iPad mini

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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The full iPad experience. In hand.</span>
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The iPad mini is the [[iPad]] you hold in one hand — the 8.3-inch tablet with a devotion no sales chart explains. Launched in 2012 over [[Steve Jobs]]'s famous objection to smaller tablets, it became the pilot's kneeboard, the point-of-sale terminal, the field notebook, and the reader's iPad, refreshed on its own unhurried clock.

= History =

The original mini shrank the iPad 2; the Retina mini 2 (2013) made it genuinely good; minis 4 and 5 kept the flame through quiet years. The 2021 sixth generation rebuilt it in the modern all-screen design — USB-C, Pencil support, and the briefly infamous "jelly scrolling" — and the current seventh generation (October 2024) added the [[Apple A17|A17 Pro]], bringing [[Apple Intelligence]] and Pencil Pro support to the small canvas.

= Current model =

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| '''iPad mini 8.3"''' || [[Apple A17|A17 Pro]] (2024) || $499
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= Position =

The mini survives because nothing replaces it: phones grew toward it and stopped, the [[iPad Air|Air]] can't be palmed, and its niches — aviation's electronic flight bags above all — buy it by the fleet. It is Apple's clearest case of a product kept alive by loyalty rather than volume, and the lineup is warmer for it.

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{| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #333; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | style="padding: 28px 20px 42px;" | <div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color); margin-bottom: 0.8em;">iPad mini</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The full iPad experience. In hand.</span> |- | style="padding: 0;" | ![[hw_ipad_mini.png]] |- | style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ <span style="color: #fff;">Official iPad mini site — Apple</span>] |} {{iPad lineup Navbox}} The iPad mini is the [[iPad]] you hold in one hand — the 8.3-inch tablet with a devotion no sales chart explains. Launched in 2012 over [[Steve Jobs]]'s famous objection to smaller tablets, it became the pilot's kneeboard, the point-of-sale terminal, the field notebook, and the reader's iPad, refreshed on its own unhurried clock. = History = The original mini shrank the iPad 2; the Retina mini 2 (2013) made it genuinely good; minis 4 and 5 kept the flame through quiet years. The 2021 sixth generation rebuilt it in the modern all-screen design — USB-C, Pencil support, and the briefly infamous "jelly scrolling" — and the current seventh generation (October 2024) added the [[Apple A17|A17 Pro]], bringing [[Apple Intelligence]] and Pencil Pro support to the small canvas. = Current model = {| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | Model ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | Chip ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | From |- | '''iPad mini 8.3"''' || [[Apple A17|A17 Pro]] (2024) || $499 |} = Position = The mini survives because nothing replaces it: phones grew toward it and stopped, the [[iPad Air|Air]] can't be palmed, and its niches — aviation's electronic flight bags above all — buy it by the fleet. It is Apple's clearest case of a product kept alive by loyalty rather than volume, and the lineup is warmer for it.