Apple's newest hardware just started taking pre-orders, and the deal trackers are already circling. 9to5Toys published a roundup on Thursday pulling together the pre-order offers currently live across the OLED iPad mini, the M6 iMac, the M6 MacBook Pro and the MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display.
The headline offer is on the OLED iPad mini. Retailers are bundling a free $50 gift card with pre-orders, and buyers who trade in an eligible old device can knock off up to $300, according to 9to5Toys. The outlet did not list a base price for the new tablet, so the final cost still depends on the configuration and whatever trade-in credit a given device qualifies for.
Apple's M6 iMac is also open for pre-order now, per the roundup, though again no specific discount figure was attached to it. The same goes for the M6 MacBook Pro and the step-up MacBook Pro model built around a PROLED XDR display, both of which 9to5Toys says have deals running without naming a dollar amount.
A few accessory deals in the same post come with harder numbers. AirPods Pro 3 are back down to 20 percent off on Amazon, a price 9to5Toys flagged as having come and gone before. Apple's USB-C Apple Pencil is listed starting at $59 on Amazon, something the outlet ties to people trading in their old Pencil now that the iPhone Duo has shipped. The AirTag 2 is at what 9to5Toys calls its lowest price ever, though no figure was given.
There's also a smaller, odder thread in the post involving Apple's new HomeView smart display. 9to5Toys reported that pre-order discounts on the Space Gray HomeView model briefly vanished from retailers before reappearing, the kind of here-and-gone pricing that tends to happen in the chaotic first days after a launch, when inventory and promo codes are still being sorted out behind the scenes.
Separately, the site noted a pre-order discount on the 2026 Apple TV 4K, estimating the box works out to roughly 21 cents a day over a typical ownership period, and pointed to Amazon pricing on Apple's Dynamic Power Adapter, the fast charger built for the iPhone Duo, as cheaper than buying it directly from Apple.
None of this is locked in. Pre-order deals on first-week Apple hardware tend to shift fast, with gift-card offers and trade-in values changing by retailer and sometimes by the day. Anyone eyeing the OLED iPad mini or the new Mac desktops should expect the specifics, especially trade-in values, to keep moving before the hardware actually starts shipping.
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