you'd normally slap on a second generation Apple Pencil with magnets and a cutout, well that's now populated by webcam housing. And the other side has a Smart pins, which I'll get to in a second. And then the top and the bottom are speakers. And apparently it would be too un-Apple like, to put it like off to the side, you know, asymmetrical like that or something, just to have space for the cutouts. Basically, Apple also came out with their new M2 iPad Pro at the same time as this. That also has a 12-megapixel Ultra Wide webcam with Center Stage, just like this one. But it's not moved to the long side. It's still on that side spot. Which leads me to believe that Apple views this as a direct compromise. You can either have the new Apple Pencil and that'll charge at the top, or you can have the webcam on the long side. One or the other, but not both. And I guess we'll never see an iPad Pro with the webcam in the right spot. So for those who want a little bit more out of the baseline iPad, Apple has also dropped a brand new, completely redesigned, two-piece Magic Keyboard folio for the iPad. I actually really like most of it. This first piece is just like a back plate that attaches to the iPad with magnets and then acts as just a kickstand basically, very surface, very useful. And then with the second piece, it's just a new keyboard with a new full function row about the top. So now that the Smart Connector pins are on the side edge instead of the back, you can just slap on or remove the keyboard at any time and just go straight to the iPad. So this two-piece setup has its benefits and drawbacks. The main drawback really being that it's not as lappable, it's much more suited for working on a desk or a more stable surface,