It's not easy to choose the right iPad to buy in 2019, and although product diversity is generally considered a good thing, Apple may have gone a bit overboard with this year's expansion of the market-leading tablet lineup.

It's particularly hard to recommend the purchase of a recently released seventh-gen iPad with a 10.2-inch display when the 10.5-inch iPad Air (2019) is significantly more powerful and only slightly more expensive on occasion. There's also the 2017 generation of the iPad Pro to consider if you can't afford the 2018 editions, even though Apple no longer sells ...