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Apple iPad Mini 2024 review: missing pieces

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Summary
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57% Informative

The iPad Mini is a perfectly good tablet, in the way that all iPads have been for years .

The new iPad Mini supports the Apple Pencil Pro , which magnets to the side of the Mini to charge and connect.

This Mini, at $ 499 , might be the worst value in the iPad lineup.

Until and unless Apple Intelligence becomes game-changingly incredible, there are few good reasons to buy the old one.

This new Mini is basically a rip-and-replace internal upgrade of the last model.

The most important new spec is the Apple A17 Pro chip, the same one you’d find in last year ’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max .

The Mini is around 30 percent faster than the old Mini both in CPU and GPU performance.

Even the M1 iPad Air , which came out in 2022 , bests the Mini in most benchmark tests.

The iPad Mini is the smallest iPad made for Apple Intelligence .

Apple could make a charging dock that turns it into a music or smart home controller.

VR Score

51

Informative language

46

Neutral language

7

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

32

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medium-lived