Ten years ago today, Apple revealed a tablet that it called the "biggest step yet in delivering the vision that is iPad". It was called the iPad Air and it became the first tablet to receive a five-star rating on TechRadar. So what was so special about the first-gen Air – wasn't it just an iPad that had been on a crash diet? Kind of, but it also dramatically slimmed down the iPad's bezels and price tag to make it a genuinely modern tablet. Back in October 2013, we called it "as near to tablet perfection as you're going to get" and the model that "finally nailed the tablet". At the time, the iPad itself was only three years old and there was genuine competition from Android tablets like the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. But the iPad Air reasserted Apple's grip on tablets and, aside from a two-year hiatus between 2017 and 2019, the Air hasn't really looked back. Now in its fifth generation, the iPad Air (2022) remains one of the best mid-