2024 iPad mini teardown reveals minimal internal changes

A new teardown of the seventh-generation iPad mini has revealed very little in the way of changes, and no apparent physical change to reduce jelly scrolling despite evidence that the effect is minimized.

The 2024 iPad mini doesn’t get rid of the problem entirely, but reduces the effect — despite no obvious change to the display driver board. The teardown by iFixit.com did, however, uncover some of Apple’s changes to the new model — including an interesting change to the Apple logo seen on the back of the device.

In addition to upgrading the chip to the A17 Pro and the minimum RAM to 8GB so that the new iPad mini supports Apple Intelligence, Apple has upgraded the base storage to 128GB. Because of the new chip, the 2024 iPad mini now supports both the Apple Pencil, and the new Apple Pencil Pro.

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