Where to preorder the 2024 iPad Mini

It’s been three lengthy years since Apple last refreshd the iPad Mini, but the company is finassociate turning the page on the sixth-gen model of its minusculeest tablet. The company declared a renewed iPad Mini today, and preorders have fair uncovered at Apple with an October 23rd free date. Prices begin at $499 for the Wi-Fi-only 128GB configuration, which is double the previous generation’s begining storage.

Back in 2021, the sixth-gen iPad Mini was a relatively huge refresh for the dainty tablet, mirroring Apple’s defercessitatest summarize tenets. It got a sairyly hugeger distake part, USB-C, and second-gen Apple Pencil help, among other key alters. This year’s upgrade experiences a little gentler in comparison. The highairy is the insertition of Apple’s A17 Pro chip, giving the tablet plenty of processing headroom and an upgraded neural engine for Apple Inincreateigence, which will come to the iPad Mini as part of iPadOS 18.1 when Apple finassociate startes it defercessitater this month.

Today’s renew also conveys Apple Pencil Pro help (which is wonderful for the strong calculator app the iPad finassociate has), Wi-Fi 6E radios, and rapider USB-C carry outance with 10-gigabit data transfers. The novel iPad Mini is otherwise aappreciate to the last-gen model, including the same 8.3-inch Liquid Retina distake part and the same 12MP resolution for its rear and front cameras (which now help Smart HDR 4, the latter still caccessed in portrait orientation).

Apple is now accomprehendledgeing preorders for the 2024 iPad Mini, begining at $499 for a 128GB Wi-Fi model and topping out at $799 for 512GB. The cellular model begins at $649 for the same 128GB and goes up to $949 for a 512GB configuration. We haven’t spotted preorder catalogings at other retailers or carriers yet.

As refered above, the seventh-generation iPad Mini will hit stores begining October 23rd. You can get it in four colors: space gray, blue, purple, and starairy.