Best Buy Debuts New Apple Sale: Get Up to $300 Off MacBook Air & $100 Off iPad mini 4

[Solver]

Got a 128MB iPad mini 4 for my wife. $299+tax at Best Buy. She loves it!
It goes well with her iPhone 6s. It replaces her iPad 3 (which has been stuck at iOS 9.x)

 

[ignatius345]

Its not uncommon for Best Buy to have these types of sales. They did the same with the Apple Watch not long ago. Albeit the Mini 4 is still a powerhouse little tablet.

Agree! I love mine and do not find it laggy in the least.
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Fwiw, the newest beta makes the mini 4 much smoother to use.

Even the iPhone X lagged under iOS 11 before the newest betas.

This is great news! I'm gonna wait out the beta period myself, but looking forward to it when it hits the final release.

 

[Niklas_nick]

All major retailers in Germany have had the MacBook Air on sale, up to $300 off, for weeks now. Most often, the regular iPad, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil also were on sale, iMacs and Apple Watches quite often too.

I think that is a further hint we might get new/cheaper MBAs and new iPads/Apple Pencil. Those sales, especially in such dimensions and durations are most often before releases to clear off old inventories.

 

[SoN1NjA]

Fwiw, the newest beta makes the mini 4 much smoother to use.

Even the iPhone X lagged under iOS 11 before the newest betas.

And it's a disgrace!

 

[Chupa Chupa]

3 year old tech with 3 year old prices that's on-sale, how can I NOT buy this!? /s

Agree Apple needs to update the mini or drop the price permanently to $250, not just a sale price for some retailers. But I also have to say, I bought a Galaxy Tab A 10 a few months ago to use as a dedicate kiosk display. It retails for $230. For $230 the Mini 4 shreds the Tab A 10 even it at $299. Tab A 10 is a solid POS. Of course the current regular price for the Mini 4 is nonsense.

 

[Plutonius]

I’ve even been to the Apple Store and had massive drops on their iPad, have a photo to prove it (at HomePod launch = recent)

And they were probably running IOS 11.

 

[B4U]

Are people actually paying that much for a notebook with THAT screen in 2018? Even the cheapest bottom of the barrel Chromebook has a nicer screen nowadays.

Chromebook?
Oh, the one that YOU are the product from the company that do no evil?