• Current price: $399.99 (11% off)
• Original price: $449.00

Apple’s tried-and-true tablet, the base model iPad, is arguably the best value in the company’s tablet lineup thanks to its versatility and compatibility. It’s our pick for the best iPad overall.

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Plus, Apple updated this tablet earlier this year to include double the base storage as last year’s model, more random-access memory (RAM), and an upgraded processor in the A16 Bionic chip.

• Current price: $279.99 (24% off)
• Original price: $369.99

The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is the perfect nexus between a reading tablet and a regular tablet. TCL’s Nxtpaper technology lets you switch from regular mode to color paper to ink paper (the most similar to what you can expect from an e-reader). Its display helps reduce eye strain while reducing blue light, omitting a conventional backlight, and eliminating flickering, making it easier on the eyes than traditional screens while displaying the different types of content you’d expect from a tablet or smartphone.

Review: TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus

• Current price: $1,199.99 (26% off)
• Original price: $1,499.99

This Surface Pro is for professionals who want a high-performance machine with a brilliant display. The additional accessories, like the keyboard and pen, make it even more enticing as a tablet that can double as a computer.

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• Current price: $72.99 (53% off)
• Original price: $154.99

The Fire HD 10 features a 10.1-inch HD display, and gets up to 13 hours of use on a single charge, so you can game, browse, watch, or read all day. The basic configuration is equipped with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of built-in storage, but you can expand that up to 1TB with a microSD card.

• Current price: $599.00 (20% off)
• Original price: $749.00

This thin iPad is a great option for creatives and students. It’s not a midrange tablet, but it’s one of the middle iPads, between the base model and the iPad Pro. It also has compatibility with the Magic Keyboard and the Apple Pencil Pro. 

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• Current price: $399.00 (13% off)
• Original price: $459.99

This is one of the few midrange Android tablets that can truly work for entertainment and productivity, carefully straddling both lines. Each Lenovo Idea Tab Pro includes a Lenovo Tab Pen Plus, which means you don’t have to spend more money on an additional stylus.

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• Current price: $94.99 (44% off)
• Original price: $169.99

This model is easily the best tablet for kids. Not only does it have a kid-proof case built to withstand the whims of 3- to 7-year-olds, but users get a free six-month Amazon Kids+ subscription, which grants them access to thousands of kid-friendly and ad-free books, as well as movies, games, and other age-appropriate and educational content. 

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