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Best Buy is having an Apple Sale — this iPad mini is the best deal

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On Sale Front view of Apple iPad mini with A17 Pro.
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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.

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Why you should buy the Apple iPad Mini

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.

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