With its curved, iPhone 6-like body, thick top and bottom bezels at the front that are enough to land a jumbo jet, and hardware home button that also houses a Touch ID module. There's also the archaic Lightning port, making this one of the last iPads to feature Apple's proprietary standard.

We marked October 22 on the calendar and canceled our appointments. We were almost certain that Apple would hold its second fall keynote on that day and unveil new Macs and iPads. But then, just when we were expecting an invitation, Cupertino sent us instead a press release with details of the 7th-gen iPad mini… and nothing else.

Apple today introduced the iPad mini 7 with a faster A17 Pro chip, Apple Intelligence support, Apple Pencil Pro support, and a handful of

The new iPad mini has been announced. It offers support for Apple Intelligence, an all-new Pro chip, and more.

Apple announced the 7th generation iPad mini. The upgraded tablet debuts on Oct. 23 and is available for preorder now.

You can hardly blink without Apple announcing a new iPad, which sometimes sports the most advanced silicon in the world—no big deal. Apple's Pro tablets might get most of the attention, but more slates are in the lineup,

Thanks to this hardware bump the new iPad mini supports Apple Intelligence—that presumably also means the RAM will increase from 4GB to 8GB, although Apple doesn’t list the RAM specs for anything other than M-series processors.