The iPad Air is already back at its Prime Day price, but should you wait for Black Friday?

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iPad Air deals remain some of the most popular offers arou😼nd this time of year, and November may well hold some record low prices on this middle child Apple tablet. However, we're already seeing the 64GB model at its lowest price yet and we're still a couple of months away from the main event. 

You can pick up the 2022 model for just right now (was $599.99) for a full $100 off the M1 device. That's excellent value, and a return to a rate we last saw in July's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Prime Day iPad deals. Whether the retailer is gearing up for its second wave (Amazon Big Deal Days, running October 10-11) or the age of last year's release is catching up to it we can't say. This is still a great price on a hardy device - one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best gaming tablets in fact. 

There's a but here. Black Friday♑ is coming, and this $499 sale price has been creeping back onto the shelves regularly throughout the last few months. The iPad Air seems to be fairly comfortable at $500, then, which could speak to further discounts heading our way in November. 

iPad Air (64GB) | $599.99 $499.99 at Amazon
Save $100 -

iPad Air (64GB) |
Save $100 - The iPad Air is looking particul꧑arly strong at $100 off right now, with Amazon dropping that $599.ﷺ99 MSRP all the way down to $499.99. That's a record low price. 

Buy it if:

You need a note-taking device
You want solid gaming performance
You don't need a high refresh rate

Don't buy it if:

❌ You just need an everyday browsing device
❌ You use more demanding workflows

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Should you buy the iPad Air before Black Friday?

With that $499.99 sale price reliably trotting back to the shelves every few weeks, we're sceptical that this is the lowest the iPad Air will go this year. If Amazon really wants to make a splash with its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday iPad deals, it'll drop a brand new record breaking discount over the🐽 course of the holiday sales. Crucially, though, we don't expect Apple to be releasing any new iPa𝕴ds in 2023. And that can mean one of two things. 

Either the iPad Air will continue to truck on, steadily dropping further and further in price as its 2022 release date fades into the background, or it will stay close to this $499 position without anything new pushing old stock off the shelves. I'm inclined to predict the latter. These are Apple devices a♓nd we can see older models holding their value for a particularly long time. The previous generation iPad Mini stuck close to its MSRP for years at a time after all. Plus, with the 10th generation iPad positioning itself just underneath the Air's sale price (at $449 MSRP) there's🍷 not much further for the Air to fall. 

Yes, we could see a few extra iPad deals over Black Friday, but these are going to be token savings. The previous iPad Air 4 only ever dropped to $479 - and this could be where we see the 5th generation land. For the sake of $20, it's well worth jumping on this offer early, unless you pride yourself on grabbing the absolute💦 lowest price. 

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