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It's been a busy week of Apple announced news, with the company refreshing its Mac and iPad lineups. As a result, there are deals aplenty on older models as part of an apparent clear out. Take, for instance, the 10th-gen iPad. It's $89 off at $260, bringing the tablet back down to its record-low price. The biggest discount is on the blue and silver colorways. The pink one will run you an extra $9, while the yellow one is $279. The 10th-gen iPad arrived in late 2022. At least until we put the new model through its paces, this is our current pick for the best budget iPad a recommendation that automatically becomes a little stronger whenever it gets this kind of discount. We gave this model a score of 85 in our review. We felt that the screen was somewhat lacking compared with those found in the likes of the iPad Air. However, we appreciated several updates such as the switch to a USB-C charging port and improved performance compared with the previous base iPad. Apple also moved the front-facing camera to the landscape edge, making video calls much more palatable when you're using the tablet in that orientation. If you just want an iPad to help you catch up on reading and email, control your smart home devices, watch videos and stream music, this is probably the one to go for. More resource-intensive tasks will require a more powerful tablet, but this one will handle the basics. Meanwhile, if you're interested in picking up the latest base iPad, you can pre-order one now. Our explainer details just how to do that. Apple has upgraded the chipset to an A16 and doubled the base storage to 128GB, but there's no support for Apple Intelligence in the 11th-gen iPad. Check out our coverage of the best Apple deals for more discounts, and follow @EngadgetDeals on X for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-10th-gen-ipad-is-back-on-sale-for-an-all-time-low-price-of-260-171121705.html?src=rss
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The second lunar lander by Intuitive Machines has made its way to the Moon, but not without incident. The Athena vehicle may not be upright, which is what happened to the companys Odysseus lander upon touchdown back in February. CEO Steve Altemus said during the post-landing news conference that he doesnt believe that Athena is in the correct attitude on the surface of the Moon yet again. Altemus said that the company will know for sure in the coming days once the team gets a picture from the lunar reconnaissance orbital camera from above. Data from the landers inertial measurement unit does seem to indicate a sideways orientation. We do know that Athena has touched down approximately 100 miles from the lunar south pole, which is where it's supposed to be. Athena is part of the companys IM-2 mission, which is a partnership with NASA to (finally) bring crewed missions back to the Moon. The lander also carries a bevy of payloads and scientific instruments designed to look for evidence of water on the lunar surface. The companys previous lander Odysseus was the first privately owned spacecraft to reach the Moons surface, though it toppled over. Rival company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its own Blue Ghost spacecraft onto the lunar surface earlier this week, and this one landed upright. As for Athena, its currently charging on the surface and is communicating with the mission team here on Earth. However, performance seems to be sub-optimal. Were not getting everything that we had asked for in terms of power generation and communications, Altemus said. This could impact the lifespan of the landers ten-day mission, though the company has done some power conservation steps as prudent measures to see how long and what objectives we can accomplish in the mission going forward. When the orientation is confirmed, the team can start figuring out how many of the payloads and instruments are in working order. These include a drill that searches for ice and a hopping drone vehicle that the company has scheduled to explore a permanently shadowed crater.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/intuitive-machines-second-moon-mission-seems-to-have-gone-as-well-as-the-first-162637189.html?src=rss
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One of the best things about Apple upgrading one of its devices is that you can find better deals on older, still very capable models. Just days after the company announced the M4-powered MacBook Air, a version of the laptop with the M2 chipset has dropped to a new record low of $699. Thats $300 off the regular price. This is a variant with 16GB of RAM rather than the base models 8GB. That's really the bare minimum of RAM you should be looking for these days (and we were pleased to see Apple start giving the MBA 16GB of RAM as standard). You'll also get 256GB of SSD storage in this system. This discount is quite transparently an effort to clear out M2 MBA stock ahead of the M4-powered models impending arrival. And while we currently rank the M3 MBA as the best MacBook and best laptop overall, the M2 version isnt anything to sniff at especially at this price. In our 2022 review, we called the M2 MBA a near-perfect Mac and awarded it a score of 96. We liked the performance (which of course has been surpassed by the M3 system), thin form factor and terrific display and audio. The M2 MBA should still be more than capable of handling most everyday tasks. It also supports Apple Intelligence features, for those who are interested in that sort of thing. So this is a great deal on a killer, if a little older, laptop. Check out our coverage of the best Apple deals for more discounts, and follow @EngadgetDeals on X for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-m2-macbook-air-with-16gb-of-ram-drops-to-a-new-low-of-699-154743334.html?src=rss
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