Best Apple Deals of the Week: 9th Gen iPad Hits Record Low $199 Price Alongside the Year's Best Prices on MacBook Pro and Air

This week we tracked a new best-ever price on the 9th generation iPad, alongside low prices on the Apple Studio Display, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and M2 iPad Pro. In terms of third-party deals, Bose this week also began its annual back to school sale with steep discounts on popular audio accessories.

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iPad

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  • What's the deal? Take $130 off 9th gen iPad
  • Where can I get it? Amazon
  • Where can I find the original deal? Right here

The best overall deal of the week is on Apple's 9th generation 64GB Wi-Fi iPad, now available for just $199.00, down from $329.00. This is a huge discount on the previous generation tablet, and a new all-time low price.

Bose

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  • What's the deal? Save on Bose headphones and speakers
  • Where can I get it? Bose

Bose kicked off a back to school sale this week, offering up to 25% off select headphones, earbuds, speakers, and other audio devices. During this sale you can get the Bose QuietComfort Headphones for $249.00, down from $349.00.

Apple Studio Display

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  • What's the deal? Take $299 off Apple Studio Display
  • Where can I get it? Amazon
  • Where can I find the original deal? Right here

Amazon this week discounted the Apple Studio Display (standard glass) to $1,299.99, down from $1,599.00, which is a match of the all-time low price on the monitor. You can also find low prices on the VESA mount adapter model and tilt- and height-adjustable stand model on Amazon right now.

MacBook Air

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  • What's the deal? Take up to $250 off M2/M3 MacBook Air
  • Where can I get it? Amazon and Best Buy
  • Where can I find the original deal? Right here



Amazon and Best Buy both have record low discounts across the entire M2 and M3 MacBook Air lineup this week, with as much as $250 off select notebooks. The previous generation M2 models start at just $799.00, while the 13-inch M3 MacBook Air is available from $849.00.

MacBook Pro

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  • What's the deal? Take $500 off M3 MacBook Pro
  • Where can I get it? Best Buy and Amazon
  • Where can I find the original deal? Right here


This week we tracked a new all-time low price on the 512GB M3 Pro 14-inch MacBook Pro, which hit $1,499.00 at Best Buy and Amazon, down from $1,999.00. This beats the previous low price by $100, and is available to all Best Buy shoppers without the need of a membership.

M2 iPad Pro

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  • What's the deal? Take up to $600 off M2 iPad Pro
  • Where can I get it? Best Buy
  • Where can I find the original deal? Right here

Best Buy introduced steep discounts on the previous generation M2 iPad Pro this week, with up to $600 off select models. The focus this time around is on the larger capacity 1TB and 2TB models, with discounts on both 11-inch and 12.9-inch tablets still available.

Head to our full Deals Roundup to get caught up with all of the latest deals and discounts that we've been tracking over the past week.

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Top Rated Comments

StoneJack Avatar
27 weeks ago
Ipad 9 is still perfectly capable
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Vjosullivan Avatar
27 weeks ago

Is it wrong to salivate over an ... iPad?
You know the answer already.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DEXTERITY Avatar
27 weeks ago

Is it wrong to salivate over an M4 iPad Pro when I haven’t picked up my 10th generation iPad since I got an Apple Vision Pro? There’s something about watching what you can do with handwriting on the latest models in terms of being able to write down your own math equations and have the iPad solve them plus writing hand written notes and having the iPad clean them up to keep them in your hand writing style (but cleaner and more readable) that appeals to me. I really wish Apple would work with Microsoft to find a way to let you markup Office documents with the Apple Pencil. If they did that I’d be all over one. Serious question. If you have an Apple Pencil is it pretty easy to mark up PDF files or do you need a paid 3rd party app to be able to do that?

Plus my Intel 27” iMac is getting very long in the tooth these days. I’ve had my eyes on a Mac Mini and either a Samsung or Apple 27” 5K monitor as a replacement for a while now. I figured when I heard they were releasing the M3 that we’d have new M3 Mac Mini’s by now but nope. Apple is making us wait for the M4 which I’m OK with but I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for the M2 Mac Mini’s to be upgraded at this point and I can’t bring myself to buy one knowing it’ll be a couple of processor generations behind in another couple of months.
The samsung monitor is annoying as F. I have one and a mac studio monitor, thousand times better and user friendly.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
splifingate Avatar
27 weeks ago
Though still perfectly capable, I gifted my v.9 iPad to a co-worker.

I also gifted a 2020 IPP to another co-worker (actually, her 10-yo Son).

Neither of whom could ever find space to allocate even USD200 of non-discretionary funds into their budget.

Oh, and two less devices occupying space in my Home ;)
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
thettareddast Avatar
27 weeks ago

Really? I’m a bit surprised. I’ve heard the Apple is better from others but the question for me with the various deals out there now is that is it really that much better to justify the price difference? It sounds like you’d be in the yes category on that one.

Can you elaborate a bit? What’s so annoying about it? I’m not somebody who’s hung up on colors to the extent that somebody who deals with images professionally or as an enthusiast might be so if it’s annoying because the colors are off when looking at photos you’ve taken or videos you’ve recorded someone like me wouldn’t notice unless it’s way, way off so I’m curious if you think a user like me would notice the difference or is it annoying for other reasons? Any infor you can give would be greatly appreciated because I’ll be in the market for a good 27” 5K monitor soon. Thanks!!!
I use a Samsung Viewfinity S9 5K at work, and being the sucker that I am bought a Viewfinity S9 4K at home. (Okay to my excuse the local hardware market here is tiny).

Janky controls. Terrible USB-C functionality. Sometimes it charges devices. Sometimes it doesn't. Never delivers anywhere near the advertised power.

If you're often docking a laptop to the monitor with USB-C, and the laptop often complains about the power, then its a hugely frustrating experience.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sw1tcher Avatar
27 weeks ago

What's the deal? Save on Bose headphones and speakers
Where can I get it? Bose

Bose Back To School Sale (25% OFF)

Bose kicked off a back to school sale this week, offering up to 25% off select headphones, earbuds, speakers, and other audio devices. During this sale you can get the Bose QuietComfort Headphones for $249.00, down from $349.00.
Better deal from Newegg, but only in the White Smoke color though.

$249.00 ('https://www.newegg.com/bose-884367-0100-headphone-black/p/N82E16826627142?Item=N82E16826627142') + Newegg $60.00 Promotional Gift Card (Email Delivery) + 12% (or $29.88) off with coupon code ZIP2SCHOOL

Even if you have no use for the $60 Newegg Gift Card, it's still cheaper at $219.12 after coupon.




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