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Post by vjulian »

rgreekguy wrote: post #121
vjulian wrote: post #113

I have an older (but not old) Mini, and I find it almost unusable, as screen elements don’t scale up. For example, Safari browser buttons are stupidly small. Is that still an issue with the Mini?

I am not sure I understand what you mean by the scaling issues, so, I guess, no? I have the 6th generation. The problem I have (and I do not see getting improved, somehow) is that applications do not care for it. Many times I have to turn it to landscape for some more room to fit everything. Most applications feel better on landscape, but then you lose vertical space. Affinity Photo 1 is very guilty of that, having b…

Elements such as buttons and scroll bars are too small for my big fingers and relative to the size of the device.

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Post by Aeolun »

thorncorona wrote: post #198
xattt wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

What keeps them addicted to their watch? I've never found a compelling use case where I'd willingly buy another Apple watch.

My best use case for the apple watch is I can keep it on everywhere. If I constantly have to think of the thing it’ll get annoying enough I want to get rid of it.

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Post by arcanemachiner »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

> Why is the bezel so thick?

How else were they supposed to make room for the extra 4GB of RAM required to support Apple Intelligence?

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Post by jsheard »

michpoch wrote: post #104
fckgw wrote: post #101

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Probably a 120hz screen like the Pro has

Then it’d also get the IPad Pro price?

120hz panels are dirt cheap at this point, look beyond the Apple ecosystem and they're everywhere at nearly every price point. Even barebones office monitors meant for doing spreadsheets are often ~100hz now, there's no reason to make them 60hz when faster panels are more or less the same price.

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Post by Tempest1981 »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #201
spython wrote: post #188

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I think it's so that the fingers holding the device don't obstruct the view/ don't get counted as touch event.

I’d be surprised if thumb rejection/palm rejection isn’t close to perfect by iPadOS 18.

Doesn't work well for me. Thumb gets too close to bottom, and now scrolling becomes zooming. All the time.

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Post by thejsa »

SllX wrote: post #34
Mistletoe wrote: post #19

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How long do we have on the 13 mini before it becomes so slow I have to get a new phone? I don’t know what I’ll do at that point. On the 12 mini now and can never go to a big phone.

Probably a couple of more years provided you can keep replacing your battery. I’m on a 13 Pro Max which has the same SoC as a 13 Mini and while I might want a battery replacement within the next year, the phone itself has no performance issues. I think the iPhone 12 model line is essentially in the same boat, just a little bit older and with worse batteries.

The battery was the main reason I moved from my 12 mini to a 15 (save for USB-C) — just wasn’t holding up, even after a replacement. I still hold out for a 17 mini, though.

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Post by heraldgeezer »

jsheard wrote: post #214
michpoch wrote: post #104

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Then it’d also get the IPad Pro price?

120hz panels are dirt cheap at this point, look beyond the Apple ecosystem and they're everywhere at nearly every price point. Even barebones office monitors meant for doing spreadsheets are often ~100hz now, there's no reason to make them 60hz when faster panels are more or less the same price.

>120hz panels are dirt cheap at this point

So is storage and RAM but every OEM has their added vendor tax and so does Apple.

2TB Samsung pro nvme SSD is 170$, how much is 2TB Apple storage...

Same with screens.

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Post by enragedcacti »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #25
marbletiles wrote: post #7

The mini is the absolute sweet spot for me - enough portability that I don’t mind the many restrictions of iPad OS. But the A-line chips and low-quality screen are problems, and not being able to properly dock it at a monitor is a real hinderance. None of those are addressed here, unfortunately.

Considering the bestselling laptops at Walmart for $400-500 still sometimes have Twisted Nematic displays, I think the screen is fine. I also don’t get the complaint about the A-series chip. What does an M1 unlock in iPadOS that the A17 doesn’t?

If were picking random stuff to compare it against, for $250 Motorola will sell you a phone with a 6.7", 395ppi, 120hz OLED screen. It also comes with a stylus and has 256GB storage standard.

Obviously these aren't directly comparable products but neither are iPads and budget laptops, and Apple asks $750 for a model with equivalent storage and a cellular modem. For a lot of people the screen probably is perfectly adequate but I can also see why some potential buyers would be pretty disappointed given the price point, especially since unlike the air apple doesn't even offer an upsell option at this size.

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Post by browningstreet »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #201
spython wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's so that the fingers holding the device don't obstruct the view/ don't get counted as touch event.

I’d be surprised if thumb rejection/palm rejection isn’t close to perfect by iPadOS 18.

I’m forever triggering the camera app, while locking the device, on my iPhone 15 pro max. Every day, regularly.
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