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Apple's older iPad Air 2 is now S$120 cheaper than before - is it a good deal?

By Alvin Soon - on 26 Mar 2016, 5:35pm

Apple's older iPad Air 2 is now S$120 cheaper

Note: This article was first published on 22nd March 2016.

Updated 23/3/16: A previous version of this article listed the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro as having 4GB of RAM, but it has been corrected to 2GB of RAM.

Apple has just announced their newest iPad, and instead of calling it the iPad Air 3, has named it the iPad Pro. Together with the announcement, Apple has also slashed the prices of the existing iPad Air 2 by S$120.

iPad Air 2 Prices Compared
  Original price New price
Capacity Wi-Fi only model
16GB S$688 S$568
64GB S$828 S$708
128GB S$968 N.A.
Capacity Wi-Fi + Cellular model
16GB S$868 S$748
64GB S$1,008 S$888
128GB S$1,148 N.A.

Is this a deal? It depends. Keep in mind that the iPad Air 2 is not last year’s model, it is a 2014 model (Apple skipped an iPad Air refresh in 2015).

So while the iPad Air 2 is thinner and faster than the original iPad Air, it’s running a two-year old A8X chip with 2GB of RAM. The new iPad Pro tablets both run the A9X chip (1.8x faster than A8X), the 12.9-inch has 4GB of RAM while the 9.7-inch model has 2GB of RAM.

Plus, the 128GB edition of iPad Air 2 is no longer available on Apple’s store, and only the iPad Pro models come with a new, larger 256GB capacity option.

Of course, you pay for all that power and storage. The new 9.7-inch iPad Pro sees an increase in price over the iPad Air 2; both the 128GB Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi + Celluar models cost S$190 more than the iPad Air 2 when it first debuted with the 128GB capacity option. For furhter comparison’s sake, the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro with 32GB of storage and Wi-Fi costs S$898, more than the iPad Air 2 with 64GB of storage and Wi-Fi’s launch price of S$828.

If you don’t need all that power and storage though - and it’s unlikely that you will, if all you do on your iPad is surf the internet and watch videos - then today’s slash in price may make sense for you.

P.S. And if you want further bargains, there are always the refurbished iPads, which come with a one-year warranty from Apple.

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