The Apple iPad mini Thread
 

10:00AM our time Apple is holding another event, which according to all the leaks should be a smaller iPad along with possible new Macbook and iMac updates.

yay! for 2" smaller!

If it's $299, I'm buying one. Played around with the Google Nexus and like the 7" form. It's more convenient but slightly less useful.

LOL more liek it will beclose to $400.

No retina no talk.

Rather get iPad 3 refurb

Starts at 329CAD

iPad mini;

-7.9" screen size
-.68 pounds, half as light as a fouth-gen iPad. As light as a legal notepad.
-Black and white, the black model having the same anodization as the iPhone 5.
-7.2mm thick, 1/4 thicker than the fourth-gen iPad. That's as thin as a pencil.

Drawback: 1024 X 768 pixels. The screen is not "Retina" like the full-sized third-generation iPad. Instead, it has the same resolution as the iPad 2.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple...#ixzz2A9AozTV1

Starts at $329

WTF~ they announced iPad 4....
After only 7 months from iPad 3
Very disappointed with it
New CPU A6X, FaceTime camera, lighting connector
That's all the upgrades.

If this means Apple is going for a 6 month cycle... I am really excited! Refresh every 6 month, Redesign every year!!!

A6X is the big news. The fastest competing SoC in the world is the S4 Pro quad-core Krait with the newest Adreno 320 graphics. And the S4 Pro SoC is about 80% faster than the A5X in CPU and 10% faster in GPU.

And now Apple claims the A6X is double CPU and double GPU of the A5X. Which means Apple has, by far, the most powerful SoC in the mobile world.

Edited. Typo

sucks for people who bought the ipad 3. They sure killed it off fast. At $329 the price point of the ipad mini isn't all so competitive...will be hard to say. What happend to the Apple that had innovative new products and never seen before designs.

you mean like the new imac?

the ipad mini isnt bad the size is the same as nexus while giving it a bigger screen the price isnt too high, generally apple products are more anyways. Curious to see how big of a hit it'll be

7.9 vs 7" and all aluminum enclosure is going to be the major differentiator an of course people pay a premium for the apple eco-system.

I'm also choked about the 7month product cycle of the full-sized iPad.

I just bought a 13" MBA and i'm contemplating exchanging it for the MBP now.

ipad mini priced too high for no retina display
ipad 4 has a nice SoC but it came out way too soon even as a refresh

new 13" macbook and the imac is pretty nice...i hope they give the imac retina treatment next time.

It's slightly expensive because the Nexus 7 is 32GB at $249 now. I expected it to be $299 but $329...$30 isn't a big deal. You do get a little bit more screen real estate than the Nexus.

No chance you were going to get a retina display for that price. It's $80 more than a Nexus 7 but just by looking at it, it looks like a better built product. The Nexus 7 is nicer than most Android cheap plastic tablets but it's still not as well built as an iPad.

If it were $249, it would've just kicked the ass of anyone else in the small tablet market. It would almost compete with the Kindle.

The introduction of the iPad 4 is just to roll out the lightening connector quicker. If you have an iPad 3 there really is no incentive to upgrade.

Quote from Steve Jobs 2 years ago...:fuckthatshit:

Steve Jobs drops knowledge on earnings call: calls out Google and RIM, says 7-inch tablets are 'DOA' (Update: complete Jobs audio!) -- Engadget


No, but jokes aside, the specs/price is a joke

This isn't a 7 inch tablet, This is an 8 inch tablet.

So what's new about this thing besides it's size?

Processor? No, it's using old A5 processor found in the iphone 4/4s generation
Display? No, it has no retna display and is using a 6:4 display ratio
GUI? No, looks like the same interface as any mobile apple product.
memory capacity? still nothing larger than 64GB
Camera? No, still the same shit as the last ipad or worse to cut cost
Bread cutting? No macbook air has been doing that years ago.

I'm not hating on this thing, but I just can't seem to understand the fascination for this thing.

it wasn't suppose to be anything ground breaking other than to tap in the to demand for smaller and lighter tablets. One where you can just hold in one hand.

The main advantage to it is that it can still run Ipad apps at a reduced size.

For myself I still prefer 10", so if i were to get one i'd probably just get an Refurb Ipad 3 at a cheaper price considering ipad 4 is out. or go for all around cheaper nexus 7 for smaller form.

u dont have to
the 13in Retina..mehh..was gonna get it, now I rather buy the 15in... no upgradable memory option = no buy

I don't get why people are pissed. There's basically no difference except a faster processor and a lightning connector.

If you bought an Apple product just before an announcement, then that's your own fault.

With the specs on the $1999 13", you might as well spend the extra $200 and get the 15" since at that price, you get an i7. Mine was $2299 with 16GB RAM.

It's more portable. That's the main thing.

It does make a difference. I find it sometimes difficult to stuff the iPad into my wife's bags, but something a couple inches smaller would probably fit much easier.

I guess is a good thing I sold my ipad3 on Monday lol.

I sold my iPad 1 this morning.