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Here's an important lesson some of you are likely to learn the hard way this holiday shopping season. You never buy a popular tech product a day or two before a retailer like Amazon plans to kick off a sitewide sales event like Prime Day. Especially when said device is not very new and when it has been deeply discounted before.
If you do, you risk settling for a decent but not mind-blowing $100 price cut when you could have scored a towering $120 discount simply by exercising a little patience. That's the case with Apple's 2024-released iPad mini right now in every storage variant and color option, as well as both with and without cellular connectivity, and believe it or not, you don't even need a Prime membership to maximize your savings on your favorite model today.
Apple iPad mini (A17 Pro)
$120 off (24%)
Wi-Fi Only, 128GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
Wi-Fi Only, 256GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
Wi-Fi + Cellular, 5G, Unlocked, 128GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
Wi-Fi + Cellular, 5G, Unlocked, 256GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
Wi-Fi Only, 512GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
Wi-Fi + Cellular, 5G, Unlocked, 512GB Storage, Apple A17 Pro Processor, 8.3-Inch Liquid Retina IPS LCD Screen with 2266 x 1488 Pixel Resolution, 12MP Rear Camera, 12MP Ultra-Wide Front Camera with Center Stage, Side-mounted Fingerprint Sensor, USB Type-C Port, All-Day Battery Life, Apple Intelligence Support, Wi-Fi 6E Connectivity, Multiple Color Options
That being said, Amazon is making it clear that the killer new deal will go away with all the October Prime Day 2025 promotions that do require a membership, so I strongly recommend you hurry if you think that the iPad mini (A17 Pro) might be the best tablet for you.
Unless, of course, you already pulled the trigger at a $100 discount, in which case... hey, 20 bucks is not exactly a fortune, now, is it? The seventh-generation iPad mini, remember, was released at a starting price of $499, thus costing quite a bit more than the "normal-sized" 11-inch iPad (2025) and just $100 less than an iPad Air 11 with Apple M3 processing power in an entry-level configuration.
That compact body is without a doubt the iPad mini's key selling point for some and main weakness for others. | Image Credit -- PhoneArena
With a super-compact 8.3-inch Liquid Retina screen in tow, this bad boy doesn't have a lot of direct rivals on the market today, which makes Amazon's latest and greatest discounts (for both Prime members and non-members) that much more attractive and harder to turn down.
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