Apple's new iPad Air is available at a cool discount while still on pre-order
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Here's something you don't see very often. A brand-new Apple product, and an eagerly anticipated one at that, is getting a decent discount ahead of its actual commercial debut. Formally unveiled more than a month ago, the fastest and prettiest iPad Air edition yet is scheduled to finally start shipping tomorrow, October 23.
Technically, that means the 10.9-inch tablet is still up for pre-order at the time of this writing, normally fetching $600 and up with a state-of-the-art Apple A14 Bionic processor under the hood. Surprisingly, Amazon is currently allowing early adopters to shave a cool 40 bucks off the list price of that entry-level configuration with 64 gigs of internal storage space and no cellular connectivity... as long as you don't mind going for a snazzy new green paint job.
Obviously, there's no word on how long this unexpected deal might last, so if you're interested in the fourth-gen iPad Air and you like saving money, it's probably a good idea to pull the trigger as soon as possible. Then again, knowing Amazon, we wouldn't be shocked to see a bunch of other models score similar or even heftier discounts in the near future. After all, that's precisely what happened with both the Apple Watch Series 6 and eight-gen "regular" iPad shortly after their own commercial releases.
Compared to its 10.5-inch predecessor from 2019, the latest iPad Air version manages to squeeze some valuable extra screen real estate into a shorter and slightly wider body while gaining a lot of additional processing power thanks to the aforementioned 5nm-based A14 Bionic SoC.
Although the sleek 10.9-incher doesn't share a Face ID authentication system with the 11 and 12.9-inch iPad Pros released earlier this year, its "all-screen" design wouldn't have been possible without an ingenious top-mounted Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
All the other hues are unfortunately available at their regular price, and the same goes for every single color option of the 256GB Wi-Fi-only iPad Air (2020) and all LTE-enabled variants with both 64 and 256 gigs of local digital hoarding room.
Naturally, the iPad Air (2020) also comes with full support for the (separately sold) productivity-enhancing Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard, as well as "all-day" battery life.
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