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 accidental to prevention connected an iPad than during Amazon Prime Day. Right now, for instance, the 10th-gen iPad with 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 variant is besides connected merchantability astatine Amazon and Best Buy for a grounds debased of $449 ($50 off), though immoderate colors bash necessitate a Prime subscription astatine Amazon.

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

Unless you fetishize smaller devices oregon person a circumstantial request for the pro-oriented features connected the iPad Air and iPad Pro, the modular iPad is an perfect prime for astir people. It uses Apple’s A14 Bionic chipset, which is much than almighty capable for basal tasks similar browsing, productivity, multimedia, and moving a immense bulk of games from the App Store. It can’t bash everything the M-series chips can, however, which volition exclusively enactment the Apple Intelligence features that volition get arsenic portion of iPadOS 18 aboriginal this year.

If you’re coming from a ninth-gen oregon older iPad and you usage the first-gen Apple Pencil, you won’t request to upgrade it. If you don’t already person a stylus and would admit the quality to constitute and draw, however, you tin leapfrog to the Apple Pencil (USB-C), which is besides connected merchantability close present for its all-time debased of $69 ($10 off) astatine Amazon. It’s the lone different Apple Pencil that’s compatible with the newer iPad; however, it cannot magnetically complaint portion docked to the broadside of your iPad similar the second-gen mentation tin with newer tablets. Instead, you complaint it by plugging it straight into your iPad. It’s not pretty, but it works.