Sorry I have my own mind and want the bigger screen. I won't be exchanging mine for a mini.
I feel like i get the benefits of the mini with benefits of the larger iPad with the iPad Air.
Sorry I have my own mind and want the bigger screen. I won't be exchanging mine for a mini.
iPad Mini even with retina will be horrible for reading books & comics.
Because????
Uh? The Air's screen size is exactly the same as on previous iPads.I was missing the bigger screen on the previous iPads so Im thrilled. I may still get a mini in addition to my air but I dont feel as compelled to now.
Uh? The Air's screen size is exactly the same as on previous iPads.
I love my mini, but getting the new air. Think I want it a bit bigger as it stays home with meI agree. I had the iPad mini for a year and loved it, but found the text and software elements on screen to be just a bit too small since it's running at the same resolution but on a smaller sized screen. The iPad Air resolves that issue for me and yet is now almost as small & light as the mini is. The Air is the best of both worlds for me anyway.
I just played with one at Best Buy-when the guy handed it to me I immediately said "no, I wanted to see an Air" as I thought he'd handed me a 4. He goes "no, this is an Air".
Oh.
I've had a Mini exclusively since they launched, and so while I'm sure this is thinner and lighter than a 3/4/whatever, my perception was obviously thrown having used the Mini for so long.
Going to wait for the Retina Mini and make my decision afterwards.
Sorry, I had the mini going into today.
Any reason why you didn't just simply walk over to the iPad 4 to see the difference? Sounds like a completely missed opportunity.
The iPad 4 is dramatically heavier, thicker, and bulky. If you've used the Mini all this time I can't see how the iPad Air felt so hugely different to you. It's only 0.25 of a lb heavier, same thickness as the Mini, and slight width/height increase... but majority of the device is all SCREEN baby.
slight width/height increase? either your perception of size is skewed or you haven't seen it in person next to the mini... the overall size of the Air is significantly larger than the mini. the weight and thinnes is definitely similar but the footprint is way different still.
Just got my new Ipad Air. Amazing tablet! Speed - whew!
Okay, I came from an Ipad-First Gen. I have spent a little time with my grandaughters mini and sort of liked it and considered it just a little, but really wanted to extra screen size.
Now that I have the Air, it feels like a slightly larger mini. One hand seems to work. Only had it for an hour, but so far I am amazed.
One of the apps that was a bit slow, but usable on the Ipad-1 was NEXT ISSUE. This downloads magazines. With the Air - everything comes up almost instant. No testing, but the wifi seems much faster as well.
I am amazed.
Just got home from the reseller that's across the street (I'm waiting for a Mini, but was curious and wanted to hold an Air myself).
I was not impressed at all. I had an iPad 3 (that I sold about a year ago or so) so yes I noticed that it's lighter, which is always a good thing. However it's not that smaller, it felt familiar in my hand, it would be tough to hold after a while with one hand, and it's in general a little bit big for my taste and hard to handle.
I have a MacBook air at home. I will definitely use my iPad at home too, when I don't feel like picking up the laptop, streaming music to the Apple TV, and reading (for which I think the mini's size is just perfect by the way). I will take it with me on trips too, and again, the mini's size is way nicer for that.
The iPhone is only 4 inches smaller, but those 4 inches make a huge difference, and you all know that. The iPhone is great because it fits in the pocket, but it's a pain doing pretty much anything on it.
But then the iPad Air is only 3 inches smaller than my laptop and is less capable for production in general. Sure it's nice to move around but it doesn't improve the experience that I have already with my laptop that much.
The mini is the sweet spot. It's obviously not for producing content (in fact it's worse than the Air for that) but I feel like the spectrum of things I can do with a mini + laptop + iphone is wider because of its smaller size. I've always felt like a full-sized iPad kind of overlaps a little bit with the laptop. It's in a place where I'm not even sure it's useful (that's why I sold it!).
Anyway that's just my opinion, and I stand by it after checking it out. I'll give up those 2 extra inches and I'll get a lighter device, more portable, with the SAME specs, and as an extra, higher dpi. The price is irrelevant. Hell, even if they cost the same I would still get the mini.
Again...why didn't you walk 2 feet and pick up an iPad 4. You were at the store with a curiosity... but instead decided to ignore the actual tablets you were comparing it to, and still feel confident to make a controversial post to show just how much you "didn't notice any difference" versus another tablet you never even held before.
I was just at the Apple store to pick up my Air... I think I saw about 10 airs next to 10 Minis? Guess I didn't get a close enough lookThe difference in device size is miniscule when comparing how much bigger the actual screen is.
Unless you carry around a purse... needing a device that's only that much smaller seems pointless. Unless you just love smaller screens for whatever reason... if that was the case then totally fine with me.
Again...why didn't you walk 2 feet and pick up an iPad 4. You were at the store with a curiosity... but instead decided to ignore the actual tablets you were comparing it to, and still feel confident to make a controversial post to show just how much you "didn't notice any difference" versus another tablet you never even held before.
I was just at the Apple store to pick up my Air... I think I saw about 10 airs next to 10 Minis? Guess I didn't get a close enough lookThe difference in device size is miniscule when comparing how much bigger the actual screen is.
Unless you carry around a purse... needing a device that's only that much smaller seems pointless. Unless you just love smaller screens for whatever reason... if that was the case then totally fine with me.
I'm going with the mini mainly because I like the form factor. It's not a matter of affordability. Hell, I buy new phones full price every year mainly because I feel like it. I could get an ipad air but I'm skeptical of the amount of use it'll get once the newness wears off. The question I ask myself is what device would I unconsciously reach for if I were to own both an ipad air and an ipad mini with retina. I have a strong suspicion that it would be the latter and the ipad air would eventually gather dust right alongside my ipad 3.
I love the form factor of the mini, I love to carry it around and holding it is a joy. That's when I realised that it was the holding and carrying around that was great but actually using it was just ok.
The screen size on the air was so much better for reading emails, web browsing and watching tv. It's weight and thickness are almost identical to the mini but I have to admit its a little bigger.
I just came from the apple store where I wanted to be "wowed" by the iPad Air. I currently have a "the new iPad with Retina" which is I guess the 3rd generation.
It's still iOS7.
Its lighter, but its the same thing - the same icons, the same animations, when I open an app, it opens. The music sounds the same, the websites I pull up look the same.
I question whether it's going to be as durable as my The New iPad with Retina Display.
I didn't buy it. I still want it but I can't bring myself to dropping the ~$800 just for a thinner case and lighter weight. Speed differences might be there, but we're really talking in milliseconds, and that's not worth it to me.
I'm sad.