Apple's smallest iPad has been around for years and it has its fans. The advantages of a smaller tablet include a lower price and easier portability. It can slide into big jacket pockets or small bags,

The iPad Mini 7 gives our favorite small tablet even better performance, improved stylus support and Apple Intelligence smarts, though it’s otherwise the same slate that launched back in 2021.

The A17 Pro has a 6-core CPU, a 5-core GPU, and a 16-core NPU (neural processing unit). The GPU adds features like dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated ray-tracing, and mesh shading. Apple claims that the A17 Pro offers 30 percent better CPU performance, 25 percent better GPU performance, and 100 percent better NPU performance than the A15.

Sure, the iPad mini 7 is the best iteration yet, easily earning a spot in our best iPads and best tablets lists. However, it has some downsides. Below, I’ll go over 3 reasons to buy and 2 reasons to skip the iPad mini 7.

The iPad Mini (A17 Pro) still suffers from the jelly scrolling effect, but it’s not as prominent when compared to its predecessor.

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The most important thing about the new iPad mini is that, on the one hand, it’s a pretty minimal update. It got a better processor—the A17 Pro from last year’s Pro iPhones—and Apple supposedly fixed a display refresh problem that previously caused what is known as jellyscrolling,

If you’ve used an iPad mini before, you know what you’re getting: a reliable, powerful, and eminently mobile device with a large display you can slip inside an inner coat pocket and use just about anywhere,

The 2024 iPad mini is a solid and necessary update to the best small tablet on the market. It still delivers the full iPad experience in a compact package.