Coming from an asus vivotab RT, and a yaffle of android heaps, The surface 3's we own are downright rocketships for everything we do. My son's ipad is pretty speedy, but with only 16gb of storage, its slowed to a crawl now. We are going get him a new air with 128gb. He needs it for all his apps, games, movies etc. I would get him a surface, but the apps for autism on ipad are far ahead of whats available on the windows store.