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SAVE UP TO $100: As of Dec. 10, Apple’s brand new iPad, iPad Air, and 12.9-inch iPad Pro are all on sale at Walmart for as low as $299, $599, and $949, respectively — and if you order one soon, it should arrive before Christmas.
Hoping to score a new iPad this holiday season? So is everyone else, apparently: Google’s 2020 Shopping Gift Guide notes that searches for tablets are up 12% this year, with the all-new iPad Air from September nabbing the No. 5 spot on its list of the top trending items for techies.
Anecdotally, it’s been way harder than usual to find an Apple tablet in stock lately. Best Buy is pretty well picked-over — the new iPad was completely sold out on its website the last time we checked — and much of Amazon’s extremely fickle inventory is on backorder until after Christmas.
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But don’t resign yourself to gifting everyone on your shopping list a scented candle or pair of socks — not yet, at least. Walmart‘s inventory has remained relatively stable as of late, and better yet, the three new iPads it had in stock at the time of writing were all on sale *and* scheduled to arrive well before Christmas. (The latest estimated delivery date we saw was Dec. 15, which still gives you plenty of time for wrapping.)
Here’s a brief rundown of the models available (and the savings Walmart’s afforded to each):
Estimated delivery date: Tuesday, Dec. 15
The new eighth-gen iPad features a 10.2-inch Retina display, a Touch ID button, an all-day battery life, and an A12 Bionic chip (with the Neural Engine) that’s said to be 40% faster and offer twice the graphics capabilities as its predecessor.
Walmart has 32GB configuration with WiFi on sale in space gray for just $299 — that’s almost 10% off its suggested retail price of $329. (That’s not quite its Black Friday pricing of $279, but it’s still a pretty good deal considering how new this model is.)
Estimated delivery date: Saturday, Dec. 12
The shiny new iPad Air, meanwhile, offers a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone technology in addition to Apple’s new A14 Bionic chip, which makes it powerful enough for beefier tasks like playing video games and editing 4K videos.
This tablet typically retails for $599, but the green variant of the 64GB model with WiFi support just returned to its Cyber Weekend price at Walmart — get it for just $559.
Estimated delivery date: Saturday, Dec. 12 – Tuesday, Dec. 15
Deemed “a major upgrade from the last model” by Mashable senior editor Stan Schroeder, the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro come equipped with a Liquid Retina display, trackpad support, a LiDAR Scanner for augmented reality, and the A12Z Bionic chip, which Apple claims makes it “faster and more powerful than most Windows PC laptops.” (It was released in April alongside an 11-inch model, which is the one new iPad Walmart doesn’t currently have in stock.) You can read Mashable’s official review of it here.
You can take your pick from two configurations of the WiFi-only version at Walmart: Get the 128GB model in silver or space gray for just $949 (a $50 savings) or the 256GB variant in space gray for only $999 (a $100 savings).
