If you’re looking for an affordable, portable, and lightweight alternative to your laptop this is the deal for you. With college students returning to campus and schools reopening, the iPad Mini is on sale right now for just $350 as part of Best Buy’s Labor Day sales. At such a great price, this versatile tablet won’t be on sale for long so you might want to head over to Best Buy before the price of the iPad Mini shoots back up to $400. It’s one of the best iPad deals we’ve seen in a while.
Available in three metallic shades, the iPad Mini is one of the best tablets on sale right now. The newest version carries the A12 Bionic chip for a smoother interface. Now you can multitask, watch your favorite shows or dabble in Apple Arcade all without worrying about your apps freezing or glitching. Weighing in at only about 11 ounces, you can carry this tablet wherever you go. Don’t fret about the battery running out. The iPad Mini has a battery life of about 10 hours so you can easily take it to work, use it on your long commute or carry it to all your college lectures. There’s also Apple’s 7.9-inch Retina display, which will keep your images bright, clear, and vivid. This means you’ll be able to read in the dark, take detailed notes in class and watch crystal clear movies all without straining your eyes.
This mini iPad also carries other features from its more expensive counterparts. There’s Touch ID so you have that added level of privacy that most Apple products have. The camera’s great too. The iPad mini carries the 8.0 MP back camera and the 7.0 MP front HD camera which means that you’ll have no trouble while using Zoom for your meetings or hosting a FaceTime get together with your friends and family. The iPad Mini also supports the Apple Pencil, so if you’re an illustrator or you just like to sketch and draw you can do so with this tablet.
With 64 GB storage, long battery life, and a rich display the iPad Mini is worth the investment. Get it now from Best Buy for only $350– usually $400 before you miss the chance to take advantage of this deal.
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