13inch M2 Air or iPad 11th gen for A Levels.

Many of my friends have 13inch iPads (airs and pros) for replacing textbooks as well as files and exercise books. I already have an iPad 6th gen, but even with only good notes open, it is very laggy and slow on almost every task. The 32gb of storage is also very dated, and over half is taken up by software updates (can't be helped, 32gb just simply isn't usable anymore). I can get an M2 iPad Air 128gb for £539, or an a16 (11th gen) iPad 128gb for £329. I would really like the 13 inch screen but is it worth the extra £200?

This would only be for maths and biology notes, as well as being used in split screen so I have mate notes and have a textbook up at the same time. I know I won't need anything newer than the M2, as I have an M4 MacBook Air with 32gb unified memory for computer science, which is what I use for code compiling, running LLMs etc. Thanks