Today's the last day to get a complimentary iPad Mini 2, with a $269 value, with the purchase of select MacBook Pros or a 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display at Best Buy during the retailer's Memorial Day sale. The tablet on offer is the iPad Mini 2 16 GB Wi-Fi in space gray.
There's no promo code or special procedure that needs to be entered or completed in order to pick up the free iPad Mini 2 along with a qualifying purchase. Simply adding a qualifying purchase into a BestBuy.com shopping cart will automatically trigger the promotion and add the iPad to the transaction.
The iPad Mini 2 16 GB Wi-Fi in space gray features a 7.9-inch Retina display, which outputs a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536. It has a 5 MP iSight camera capable of capturing 1,080p videos and a 1.3 MP FaceTime camera.
The tablet is driving by a 1.3 GHz A7 processor and an M7 motion coprocessor. And it offers up to 10 hours of battery life. The iPad Mini 2 comes with iOS 7, though it can be updated to iOS 9.
Back in 2013, when the iPad Mini 2 was launched, TechRadar's Gareth Beavis wrote that the tablet was still a bit pricey. But with improvements in the right areas, he wrote that the iPad Mini 2 still felt like a "decent value for the money."
"It takes an already well made device and adds in so much more: the aluminum finish no longer feels like a deflection from the fact the original iPad mini didn't have the engine to compete with its Snapdragon-powered rivals," Beavis wrote.
For those who are only interested in the iPad Mini 2, eBay has nothing that's close to being free with regard to that tablet. But there are plenty of merchants offering huge deals on it.
eBay merchant niceshop99 is selling the 16 GB version of the iPad Mini 2 for $236 and the 32 GB version for $300, while merchants concept_electronics and e-techgalaxy are selling refurbs of the 16 GB iPad Mini 2 for $191 and $200 respectively.
