The specs tend to be closer aligned with the iPad Air then the low end iPads.Why is the iPad mini more expensive than the regular iPad? Newer technology?
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iPad Mini 6 Hits New All-Time Low Price of $375 on Amazon
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I agree with you. At $375 I went ahead and ordered one today. Only use it for consumption, and nothing else. A new one will cost even more for the same usage.
Wrong. This device is super powerful. Even if they come out with a new mini - which we don’t know - it will be minimum $500. This is a great price. My wife loves to carry her iPad in her purse and she has a smaller purse. She can barely fit an air in it but this is so small and powerful, she can use it for her basic tasks of reading, recipes, social media, web browsing etc extremely well. Any updates to the new mini will be icing on a fantastic cake. I just bought one for the Mrs but wish I could justify one for myself too.
Without question, my favorite iPad I've used to date. Esp paired with Pencil 2. Has completely revolutionized my workflow.
Those people are sharing their opinion -- which you disagree with -- all good!
If one wants to buy an old JellyScroller that is about to get replaced and depreciate like a rock dropping in an ocean.... go for it!
What folks do with their money is, of course, totally their business
I bought mine when it was introduced. love the form factor...just donʻt love the battery life.
HobeSoundDarryl
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For me, it is THE phone (too). Like iPhone can also be a flashlight or a map or an iPod or a tape measure with apps, a VOIP app can make iPad Mini function as a phone. Use buds for the audio & microphone. Opt for the cellular version to access the very same 5G signals iPhone uses, else save your calling for when you are in wifi zones.
I've owned an iPhone for only a few weeks ONCE. Cellular iPad Mini 2 and now 6 have been my phone (too) for all these years. While not for everyone, I don't feel like I've missed a thing for my telephony needs. And the bigger screen pretty much makes every other app better.
4 gigs of RAM? No. Even my iPhone has more than that. A tablet is supposed to be more powerful than a phone.
Your opinion too… we dont buy ipads as investments to sell at a later date. They are investments in a device that pays for itself in other ways.Those people are sharing their opinion -- which you disagree with -- all good!
If one wants to buy an old JellyScroller that is about to get replaced and depreciate like a rock dropping in an ocean.... go for it!
What folks do with their money is, of course, totally their business
The jellyscrolling issue is something that most ipad mini users are unaware of. And its not old, its got an A15 and its Apples current linup.
An ipad mini 4 is “old”.
I hadn't picked up on that. Thanks for the tip off. Won't be getting one now but I picked up some good pointers in this thread about saving storage space on my devices.
Don't worry, the new ipad mini coming… soon, maybe.. will be on sale too 😂
And if its too old for you to buy on release, I'm sure iPad mini 8 willbe on sale also.
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Im sure there will be some other decent discounts on this mini 😀
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Yes, delete it. When it's done for the day, delete it. If you want to text them again tomorrow, start a new one.
If I have some situation where I need a record of a conversation, I hop on Mac and save the communication to a PDF file, then delete it.
Regularly, I have ZERO text messages open in Messages. Typically, I may have a few. Never will have more than maybe 20 and none of them will be text conversations starting more than a week or two ago MAX. Most of my text exchanges start today and finish today (deleted today). A few may carry over for a day or three to carry on some relevant information exchange. But I'm pretty quick to delete and start a new one whenever possible.
If there's some pictures or video in a text shared by someone else that I want to keep, I get it to wherever such media needs to be stored on Mac and then delete the source text message.
Same over in Mail: process email, put any I want to keep in keep folders on Mac (out of iCloud storage) and then delete mail that doesn't need to be kept. I've seen Macs with an inbox holding THOUSANDS of entries. Mine generally holds <100 at any time and I strive for < 50. Keep that iCloud mail processed and it won't eat up a lot of iCloud storage. Auto-empty trash & junk after not too many days too.
Message & Mail are good short-term communication apps. Process & delete and they won't be big storage hogs in iCloud. Keep mail or messages forever in iCloud and they will demand "forever rent" for the space they occupy.
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I routinely look up information that’s within a conversation in iMessages and deleting every text at the end of the day would make that impossible. Similarly manually archiving every single text and also putting it somewhere that I could easily search it by content would be a massive undertaking, a time sink and inconvenience that easily dwarfs the few dollars per month I spend on cloud storage. More power to you for sticking to your guns.
HobeSoundDarryl
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If that works for you and you don't mind forever rent, good for you. No one way is the best way for everyone. While I'm fairly anti-cloud, others could make a passionate case for the vital importance of cloud for them. And that's fine. It's good to have choices and people should do whatever works best for them.
In my experience, the dependency on cloud only grows over time... so the "cheap" option eventually is full and the next tier becomes needed... and then the next. There are few tales of cloud innovations working that down so that people need less cloud and thus can pay less rent. Instead, the whole train seems to move in only one direction. Eventually 200GB is full, so then we're rationalizing $10/month. Eventually that fills and we're rationalizing $30/month... and then $60/month.
For those who don't want to eventually be spending $720/yr for iCloud 12TB (one could buy almost 2 iPad Minis in this sale for only 1 year of THAT rent), there are options available to change behaviors and choices to avoid it... or even bail out of paying anything for Cloud storage at all. Others may easily rationalize spending "only $720" for the great convenience of storing up to 12TB in the cloud.
Still others could have their cake & eat it too for less than about 2 years of renting 12TB in the cloud... by putting that budget towards a NAS like Synology and setting up their own cloud to own and use. That budget could load it with several 16TB drives to give themselves a cloud they entirely control with no ongoing rent to pay and is much larger than 12TB. They could share space in their cloud with family & friends too so that others don't have to pay that rent too. We have this setup in my household for when any of us occasionally have big cloud storage needs. After the sunk cost of setting up the NAS (and it does many other things beyond only offering cloud storage we 100% control), it's $0/month... with expandable storage as needed, etc.
Whatever works best for each person is great.
In my experience, the dependency on cloud only grows over time... so the "cheap" option eventually is full and the next tier becomes needed... and then the next. There are few tales of cloud innovations working that down so that people need less cloud and thus can pay less rent. Instead, the whole train seems to move in only one direction. Eventually 200GB is full, so then we're rationalizing $10/month. Eventually that fills and we're rationalizing $30/month... and then $60/month.
For those who don't want to eventually be spending $720/yr for iCloud 12TB (one could buy almost 2 iPad Minis in this sale for only 1 year of THAT rent), there are options available to change behaviors and choices to avoid it... or even bail out of paying anything for Cloud storage at all. Others may easily rationalize spending "only $720" for the great convenience of storing up to 12TB in the cloud.
Still others could have their cake & eat it too for less than about 2 years of renting 12TB in the cloud... by putting that budget towards a NAS like Synology and setting up their own cloud to own and use. That budget could load it with several 16TB drives to give themselves a cloud they entirely control with no ongoing rent to pay and is much larger than 12TB. They could share space in their cloud with family & friends too so that others don't have to pay that rent too. We have this setup in my household for when any of us occasionally have big cloud storage needs. After the sunk cost of setting up the NAS (and it does many other things beyond only offering cloud storage we 100% control), it's $0/month... with expandable storage as needed, etc.
Whatever works best for each person is great.
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And the fact it will still hold decent trade-in value to put towards the 7