I was talking about iPad as a tablet, a portable device. 3 and 4 just keep getting heavier and heavier with no real design improvement, not to mention 3 gets warm really fast when running big 3D games. I'm waiting for an iPad lighter than 2, with Retina and can run apps on par with, hmm say 4. If the next mini is that one, I guess smaller display is a necessary sacrifice.
Technically, no. But there are a few games I wouldn't want to try on a smaller screen. Stuff like Brogue and Frozen Synapse... great games, but with some small and intricate areas of touch detection.
I've experienced it. Retina is very nice. Theres no doubt its a significant improvement. I just don't have any problem with the screens on the Ipad2 or Mini. They still look great to me - just not quite as great as retina. I also have an iphone5 so that's my go to camera...
Cool, thanks. Yeah my b-day's this weekend and the only thing I want is an iPad Mini so that's good to know. Are iPad 2-level capabilities considered old yet? I'd hate to get a Mini and then like by next years, a bunch of games aren't supported by that type of processor
Ipad 2's still pretty viable. Same goes for the mini. At least a couple years maybe. I am gettting ready for an ipad mini with retina though, although a friend of mine who woks at apple says it might take longer for that to happen.
iPad 1 is increasingly unsupported by newer games, and 2 comes after 1... My only real concern over the iPad mini is its onscreen keyboard. I have gotten used to two handed typing on my iPad 2, just like on a laptop. However, the small size of the landscape screen on the iPad Mini makes it very hard to type without making tons of errors... I wonder how users are actually typing on the iPad Mini, as I have yet to see someone I know actually using it in real life.
the same way I "type" on my iphone (and ipad2 for that matter) - one finger pecking. I ain't writing any novels on the thing... As far as the ipad2 being unsupported by games, its a bit of a unique situation actually. The lack of retina is likely to keep it viable longer than it might otherwise be. The fact of the matter is that a large portion of the extra horsepower of the more powerful processors in the newer models is spent pushing all those extra pixels around the screen. There aren't many games at all that don't run just as well on the 2 as on the newer models - just at lower res...and there are actually some that run worse on the ipad3 than on the ipad2.
I guess i have slender, sexy hands I can type fuill landscape keyboard with 8 fingers, and i can type 2 thumbs as well using a split keyboard.
Okay, I'm confused...I keep reading about price drops on the mini and ipad 4 but everywhere I look they still seem to be original price (16gb mini @$329 etc.)
Depends on your gaining interest really, if you like busy games like board games, strategy or card games I would imagine the bigger screen would be better suited. On the other hand if you like runners and arcade games you'd probably get more usage from a mini.
For budgetary reasons I always buy one release behind and take advantage of the discounts...I'm not doing anything till after the conference next week though.
That can really bite. I bought my iPhone 4 during the iPhone 4S' release and every app since then either supports from my 3GS onwards or needs an iPhone 4S, making my white iPhone 4 functionally literally a white elephant... iPadiseyeingtheiPhone5S
This is where. Also, I'm 6'4", so resting it on my knees and bending over would be uncomfortable as hell. To be blunt, most tables are too low for me to slump over comfortably, unless I'm sitting at an office desk. Maybe the mini is just best for tall people. I'm also a lefty, no one understands my needs!
I have a 4th-gen iPad, and one of my flatmates has a mini, and having used both I can say that there's really nothing that looks or plays better on a mini than it does on a full-sized iPad, especially when considering board, card, strategy and pinball games. And adventure games. And books. And movies. Yes, the mini is certainly lighter, but from the way some people go on about how "heavy" the bigger devices are, it sometimes seems like they're under the strange impression that normal iPads have the same weight and dimensions as the average briefcase. One of the biggest selling points of the iPad is that it is hugely portable, so watching people talk about how they have to leave it at home because it's too heavy and bulky gets a bit ridiculous; such comments seem to stem more from people wanting to justify their mini than from any fair-minded evaluation of the devices in question.
And I don't mistap. a) I have a stylus. B) a mini is over 7 inches for crying out loud! I don't hear people complaining about mis-tapping on an iphone. If you don't prop it up, chances are your craning your neck over your iPad...not a comfortable position to maintain for long periods. Then again, a friend of mine's GF asked me recently why tall people tend to have necks that lean forward a bit. :sigh: people just don't understand. Look, everybody has a unique anatomy and their own personal preferences. I'm not making stuff up, I used a standard iPad for about a year. It DIDN'T WORK for me. So it doesn't make sense to you. Great. You is not me.
