Apple’s last-gen iPad has dropped to $229 for a limited time

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Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone respective shakeups implicit the past respective years, we agelong considered the ninth-gen iPad to beryllium the best fund iPad you could get. That changed erstwhile Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a much sensible $349 and discontinued its entry-level model. But the 2021 iPad remains a perfectly bully slate, particularly present that the basal exemplary with 64GB of retention is down to an all-time debased of $229 ($100 off) astatine Amazon and $229.99 astatine Best Buy.

As acold arsenic hardware is concerned, the ninth-gen iPad is precise overmuch a remnant of Apple’s erstwhile plan language. The 10.2-inch tablet has a accepted iPad look with ample bezels, a dedicated location button, and a Lightning larboard — not to notation a 3.5mm audio jack for utilizing a brace of wired headphones.

Inside, you’ll find Apple’s aging A13 processor, which, contempt archetypal appearing successful the iPhone 11 successful 2019, inactive offers speedy show erstwhile playing games, watching movies, surfing the web, and tackling each the accustomed things you mightiness usage a tablet for. It’s inactive beholden to the first-gen Apple Pencil and older accessories similar the Smart Keyboard, yes, but fixed its property and price, it’s an understandable trade-off.

Apple’s entry-level iPad from 2021 has a 10.2-inch screen, an A13 Bionic chip, and a 12MP beforehand camera that supports Apple’s Center Stage feature. It’s besides compatible with the first-gen Apple Pencil and the company’s astute keyboard, and though it’s discontinued, it’s the lone iPad you tin inactive bargain with a 3.5mm headphone jack.

If you’re acrophobic astir support, remainder assured that Apple’s last-gen iPad volition beryllium compatible with iPadOS 18 erstwhile it launches successful the fall. It won’t enactment immoderate of Apple’s forthcoming Apple Intelligence features, though, which necessitate a newer iPad Pro oregon iPad Air exemplary with an M1 spot oregon later. I conjecture the caller calculator app volition person to do.

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