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iPad mini iPad Mini 6 jelly scrolling
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$900 is not a budget anything.
I was thinking the same, but when I tried mini 6 in the shop, I instantly love the full screen design without the button. This helps using it landscape, especially for gaming.
Lets be clear: Everything about the ipad mini 6 is amazing. Except this one issue.
The ‘’advanced’’ LCD for mini6. How could this justify its position as a superior gaming device? The switch is getting an OLED
Apparently it does happen on other iPads in landscape mode, albeit it’s not as noticeable as on the mini. I can’t confirm if it does on my iPad Pro 11 as I’m not going to spoil my enjoyment of the device by intentionally looking for defects.
Wow I don’t know about jelly scrolling and it’s effect in longer use, but I just had a few minutes with a demo piece in the store, and boy has promotion spoilt us completely. The experience was so horrible just generally so jittery and choppy that I couldn’t wait to get back to my 11 pro. I truly think it’s an extremely limiting factor for anyone using the new iPhones or prior iPad Pros. It just didn’t feel smooth at all , let alone buttery and other such adjectives!
for me personally it was a horrible experience on a device that was just so amazing to hold and play with otherwise!
for me personally it was a horrible experience on a device that was just so amazing to hold and play with otherwise!
I expected to be bothered by it but wasn't, fingers crossed for you.
While it may be present on every display, there are always good ones and bad ones out there making it more or less noticeable. We've seen yellow screens from some posters too, but they're not all like that.
And yet I am not a 11 pro user and previously used a mini 5 for 2 1/2 years and don't notice anything that different.
Sometimes I think people that are unaccustomed to 60 Hz panels think scrolling is jittery/choppy comparably. If you allow the brief lock in when scrolling stops everything immediately sharpens. I also use the finger to break the scrolling immediately instead of flicks. I used a mini 4 before also.
Try the iPad out, just use it as you normally would. Look at a variety of web site using Safari, and many other apps you normally might use if you had one. Some of the comments being posted are way over the top, dare I say exaggerated quite a bit IMHO. Yes we know some are very sensitive to flicking of light coming from staring at text before it focuses when scrolling stops, but most people are not. I am not at all the latter, entirely used to 60 Hz panels.
Maybe, maybe not, and that's precisely why I said promotion has spoilt the user more than the effect of the panel in isolation itself.
I have plenty of older iPads around as well, just not an older mini, and I can say that the jittery feeling does look more pronounced in this version of the mini and it is quite apparent to me in even the limited use that I had to.
Could I live with it, most definitely considering I have lived with many generations of iPads and a kindle for travel.
Do I feel that the experience has been affected due to this jittery nature of movement, when compared to the iPad pros? Quite definitely. And hence, my initial crazy excitement of picking this over my 11 pro has died down and I feel that the superior screen experience that I have with the 11 pro made me look the other way.
If I probably had to replace my kindle over this just for the sheer size, I might but the kindle has other advantages to me than just the screen.
Well, that and the storage. If the storage started at 128gb (or they even allowed a 128gb option for $70-80+), and didn’t have such strong jelly scroll and not in portrait orientation, the mini 6 would be 100% worth it for me.
I had never used higher than 60 Hz but the mini 6 screen was immediately unacceptable to me.
People need to try for themselves. I have no problem with 60 Hz but am sensitive to jelly scrolling.
No base storage bump and no screen upgrades really should have meant no price increases in my opinion.
Feels like a money grab on that front honestly.
Feels like a money grab on that front honestly.
It’s no different really going from the previous model of the iPad Air 3?
The totally redesigned ipad 4 details
What Apple has done with the mini 6 is the same redesign, better cameras then the Air 4, along with it being A15 based. But the evidence is Apple bumped that model up in price $100 also with the same 64GB memory, and similar screen. Was that also a money grab?
Lol, I kinda thought you say that. When the mini 6 was announced a year later after the air 4 it was just Apple trying to maintain parity.
I still fine this fact finding debate about jelly motion interesting. For me if it wasn't discussed I might have never noticed really.
I had to really work to see this so called "jelly scrolling". Hadn't noticed it at all in my normal use. But as a long time tech worker I was already aware of the effect with 60Hz displays. Truth be told no display technology is flawless, including some very high end and expensive ones. I think these accusations about Apple conspiring to put one over on the users are absurd.
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Saw that Apple had tried to charge one of my accounts for the Mini 6, but I didn't have the full amount there anymore. Was thinking if I should order and try it out once again, but I don't see any point in it as it will most likely have the exact same problem as all Mini 6's I've tried out. And as I've been equally bothered by jelly scroll on them all I'll just skip this model, until they change the orientation.
Can't believe the disappointment I feel, it would have been the perfect device. Well, atleast I'll have my $930 burning in my pocket until I find something else interesting.
Can't believe the disappointment I feel, it would have been the perfect device. Well, atleast I'll have my $930 burning in my pocket until I find something else interesting.
It’s no different really going from the previous model of the iPad Air 3?
The totally redesigned ipad 4 details
What Apple has done with the mini 6 is the same redesign, better cameras then the Air 4, along with it being A15 based. But the evidence is Apple bumped that model up in price $100 also with the same 64GB memory, and similar screen. Was that also a money grab?
Using a cheaper display and the result is vertical jelly effect. That is money grab.