Apple's first release of iPadOS 16, iPadOS 16.1, provides a flawed glimpse into the future of computing thanks to Stage Manager, but some hurdles will be difficult to overcome.
It was thought that iPadOS 16's Stage Manager feature requires virtual memory swap to work, however, the 64GB iPad Air doesn't support this feature, yet still makes use of Stage Manager.
According to Apple's fine print, iPadOS 16 is compatible with "iPad (5th generation and later), iPad mini (5th generation and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later),.