After three long years ( and one long month ) of waiting , Apple has in the end unveiled the seventh - gen iPad mini . It did so today in a press loss rather than holding a sensitive case , and the reasons for this diffidence become apparent when you see how much , or rather how little , has switch .
The main upgrade is the central processing unit , which has double - jump-start from the A15 to the A17 Pro ( though with a 5 - gist GPU instead of the 6 - magnetic core GPU in the iPhone 15 Pro ) . Thanks to this ironware bump the novel iPad miniskirt supports Apple Intelligence — that presumably also means the RAM will increase from 4 GB to 8 GiB , although Apple does n’t list the RAM specs for anything other than M - series processors . But still , it leave the mini a long way behind the iPad Air which used to be its larger - screened equivalent and is now two genesis into M - social class Mac chips .
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Beyond the CPU rise , you have to look pretty hard to spot changes from the 2021 model :
So to tot up up , the physical design is unaltered , which means we still get a portraiture - orientation FaceTime photographic camera instead of thefar superiorlandscape design . The cameras are all the same , although Smart HDR 4 may mean they perform slimly good in challenge lighting condition . It has n’t joined the premium iPads in getting admittance to the M check family , or the option to yield for 1 TB of computer storage . It does n’t get a Smart Connector or its own Magic Keyboard . Apple even used the same wallpaper in marketing images on its website .
A small-scale update , then . permit ’s hope we do n’t have to wait three years for the next modeling . The new iPad mini isavailable to pre - ordernow and will embark on Wednesday , October 23 . It start up at $ 499/£499 .
