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Buyer's Guide: Deals on MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, iPads, Apple Accessories, and More

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Now that Black Friday has ended, a lot of the more impressive deals have ended, but retailers are continuing to offer lingering discounts on a few products, including the 11-inch MacBook Air, 13 and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and remaining stock of now-discontinued high-capacity iPad Air and iPad mini 2 models.

In addition, we've also got some deals on software like CleanMyMac 2 and discounts on several Apple accessories in this week's Buyer's Guide discount post.

MacBook Air

- 11.6-inch 1.4GHz/4GB/128GB (Best Buy) (B&H Photo) (MacMall) - $799, $100 off
- 11.6-inch 1.4GHz/4GB/256GB (B&H Photo) (Adorama) - $999, $100 off
- 13.3-inch 1.4GHz/4GB/256GB (Best Buy) - $999.99, $199 off

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Retina MacBook Pro

- 13-inch 2.6GHz/8GB/256GB (Adorama) (B&H Photo) - $1,349, $150 off
- 13-inch 2.8GHz/8GB/512GB (Best Buy) (B&H Photo) - $1,599, $200 off
- 15-inch 2.2GHz/16GB/256GB (Adorama) (B&H Photo) - $1,699, $200 off
- 15-inch 2.5GHz/16GB/512GB (Adorama) (B&H Photo) - $2,199, $300 off

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Mac Pro

- 4-core 3.7GHz/12GB/256GB (B&H) - $2,599, $400 off
- 6-core 3.5GHz/16GB/256GB + free Apple Care (Adorama) - $3,499, $500 off

Original iPad Air

Best Buy is offering modest discounts of $30 to $60 off some remaining higher-capacity original iPad Air models, dropping the prices well below similar iPad Air 2 models.

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- iPad Air Cellular Silver 64GB (AT&T) - $597.99
- iPad Air Cellular Space Gray 64GB (AT&T) - $597.99
- iPad Air Cellular Silver 64GB (Verizon) - $597.99
- iPad Air Cellular Space Gray 64GB (Verizon) - $566.99
- iPad Air Cellular Silver 128GB (AT&T) - $787.99
- iPad Air Cellular Space Gray 128GB (AT&T) - $787.99
- iPad Air Cellular Silver 128GB (Verizon) - $787.99
- iPad Air Cellular Space Gray 128GB (Verizon) - $787.99

iPad mini 2

Best Buy is also offering discounts of $30 to $60 off some remaining higher-capacity iPad mini 2 models, dropping the prices well similar below iPad mini 3 models. The iPad mini 2 is a particularly good deal compared to the iPad mini 3, as the only difference is Touch ID.

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- iPad mini 2 WiFi-only Silver 64GB - $395.99
- iPad mini 2 WiFi-only Space Gray 64GB - $395.99
- iPad mini 2 WiFi-only Silver 128GB - $494.99
- iPad mini 2 WiFi-only Space Gray 128GB - $494.99

- iPad mini 2 Cellular AT&T Silver 64GB - $476.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular AT&T Space Gray 64GB - $502.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular Verizon Silver 64GB - $476.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular Verizon Space Gray 64GB - $502.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular AT&T Space Gray 128GB - $629.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular Verizon Silver 128GB - $629.99
- iPad mini 2 Cellular Verizon Space Gray 128GB - $597.99

Apple Accessories

Target is offering a $40 Target gift card with the purchase of Beats Drenched HD headphones for $169. At Best Buy, if you buy one iTunes gift card, you can get 20 percent off a second gift card.

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The Cobra iRAD 500 iRader Detection System can be purchased from Groupon for $39.99, $60 off its regular price. Woot is selling the Sony RDP-XF300IPN Bluetooth Dock for $139.99, a 44 percent discount and $10 off Amazon's price.

Groupon is selling the Beats by Dre Solo2 headphones for $159.99, a $40 discount. Apple Smart Covers for the iPad mini are available for $15.99 to $24.99 at Best Buy, down from $39.99.

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Software

MacRumors has teamed up with Macpaw to offer MacRumors readers a 50 percent discount on all Macpaw software including CleanMyMac 2 and Gemini, which finds duplicate files. The deal will last through December 12.

MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors.

Top Rated Comments

applesith Avatar
149 months ago
The iPad Mini 2 prices are pretty terrible. Don't buy them at $400, they can be had for much cheaper elsewhere.

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DipDog3 Avatar
149 months ago
The iPad Mini 2 prices are pretty terrible. Don't buy them at $400, they can be had for much cheaper elsewhere.
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