I lastly used the iPad mini, and I am obsessed

My major iPad is the 13-inch iPad Professional M4; the tandem OLED panel is a delight to make use of, and the scale means I can get an honest quantity of labor carried out on it. I dock it with the Magic Keyboard if I am simply shopping or studying a e-book, and join it to a mechanical keyboard (the Keychron Q5 Professional) every time I want to jot down a publish or overview.

As a lot as I just like the sleekness of the iPad Professional M4, it’s an absolute unit, and it is not probably the most comfy to carry. That is the place the iPad mini is available in; it’s way more manageable due to a smaller 8.3-inch panel, and it weighs practically half the scale of the iPad Professional M4. It would not price wherever as a lot, beginning out at simply $399.

Apple nailed the sizing of the iPad mini; it is nice to carry and use, and the 8.3-inch panel is nearly good for studying comics and ebooks. Whereas I can get a similar-sized show on a foldable just like the Pixel 9 Professional Fold or Honor Magic V3, they simply do not have the identical in-hand really feel. The iPad mini feels higher to make use of, and it has develop into my go-to comedian reader over the course of the final month.

Coming in at 6.3mm, the iPad mini is thicker than the iPad Professional M4, however that works to its benefit — it is simpler to carry the perimeters of the pill. I am utilizing the sixth-gen mannequin with the A15 Bionic that debuted again in 2021, and it nonetheless holds up fairly nicely. The 2024 iteration of the iPad mini has the identical dimensions, panel, and battery, with the one distinction being the change to A17 Professional.

Whereas it would not have an OLED, the LCD panel on the iPad mini has good colours, and it will get brilliant throughout outside use. It’s glorious as a comic book reader; the scale is ideal, and the Panels app on iOS is nearly the most effective round. The iPad mini is simply nearly as good for studying ebooks — I exploit KyBook and the Kindle app.

Studying on the iPad mini is simply nearly as good as an e-reader, despite the fact that the pill is heavier at 293g — my Kobo Libra Color is available in at 197g — it is not uncomfortable to carry within the least. If something, most of my studying within the final month was on the iPad mini.

I wasn’t positive in regards to the bezels on the facet after I bought began with the iPad mini, however they are not as distracting as I initially imagined. Equally, the 60Hz panel is not a limitation whereas studying, and more often than not, I did not even discover any distinction. It is not fairly nearly as good with multimedia or productiveness — the OLED-toting iPad Professional has a definite benefit on this space — however for each different job, the iPad mini has proved to be the best pill.

It is also nice for journey; I normally take the Libra Color to learn ebooks and an iPad Air for writing or streaming content material, and the iPad mini is sweet sufficient at both use case that I switched to it because the default selection. Having used all of the iPad Air and iPad Professional fashions, I did not assume I would benefit from the iPad mini fairly as a lot, and within the final month, it bought extra utilization than simply about every other gadget in my dwelling.