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iPad mini Upgraded to the Mini 5
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Amazing! Enjoy your mini 5
Absolutely love mine, more than I thought i would.
A question. My iPhone has 64GB and my iPad 256GB. Does this mean that if I store more photos and videos this will fill up the space on my iPhone with only 64GB?
You are talking about iCloud? If yes, all your photos/videos will be stored on the cloud, not on all your devices.
I got mine, and I think it is the best iPad for me. Hate my 11" "Pro" iPad -- but this is a shockingly great machine especially with the Pencil.
My current complement of devices looks like this:
15" Hexacore laptop PC -- heavy compute power for development and graphics and so forth.
iPad Mini + Pencil (note-taking, reading, and web browsing)
iPhone X (go with me everywhere)
LTE 3rd gen Apple Watch (when I want to ditch everything)
Has worked out really well for my use cases. The Mini is the best iPad I have used. It feels so personal and you feel like taking it everywhere. Never felt that way with my iPad Pros. Or even my old iPad Air.
My current complement of devices looks like this:
15" Hexacore laptop PC -- heavy compute power for development and graphics and so forth.
iPad Mini + Pencil (note-taking, reading, and web browsing)
iPhone X (go with me everywhere)
LTE 3rd gen Apple Watch (when I want to ditch everything)
Has worked out really well for my use cases. The Mini is the best iPad I have used. It feels so personal and you feel like taking it everywhere. Never felt that way with my iPad Pros. Or even my old iPad Air.
My iPad mini is easily my favorite portable device because of how practical it is to use thanks to its size. I mostly use it around the house while my MBP is docked, iPad Pro is in my backpack and I barely touch my phone.
Wow same exact situation for me hahah.
But very recently I gave my mini 4 to a family member because she needed it, so I’ve been sharing the mini’s duties between my phone (se) and ipp (12.9), and it’s far from ideal—kind of a pain actually. The practicality of the mini is definitely missed and I’ll probably soon replace it with a mini 5.
It's the aspect ratio that makes all the difference for me. A phone can never compete with that (wouldn't want it to).
I wish I felt as you do. It’s always freeing to have less devices when possible (even though you got an Air, at least it has additional size and functionality). But for myself, I just can’t stand big phones. I also think even the largest phones out there are a tad small for even a small tablet, but I might have been able to live with that compromise.
I too have the 256GB with LTE. Perfect for my EDC pack. I took the Apple Pencil I had from the 12.9 I used to have. Works perfectly. Put the iPad and the pencil in an Otterbox Defender case and took the plastic screen protector out of the Otterbox. I picked up an Anker 24w 2 port charger from Amazon and two 2 meter Lightning cables as well. Perfect for camping, a road trip or coffee shop visit. It is much easier to read baseball scores or F1 race updates than the 12.9 was because I don't spend time trying to find a good single hand position to hold it in.
I hate to say it, but I don't use my MacBook Pro for as much as I did because I am always reaching for the Mini first. I also use the Mini more than I did my 12.9.
I hate to say it, but I don't use my MacBook Pro for as much as I did because I am always reaching for the Mini first. I also use the Mini more than I did my 12.9.
Just jumping on the "I love my Mini 5" bandwagon. I had the 4 and waited to pull the trigger, but my nephew needed a tablet for a flight to eastern Europe, so it was the perfect excuse to gift him my 4 and buy the 5 (256GB, WIFI only) two weeks ago. It's awesome. The speed difference is definitely noticeable, and the usage profile is obviously still as flexible as it's ever been. I'm very happy I made the purchase. I haven't gotten the pencil yet, but I'm still not sure I need one in my life.
I got the pencil. I don't use it that much but it made creating a video with LumaFusion (lots of dragging and dropping and sliders) very enjoyable.
iOS 13 is what changed the game for me. Not because of all of the advertised features, but simply because text isn’t tiny in Safari anymore. I think it’s a happy benefit of being able to render websites in desktop only mode all the time by default. Even for Macrumors, most of the text on the site was so small that I had to use landscape mode. Now I can read everything fine in portrait since the text is just slightly bigger.