There’s a big Apple Shopping Event going on right now at Best Buy. As you may know, Apple is a big brand. They don’t need deals to drive sales. So, while there are always great Apple deals going on, it always feels like there aren’t too many of them at any given time. At least that’s my experience with the category. This time around, there are a few deals that stick out. Examples include the Apple Watch SE 2 at $169 and this Apple iPad at just $299. But there’s one huge winner, and that’s the Apple iPad Mini with an A17 Pro chip and 128GB of storage marked down to just $399. That’s a $100 discount off of the $499 regular price. It’s all yours if you tap the button below. As always, keep reading for our take.
If you think of Apple iPad Minis being slightly small iPads with refined features, you’re definitely in for a treat here because the A17 Pro chip version checks all of the boxes you’ve been building for it already. It has an 8.3-inch screen, 2266 x 1488 pixel resolution screen, and 8GB of RAM. Its screen is small but pops and has a great aspect ratio for reading, especially comics, and should definitely be considered as a tablet for reading — after all, it does have the friendly paperback book size. Of course, if you want something more action oriented, we’ve found that this little guy plays games easily as well. As our Apple iPad Mini 2024 review puts it, “this is the only small tablet out there worth its salt.” Ultimately, this can be considered as a little brother tablet to the 2024’s iPad Air as its got good power and a “snappy, smooth” operation, but all packed up in a miniature size.
Getting 2024’s Apple iPad Mini for $399 instead of the usual $499 (a savings of $100) is a great deal. Get it now by tapping the button below. Alternatively, you can check out more tablet deals to see if there’s something more to your liking on sale, too.
Affinity’s new all-in-one creative app is finally coming to the iPad, nearly a year after Canva launched the redesigned desktop version for Mac and Windows. Creatives have been asking for the iPad release ever since, especially because files created in the new Affinity app cannot be opened in the older V2 iPad apps.
Affinity already has Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps on iPad, but the new release combines those tools into the same unified app that Canva launched on desktop last year.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Apple has just launched its latest iPad mini with a notable set of upgrades, including an OLED screen, improved speakers, and a more resilient build. It also gets a new chip, and the whole package costs $200 more than its predecessor. But if you look closely at Apple’s online store, you’ll realize that $699 isn’t enough to get you the most powerful version of the A20 Pro chip inside this tablet. In fact, even if you pay $800 for the 256GB model, you still won’t get the beefiest variant. Only when you jump to the 512GB trim, which costs an absurd $999, do you get the most powerful flavor of the A20 Pro.
The $999 model gets more than extra storage