Deals: Apple's 2020 iPad Pro Lineup Marked Down by as Much as $200 in New Sales

Not good deals at all. I scored $150 off on a 2021 model from Costco.

Still way to expensive for how much more powerful and faster this new iPad Pro is. $200 savings for 2018 processor in 2021 isn’t enough, especially if the new M1 iPad gets special treatment at WWDC🤞🤞

Let me know how soon I can get the 2020 1 TB iPad Pro 11 gently used with warranty for $600-$700.

I checked and I paid $580 for a gently used, 3 months of warranty iPad Pro 10.5 512GB in early December 2018 a few months after the iPad Pro 11 launched.

These devices are so useless and limited for actual productivity in my use case, so it’s just a YouTube, NetFlix viewer or web browser. I wish higher storage capacity wasn’t limited to the Pro.

Just curious: Why do you need lots of storage for a "useless and limited YouTube, Netflix viewer or web browser" device?

Why do you need a Pro or Air at all? The base iPad should more than meet your needs.

Even your current 10.5 should do the trick.

These seem mighty expensive to me.

The current 10.5 does do the trick, that’s why I returned the 11” Pro I bought last year. I have high resolution music, a bunch of TV shows and movies. Sure I don’t NEED all of those movies and stuff on the device, but i shouldn’t have to chose. It came in handy when I was hospitalized for a month. Hospital WiFi was terrible, but I had enough entertainment on the iPad to last the 4.5 weeks I was there.

I hope that whatever ailed you has been overcome :)

Cloud storage costs a monthly fee and costs data, data is expensive, reception varies, etc. I’d rather be able to have local access to my files like I’ve had ever since I first touched a computer.

Boomers and GenX'ers like myself care into this category a lot, which is one of the reasons why I've been waiting to pull the trigger on a personal iPad until now (my wife and daughter have had one for years).

I was also hoping to use the files app to store all of my files locally, but there’s no way to exclude the contents stored in Files from being backed up to iCloud either, so the 250GB I copied over folder by folder (since files.app crashes with large files) and then was surprised to see no way to stop it from being added to iCloud, even though I have it backed up on 3 separate hard drives. 🙄 Give me a 512GB iPad Air with the speakers and promotion of the 2017 10.5, save the M1

I need at least 1TB to keep all my data local. However, I didn't know that there is forced iCloud syncing of files. Hmm.

I remember Phil Schiller said at WWDC in 2009 when talking about the Mac “Great hardware deserves great software, and to Craig Federghi is gonna tell you all about it” I always thought that was a smart way to go about it. I didn’t buy a Mac just because it had better build quality but because of Apple’s iLife and iWork suits at the time.

I guess that principle doesn’t apply to the iPad Pro though. The software capabilities/limitations are the same as on a 2017 iPad Pro with 4GB ram, 2020
$329 iPad or $2300 iPad Pro with 16GB ram. Sad!

Great hardware does deserve great software, and the iPad has been neglected by the software engineering teams while the hardware teams push forward. Adding mouse support doesn’t really count because that doesn’t take advantage of any special hardware found in the iPad Pro models.

My Macs have also been primarily iLife devices, and still are. I do not use them in any professional capacity, and never have, twenty years in.

But now the iPad can handle literally EVERYTHING I have EVER used a Mac for (and a few new things only an iPad can do), so it looks like it's the end of an era in my house.

The beauty of it is that none of this detracts from the awesome Mac products here now and still to come.

I keep track of depreciation for all my Apple devices on a spreadsheet. Saving $200 on a $1000 device that’s over a year old with a useful lifespan of about five years isn’t much of a deal.