Not yet a hot deal but worthy of putting on the highlights list..... makes you wonder if Argos paid to have it put there

After their price hike after vote leave, it’s still more expensive then when it launched.

This isn’t a deal.

Last year Apple's "discount" included an education offer with Beats headphones on a sliding scale of value depending upon product bought. That's worth holding out for.

Cash discounts do crop up from time to time - Currys was offering £50 off the price of an iPad Pro last year and a new deal is likely soon if history is anything to go buy. I would never buy from Currys but if the hoped for education offer isn't your thing, it might be good.

Not yet a hot deal but worthy of putting on the highlights list..... makes you wonder if Argos paid to have it put there

The "Brexit" price rise occurred throughout the EU with some countries seeing a larger rise than the UK but, hey, blame Apple's self defeating tablet pricing policy on Brexit whilst tablets from other makers have fallen in price as the tablet market has bottomed out.

Anyway, this is not a hot deal. A discontinued tablet for £50 off when a newer, bigger, faster and better version is available for a little more......

Sold my 9.7 Pro whilst the price was optimum and am currently without a pro waiting for the inevitable special offers on the new Pro that will appear shortly including Apple's own spankingly good education offers that appear later in the summer.

Have had this iPad for a year and it's great, but I'd recommend to look for one on eBay as I managed to get a new 32gb cellular for £430 last summer

so people are excited about a last generation model which has £50 discount :confused:

The new Pros have 4GB of RAM; double that of the 1st gen Pros amongst other updates. 2GB on the 12.9" model was just ridiculously stingy given how large some apps are getting on iOS now.

Wait for 10.5 refurbs or find somebody with education discount.

The only difference to this deal over the refurb store is you are paying an extra £30 for a retail box and being able to go and get it the same day. The refurb store untis will appear brand new and have the same warranty as this one.

Thanks - gone and purchased a 9.7 Pro :smiley:

Can anyone tell what the difference is between the 9.7' Pro and the 9.7 (2017)? I currently own an iPad Air 2 and thinking of upgrading to the 9.7 Pro!

This is not true.

Yes it is, for sure :wink:

no sure, third gen 4G models are selling for just over 500 on ebay.

I think cheapest the iPad Pro has been was last November 21st when Argos did 10% off plus 10% quidco 128gb ended up at £525.69

Thank goodness there are other people as potty as I am!

I've had every iPad except iPad 4 and the new ones (iPad, iPad Pro 10.5, iPad Pro 12.9 2nd generation).

You guys are now pouring petrol on my smouldering desire to get the 10.5. You have to stop!

I have ipad air 2 (just for surfing/pics etc) its case is damaged (does not affect its use) I was tempted to upgrade to 128gb pro but would I really notice the difference

Yep not Brexit at all.

When it launched it was priced identically to the US - £499 excluding VAT was $597. It's US price was $599.

When they raised prices £499, again excluding tax, was only worth $514.

£549 excluding VAT was $566 so still represents a better deal than the US price.

Not sure what caused the currency devaluation, but it sure wasn't Brexit...

Personally wouldn't get the 9.7" Pro. Even the Apple Store employee said you're best off saving money and getting the 'new iPad' or spending more to get the 12.9. As much as I love using that 12.9 I imagined it being quite cumbersome. Decent deal if this fits your needs though.

The Pro is designed for use with the Pencil - the 120Hz improves the drawing performance (think it's less than 20ms now?) and also general performance on other functions (scrolling etc). Note the iPad Pro varies it's refresh up to 120Hz depending on what you're doing so that where it can save power it drops to a lower 60Hz.

The following video has a good explanation. The whole video is worth a watch, although the display-related details are at the 3:53 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dl8wLo1W6E

I’ve got a gen 1. This isn’t a big enough saving. The new one has been universally acclaimed to be better. The 120 refresh being the key issue! Really would say the processor and screen are worth the extra. £150 then maybe.

After their price hike after vote leave, it’s still more expensive then when it launched.

This isn’t a deal.

Great price, even better than the price on the Apple refurb store! (£569)

Well I’m still using an iPad 4 as well! Not so much now I got a 7+. I couldn’t go below the 12.9 iPad Pro as the sole reason I bought it was to use spilt screen apps for note taking and annotating PDFs. Even the 10.5 isn’t fit for that purpose. I also don’t think I’d benefit from the new features and I’ve got the 128GB model. That’s more then enough for a lot of media and thousands of PDFs and notes!

Loving my original 12.9 iPad pro, great deal!

Good news is that apart from the camera lens they look exactly same,so you could upgrade on the quite,she will never know,but you will :smile:

Oh god, don't tell me that, i've got the old one. I'll want to upgrade now, Big argument with the missus coming right up!

What's the difference between these and the current non-pro iPad?

JL price match with 3 year warranty?

Can't imagine myself getting too excited, the small difference in price to the new ones makes the idea of paying premium price for none premium tech feel a bit insensible. I was hoping there would be bigger drops on old tech when the new ones came out but at this price you may as well get the new ones if possible.

I mean the storage alone is worth £50 by Apple's usual pricing scheme so to then get the additional faster screen, processor, graphics, better cameras (probably go unused anyway though) and if you're going for the smaller version you even get more screen space now since that went from 9.7" to 10.5".