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iPad Mini 5
Apple’s iPad mini 5 lineup motionless sits atop the tablet kingdom more than a decade after the first device was released.
Nevertheless, the iPad Mini seems to be in a strange spot. Most of the market gravitates toward the top-of-the-line iPad Pro or the cheapest iPad.
At first glance, the iPad Mini feels like a worse buy with a higher price tag and a smaller screen.
Should I buy it?
- If you want a small tablet, there is no better option on the market. The iPad Mini blows the rivalry out of the water with a powerful processor.
- Light and compact design, bizarre battery life, and the best tablet operating system in iPadOS.
- Aimed at consumers that want a good tablet and don’t mind a larger size, the standard iPad offers incredible value.
- This iPad Air and iPad Pro are more luxurious, but they’re both among the best tablets money can buy.
- There’s too a small selection of right Android tablets for those who want to avoid Apple’s ecosystem, but none can truly match Apple’s offerings.
What’s good?
- Pardon drew me to the iPad Mini over the other options is its size. The first tablet I truly loved was the Nexus 7, and despite the OS change, this gave me the same experience.
- I required a smaller tablet to use for reading and occasional media consumption, and that’s precisely what I got.
- I, too, like that the base model originates with 64GB of storage.
- This quantity feels right for a tablet, which wants nowhere near as much space as a phone.
- The regular iPad’s base model has 32GB, and the 128GB iPad costs more than the inexpensive iPad Mini.
- On the first peep, the iPad Mini design could appearance dated with large bezels and a physical fingerprint reader/home button. Extra expensive models like the iPad Air and iPad Pro look much sleeker.
- Though, in this case, smaller bezels would reduce the serviceability of the device.
- It’s enjoyable to have some space to hold a tablet without unwanted taps, and I’m more than willing to give up a little screen real estate for it.
- The Battery life is also excellent. When interpreting or browsing the web for a few hours a night, the battery easily lasted for a week.
- Streaming video exhausted the battery a bit faster, but you can imagine to meet or exceed Apple’s promised 10-hour battery life.
- Popular terms of actually using the device, iPadOS has come a long way in recent years.
- Today has multitasking tools, mouse-and-keyboard support, widgets, and a host of other features that make it a waft to use.
What’s not so good?
- Those mentioned above dependable to find many negatives with the Apple iPad Mini 5, particularly considering the lack of rivalry in the space.
- Those mentioned earlier only real drawback is that it’s only well-matched with the first-generation Apple Pencil, which has an awkward charging method.
- It was into the bottom of the tablet and stuck straight out. However, both look ridiculous and renders the tablet virtually unusable.
- Separately from that, the dated design may turn away from consumers. Sure, Apple could have somewhat reduced the bezel sizes.
- It, too, could have switched to the more ubiquitous USB-C charging standard. Motionless, neither of these should be deal-breakers for those looking for a small tablet.