Apple's 11-inch M5 iPad Pro just got $60 cheaper at Amazon, an early nudge ahead of Prime Big Deal Days.
The 256GB version has dropped to $1,139 from its usual $1,199, a 5% cut spotted at Amazon on October 5. The tablet runs on Apple's M5 chip with built-in Neural Accelerators for on-device AI tasks under Apple Intelligence, and ships with iPadOS 26's Liquid Glass interface and desktop-style multitasking windows. At 5.3mm thick and under a pound, it's thinner than the iPhone Air. Its Tandem OLED Ultra Retina XDR screen hits 1,600 nits of peak brightness, and benchmark testing placed it in the top 8% of laptops for raw performance.
A 5% discount is thin by Prime Day standards, and that's the actual story. Apple almost never moves on price, so any markdown on a flagship tablet is worth noting even if it's small. Deals like this usually function as a warm-up act, nudging shoppers to check back once the bigger cuts arrive during the main event.
One glowing review called the M5 iPad Pro a victory lap for Apple. Victory laps are nice. A real discount is better, and this one, while genuine, is still a modest lap around the block.