I just sold my ipad mini 16gb wifi this morning, I'm planning on buying a 32gb assuming it has a retina screen, if it doesn't then I will pick up a nexus 7 and wait for the ipad mini with retina.
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iPad mini Any other iPad mini owners considering upgrading to iPad mini (2nd gen)?
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If retina rumor is true then done deal. Screen makes the current iPad imperfect. Retina will correct that flaw. Can't wait!
Same for me. Had my iPad4 stolen a few months ago, decided to get a 16GB Mini to try out the form factor and now I am *sold* -- but only with a Retina screen.
My guess is that since the mini was essentially an iPad 2 with a smaller screen (spec wise, at least) I'm hoping that the new mini is essentially an iPad 4 with a smaller screen.
The iPad 2 (and therefore, mini) do struggle a bit with iOS 7 - if they don't up the power they're going to have another iPad 3 on their hands
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The iPad 2 (and therefore, mini) do struggle a bit with iOS 7 - if they don't up the power they're going to have another iPad 3 on their hands
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I gave my iPad mini v1 to my son just recently. I'm planning on purchasing a retina iPad mini with LTE, though depending on how light/thin the iPad 5 is, I might go full-size instead.
I like the full-size screen but much prefer the lighter mini, so the iPad 5 could be the best of both. Guess I'll have to wait until I get a hands-on to make a decision.
I like the full-size screen but much prefer the lighter mini, so the iPad 5 could be the best of both. Guess I'll have to wait until I get a hands-on to make a decision.
No. I'm perfectly okay with my current generation. And honestly, I've found that having a tablet isn't all what people are making them out to be. I'm still the person who'd rather carry around a laptop than a tablet.
So I'm going to keep mine until it breaks, and then probably never buy another iPad.
So I'm going to keep mine until it breaks, and then probably never buy another iPad.
Serious, honest question....those of you saying iOS 7 is no good on your mini, what specifically are you talking about?
I've got the mini and the 4. And the 5s. I've no issues on any device with iOS 7---other than my 5s rebooting about once a week on its own (I think it's haunted).
My mini is as fluent as it was in iOS 6.x.x
My iPad 4 is as fluent as it was in iOS 6.x.x
I use Mercury because Safari on the mini sucks (no text size increase), so I can't speak to that. But I've yet to find an app that doesn't run just as well as it did with iOS 6. And I'm positively blown away by app developer support and acknowledgement of the new OS. I get a half dozen updates a day!
I will buy a retina mini....BUT, to reiterate, I've noticed absolutely no performance degradation on my mini....and I use it several hours a day!
J
I've got the mini and the 4. And the 5s. I've no issues on any device with iOS 7---other than my 5s rebooting about once a week on its own (I think it's haunted).
My mini is as fluent as it was in iOS 6.x.x
My iPad 4 is as fluent as it was in iOS 6.x.x
I use Mercury because Safari on the mini sucks (no text size increase), so I can't speak to that. But I've yet to find an app that doesn't run just as well as it did with iOS 6. And I'm positively blown away by app developer support and acknowledgement of the new OS. I get a half dozen updates a day!
I will buy a retina mini....BUT, to reiterate, I've noticed absolutely no performance degradation on my mini....and I use it several hours a day!
J
I'm back for my annual visit to macrumors when the new ipads come out
Will definitely be upgrading my mini this year, i use it every day, it's by far my most used gadget. Now i've discovered mysms i dont even really use my phone anymore, the mini fits in my jacket pocket too
would love retina, but i am just after more RAM and a faster CPU in the main. also the lighter and thinner it gets the better - although from what i understand its getting thicker.
What i hope doesnt happen is retina + super thick and heavy + a gimped processor, as i previously had the ipad 3 and it wasn't up to scratch IMO.
Will definitely be upgrading my mini this year, i use it every day, it's by far my most used gadget. Now i've discovered mysms i dont even really use my phone anymore, the mini fits in my jacket pocket too
would love retina, but i am just after more RAM and a faster CPU in the main. also the lighter and thinner it gets the better - although from what i understand its getting thicker.
What i hope doesnt happen is retina + super thick and heavy + a gimped processor, as i previously had the ipad 3 and it wasn't up to scratch IMO.
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I'm concerned about the mini getting heavier and/or thicker too. Looking forward to todays event more than I have in a while. I'm rooting for Apple to impress us this time
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I'm back for my annual visit to macrumors when the new ipads come out
Will definitely be upgrading my mini this year, i use it every day, it's by far my most used gadget. Now i've discovered mysms i dont even really use my phone anymore, the mini fits in my jacket pocket too
would love retina, but i am just after more RAM and a faster CPU in the main. also the lighter and thinner it gets the better - although from what i understand its getting thicker.
What i hope doesnt happen is retina + super thick and heavy + a gimped processor, as i previously had the ipad 3 and it wasn't up to scratch IMO.
I'm concerned about the mini getting heavier and/or thicker too. Looking forward to todays event more than I have in a while. I'm rooting for Apple to impress us this time
...I will only upgrade if it goes retina and has minim of specs as the iPhone 5 internals.
Everything I've i use my iPad 4 my, much preferred for daily use, mini feels so slow.
If they release a mini 2 without retina get a brace for the stock plunge.
Everything I've i use my iPad 4 my, much preferred for daily use, mini feels so slow.
If they release a mini 2 without retina get a brace for the stock plunge.
The mini isn't as fluid in os7 IMO.
If you look at available ram differences you will see the difference.
Head into accessibility and turn on increase contrast, turn on reduce motion, change your wallpaper to a black square (take a black picture and crop it as small as you can, reboot and note the difference. It's night and day. It's purely a ram issue, the effects employed simply crush ram, less than half available after boot and instant paging. The performance isn't as good.
The above remedies it. As does reducing spotlight items. While the changes certainly don't make it pretty it will perform better.
I am absolutely upgrading. The (likely) addition of a Retina display is going to perfect the device. A speed/RAM bump will only add to that perfection.
1st gen was great in terms of establishing a new model, weight, size but the weak display was a major disadvantage for me.
1st gen was great in terms of establishing a new model, weight, size but the weak display was a major disadvantage for me.
I got a 5S last week and sold both my iPhone 5 & iPad mini this morning. I bought a new macbook air over the summer and honestly have barely used it so going to try sticking to the Air for my needs.
Find myself often just doing the exact same things on my iPad as my phone. I figured i'd get out of it before the price drops after the new release.
Find myself often just doing the exact same things on my iPad as my phone. I figured i'd get out of it before the price drops after the new release.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
I've done none of what you're talking about and my mini is as fluent as it was with iOS 6. Honestly. That said, I don't look at system resources or RAM usage. Paging is done awefully quick with the NAND storage. I've not had a single app crash (on the mini or the '4'). Response time seems identical. And the .0x updates now are up to .03. In a MONTH! Apple is looking at everything, app developers are updating their software...and they're continuing sales of both the original mini and iPad 2. While it has half the RAM of the 4, it's also sporting half the pixels. I've seriously noticed no difference on my mini...and as I mentioned before, I use it often. Love it and will be buying the new one when they arrive.
My 5s on the other hand....different story. Definitely fast as hell....I don't have to wait for anything. That said, I've had a half dozen crashes since purchase on release day. I've seem the BSOD. Hopefully the .03 release helps with this. I'm sure it will as Apple is aware. With an entire line of 64bit A7 procs in their iOS devices, rest assured their 'SoC scientists' are on any issues like stink on ......
J
Not a chance, I just bought an iPad Mini just over a month ago knowing it would still have IOS 6 on it. I didn't care that the new one would be announced in a month knowing crappy IOS 7 would be on it, no thank you!
When I got the mini last year and rumors started swirling around about a possible retina version I was adamant that I wouldn't. Now that a year has transpired and I've built up enough gift cards that I can basically get the retina mini for no money I'm going to take the plunge.
My reasons
1. I now want the LTE version of the mini
2. Reading will be better with the retina display
3. A7 will provide better performance and position my tablet for the future.
My reasons
1. I now want the LTE version of the mini
2. Reading will be better with the retina display
3. A7 will provide better performance and position my tablet for the future.
dissapointed its 8% heavier, but having thought about the new Air for a while, i cant get past the fact that the mini fits in my sports jacket and winter coat pockets. Thats the biggest sell for me.
Will be upgrading for the retina screen and the A7, to me its a massive step up, plus i can still get £250 for my 32GB LTE mini. Think i will go up to 64GB this time perhaps...
Wonder how long "later in november" actually is though :-(
Will be upgrading for the retina screen and the A7, to me its a massive step up, plus i can still get £250 for my 32GB LTE mini. Think i will go up to 64GB this time perhaps...
Wonder how long "later in november" actually is though :-(
I only had my 32GB mini about 50% filled up, plenty of storage left. You may not notice it, but iOS 7 did indeed slow down the first generation iPad mini. It's not horrible - and for the "average" user, it's still more than acceptable. But many of us have noticed a not small degradation.
I'm more than glad that your iPad mini is still acceptable to you however!
Here's an article on the response times per tablet---from here, @ MacRumors earlier this month
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/0...ad-have-most-responsive-tablet-touch-screens/
I guess, without starting a poll---I don't see this 'many of us have noticed not a small degradation'....the iPad forums would be going nuts if iOS7 had done anything significant in the way of performance degradation to the Mini. The Mini...for what it is, with the older (but refined to smaller die) processor and 512MB of RAM is pretty damn speedy...and keep in mind, the first retina display will (or is rumored in the mini with the A7) have 1GB of RAM, albeit faster memory...doubling the pixels and the GPU sharing that ram will have an impact. So far...my iPhone 5s flat Flies! That said...it's no where near as close in size of display as the new Air and rMini.
I own both the 4 and Mini (we also still have a 2 and original)....I'm definitely not an 'average' user...and as deep as I am in to using Apple products in both my personal life and self owned business, I find it weird that the only way you can explain the performance drop is by looking at RAM and page outs. Forget system monitoring....iOS does an excellent job handling memory on it's own. Just. Use. The iPad! It works fine...and the majority of App development now is squarely aimed at the A5 processor (where the population is).
Now the retina screen on the other hand....I love my '4's' .... we use several for our business in the field...but one pound, faster chip....and the mini with a retina screen in parity with the PPI of the iPhone will be extremely hard to resist.
That said---as I posted in the link, they got the 'mini' right the first time as far as 'speed' and fluency....even using 'older' technology. iOS7's point updates have gradually taken away the few bugs (not speed related) that I've noticed.
Agreed---it's hard to imagine the new Air, even though we've seen all of the benchmarks on the A7 with Anand's tests....it's crazy how fast these new tablets are going to be---and without giving up performance for choosing the mini or Air. Makes you wonder if the iPad 'Pro' will be released @ some time....with the digitizer, ULV Intel chip instead of ARM---4GB of RAM, faster NAND/PCIe storage....something to bury the Window's Surface Pro as far as 'productivity' is concerned. With the digitizer, with the keyboard/dock/USB/HDMI, etc, etc....
Between the retina mini, the shaving of more than 30% of the weight from the big iPad and it's new design....the new rMBPs---and better, $1/GB pricing for PCIe SS storage, the new iGPUs and 750m....the news about the Mac Pro actually starting out at a reasonable price (again, for a workstation)---I thought it was a genuinely excellent Keynote.
BTW---the Mavericks update, for me...on my rMPB has been phenomenal. And free??? Wow....very, very cool!
After seeing the update and the price on the Mini w Retina, I will probably not buy unless I am feeling crazy. I cannot justify paying $399 for it even with Retina and A7. My $329 mini can last a few more years. I will wait to see what they have in a year or 2.