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Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has sold for just once before in late April. Whether you’re partial to the porcelain-esque starlight color, or the soft blue, you’ll get the same price. The 13-inch 128GB model is $100 off, too, selling for $699 to start at Amazon and Best Buy.
Anyone would struggle to tell the M3 model apart from the M2, though there are some notable differences internally. Aside from the chip boost, which brings along hardware-accelerated ray tracing in games, this model can encode and decode ProRes footage, and decode AV1-encoded video. Additionally, it supports hardware-accelerated 8K HEVC and ProRes RAW, two formats that are left out if you’re using the previous generation iPad Air. In short, it seems great for video creators.
Notably, like the M2 model, the latest iPad Air features a front-facing camera that’s oriented in the middle of the display when it’s in landscape mode, where most people are accustomed to looking during video calls. This is a feature you won’t find on the iPad Pro; it’s only available on the Air and the base model. Read our review of the 2025 model.
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