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Everything below is rumor, not confirmation.\n\nThe tablet is said to use Apple's A20 Pro chip, built on TSMC's 2nm process (a measure of how finely the transistors are manufactured). Compared with the A17 Pro in the current mini, the rumored gains are a CPU up to around 1.5× faster and a GPU up to around 2.5× faster. The chip would also carry a \"dual 16-core Neural Engine,\" the part that handles machine-learning work, for 32 cores in total.\n\nMemory would rise from 8GB to 12GB. That extra RAM is tied to a rumored feature letting users adjust the pace and expressiveness of Siri's voice.\n\nThe display is the larger change. The current mini uses an LCD panel. The new one would be a slightly larger OLED, where each pixel makes its own light, which allows true blacks and higher contrast. Apple has reportedly tested both 60Hz and 120Hz (ProMotion) refresh rates, and it is unclear which it picked. The bezels would shrink, and the front camera would move to the right bezel, which puts it at the top edge in landscape.\n\nThe rest of the list is mostly in-house silicon and plumbing: Apple's N1 chip for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, and a C1X or C2 modem in cellular models. The speaker system would drop its visible holes, possibly with an iPhone-style earpiece speaker in the top bezel. The mini would also get an IP rating for water and dust resistance for the first time.\n\nThe same event is expected to bring MacBook Pro models with touch-enabled OLED displays, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, and an iMac with an M6 chip.\n\nTaken together, this would make the mini a different product from the current one, with a new screen type, 50% more memory and a newer chip. An OLED panel and 12GB of RAM are both components that tend to cost more. Apple has not announced a price for the iPad mini 8, and none has leaked, so how much of that cost reaches the buyer is the question left for October 28.","[\"apple\",\"ipad-mini\",\"oled\",\"rumors\"]","2026-10-20T19:35:00.000Z","2026-10-20T21:19:52.514Z","2026-10-20T21:19:52.728Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The $100 June price increase in the dek and closing paragraph never says which product or price it applied to (the source text is cut off before naming it), so the price-pressure framing is unsupported. Either state what was raised, using verified information, or drop that angle. Also cut the unsupported claim that this is 'the biggest rework of the small tablet in years', and add context beyond a MacRumors paraphrase.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The $100 price-increase angle and the 'biggest rework' claim are gone, but the closing paragraph still says 'the source gives no figure for the new model', which is a leftover source-referencing artifact; rewrite it to say plainly that Apple has not announced or leaked a price, and end on a real closing paragraph rather than a hedge.","consumer-tech",[36,37,38,39],"apple","ipad-mini","oled","rumors",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"MacRumors","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.macrumors.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F20\u002Fipad-mini-8-10-rumored-features\u002F",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,62,67,72,76,81,86,91,96,101,106,111],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7045,"2026-10-20T21:25:22.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",1021,"2026-10-20T20:25:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Policy","policy",553,"2026-10-21T00:20:00.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Deals","deals",538,"2026-10-20T20:17:07.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Hardware","hardware",272,"2026-10-20T22:38:24.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":34,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Consumer Tech",257,"2026-10-20T22:30:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Science","science",209,"2026-10-20T21:02:53.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",137,"2026-10-20T22:24:15.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Software","software",134,"2026-10-20T14:57:15.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",119,"2026-10-20T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",91,"2026-10-20T23:04:19.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Gaming","gaming",83,"2026-10-20T23:30:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":112,"slug":113,"count":114,"latest_published_at":115},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]