Save $100 on Apple’s latest iPad Air with the M3 chip

Discounts person been pugnacious to find connected the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a bully 1 happening connected each colour disposable astatine Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is disposable for $499 — a terms that it has sold for conscionable erstwhile earlier successful precocious April. Whether you’re partial to the porcelain-esque starlight color, oregon the brushed blue, you’ll get the aforesaid price. The 13-inch 128GB exemplary is $100 off, too, selling for $699 to commencement astatine Amazon and Best Buy.

Anyone would conflict to archer the M3 exemplary isolated from the M2, though determination are immoderate notable differences internally. Aside from the spot boost, which brings on hardware-accelerated ray tracing successful games, this exemplary tin encode and decode ProRes footage, and decode AV1-encoded video. Additionally, it supports hardware-accelerated 8K HEVC and ProRes RAW, 2 formats that are near retired if you’re utilizing the erstwhile procreation iPad Air. In short, it seems large for video creators.

Notably, similar the M2 model, the latest iPad Air features a front-facing camera that’s oriented successful the mediate of the show erstwhile it’s successful scenery mode, wherever astir radical are accustomed to looking during video calls. This is simply a diagnostic you won’t find connected the iPad Pro; it’s lone disposable connected the Air and the basal model. Read our reappraisal of the 2025 model.

Other deals to cheque retired today

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows is discounted for the archetypal clip astatine Best Buy, successful lawsuit you’ve been waiting connected a deal. Both the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions are $20 off, costing $49.99 connected your level of choice. This open-world crippled takes players to the series’ astir sought-after location: feudal Japan. The dual protagonist communicative is gripping, and the gameplay revives the feeling that made the archetypal Assassin’s Creed games truthful fun. That said, I anticipation you similar accomplishment trees due to the fact that determination are a batch of them successful this title. Read our review.
• Also astatine Best Buy is simply a tiny discount connected Splatoon 3 for the Nintendo Switch. Normally $59.99, it’s $53.99 for the carnal cartridge. Switch 2 owners were precocious treated to a escaped update that brought much contented arsenic good arsenic improved show for the PvP online crippled (it besides includes a single-player campaign). I’ve lone played it with the update for a mates minutes, but the quality was clear.
• The Meta Quest 3S virtual world headset is $30 disconnected astatine aggregate retailers, costing $269.99. Best Buy and B&H Photo inactive merchantability the 128GB configuration that includes Batman: Arkham Shadow. Amazon honors the price, but its offering doesn’t see the escaped game. The Quest 3S is the successor to the Quest 2, the astir fashionable VR headset. Its optics tech is similar, arsenic are its screens and representation resolution, but it’s importantly faster and much susceptible acknowledgment to its chipset — the aforesaid 1 that’s utilized successful the pricier Quest 3. Read our review.