The iPad Mini: Delight and Disappointment

"Everything that comes out of Cupertino is perfect! Apple is gorgeous and everything she does is brilliant! "This is the point of view of the most loyal fans of Cupertino company. There is a contrary view: any good word about Apple immediately undergoes a comprehensive critique. That or Android adherents or, more likely, just people who love to argue. Just argue, it does not matter even about. The new iPad Mini has recently become the main topic of discussion online. He has, and strengths and weaknesses, which identified and systematized known columnist. We have before us one of the possible ways. No doubt each of our readers have a lot to add to it.

iPad Mini: Tattered, but expensive

 

At the same time, leading a regular column edition, the Mercury News, Wolverton Troy  suffered from a complex range of emotions, from joy to disappointment of the iPad Mini. Can this be? After all, usually either praised and extolled, or desperately abused and criticized. Yes, it happens when a person is objective and not burning any infinite devotion, not critical. He is willing to consider the advantages and disadvantages and a particular product. Where it deserves, impartial judge of his praise, and where not, and criticize.

The iPad Mini is light as a feather, and its body is a feeling of solidity and soundness.There is the owner of the new tablet a complete library of applications for larger brethren news. All that, combined with the unique charm Apple, will make many people fall in love with iPad Mini.

But Troy Uolverton experienced not only delight. High price, width, relatively low resolution screen and weaker processor iPad Mini disappointed journalist. In many ways it resembles the new iPad first generation. Good product with one major drawback: The Cupertino company soon release a new tablet of the same class (and for the same money), and the hapless buyers will lament the fact that they did not have the patience to wait for updates and to blame, of course, engineers kupertinovskih "Why do they work fast so much so frequently update lineup? We did not have time to enjoy the feeling of owning the latest and most attractive model, as it has become "old". "

It makes sense to wait a year or two

Troy Wolverton advises buyers to reduce the temperature and wait for next year, when, in all likelihood, there will be another iPad Mini, as a miniature, but more powerful and more responsive to the requirements of time to mobile devices. I must say, those who want to buy a novelty, rather ghostly gain benefits that are only in the fact that you can brag to friends. Over time, any device is improved and the second version is always much better than the first. And the price ... in the modern world, the price of electronics is not growing, and often contrary, decreases. However, Apple just leaves the same price for which it is already possible to buy a product with a very different, much more impressive, the consumer quality.

According to Wolverton, one of the main benefits of the tablet is a miniature Cupertino its extraordinary lightness felt by everyone who used to use a full-sized iPad. Not only feel, but also enjoy the ease of this. Miniature iPad half lighter than its older brother.

Advantages of iPad Mini

In addition, the iPad Mini is unusually thin, even thinner than the iPhone 5, which is famous for the extraordinary compactness. Needless to say, these days fashion for thinness reached and mobile devices. The new tablet is lighter than most e-books. It can be quite a long time to hold in one hand and the hand does not get tired. Dream of everyone who likes to read before going to sleep (or instead of sleep). As for the large iPad, what about it do not.

The mini version of iPad, unlike plastic Nexus and Kindle Fire, «dressed" in a metal casing, causing a sense of reliability. This thing is not only easy to handle, but pleasant for purely aesthetic reasons. Not surprisingly, many older people nostalgic sigh for the old technology, lined with metal and wood.

Aesthetics aesthetics, and the tablet is a device designed primarily for content consumption. All 275,000 applications for the iPad, compatible with its miniature version. I must say that as a solid library of applications is a key advantage to Apple rivals in the tablet market.

Users of other tablets such a rich selection deprived. Applications a lot, but often display tablet device, they look very attractive. And this is not surprising, because most of the applications developed for smartphones and do not take advantage of a relatively large tablet screen. Uoltverton tested the applications for the iPad, and came to the conclusion that a few smaller screen iPad Mini, they look good enough. Text, graphics, and buttons are smaller, but the usability is not affected.

Unlike the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD, the iPad baby has a quite "adult" camera. However, the Wolverton did't take a lot of shots, but even that was enough for him to find a new tablet, the camera is quite impressive.

Disadvantages iPad Mini

Some other features of the "Cupertino baby", on the contrary, make it less competitive. He wish not fit into most pockets, making it less portable than the Nexus 7 or virtually any electronic book. To carry it with you, take bag. This brings all the advantages of miniaturization.

Another drawback iPad Mini is that Apple has decided to save some of the components for its production. Its processor is the "only" dual-core A5, known to you on the iPad 2, the tablet is presented by Apple as much as one and a half years ago.Uolverton speed test baby, and came to the conclusion that he could not keep up with the iPhone 5 and iPad 4.

I must say that today these flaws you may not even notice, but in the near future they will be very visible. With his baby oldish processor iPad cease to support new versions of operating systems long before the time comes to leave the race iPad 4.

IPad Mini display does not cause any particularly warm emotions. In earlier devices, Apple has managed to accustom users to the Retina-displays, whose resolution is so high that individual pixels are indistinguishable.

The difference between the Retina-displays and conventional screens can not be understood as long as you do not popolzuetes device, which has a higher screen resolution. But the one who tasted Retina-screen will not be happy with having to go back to the device with the display of the old type. Grit text and images will be too rush to the effete "retina" eye.

Apple decided not to use the display Retina-quality in their iPad Mini. Thus Cupertino technology gave advantage to their competitors,the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, whose screens are superior to the iPad Mini's.

All these technical shortcomings nothing against the high price of iPad Mini. Google and Amazon have already established a kind of "standard", according to which tiny tablets cost about $ 200 and certainly not more than three hundred dollars of the United States. His overview of Troy Uolverton concludes with recommendations to consumers:

No matter how good Mini is, it would be difficult to recommend paying for a $ 330 U.S., especially given that we have a considerable chance that the next version of the Mini is much better.