The first-generation iPad Mini will no longer be carried by Apple retail stores or online, but it will always have a special place in our hearts and minds. Following the announcement of the Mini’s big brothers the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3 last year, Apple had given the original iPad Mini a last chance at life, running for a discount at $250. Now just eight months later, Apple has stealthily taken down the listing for the first iPad Mini from the Apple Store website.
The design of the iPad Mini served as the basis for its successors, the iPad Mini 2 and 3. Its body design and proportions can also be found in the new iPad Airs. The removal of the iPad Mini from the lineup has resulted in a purification of sorts for Apple’s popular tablet devices. Without the original iPad Mini out for the count, Apple’s tablet offerings are now entirely 64-bit, running either the A7 or the A8X processor, and are all retina display devices.
It’s possible that stiff pricing and hard to pass up upgrades are two factors that finally nudged the iPad Mini out of the Apple Store. Additionally, Apple traditionally holds an iPad launch event in the fall, so it’s likely that the first Mini was removed to make way for future generations. The iPad Mini 2 was reduced to $300 at the same time, and with a processor two generations ahead of the first Mini’s chip and four times the power, it was hard not to spend that extra $50 on the newer model.
If for some reason you are hankering for an original iPad Mini, Apple will still stock refurbished models on its website for the time being. The first-generation iPad Mini is also available at a number of third-party retailers like BestBuy and Walmart at discounted prices until stock runs out.
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