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Apple Now Accepting Pre-Orders for New iPad Mini 6 and iPad 9

No headphone jack. Their iPad mini's have been a godsend while flying with my kids, but try telling my five year old to not lose his tiny dongle so he can use his Spiderman headphones before a long distance flight. And no charging while using headphones either. This is killing me.
 
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dantracht said:
Mini 6 is an awesome upgrade, but sticking with my Mini 5. Have an air 4, and hate the touch ID power button with a passion.
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Appreciate the feedback on the power button touch ID. Have seen a few other complaints about it. Will stick with my 5 too.
 
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Andrew N said:
And no charging while using headphones either. This is killing me.
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There are third party USB-C dongles that a bit bigger (harder to lose) and have pass through power. At that point you might want one with HDMI out and a classic USB 3 plug, but I’ve seen one before somewhere which was just headphone /audio out + power. (Obviously that’s adding to the total cost though, but at least it’ll work for other USB-C devices too if you have ‘em.)
 
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This is what I've been waiting for and I'd order immediately, but I'm unsure about the colors. I was hoping for a blue like the Air. I always get Space Gray and would like to change it up. Starlight looks like cream, so I'd probably lean toward purple, but it's not my favorite.
 
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I've just ordered the iPad9 64GB Space Grey for my sister. She was a bit disappointed with the lack of colour choices though.
For myself, I have ordered the iPad mini 64GB Space Grey with cellular. This is to replace my iPad Air 3.
 
I wasn't going to order one...but for some reason Trade Ins are really good right now. My original $75 trade in for my 12.9 inch iPad became $250 so I bit.
 
I wasn't up for a new iPad ever again. I was holding out for the pro's to support Final Cut once they got the M1 chip. My 1st gen iPad Pro 12.9 is pretty much just a TV monitor now on my desk for live streams.

The new IPP's are more costly than the MacBook M1 air - and not as useful to me.

I think the new mini is quite interesting because I'll likely take it around with me more than my IPP- and can finally get some value from Apple News+ / arcade etc because it's easy to hold and I can breathe second life into my Apple Pencil which I dont use anymore.

I will tether to my iPhone for data- I have a tonne of Gb on my phone that I can use when needed so went for cellular.

I went for space grey with black folio but thinking I should be more exciting and go for orange - but perhaps too bright for using subtly!
 
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Time to retire my iPad 6th generation for an iPad Mini 6 in Purple. Getting the Apple Pencil and the aubergine (Wild Cherry :rolleyes:) folio.
 
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AppliedMicro said:
As much as I always loved Apple‘s mini products (including the iPad mini), I will hold out to see one in-store.

At 2266 x 1488, the resolution is actually smaller than the previous generation’s 2048 x 1536 in width.
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Dude, do you even math?

iPad Mini 6: 3,371,808 pixels.
iPad Mini 5: 3,145,728 pixels.

The ppi is also the same:
iPad Mini 6: 326 ppi.
iPad mini 5: 326 ppi.

So no, there is no sense in which the Mini 6 has “smaller” resolution than the Mini 5.
 
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It's f*ckin' adorable, and I want 3 of them even though I need 0 of them because I have a the blue iPad Air already (which I also love). This new iPad mini has gotta be the nicest iPad of all time so far.
 
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Too bad the new Mini has A13. My 2018 iPad 12.9 has a A12X...I don't suspect there will be a huge (if any) performance increase? I just wanted something smaller, but I guess I'll keep my 12.9 for a little while longer.

Is there any advantage to the new Mini iPad over my 2018 12.9 iPad Pro? I don't use the camera on it, at all. Is the screen on the Mini better than mine in any way?
 
ZivaD said:
I just orderd mine, space grey, orange folio case, pencil2 and apple care, I even got my mini 5 to trade in, this and the PS5 made today an expensive day, roll on iPhone 13 order day.
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you can trade in older minis? thats a concept
 
dmylrea said:
Too bad the new Mini has A13. My 2018 iPad 12.9 has a A12X...I don't suspect there will be a huge (if any) performance increase? I just wanted something smaller, but I guess I'll keep my 12.9 for a little while longer.
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im getting rid of the 12.9! i think the performance tradeoff will be worth it for me anyway !
 
Why they didn’t call it iPad Air mini?

They could still sell the old iPad mini.
 
eelpout said:
any guess on RAM for the 6? iPad OS 15 has turned my 4th gen. (2 GB) into the La Brea tar pits. maybe a refurb Mini 5 with 3 GB would be enough for now.
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iPadOS 14.x has pretty much made my 4th gen mini unusable. No need to go to iPadOS 15!
New 256GB 5G mini will soon be on its way to me!
 
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Can anybody tell me here in Germany/Austria it is avaliable on 24.9. but for shipping is written 7.10-14.10. why is there such a huge gap? Can I go into the store and get it immediatley on 24.9?
 
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