Apple Launches Upgraded iPad Mini

<p><strong>CUPERTINO <&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Apple &&num;8212&semi; the world&&num;8217&semi;s most valuable company &&num;8212&semi; has introduced the new iPad mini featuring the A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence&comma; the easy-to-use personal intelligence system that understands personal context to deliver intelligence that is helpful and relevant while protecting user privacy&period; With a beloved ultraportable design&comma; the new iPad mini is available in four gorgeous finishes&comma; including a new blue and purple&comma; and features the brilliant 8&period;3-inch Liquid Retina display&period; A17 Pro delivers a huge performance boost for even the most demanding tasks&comma; with a faster CPU and GPU&comma; a 2x faster Neural Engine than the previous-generation iPad mini&comma;1 and support for Apple Intelligence&period; The versatility and advanced capabilities of the new iPad mini are taken to a whole new level with support for Apple Pencil Pro&comma; opening up entirely new ways to be even more productive and creative&period; The 12MP wide back camera supports Smart HDR 4 for natural-looking photos with increased dynamic range&comma; and uses machine learning to detect and scan documents right in the Camera app&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new iPad mini features all-day battery life and brand-new experiences with iPadOS 18&period; Starting at just &dollar;499 with 128GB — double the storage of the previous generation — the new iPad mini delivers incredible value and the full iPad experience in an ultraportable design&period; Customers can pre-order the new iPad mini with availability beginning Wednesday&comma; October 23&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is no other device in the world like iPad mini&comma; beloved for its combination of powerful performance and versatility in our most ultraportable design&period; iPad mini appeals to a wide range of users and has been built for Apple Intelligence&comma; delivering intelligent new features that are powerful&comma; personal&comma; and private&comma;” said Bob Borchers&comma; Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the powerful A17 Pro chip&comma; faster connectivity&comma; and support for Apple Pencil Pro&comma; the new iPad mini delivers the full iPad experience in our most portable design at an incredible value&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new iPad mini gets a major update with A17 Pro&comma; delivering improved performance and power efficiency in an ultraportable design&period; A17 Pro is a powerful chip that unlocks a number of improvements over A15 Bionic in the previous-generation iPad mini&period; With a 6-core CPU — two performance cores and four efficiency cores — A17 Pro delivers a 30 percent boost in CPU performance&period;1 A17 Pro also brings a boost in graphics performance with a 5-core GPU&comma; delivering a 25 percent jump over the previous generation&period;1 A17 Pro brings entirely new experiences — including pro apps used by designers&comma; pilots&comma; doctors&comma; and others — and makes it faster than ever for users to edit photos&comma; dive into more immersive AR applications&comma; and more&period; The new iPad mini brings true-to-life gaming with hardware-accelerated ray tracing — which is 4x faster than software-based ray tracing — as well as support for Dynamic Caching and hardware-accelerated mesh shading&period; From creating engaging content faster than ever in Affinity Designer&comma; to playing demanding&comma; graphics-intensive AAA games like Zenless Zone Zero&comma; users can take the powerful performance and ultraportable iPad mini anywhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Available in blue&comma; purple&comma; starlight&comma; and space gray&comma; the new iPad mini starts at &dollar;499 for the Wi-Fi model&comma; and &dollar;649 for the Wi-Fi &plus; Cellular model&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;