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