iPad (8th generation)

The cheap iPad with the A12 Bionic, which is a considerably better chip than a $329 tablet had any need for. Apple took the 2017 body, kept the 10.2-inch display, the home button, the Lightning port and the headphone jack, and dropped in the processor from the iPhone XS. That made it roughly 40 percent faster than the seventh generation for the same money. It shipped in September 2020 into a year when every school in the world was suddenly buying tablets, and Apple sold an enormous number of them. It is not an interesting machine. It is the one that got a generation of children through remote schooling.