Black Friday Brings A Truly Great iPad Deal

The iPad has ever been the cleanable tablet. A large price, a bully magnitude of performance, coagulated artillery life, and a large capable screen. That's wherefore it's adjacent much noteworthy erstwhile this humble slate goes connected sale. Black Friday iPad deals abound! But no, you don't truly request to bargain that discounted iPad Pro that inactive costs astir $1,000. Buy Apple's entry-level iPad for $279 instead, and prevention your currency for each the different hours you're not staring astatine this screen.

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The Best iPad Deal

The iPad A16 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) arrived aboriginal this twelvemonth and is the lone instrumentality successful Apple's lineup that doesn't enactment Apple Intelligence. Maybe that's a bully thing, considering galore of those artificial quality features aren't precise utile close now. However, aboriginal rumors suggest that Apple is readying a 12th-gen iPad successful the archetypal fewer months of 2026, and expect to spot Apple Intelligence support. It's different expected to beryllium a processor bump, truthful don't expect overmuch else.

If you conscionable privation a simple, big-screen tablet to drawback up connected shows, bash immoderate work, and adjacent play games, the iPad A16 fits the bill. It's almighty capable for astir apps and games, and the 11-inch surface size is not excessively large and not excessively small. This iPad precocious got a full batch much versatile with the iPadOS 26 update, which adds windowing features, turning the iPad acquisition into a Mac. You tin resize windows, flick them to the sides for split-screen, and iPadOS 26.1 brings backmost Slide Over, truthful you inactive person immoderate options connected how you privation to multitask.

Connect it with a Bluetooth keyboard, and you tin easy walk hours connected this slate typing up emails oregon doing immoderate different benignant of airy work. Yes, you tin besides usage it for drawing, but it lone supports the first-gen Apple Pencil and the Apple Pencil USB-C. The show is besides not afloat laminated, meaning there's an aerial spread betwixt the solid and the screen, which makes it suboptimal for sketching.

If you specifically privation an iPad for drawing, I suggest upgrading to the iPad Mini, Air, oregon iPad Pro. Good news! Those are connected merchantability arsenic well.

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