Actually the chips of the iPad mini and the iPhone 15 pro/max isn’t the exact same. The chip of the phone has 6 cores and the chip of the iPad mini has only 5. I don’t understand why apple did that but sadly it’s the way it is
That explains the minor difference in the geekbench tests. I know I was joking at the beginning about them having 'binned' them but maybe there's a bit of truth in it...
Bought my mini 6 Folio case in Burnt Orange from a reputable supplier on eBay for £25.00. Brand New and box fresh! Don’t pay Apple Tax if you can avoid it😊 Pick my Mini 7 yesterday and loving it…but was upgrading from a mini 4!
@@ThatMarkGilroy Thanks. I don’t understand the hatred for the tablet with some You tubers out there. Not everyone wants an M4 chip in a huge screen that will not fit in a pocket. Doctors and small plane pilots are two examples that spring to mind. This fits the gap between my iPhone 13 and my Mac. Plus, I get the chip for Apple Intelligence without having to pay more money to upgrade my phone.
Brilliant video Mark 👍 Your opening scene is certainly what happened at Apple Park, the bare minimum update for the iPad mini. I love the size and form factor of the mini but I really wanted an updated screen.
Good spot! I swapped them round by accident. The mini (slightly) underperforms the iPhone 15 Pro Max even when both are running the A17 Pro chip. The one in the iPhone has more cores, hence the difference.
for my use case of reading pdfs, gaming like Marvel Snap and Ragnarok and light video editing on Capcut, along with web surfing of course, which memory should I get? im torn between 256 and 512
From what I can tell the battery size across the range for iPad Mini/iPad Air 11”/iPad Pro 11” is exactly the same. That seems mad but all the specs quoted on Apple’s site give the same expected usage.
@@ThatMarkGilroy I saw an video that opened and compared the components and found both battery to be exact same part. I hope 17 pro chip is more efficient. How is the Apple Intelligence working on the mini 7? Especially for business type use cases such as sending more professional emails and generating more professional documents etc?
Thank you for your comment because this was my deciding factor to upgrade my 6 to the 7. I’m a digital planner so I would enjoy the pencil pro and Hoover but that was it besides battery for me.
It's early days yet but happy to report that all the email integrations and summarising notifications etc work as advertised. It hasn't got the wider OpenAI integrations yet though, so the context and talk-to-Siri stuff is quite limited still.
@@ThatMarkGilroy if I want to reply to office emails in Outlook, can I use these features or it requires apple email client? Do these features work on MacBook M1 as well?
I bet. It must be like motion sickness. It seems like it’s a neurological thing in the way some people just can’t see it and others can’t stop seeing it.
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Great as always Mark! I think you're spot on. Apple didn't go above and beyond on this one. I also have the M4 11 and I just don't see the Mini fitting in anywhere. Be interesting if they were to make a Mini Pro. Might consider that.
I had mentioned in a different video that I think the new iPad mini has become the victim of cancel culture. Everyone is talking about What it does NOT do. I agree with you with the scrolling up and down fast and then putting it in slow motion just to see something that many (if not most) won’t with the natural eye we won’t see. Something else that bothers me about all of these review videos. Things seem to be the way of the world that if one person says that the sky is red then you are going to have dozens if not hundreds or more people say that the sky is red. Frustrating as a consumer.
100%. No point reviewing something for what it ISN’T. You have to review what you get. Which, as many predicted that Apple would kill off this model, isn’t bad at all.
Samsung/Android needs an 8.X "pro" tablet with 120Hz, OLED, and Fingerprint scanner on Power button or in-display. The mini size is so nice, I had the 6 and ended up selling it. I wanted an eReader size tablet to compliment my 11 in tablet I use in landscape for writing and video. These companies don't seem to get what consumers want, and for Apple their followers justify buying their BS - until that changes - they wont innovate or get competitive - consumers should NEVER be satisified and KEEP your FOOT on these companies NECKS - we should have FLEW into a rage and boycotted when they started to charge over $1,000.00 for cellphones - and over the last several years the "upgrades" have been "meh" - so the cost should have decreased - nope. Consumers need to take back their power, these companies stopped competitng and we suffer for it
Samsung could clean up this area of the market with that type of device. Odd though...they've had opportunities to collar Apple users on a few occasions now (thinking of their M-series monitors as a Studio Display competitor)...they've not quite done it yet.
Yeah I think that's it. It's the bare minimum they could have done without raising the price. I do think people would have been happier paying more to get more though....perhaps I'm in the minority there. If you're dropping $600 on an iPad and you have the choice of the new M2 iPad Air or this...the only reason you're going for the iPad Mini is because you like the size. In which case you've got a captive audience of people who would spend a little more to get a better/brighter screen.
Did you say that about the iPad Air or base iPad when they updated them? Same type of upgrade but the popular message with the Air was that it was the iPad for most people while this tablet is getting 💩 on for no reason
That’s right. The difference between a 256GB iPad Mini and iPad Air is negligible. You have to really want the iPad Mini form factor to consider that over an iPad Air.
