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Problem:The Latest News from the Frontiers of Creativity See full coverage 
  
 Apple is totally psyching everyone out with its iPad Mini launch, for which the supposed release date keeps getting changed. First it was maybe going to come with the iPhone 5 last month, then the rumorers told us to prepare for an October 10 event. That date has passed, and now AllThingsD's John Paczkowski's sources are saying we should expect an October 23 due date. That would mean the event will fall on a Tuesday, which is not a Wednesday, the usual day Apple holds its product extravaganzas. Considering all the trickstering the company has done with this tablet release, however, we wouldn't put it past them to pull something like that. Those apparent photos we saw the other day, sure make it look like the tablet is enough finished for the 23rd. Cases are even available now. And maybe Apple decided to pick the later date, as it falls two days before Microsoft's tablet announcement. Even though the Surface is supposed to be an expensive gadget, likely to compete with the big iPad, rather than this cheaper Mini iPad, perhaps Apple wants to do some media thunder stealing? (Kind of how Google did it to them, holding their Maps event a week before Apple's.) Anyway, last week, some people said factories were ramping up production for an October release—we've already mentally prepared for a new baby-tablet this month, so we're going to go with ten days from now. 
  
 For those getting restless with all this waiting and time-changing, the rumor mill has continued giving us goodies to insert into our little-iPad fantasies. In addition to its 7.85-inch liquid-crystal display with a lower resolution, the cheaper tablet is also supposedly WiFi only. It will likely have that little dock connector and look like this. 
  
 If this event does happen on the 23rd, the Internet can expect the invites to go out on Monday. Hopefully by then, we can rest easy that this thing is for real happening in the 10th month of 2012. 
  
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 Oct. 10, the date on which Apple was rumored to be distributing invitations to a second fall product event, passed without a word from the iconic tech company’s Cupertino, Calif., HQ. The silence from Apple left some to wonder if it still plans to debut a smaller iPad this fall; others speculated that production delays may have forced it to postpone the device’s unveiling until later in the year. 
  
 Neither is the case. 
  
 As AllThingsD reported in August, Apple will hold a special event this month, at which it will showcase a new, smaller iPad. People familiar with Apple’s plans tell us that the company will unveil the so-called “iPad mini” on Oct. 23 at an invitation-only event. 
  
 That’s a Tuesday, not a Wednesday, so this is a bit of a break with recent tradition. It also happens to be just three days prior to the street date for Microsoft’s new Surface tablet and two days before Apple reports earnings for its latest quarter. 
  
 Sources declined to specify where the event is to be held, and I’ve not been able to confirm a location. 
  
 But it’s likely to be at Apple’s Town Hall Auditorium. The company has debuted a number of important products there in the past — OS X Lion, a next-generation MacBook Air and the iPhone 4S — so there’s plenty of precedent. 
  
 More importantly, Apple’s already held its big fall event — the unveiling of the iPhone 5 and the 2012 iPod line. The company pulled out all the stops for that one, holding it at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and recruiting Foo Fighters to close the show. It’s hard to imagine it mounting a second production of that caliber in such a short time. More likely that the iPad mini’s debut will be an intimate affair held close to home. 
  
 And beyond that? Well, details are slim. Sources say the iPad’s diminutive sibling will feature a 7.85-inch liquid-crystal display and a Lightning connector. It will also probably be thinner. And that’s about it. 
  
 But we’ll know more soon. On Oct. 23. 
  
 (Render courtesy Martin Hajek) ||||| The Latest News from the Frontiers of Creativity See full coverage 
  
 Apple is supposed to release a smaller iPad this month and 9to5Mac researcher Sonny Dickson has posted a series of convincing photos to Instagram and Twitter of the device, which he alleges are leaked photos, not mockups, of what we will see in the coming weeks. Above you can see the smaller, supposed 7.85-inch screen size, placed on top of the regular iPad, as well as the aluminum casing it is supposed to have. Also, as the Instagram picture below shows, this 32 GB model has that same little Lightning Dock connector as the iPhone 5, which is one of the expectations for all iDevices going forward, including the Mini. 
  
 In the next two photos, the small dock connector again, which is the same size as the one on the new iPhone 5. 
  
 As always with Apple rumors, it's possible these are just mockups based on rumors and fantasies—it would be very unlike Apple to let a leak out like this. Though, the company does seem a bit less concerned with secrets since Steve Jobs left. Invites to the Apple event are supposed to go out this week. 
  
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Solution:
Word has it a smaller iPad will debut at an Apple event on Oct. 23—though, to be fair, word has previously been wrong. This time, however, AllThingsD sounds pretty sure about it. The invite-only event, set for three days before Microsoft's Surface tablet hits stores, will take place on a Tuesday, unlike most Apple launches, which occur on Wednesdays. The so-called "iPad mini" will have a 7.85-inch liquid crystal display, a smaller Lightning connector, and is likely to be thinner than the regular iPad, according to the report. The Atlantic Wire, which has a link to photos, notes that it may be WiFi-only.