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iPad mini [MERGED] The iPad Mini looks beautiful until you turn it on.
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So... After careful consideration...
Okay.. Used the mini form 4 hours and now I fully appreciate my iPad 3... Returning this.
Mini is great for gaming and apps but for web browsing and PDF the screen isn't holding up and I do hours of reading on the iPad and having to scroll due to necessity of bigger text, it's gets more tiring than holding a heavier iPad 3.
I love the weight and form factor but the screen has additional issue... Pixels aside, the contrast is not as good and colors not as brilliant.
Okay.. Used the mini form 4 hours and now I fully appreciate my iPad 3... Returning this.
Mini is great for gaming and apps but for web browsing and PDF the screen isn't holding up and I do hours of reading on the iPad and having to scroll due to necessity of bigger text, it's gets more tiring than holding a heavier iPad 3.
I love the weight and form factor but the screen has additional issue... Pixels aside, the contrast is not as good and colors not as brilliant.
No one is denying that it's lower resolution.
Everyone is just pointing out when someone else is being a whining **** about a non-issue.
It's not retina because the retina that Apple wants (2048x1536) isn't possible in that size format this year. So instead they gave us a a near-retina screen that's high quality, in a fantastic, well performing device.
Would retina be nice? Sure. But be realistic instead of just some mindless "Gimme gimme" who's bitching about retina.
For me? The 160PPI is just fine. And I'm using both an iPad 4 and the Mini. Two devices for different purposes. If you want to piss and moan about retina, go ahead. I'll be enjoying the device that doesn't suffer in the least from the lack of it.
I have a 13" 2012 MacBook Air which is not Retina. I have an iPhone 5 and iPad 3, both of which are Retina. I'm not complaining that Apple came out with a 13" MacBook Pro Retina just a few months after I bought mine. I can easily transition between the Air and my mobile devices and not think there's something wrong with the screen on the Air.
SJ is dead? Wish somebody told me that. I only love and supporting Apple because of SJ.
Dude, your thread is cringe-worthy.
This pretty sums up my feelings, except ill be swapping for a iPad 4 as this was to replace my 1st gen unit.
ridiculous...Ive been reading on it all day, watching video and surfing...I don't have an headache, and still fine for everyone other than the haters here in geekland. I gave it to my wife and a friend and they saw nothing wrong with it. He runs a kindle and she a ipad2....
Is it retina? NO
is it a fail?....NO...
get over it, don't buy it.... but please just STF up with the "mini fail" threads - we get it.... you don't like it...it will still go on to be a great xmas product for AAPL...
Is it retina? NO
is it a fail?....NO...
get over it, don't buy it.... but please just STF up with the "mini fail" threads - we get it.... you don't like it...it will still go on to be a great xmas product for AAPL...
The iPad Mini is recycled tech: a screen from 2007 (the iPod Touch) and a processor from 2011 (the iPad 2). It is overpriced and underspec'd, in my opinion, but we all know what the specs are, so don't buy it if you place a priority on ppi or fast performance. If you don't care about the screen or speed, then go ahead. It seems to me that the decision is pretty easy.
Cool, yet another reason why Apple is dying. They've been dying for so many years and for so many reasons, I'm loosing count. They sure are taking their sweet time.
Well at least you learned a few lessons today. One of them, don't make buying decisions based only on what "people have told you". Or "Do not buy multi-hundreds things without a least looking at it". Or is it "If you're going to read what people have to say, read again" because you obviously missed some of them.
Well at least you learned a few lessons today. One of them, don't make buying decisions based only on what "people have told you". Or "Do not buy multi-hundreds things without a least looking at it". Or is it "If you're going to read what people have to say, read again" because you obviously missed some of them.
What is so funny is how people went ape ***** over the iPad 2 screen and now they are bashing it because iPad 3 and now 4 has retina. The screen does not look bad at all. No not retina but will get me through until apple releases one. I might take a slight loss on the resale but in the meantime have a much butter device than any 7 inch on the market and 4 g. Lets see nook or kindle do that
Come on Apple!! iPad Mini screen totally disappointing!
I stopped by my local Apple store today to check out the iPad Mini in person. I'm very impressed with the design and build quality of the mini. I'm however totally disappointed with the screen!
Hold on fanboys, before you get your skirts in a bunch.
How much more would it have really cost Apple to put a retina display on the mini??? Were they trying to be cheap and maximize profits? Is it a sourcing and supply issue? Or was Apple doing what they typically do, start a product at the bottom so they have room for future upgrades to continue making money off of us???
Apple should have released the mini with a retina display. The crap display that's on it now really takes away from the product.
I bet you in a years time we'll see the new iPad Mini HD, with retina display. Of course, after they've sold millions with the crappy display. What would Jobs have done?? Very disappointing Apple!
If it weren't for your awesome ecosystem, I'd go somewhere else.
I stopped by my local Apple store today to check out the iPad Mini in person. I'm very impressed with the design and build quality of the mini. I'm however totally disappointed with the screen!
Hold on fanboys, before you get your skirts in a bunch.
How much more would it have really cost Apple to put a retina display on the mini??? Were they trying to be cheap and maximize profits? Is it a sourcing and supply issue? Or was Apple doing what they typically do, start a product at the bottom so they have room for future upgrades to continue making money off of us???
Apple should have released the mini with a retina display. The crap display that's on it now really takes away from the product.
I bet you in a years time we'll see the new iPad Mini HD, with retina display. Of course, after they've sold millions with the crappy display. What would Jobs have done?? Very disappointing Apple!
If it weren't for your awesome ecosystem, I'd go somewhere else.
This makes me think if Apple has a hitten agenda here. Bringing out the iPad Mini with a less then perfect LCD, and then next year coming out with mini2 to sell the same device basically twice. The LCD technology is there now, but they purposely have choose not to use it.
It would definitely add a nice marking plus into a device that otherwise can't have too many new hardware feature by definition as the technology is pretty mature now.
Oh, stop it already. The display is brand new. Nothing from 2007 about it. You know they're still making 100ppi displays right now, right? The best, state-of-the-art, highest-quality panels in 2012 have worse pixel density than the iPad mini's display.
Processors from 2011 seem to work fine for you on the Nexus 7, so I don't see what the issue is there.
OP, I give your post a 3. You got one point for registering and another for starting a new post. But you lost points on subject matter, poor delivery and of course mentioning Jobs as if you knew him personally. Roughly your post was on par with the rest of the trash thats been posted today about a screen that EVERYONE already knows IS NOT a retina display.