You still hit weird limits. Perhaps the M1 is a better value proposition now, but with the A series transcoding videos was choppy at best, and you'd have to cho

You still hit weird limits. Perhaps the M1 is a better value proposition now, but with the A series transcoding videos was choppy at best, and you'd have to choose to "share" them to VLC every damn time. Youtube playback would stop everytime another video starts playing somewhere (additional fun when it's just a video ad that actually had no sound in the first place). SMB file management is still an afterthought, so you end up needing a plex server dealing with all the complexity the iPad can't deal with. Browsing is the same, outside of the Safari limitation, extensions are few and tab management a pain in general. For books and magazine it's kinda the same. It works fine for light use. It becomes frustrating if it's something you actually care about. In the end, I realized I actually care less about visual polish and more about having complete functionalities, at the price of dealing with Windows and managing a computer instead of an appliance.