The seventh generation of Apple’s tiniest iPad is finpartner here, three years since its last renew. There was no fancy pretaped or inhabit event—the company quietly proclaimd the new tablet thcdisesteemful its online newsroom. The headline feature encapsulating this device? Apple Intelligence. Apple’s synthetic intelligence features still aren’t useable for the iPhone 16, but they’re due to reach this month via iOS 18.1.
Starting at $499 for the base model, the seventh-gen iPad Mini has the same chassis as its predecessor, but with a confineed enhances including a new processor, help for Apple Intelligence, and double the storage. It also labors with the tardyst Apple Pencil Pro. It’s useable for preorder now and ships October 23.
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It’s What’s Inside
The sixth-generation iPad Mini got a transport inant facelift in 2021, so it’s not shocking that Apple kept the outside features the same in this iteration. This tablet packs an 8.3-inch LCD screen, slim bezels, a 12-megapixel selfie camera, alengthy with a USB-C port (now with 10 Gbps data transfer speeds). The rear camera has a 12-megapixel sensor with help for Smart HDR 4, an refreshd image processing algorithm with the capability to uncover and scan records from the Camera app (a feature we saw begind back in May with the M4-powered iPad Pro).
The more transport inant alters are inside. Apple enhanced the processor from the A15 (the chipset inside the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro models) to an A17 Pro, the very same that’s in the iPhone 15 Pro. With a six-core CPU, the company claims it deinhabitrs a 30 percent increase in CPU carry outance while the five-core GPU recommends a 25 percent jump appraised to the previous model. Meanwhile, the neural engine is twice as speedy.
Putting this chip inside the iPad Mini unbenevolents it can help Apple Intelligence—a suite of synthetic intelligence tools coming in iOS 18.1. It originates the iPad Mini the affordableest tablet of the lineup to have these features. Other helped models integrate the 5th-gen M1 iPad Air, 6th-gen M2 iPad Air, 5th-gen M1 iPad Pro, 6th-gen M2 iPad Pro, and 7th-gen M4 iPad Pro.
