What do you get when you cram an iPad into a smaller and lighter frame?

• 7.9" 1024 x 768 pixel (163 ppi) multi-touch display
• Dual-core A5 processor
• 5 megapixel rear-facing and 1.2 megapixel front-facing cameras
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Lightning connector
• 16, 32, or 64 GB capacity

Comparison time! With the introduction of the Mini, Apple now offers iDevices fit for any budget. Let's take a look at how they stack up.

From bottom to top:

• iPad (3rd Generation)
• iPad Mini
• Slightly smaller iPad Mini—aka iPod Touch

The iPad Mini has not one, but two speaker grilles to pump out mini beats. Don't let the iPhone 5's dual grilles fool you; the Mini is the first handheld iDevice to house stereo speakers.

Few things get us more excited than finding a new model number on an Apple device. Though the new model number is only two off from the last iPad we tore down, we quite literally could not be more thrilled.

Model Number: A1432. Fun fact: the year 1432 was a leap year!

Apple's kerning on our iPad's serial number seems a little questionable. Did they have to squeeze in an extra digit at the last minute?

No, it's not an iPad Halloween costume; it's the iOpener!

• The iOpener is our new iPad opening tool that softens pesky adhesive, allowing you to get inside without having to resort to our other iPad opening tool.

Thanks to our trusty iOpener, a microwave, and half an hour's worth of time, the adhesive is warmed to the perfect temperature for us to free the glass/digitizer assembly to the spooky tune of our iFixit guitar picks.

The iPad Mini continues Apple's repair-impeding practice of keeping iPads together with copious amounts of adhesive. This is one area in which the friendly-to-open Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD are clear winners.

The touchscreen still functions with the glass separated from the LCD.

We were pleasantly surprised that this round of glass removal was easier than previous ones, requiring less patience and a near-zero fear-factor.

With the glass removed, we are ready to get at the guts of this pint-sized iPad (or gallon-sized iPod, depending on how you look at it.)

So far it looks like Apple has more tricks than treats for us with a hidden screw securing the display.

After dispatching two hidden screws and two exposed screws with our 54 Bit Driver Kit, we are able to lift the LCD.

Pulling up the display reveals a large metal plate, held in with no fewer than 16 screws.

• We found similar plates in the iPod Touch 5th Generation, and the iPhone 5, so this seems to be a new iDevice design convention.

Time to remove some metal. With the inner frame and the connector covers, there is enough metal here to forge at least two—maybe three—paperclips.

All this prying and disconnecting is reminding us a lot of our recent iPod Touch teardown. But remember, the Mini and the Touch are, in fact, different devices.

Our first exposed IC is one we've seen before, in the iPhone 5.

• In fact, you might say we've got a pretty close relationship with the Murata 339S0171 Wi-Fi module.

More tricks, fewer treats! With plastic opening tool in hand, we disconnect the display connector, but there's still something holding the LCD in…