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Apple Tuesday unveiled a new translation of the iPad mini updated for the geological era ofApple Intelligence . The arrival is powered by the A17 Pro chip , bringing compatibility with Apple Intelligence , the society ’s new generative AI offering .
The new arrival marks the first major update to the 8.3 - in devicesince 2021 . The A17 Pro , meanwhile , was announced last year , arriving on the iPhone 15 Pro . That premium machine , in turn , became the first of Apple ’s phones to officially hold Apple Intelligence . That change with a September event , which take the feature to the newly announcediPhone 16 line .
The A17 Pro sports a six - core CPU with two performance and four efficiency core and a five - core GPU . Both should deliver significant performance improvements over the A16 Bionic that ship with the 2021 model . The big news on that front is the neural locomotive , which birth access code to Apple Intelligence through iPadOS 18 .
high spot on Apple ’s small - model answer to the like of ChatGPT and Google Gemini include save tools and a fully freshen Siri experience . Apple Intelligence is still a oeuvre in progress , however . Other lineament , like Image Playground pictorial generation and ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence , are still on the way .
The addition means that Apple Intelligence is now available across the iPad line — save for the root word exemplar . It is , however , the only of the four devices to cavort a mobile splintering , as oppose to the M4 found in the latest base iPad and iPad Pro . The iPad Air , meanwhile , scat on the one-time M2 .
The new iPad is also fuck off the revamped Calculator app , which answer to handwritten note . On that front , the mini is compatible with Apple ’s Pencil and Pencil Pro , bring more flexibility for artists and those who simply prefer to write notes .
The rear - facing 12 - megapixel wide of the mark - slant television camera underpin Smart HDR 4 for better - balanced lighting in photos . The mini maintains the Touch ID functionality built into the mightiness push button , rather than graduate to Face ID , which is available on the Pro theoretical account .
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The new iPad starts at $ 499 for 128 GB of storage , which is double what its predecessor started with . The iPad mini with cellular connectivity , meanwhile , starts at $ 649 . The pad is up for preorder today and starts shipping on October 23 .
