Apple made us wait three years, but the new iPad mini 7 is finally here. And if you’re looking to buy the iPad mini 7 as soon as it arrives in stores on October 23rd, you’ll be happy to know that critics are raving about it.
Although the little tablet hasn’t been officially released yet, tech reviewers got their hands on the iPad mini 7 tablet early. Fortunately, the early verdict is quite positive.
Here are the most compelling reasons why critics recommend the iPad mini 7.
People praise Apple Intelligence-enabled chip
iPad mini 7 is equipped with the A17 Pro chip, which is an improvement over the A15 Bionic chip in iPad mini 6. This is the same chip found in the iPhone 15 Pro. This will allow iPad mini 7 to support Apple Intelligence at launch.
Our sister site tom’s guide“Browse web pages, watch videos, and play games more smoothly with the upgrade to Apple’s new A17 Pro chip.” In the Geekbench 6 performance test, the iPad mini 7 had a multi-core score of 7,213, significantly higher than the iPad mini 6’s score of 4,540.
wired It also speaks positively about the iPad mini 7’s “improved performance.” [the] A17 Pro” and “double storage” [its] In its predecessor, the base storage amount was eventually increased from 64GB to 128GB.
Finally supporting Apple Pencil Pro has been well received.
Apple finally supports Apple Pencil Pro on the iPad mini 7. The Verge “The Mini can do everything the Pencil Pro does on other iPads. Hovering, aperture, and barrel rolling all work fine. If you’re an artist who carries a Mini around, this alone might be worth the upgrade. yeah” . ”
Engadget “Apple Pencil Pro and iPad mini combine to create a small but highly capable digital notebook and canvas.”
This means that all modern iPad models support Apple Pencil Pro. The Apple Pencil Pro is objectively the best Apple Pencil available right now.
Jelly scrolling is a known issue among critics and fans of the previous generation iPad mini, despite Apple stating that: ars technica The problem was “normal operation of the LCD screen”. Fortunately, this problem seems to have been significantly improved on the iPad mini 7.
thing “Apple thinks they’re optimizing the display, but they haven’t said anything about how. To my eyes, the jelly-like scrolling doesn’t seem as bad as last time I remember it.” But his older iPad mini, which he says doesn’t bother him, works that well, and he doesn’t have an older iPad mini to compare it to.
of six colors The review goes into more detail on this, with the reporter stating, “I understand that the display circuitry in newer models is different than older models, but I couldn’t detect any ‘jelly-like scrolling’ in my usage.” I am.
But critics don’t like the 60Hz refresh rate
Apple kept the iPad mini 7’s refresh rate at an outdated 60Hz. wired “It’s not surprising considering the new iPhone 16 hasn’t been bumped up to 120Hz either, but it’s frustrating since at this price most phones and tablets have 90 or 120Hz panels,” he says. .
Engadget Similarly, he said of the iPad mini 7’s display, “It’s a pretty nice screen, but it’s a standard LCD display with a pedestrian 60Hz refresh rate.”
This time, it took Apple three years to introduce a new iPad mini, but hopefully we won’t have to wait another three years for the iPad mini 8 to come out with either 90 or 120Hz refresh rates.
