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More Claims of No Retina iPad Mini Until Early 2014
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I told ya the mini would FLOP. And it did; now Apple is thinking twice before launching another model.
It doesn't make sense.
Just retina from the beginning,just one model,A6 + retina + 1GB.
Just retina from the beginning,just one model,A6 + retina + 1GB.
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Yeah, it gives me a couple more months to save money and then splurge on a maxed-out high-end (maximum capacity) Retina Mini.
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Yea it totally flopped. It only made up 60% of all apple tablet sales and is cannibalizing ipad 4, but it def. flopped. Go troll somewhere else.
The name of the website is macrumors, I submit to you that it is not the place to go if you don't want to read about rumors... Just saying...
I wouldn't hold off - I'd argue that unless you have remarkable eye sight the smaller size means that retina is less important. I have had a 32GB Mini since March and it's great!
It doesn't need remarkable eyesight to distinguish between the two.
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Because a 2048 x 1536 screen was considered impossible to include in the iPad, at least at its price point. But Apple did it.
Retina or not, I'm looking to pick up a mini before Xmas.
On my full size iPad I like super high res, but I'm largely indifferent in exchange for smaller, lighter device with good battery life
On my full size iPad I like super high res, but I'm largely indifferent in exchange for smaller, lighter device with good battery life
For me they can wait until 2020. I don't care. iPad Mini doesn't appeal to me. Why would I want something in between an iPhone and a regular iPad
Because iPhone is too small to read a book and surf the web, and ipad is too big, heavy and clumsy compared to the ipad mini. I owned all of the above devices and in the end I settled on the mini. Everyone has different priorities. For me size and weight (or lack of it) matters the most.
As an owner of iPad3 Retina, which is now my wife's, couldn't agree more. Mini is just great and the screen is great. Some people may have problems with it, but even me, with not perfect eyesight at all, find it very good.
Had money set aside for the Mini Retina this year, what a shame
I bought an iPad 3 on release and upgraded to 4 (waste of time and money) I bought my Wife a mini for Christmas and I instantly fell for it, for me the size and weight outweigh any benefits the 4 has including retina. I sold my 4 ASAP and upgraded to a Mini and have been perfectly happy since
I will never go back to a full size iPad so it's either wait for the Retina Mini or maybe go with the next Nexus 7!
The one thing i don't like about Apple is it's tendency to make tiny little steps forward in hardware and OS upgrades, eking out as much life and money out of them while being blinkered to what the competition are doing!
I bought an iPad 3 on release and upgraded to 4 (waste of time and money) I bought my Wife a mini for Christmas and I instantly fell for it, for me the size and weight outweigh any benefits the 4 has including retina. I sold my 4 ASAP and upgraded to a Mini and have been perfectly happy since
I will never go back to a full size iPad so it's either wait for the Retina Mini or maybe go with the next Nexus 7!
The one thing i don't like about Apple is it's tendency to make tiny little steps forward in hardware and OS upgrades, eking out as much life and money out of them while being blinkered to what the competition are doing!
Your brain is post-processing everything you see to increase contrast and help you spot differences and objects. Depending on the background your perception of color, brightness and shape differs.
The screen is the same. It was evolutionary beneficial for early humans to see things a little enhanced, instead of always 100% accurate. What you see is not the light that reaches the eye, but what your brain makes of it.
Ipad Mini Retina
This is interesting. I just recently converted from a PC that was over 4 years old to a macbook 13 inch retina display. I had an ipad 4th gen that I traded in to offset some of the cost because I decided I would instead invest in a mini down the road. For the record, this retina display macbook pro is AMAZING. I literally want to use it just so I can look at the screen sometimes, it's ridiculous. I already had the retina fix with the ipad and my current iPhone 5, but after having this macbook pro for 5 days now, I'm on another level.
Point is, going back the mini, I am full on board with retina displays to the point that I won't invest any more money unless it is retina. Does that mean that the current displays are awful? No. For me, it's personal preference at this point. Now, I go into the Apple store to play with the mini and sometimes I almost walk out with one. I keep holding back for retina though.
In the end, I do hope they release a retina display mini this year, because in my opinion while they will indeed still sell, to release a non-retina one with a smaller bezel really just doesn't make any sense to me. If it is going to be delayed, just wait until 2014 and instead just release ipad 5 this year. We'll see what happens...
This is interesting. I just recently converted from a PC that was over 4 years old to a macbook 13 inch retina display. I had an ipad 4th gen that I traded in to offset some of the cost because I decided I would instead invest in a mini down the road. For the record, this retina display macbook pro is AMAZING. I literally want to use it just so I can look at the screen sometimes, it's ridiculous. I already had the retina fix with the ipad and my current iPhone 5, but after having this macbook pro for 5 days now, I'm on another level
.Point is, going back the mini, I am full on board with retina displays to the point that I won't invest any more money unless it is retina. Does that mean that the current displays are awful? No. For me, it's personal preference at this point. Now, I go into the Apple store to play with the mini and sometimes I almost walk out with one. I keep holding back for retina though.
In the end, I do hope they release a retina display mini this year, because in my opinion while they will indeed still sell, to release a non-retina one with a smaller bezel really just doesn't make any sense to me. If it is going to be delayed, just wait until 2014 and instead just release ipad 5 this year. We'll see what happens...