Consumers looking for deals on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model) are in luck. Amazon and Best Buy both have discounts available on all colors. The 128GB tablet, typically priced at $599, is now available for $499. This price point was last seen in late April. The discount applies to all colors, including the popular starlight and soft blue options. The 13-inch 128GB model is also discounted by $100, bringing the starting price down to $699 at both Amazon and Best Buy.

While the M3 model may appear similar to the M2 version, there are internal enhancements. Along with the chip upgrade, which includes hardware-accelerated ray tracing for improved gaming performance, the M3 model supports encoding and decoding of ProRes footage, and also decoding of AV1-encoded video. It also offers hardware-accelerated 8K HEVC and ProRes RAW support, features not available on the previous generation iPad Air. These enhancements make it a suitable choice for video creators.

Like the M2 model,the latest iPad Air features a front-facing camera positioned in the center of the display when in landscape mode. this design choice is ideal for video calls.This feature is available on the Air and the base model, but not on the iPad Pro.

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“Anyone would struggle to tell the M3 model apart from the M2, though there are some notable differences internally.”