Apple Announces New, Faster iPad Mini Built For Apple Intelligence (theverge.com)
(Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:30PM (BeauHD)
from the new-and-shiny dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/10/15/2051249/apple-announces-new-faster-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24268079/apple-ipad-mini-2024-specs-price
In a [1]press release this morning, Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a [2]faster A17 Pro chip that supports Apple Intelligence . The Verge reports:
> The new Mini is mostly a spec bump: it runs a new A17 Pro chip, which Apple says has a 30 percent faster CPU, 25 percent faster GPU, and a Neural Engine twice as fast as the previous model. The device also supports the new Apple Pencil Pro, which is a nice touch for the Mini-toting artists out there, and comes with 128GB of storage in the base model rather than 64GB. (Those AI models need all the space they can get.) The Wi-Fi 6E chip is faster, the USB-C port is faster, everything about the iPad Mini is the same as before only faster this time.
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> The only real design change with the new Mini is the colors. Apple's gone more colorful with a lot of its products this year, and the Mini comes in new purple and blue models. In photos they look muted rather than vivid, though, so don't expect the eye-popping new colors on the iPhone 16.
[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-powerful-new-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence/
[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-powerful-new-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence/
> The new Mini is mostly a spec bump: it runs a new A17 Pro chip, which Apple says has a 30 percent faster CPU, 25 percent faster GPU, and a Neural Engine twice as fast as the previous model. The device also supports the new Apple Pencil Pro, which is a nice touch for the Mini-toting artists out there, and comes with 128GB of storage in the base model rather than 64GB. (Those AI models need all the space they can get.) The Wi-Fi 6E chip is faster, the USB-C port is faster, everything about the iPad Mini is the same as before only faster this time.
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> The only real design change with the new Mini is the colors. Apple's gone more colorful with a lot of its products this year, and the Mini comes in new purple and blue models. In photos they look muted rather than vivid, though, so don't expect the eye-popping new colors on the iPhone 16.
[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-powerful-new-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence/
[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-powerful-new-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence/
128GB, ugh (Score:2)
I just looked this up in the previous story to compare Comcast's overage charges to the cost of flash storage. You can buy a USB flash drive with that much storage for about $12, retail.
Yeah, this gets whined about every time Apple does a new release, but come on, half a grand for a tablet with only 128GB of un-upgradable storage? I'm still rocking a 5th gen iPad mini that has become slow as snot with the last few iOS updates and is badly in need of replacement, but I just can't justify the cost for a goo