iPad mini (A17 Pro)

I still have my 2021 M1 iPad Pro 12.9" and have no desire to upgrade yet. The M silicon is truly a work of marvel from Apple and have only had a previous iPad Mini 5 for 4.5 years, when I upgraded to the iPad Mini 7 (and that one was noticeably slower after all those years: A12 to A17 Pro)

I’m very tempted. I have the iPad mini 7 that has the A17 pro and that covers MORE than my power needs so the A18 pro in a laptop? I could be very swayed

EDIT — Corrected some wrong info, and gave links to relevant information to "prove" it correct. —————————— Oh boy, I love tech. Don't mind my comment, but tldr; I'd go to the Apple store and see if you can experiment with Lightroom/CapCut to see if it'd work for your use case. Tbh I had very little

Razor Kishi Ultra + iPad mini (A17 pro)

PS Remote play for the win

Razor Kishi Ultra + iPad mini (A17 pro)

PS Remote play for the win

My guess is it’s like the iPad mini and Air where they’re stopping referring to it externally as a new generation, more based on their processor like they do for Mac’s. Especially because this gen the Airs and Base levels seem EXACTLY the same save for a processor bump, they’re just gonna call it iP

I think the big thing you wanna think about is longevity, better chip will get you more years out of it. A16 is an aging chip and doesn’t even support Apple Intelligence. A mini could be fine if you can find one at a decent price, but I wouldn’t do anything other than the A17 Pro. Hell even an M1 iP

iPads with A17 Pro and above with ported AAA titles are quite capable for gaming too now. If you are also concerned with longevity there's nothing better than Mini

I have the iPad mini 7, which is the second weakest iPad model of all current models when it comes to processing chip, with only the base iPad having a weaker chip. And it runs battles and everything else perfectly on Ultra graphics, so I think any of the current iPad models, between the iPad mini,

The iPad Mini 7 (A17 Pro) is powerful enough to run Apple’s AI features so if the size doesn’t put you off, it should be a good iPad for you. The hard drive starts at 128GB.