For serious? The iPad mini 4 was a pretty massive upgrade over the iPad mini 2 and 3. I upgraded from the iPad mini 2 and performance is night and day. It's probably mostly because of the increase in RAM, but regardless, it performs much better.
But not only is performance better, cameras are better if you care about that, the screen is nicer, and it's even thinner. I have absolutely no ragrets upgrading to the iPad mini 4. Not even a single letter.
And I never said otherwise..
It was a noticeable improvement over Mini 2/3 but just not worthy of being the flagship 7.9 inch product.
use of the older A8 processor instead of using A9x,A9 or even A8x that was used in a year older iPad Air 2 was a major letdown.
It performs adequetly now but the question is for how long? The processor is old now,it won't do well with future iOS updates.
remember Mini 2 was on par with iPad Air.
Mini 3 was just a Mini 2 with finger orint sensor,and we had Air 2,a year later Mini 4 comes with specs inferior to last years Air 2.
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The 9.7" Pro came out several months after the Mini 4 and also costs considerably more, but you feel ripped off that the older less expensive device isn't as powerful as the new one?
I've said before, if someone is interested in buying an iPad Mini it's probably because they want an 8" tablet, so compare it to other 8" tablets. It doesn't make sense to compare it to a different class of device, especially one that had the advantage of coming out half a year later.
It's very likely that Apple didn't put a more powerful processor in the Mini 4 because it would use more power and generate more heat, two things that can be compensated for in a larger device but not so easily in a small one. Doubling the RAM to make the Mini 4, at the time of launch, one of only 3 iOS devices (including the concurrently launching iPad Pro) to have more than 1GB and be capable of splitscreen multitasking was no small thing. It's also worth noting that the A8 in the Mini 4 is a higher clocked than the one in the iPhone 6/6+, not that I've found my 6 to be slow anyway.
At the time of launch, the Mini 4 matched every feature of the then flagship Air 2 except for the processor, and it cost $100 less. I don't see why you're complaining that a year later it's been surpassed by larger and more expensive iPads. That's the world of technology. Everything is gets surpassed by something faster within a year.
let's forget about Pro 9.7,but the Mini 4 is still less powerful that the one year older Air 2,and it's supposed to be the flagship 7.9 inch class iPad..
your argument that Apple didn't make it more powerful because of hear/more power consumption is invalid,if you look at Mini 2,it was identical to iPad Air..with no heat issue or power issue.
The Mini 4 should have been AT LEAST on par with the 1 year older Air 2.
There is no justification why it has the 2 years old A8 CPU,not A9x? Ok..Not A9?? Not even A8x??
some people think because the Mini is smaller form factor its acceptable for it to have 2 years older than 9.7 inchers specs..which I find ridiculous..its just a smaller form factor..and they are charging premium orice for it,so why so much compromise?
again remember Mini 2 was identical to Air just smaller form factor..thats how it should be.
