The 10th-gen iPad is matching its best price to date for Prime Day

Short of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you astir apt won’t find a amended opportunity to prevention connected an iPad than during Amazon Prime Day. Right now, for instance, nan 10th-gen iPad pinch Wi-Fi and 64GB of retention has dropped to an all-time debased of $299 ($49 off) astatine Amazon and Best Buy — nary rank required. The 256GB version is besides connected waste astatine Amazon and Best Buy for a grounds debased of $449 ($50 off), though immoderate colors do require a Prime subscription astatine Amazon.

Apple’s latest entry-level iPad feels a spot much modern than nan outgoing ninth-gen model, and pinch nan existent discount, it astir apt makes much consciousness to spell for nan newer kid connected nan block. Apple stretched nan surface a spot to 10.9 inches and updated its creation to make it look much akin to nan newer iPad Air, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini models. However, successful nan process, it traded its Lightning connector for a USB-C larboard and mislaid nan location fastener (the Touch ID sensor is now embedded successful nan powerfulness button). It besides repositioned nan front-facing 12MP camera truthful it’s centered while successful scenery predisposition and removed nan 3.5mm audio jack, for amended aliases worse (mostly worse).

Unless you fetishize smaller devices aliases person a circumstantial request for nan pro-oriented features connected nan iPad Air and iPad Pro, nan modular iPad is an perfect prime for astir people. It uses Apple’s A14 Bionic chipset, which is much than powerful capable for basal tasks for illustration browsing, productivity, multimedia, and moving a immense mostly of games from nan App Store. It can’t do everything nan M-series chips can, however, which will exclusively support nan Apple Intelligence features that will get arsenic portion of iPadOS 18 later this year.

If you’re coming from a ninth-gen aliases older iPad and you usage nan first-gen Apple Pencil, you won’t request to upgrade it. If you don’t already person a stylus and would admit nan expertise to constitute and draw, however, you tin leapfrog to nan Apple Pencil (USB-C), which is besides connected waste correct now for its all-time debased of $69 ($10 off) astatine Amazon. It’s nan only different Apple Pencil that’s compatible pinch nan newer iPad; however, it cannot magnetically complaint while docked to nan broadside of your iPad for illustration nan second-gen type tin pinch newer tablets. Instead, you complaint it by plugging it straight into your iPad. It’s not pretty, but it works.