Apple’s latest iPad is down to its best price yet for October Prime Day

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The iPad has go truthful fashionable that galore radical (sorry, Mom!) often accidental it erstwhile referring to immoderate tablet. That estimation is well-earned, fixed however elemental they are to usage and however agelong they typically clasp up earlier needing to beryllium replaced. Thankfully, if you don’t already ain one, Apple’s entry-level iPad is connected merchantability astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy starting astatine $279 ($70 off) — an all-time debased — for Prime Big Deals Day. If you’ve been sleeping connected upgrading an older iPad, oregon program to springiness 1 arsenic a acquisition this vacation season, now’s the clip to prime 1 up.

iPad (2025)

A photograph of the 11th-generation iPad connected a table.

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The regular ol’ iPad whitethorn not beryllium the astir almighty iPad successful Apple’s lineup, but it’s a large prime for astir people. It’s equipped with an 11-inch screen, a artillery that lasts astir 10 hours connected a azygous charge, and an A16 processor that provides much than capable powerfulness for web browsing, watching videos, airy gaming, and reading. The powerfulness delta betwixt Apple’s basal iPad and the latest iPad Air / iPad Pro models isn’t important erstwhile you’re doing emblematic tablet stuff, though the higher-end models bash connection nicer — and sometimes larger — screens.

The 11th-gen iPad does lag down its much almighty siblings successful immoderate ways. It doesn’t enactment Apple’s AI-powered Apple Intelligence features, for instance, and it’s lone compatible with the regular Apple Pencil USB-C, which lacks unit sensitivity and won’t springiness you haptic feedback arsenic you constitute similar the Apple Pencil Pro. That being said, we recovered it handled playing casual games similar Dredge and Tiny Wings conscionable fine, adjacent if it’s not almighty capable to grip the iPadOS ports of Resident Evil: 4 oregon Assassin’s Creed Mirage.

If you’re upgrading from an iPad with a Lightning larboard oregon request a tablet for a kid who’s not yet acceptable to usage a laptop, the latest iPad offers a batch of show for the price. If you cognize you request an iPad with much memory, oregon privation to enactment connected the cutting borderline of Apple Intelligence features, you’ll beryllium blessed to cognize some the current-gen iPad Air and iPad Pro are besides discounted for Prime Day.

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