as a book designer as well this is so wrong because when you open a book/magazine the spread is landscape. unless you're doing a museum brochure where the page width is less than 0.5x its length.
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What to Expect From Apple's 2024 iPad Mini 7
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When you open a book, the spread may be landscape, but most books print individually on both sides of the page. So you are really looking at two portrait pages, side by side.
I regularly build catalogues and design for a double-page spread (landscape), but each A4 page has to be able to stand on its own (portrait).
I prefer to use a tablet and mobile phone in portrait 90% of the time.
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My statement stands. You don't experience a book individually like a stapled stack of paper but rather a horizontal landscape, even if you design the pages individually.
Would it really bump the price up that much to go OLED with that small of a panel? I want an oled mini so badly. I can’t believe with the cost of OLEDs coming down so much in the last few years and given the small form factor it would dramatically increase the price that much
I would say A17 pro but Apple wants to get away from the N3B A17 3nm chip as the chip yields were low and they were very costly to produce given that they were the 1st generation 3nm technology. I think N3E A18 will be in the new Mini because it’s so much cheaper. I also think Apple may push out a Mini release until next March because they don’t want there new iPad Air’s and Pro’s sales to hurt
Are you sure you want a keyboard that small, though? I know we all have different use case, but I found myself to be much happier just taking my MX Keys Mini with me instead of the Magic Keyboard for 11". Much better typing experience when I need it and easier to leave behind when I don't.
PDFs, fiction books and the like are all best read in portrait mode, especially on a device the size of the iPad Mini. If your book is best in landscape, turn the iPad to that orientation.
I’d like to see IP68 sealing as the Mini is just the right size for making notes or uploading photos out in the environment.
I’d like to see IP68 sealing as the Mini is just the right size for making notes or uploading photos out in the environment.
Staples has iPad Mini 6's listed as "clearance" and the base is down to $299 in store
Maybe there is hope for a Mini 7 soon?
Maybe there is hope for a Mini 7 soon?
Apple still doesn’t believe that anyone “serious” might not want the largest device possible, it seems.
This isn’t new. The Mac laptops and even desktops have always required the largest screen for the best processor and storage options, and iPhone models have made you compromise on at least camera features from almost the very beginning of different screen size options.
It’s just frustrating that the iPad mini is gimped in pretty much every way from the top iPad. Rear camera doesn’t really matter in a tablet but it’s missing the LiDAR Scanner as well. The screen isn’t just smaller it’s basically worse by every measurement, brightness, contrast, etc. Up until the last version even the USB port was gimped, and of course storage is capped at a quarter of what you can get on a full size unit.
An iPad Pro in suit pocket format would have been killer. But I got tired of waiting for one. I’m not going to buy a tablet that is less capable than my phone.
I honestly don’t get why they even keep the product around at this point. They obviously don’t take it seriously.
Right but Xcode is still an OS limitation, not chip. M1 was a bit of a milestone, but the A series chips have outclassed low end desktop chips from Intel for years. The absence of an M chip isn’t the real problem, it’s that iPadOS is radically stripped down compared to a real computer OS. No terminal access, very limited sideloading, no compilers, crappy multitasking, everything full screen…
Otherwise, the newer iPad models with keyboard docks would be perfect laptop replacements, but they can’t even handle basics like putting a watermark on a Word document.
- A18 SoC
- 12GB RAM
- 1TB SSD
- 9" miniLED ProMotion display
- Nano-texture glass option
- FaceID
- Better cameras
- LIDAR scanner
- TB4/USB-C port
- Apple Pencil Pro
Probably.
Not likely, more like 8GB RAM.
Possibly. The new Air got 1TB storage.
Nope, no Promotion.
No FaceID
Possibly better cameras.
Maybe LIDAR.
No TB4. That's a Prto feature.
Possibly Pencil Pro.
Basically, whatever the new Air M2 got, the Mini 7 has a chance to get. But not more.
You should note that I was responding to another user who expressed a wish for an "iPad Pro in suit pocket format"...
I'd pay 2K for that because Apple would do it right, and it'd replace two 1K+ devices. 👍🏼
I couldn't care less about FaceID, never use it, will never use it. But knowing Apple, I could expect they will introduce "one day" (i.e. too late) an iPad Mini 7 that is even thinner, partially and half-heartedly fix some annoying existing bugs and issues while introducing more, focus on a bunch of useless or impractical features that do not make sense, start from 64GB internal storage and either ridiculously overcharge for more or not offer at all the storage amounts many people need, then decline to introduce a Mini 8 for years and years because they will claim there is no much demand.
I hope I am wrong but I really need a small tablet and I am gettiing rather desperate; there is none in the market besides iPad Mini 6 and that's from 2021.
I hope I am wrong but I really need a small tablet and I am gettiing rather desperate; there is none in the market besides iPad Mini 6 and that's from 2021.
Agreed
They'll probably make the aspect ratio even wider or some totally random "what are you doing?" move.
It's another change from my Mini 5 (to Mini 6) I really didn't care for personally.
4:3 on my Mini 5 is a super all around usage aspect ratio
I honestly believe that the iPad mini will have SOMETHING compatible with Apple Intelligence. Whether it's an A17 Pro chip or the future A18. I have a strong feeling it's probably the later because I have a strong suspicion that non-pro iPhone 16 models will support Apple Intelligence.
Not also that, I'd think Apple would want to have compatibility with the Pencil Pro, not sure if those can ONLY work with an M-series chip, I hope they don't, perhaps a chip like the A18 will do.
If not it'll be a real bummer, beyond the OLED and higher refresh rate, I'll settle with Apple Intelligence and the stupid pencil imo.
Not also that, I'd think Apple would want to have compatibility with the Pencil Pro, not sure if those can ONLY work with an M-series chip, I hope they don't, perhaps a chip like the A18 will do.
If not it'll be a real bummer, beyond the OLED and higher refresh rate, I'll settle with Apple Intelligence and the stupid pencil imo.
I want nothing to do with Apple Intelligence
Apple - feel free to leave that out of iPad Mini 7
Apple - feel free to leave that out of iPad Mini 7
Would definitely love a Mini pro, especially with the nano texture. Probably the only person who’d love to keep Touch ID, much better for reading in the dark.