
It’s existent that Apple’s latest iPad remains an fantabulous value, particularly erstwhile it’s on merchantability for $299. However, if you privation features similar Apple Intelligence and Apple Pencil Pro support without spending a luck connected an iPad Pro, the latest iPad Mini mightiness beryllium the amended option. That’s particularly existent present fixed Apple’s smallest tablet is matching its all-time debased astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, wherever you tin drawback the basal configuration with Wi-Fi starting astatine astir $399 ($100 off).
As Apple’s smallest iPad, the 8.3-inch Mini is much portable than its larger siblings, making it a large question companion. It’s casual to clasp with 1 manus and offers all-day artillery life, rendering it an adjacent amended worth if you work a lot. It besides delivers bully show courtesy of its A17 Pro chip, truthful you tin watercourse Netflix, sprout emails, play games, and adjacent marque video calls with easiness (even if the camera is inactive awkwardly placed portion utilizing the tablet successful scenery mode).
As mentioned previously, the seventh-gen Mini besides provides entree to Apple’s increasing suite of AI-powered features, which don’t rather unrecorded up to the hype but are starting to go much utile with time. This includes ChatGPT integration and priority notifications, on with tools for proofreading, summarizing messages, enhancing photos, and adjacent creating your ain customized emojis and images.
What’s more, if you ain an Apple Pencil Pro, you tin play astir with a big of originative features that aren’t disposable connected the entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C, similar double-tap instrumentality switching. You tin besides leverage FindMy support, should you ever misplace your stylus, and solve mathematics problems by penning them out. That’s successful summation to a big of different iPadOS 18 features, the bulk of which don’t necessitate a stylus.