Best Buy just low-key launched the best end-of year Apple sale

It may be entry-level, but we loved the iPad A16 (2025) when we reviewed it. It features the latest A16 chip for silky smooth performance, plus 128GB of storage as standard. It’s the perfect device for quick sketches and important notes, and its Liquid Retina screen elevates media playback. $279 is the lowest price we’ve seen, making it simply irresistible.

A step up from the A16, the 11-inch Air is powered by an optimized version of same M3 chip in Apple’s MacBooks. Combined with Apple Pencil Pro support you can intuitively let your creativity flow in powerful graphic design and drawing apps. The discount may not be quite as deep as the $150 Best Buy has taken off before, but $100 is still a decent saving on the latest and greatest iPad Air.

Need more screen real-estate? This iPad Air’s 13-inch screen gives you a huge blank canvas to fill with your most epic designs. Or you can multitask between apps, or kick back with a movie or series at just the right size. Internally it’s identical to its 11-inch brethren, and again we’ve seen it for $50 cheaper at Best Buy — but $100 is a substantial and rarely seen discount.

Treading the fine line between powerful tablet and teeny laptop, the iPad Pro boasts an M4 chip capable of high-end tasks such as video editing and high-DPI, multi-layer illustration in Procreate. It’s also super slim and beautifully designed, and its incredibly bright tandem OLED display makes even the most tedious of tasks a pleasure. If you missed out on the $100 saving on Black Friday, now’s your chance to grab one of these beauties with the same discount.

Apple’s astonishingly thin and light laptop is a portable powerhouse for photo editing and graphic design. At its core the finely tuned M4 chip can keep it going for up to 20 hours, while its glorious 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display and 16GB of RAM keep the visuals bright and smooth. It has been slightly cheaper at Best Buy, but $799 is still a bargain for such a laudable little laptop.

It may not be quite as light as the Air, and its quoted battery life is a couple of hours shorter — but the MacBook Pro beats it hands-down at everything else. Its supercharged M5 chip and 512GB of storage give you everything you need to edit 8K videos and render 3D content when you’re on the move, while its stunning Liquid Retina XDR display offers new levels of dynamic range. Best Buy’s offer price is a record low, so now’s a great time to pick up this utterly versatile machine.

The AirPods 4 were under $99.99 during Black Friday, but they’re still good value at $149.99. Apple has tailored their design to be weightlessly comfortable in ears of all sizes, with intuitive built-in controls. Beneath the hood, Apple’s H2 chip supports personalized spatial audio and voice isolation, and the noise cancellation works wonders in noisy environments.

… but if you want really good noise cancellation, look no further than the AirPods Pro 3, which Apple has equipped with the best ANC it’s ever made. Other smart features include Live Translation and a built-in heart rate sensor that can work alone or bolster your Apple Watch's pulse metrics. $30 might be the smallest saving in this round-up, but it’s the same as Best Buy's Black Friday discount.

If you’ve been considering an Apple Watch, this is the perfect time to make the leap. The Watch SE 3 is Apple’s entry-level model, but it’s packed with features, including an always-on display, sleep and health tracking, and a Ion-X display that Apple reckons is the toughest in the industry. With Best Buy’s $199.99 price tag, it’s the ideal time to enter the world of Apple wrist gizmos.