Sometimes, though, I do wish Apple products weren’t quite so aspirational, and that Apple had prosaic people like me in mind, too, when it designed its stuff. But it’s nice to know it’s there, idling, waiting for me to be hit by that bus. So, yes, the new processor in the iPad mini is an absolute beast, a gazillion times more powerful than I need for reading fiction and jotting down handwritten notes. One of my favourite laptops, the new Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 running the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 processor, scores dramatically lower than the iPad mini in benchmark tests, and that’s a full-blown laptop computer I happily use for all sorts of power-intensive tasks. (Just so you know, the iPad mini’s chip maxes out at 2.93 GHz, compared to 3.23 GHz on the iPhone 13.) Have you seen the processor in this thing? It’s more or less the same, insanely powerful A15 Bionic processor that’s in the iPhone 13, albeit with a slightly lower maximum speed, but not so much slower you’d notice in real life. I know it’s a lot to ask, but wouldn’t it be nice if Apple were just a little daggier, a little more like Samsung from time to time? Using the iPad mini for only two things seemed like such a waste of this quite exquisite device.)īut it’s nice to know that, should I get struck by a bus and miraculously emerge from the coma with creative superpowers, the new Apple iPad mini will be right there with me, keeping up, urging me on to even greater awesomeness. (For the record, the iPad mini’s 8.3-inch screen – up from 7.9 inches in the previous model – is way too small to use as a second display, but I needed a third item on that list, so I’m using it as a second display regardless. I use the iPad mini for unexciting things, like reading old crime fiction (it’s the perfect size for reading novels), for jotting down work-related notes (I wrote much of the first draft of this review on it, using the Apple Pencil), and as a second screen for my iMac, to keep an eye on workplace messages (which is what I am using it for now, as I type up this review on the Mac). Photographers and videographers will love the processing power in the iPad mini, which is better than many laptops. I mean, have you seen the ads? Everyone in an Apple ad is amazing, the perfect version of themselves.
Someone cooler, who scripts, scores, shoots, directs and stars in their own movies in their spare time, when they’re not sketching, gaming, painting or doing incredible things with augmented reality. Someone with more creative talent than I possess. Pple probably had someone other than me in mind when it designed the new iPad mini.
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