iPad mini Chances of iPad mini retina this year?

[Vanilla35]

Why would being in college matter? Doing it to look good for the girls? Get free membership?

Or.... Is it just a time waster? Are you going to become an infidel who joins the wicked house of Mcdonalds (Or any other fast food place, except Subway) 😡 ? Where you will tell your friends 'I'm lugging it' while you carry 400 lbs of jelly rolls as you go in for your hourly supersized meal of diabetes ?? 😡😡😡

Free membership, directly across from my dorm, easily done in between classes. I'm not trying to be like my brother where I'm forced to go to the gym at 10-11pm because he works 9-6. And yeah, mostly ladies. Idc too much about lifting, my body is naturally toned to a certain degree and I maintain ~165 (5'10") no matter what I eat.

Like I said though, off-topic.

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Probably no retina mini this year,

Apples plan is probably release a Mini 2 with bumped CPU shortly after the event, then, after everyones upgraded to a mini 2, they will release a retina mini 6 months later and really annoy everyone, but making a load of cash as people who bought the non-retina mini upgrade again.


cynical, me, nahhh 😉

That's what I thought for a while too, but 1-2 more rumors regarding the release of a retina really makes me think they'll do it this fall. If they were to do the refresh this October and the retina in April or something...that'd be fine. But I wouldn't be getting it then, cus my mom's buying me one for Christmas hah. Would be super lame if they didn't do a retina, I'm trying to browse in HD and stuff, the current mini's screen isn't bad...but it's definitely lame.

 

[ZipZap]

Are you saying that I just should have shelled out the $650 once for the non-Retina, and done so again when the Retina version becomes available? That's pretty gross presumption on your part. I at least allow that some, even a great many people don't care about the lack of Retina display in the mini, but also argue that a lot of people do. If there wasn't call enough in the market for Retina displays, they wouldn't be available or in development.

The display might be perfectly fine for you. I don't know what you use yours for, what your visual acuity is, or where you place display quality in your spectrum of importance. For me, the iPad is a device for the access and consumption of media. As a result, display quality is paramount to me.



I don't think that's necessarily the case. What I most often hear among owners of 7/8-inch form-factor hardware is that the portability is much better, which is not the same thing as weighing less. I'm not an Olympian and I have a hard time imagining people have problems with a 0.6kg tablet. I do, however, absolutely believe that the mini being easy to fit in one's pocket to be of particular importance to its popularity.



As opposed to the singular utility of a pad of paper. 🙄 Where did that arbitrary weight target come from?

I don't dispute your not liking the lack of a retina display, just your statement that most agree with you. They don't.

I did get the non-retina and I love it. Will I trade up, sure. Will I lose money - a little mostly equal to my fair use for the year.

Finally, the #1 complaint of the iPad.............WEIGHT. My paper pad analogy, though extreme, underscores my point. iPad need to be much much much lighter.

The #1 feature of the ipad mini......WEIGHT.

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Probably no retina mini this year,

Apples plan is probably release a Mini 2 with bumped CPU shortly after the event, then, after everyones upgraded to a mini 2, they will release a retina mini 6 months later and really annoy everyone, but making a load of cash as people who bought the non-retina mini upgrade again.


cynical, me, nahhh 😉

Hey, that's their business model