If you’re one of the skeptics wondering why anyone would ever spend $829 for a glorified netbook that can’t even play Flash, prepare to multiply your disbelief. Although the iPad itself hasn’t even arrived yet, a diamond importer has already announced a diamond-studded version that will charge nearly $20,000 for.
Mervis Diamond Importers now offers “the world’s first diamond iPad” for a rather steep $19,999. The princely ‘pad has been crusted with 11.43 carats worth of diamonds, hand set in the micro-pave style. For rock aficionados wondering just what they’re getting, the stones have been graded G/H for color and VS/Sl1 for clarity. The diamond-studded iPads will go on sale June 1 in “very limited” quantities.
Mervis hasn’t divulged tech specs, but we had better hope they’re using the $829 version. We had also better hope the diamonds don’t roughen up the bezel too much for the dainty – possibly gloved – hands they’re sure to end up in.
What do you do with a diamond-crusted iPad in another year when a better version comes out? The same thing you do with your diamond-crusted first-gen iPhone: Give it to your butler and buy a new one. Just make sure not to send it in for battery replacement in the meantime: You might be disappointed with the one you get back.
Affinity’s new all-in-one creative app is finally coming to the iPad, nearly a year after Canva launched the redesigned desktop version for Mac and Windows. Creatives have been asking for the iPad release ever since, especially because files created in the new Affinity app cannot be opened in the older V2 iPad apps.
Affinity already has Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps on iPad, but the new release combines those tools into the same unified app that Canva launched on desktop last year.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Apple has just launched its latest iPad mini with a notable set of upgrades, including an OLED screen, improved speakers, and a more resilient build. It also gets a new chip, and the whole package costs $200 more than its predecessor. But if you look closely at Apple’s online store, you’ll realize that $699 isn’t enough to get you the most powerful version of the A20 Pro chip inside this tablet. In fact, even if you pay $800 for the 256GB model, you still won’t get the beefiest variant. Only when you jump to the 512GB trim, which costs an absurd $999, do you get the most powerful flavor of the A20 Pro.
The $999 model gets more than extra storage