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Video Review: A Month With the iPad Mini 7

I’m tempted… but I’ve already been there, in the past. The Mini is just too small for everything else. Form factor and portability are great, but when you have to do some work on it… it is painful.
 
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Loi84 said:
It is not sad if somebody criticizes an obvious weakness of a product. At the given price point. Not necessary to reiterate the same details over and over again. If you are looking for a comparison of display techs - e.g., IPS vs. OLED - I suggest you try your trusted search engine.

The unreflected fanboyism is sad.
I bought the new mini myself, accepting the relatively bad display. I don't have to talk myself into the illusion that it's incredible. Apple can charge the premium price due to ecosystem reasons and brand loyalty. Not because this is a product without compromises... They could have easily given us OLED if they had wanted.
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You’re making a lot of extra presumptions and projections beyond my comment.

And yes, in order for a criticism to have any usefulness it is necessary to reiterate the same details over and over again (if not in written form, then by some sort of “vote” agreeing with preexisting criticisms)—that’s called aggregate data. It’s what lets people know what the actual criticisms are and which ones are commonplace, which usually suggest those criticisms have more validity. But when people say nothing more than “it’s bad”, they could be referring to one or more of literally an infinite number of possible criticisms, so it gives no information and therefore helps no one in any way.
 
I'm a big fan of the mini form factor, so I ordered the iPad mini 6 right away when it released back in 2021. Unfortunately, it was such a let down that it's mostly been laying in a drawer over the last couple of years. Had I not had the iPad Pro, things might have been different, but the jelly scrolling definitely ruined the experience for me.

I've offered it to my girlfriend, but she thinks the screen is too small and not enjoyable.

I'm still glad they make it, but I think it should be positioned below the 10.9" base iPad.
 
MacRazySwe said:
I'm a big fan of the mini form factor, so I ordered the iPad mini 6 right away when it released back in 2021. Unfortunately, it was such a let down that it's mostly been laying in a drawer over the last couple of years. Had I not had the iPad Pro, things might have been different, but the jelly scrolling definitely ruined the experience for me.

I've offered it to my girlfriend, but she thinks the screen is too small and not enjoyable.

I'm still glad they make it, but I think it should be positioned below the 10.9" base iPad.
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You trying to sell it?
 
diamondsw said:
Thanks for dismissing the jelly-scrolling concerns. Glad you can't see it. Obviously a lot of us could - maybe have someone else in your group do the review since this was a significant issue with the previous generation that you can't test?

I'm one of those people who bought the Mini 6 thinking it would be small-tablet-nirvana, and sent it back within a week because the jellyscrolling was terrible. If you see it, you see it constantly. I don't need to do anything weird; just scrolling a web page was terrible - the left side was visibly out of sync with the right, so it scrolled... like wobbly jelly.
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Did all of the iPad mini 6/7s you tried have the issue?
 
My mini 6 showed me no "jelly rolling". Am I missing something? I like the pencil upgrade and we'll see about stepping up to 7 after the holidays.
 
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Trioptre said:
Did all of the iPad mini 6/7s you tried have the issue?
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I checked out the mini7 at the Apple Store; yes it still has jelly-scrolling. What a letdown tbh.

I see some jelly-scrolling in some cheap Chromebook tablet/combos but that is in landscape mode, it’s slight but noticeable especially with text or primary shapes.

Both scenarios happen while scrolling at normal speed. If I scroll abnormally slow it’s almost unnoticeable but no one scrolls like that not even the elderly. Mini 5; never noticed it.
 
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subjonas said:
Usually when people leave very unspecific (therefore useless) criticism it’s because they want to leave a stink without having to back it up nor make a statement that can be challenged. Not always the case of course, sometimes they’re just lazy.
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In this particular instance? t’s definitely the case.
 
DailySlow said:
My mini 6 showed me no "jelly rolling". Am I missing something? I like the pencil upgrade and we'll see about stepping up to 7 after the holidays.
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Try opening up a website or a drawing with lines or just text and scroll normally not unrealistically slow like how Dan is doing so in the video (I still notice it Dan), you may notice it.

If not, maybe it’s time to book an eye appointment. This is a poor engineering decision by Apple and I cannot believe some here are defending this no wonder Apple doesn’t bother to try better which is a contradiction to their design motto (maybe that was smoke and mirrors too).
 
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... and I cannot believe some here are defending this no wonder Apple doesn’t bother to try better which is a contradiction to their design motto (maybe that was smoke and mirrors too).
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Same folks who defended Apple's decision in the early 2000s to not increase the resolution in monitors (literally arguing things would get too small on the screen, at a time when Windows already had proper scaling) and who now praise retina in Apple displays (which is of course awesome).
 
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Loi84 said:
Same folks who defended Apple's decision in the early 2000s to not increase the resolution in monitors (literally arguing things would get too small on the screen, at a time when Windows already had proper scaling) and who now praise retina in Apple displays (which is of course awesome).
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It’s the tinfoil hat that swings the logic like a pendulum. If Apple says so it must be so only to do so to the contrary.
 
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I still been thinking about getting a iPad but my surface pro gets the job done I can’t shake the feeling of iPad just being a bigger iPhone with a few added features that should be on iPhone but still kind interested I might try it sometime next week I haven’t had one since the 30pin ports
 
Skimac said:
I still been thinking about getting a iPad but my surface pro gets the job done I can’t shake the feeling of iPad just being a bigger iPhone with a few added features that should be on iPhone but still kind interested I might try it sometime next week I haven’t had one since the 30pin ports
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Its the iPadOS app interface depth and larger screen for app interfaces that make it more useful then what you see using iOS. Try and see if it's usable for your purposes. :)
 
The Mini 7 has been fantastic. I use it far more than I ever used the iPad Pro 11”, which is obviously more useful as a laptop replacement, but not as a tablet, if that’s what you’re truly after. I often use mine at home instead of my iPhone 14 Pro Max.

The Mini 7 isn’t much different to the Mini 6, though I think browser tabs reload less frequently due to the additional RAM. On a day-to-day basis, that’s basically it.

Also, there’s far, far less jelly scroll than the Mini 6. Not sure why or how, but it isn’t a problem on the Mini 7. It’s as good/bad as on every LCD I have ever used, whereas the Mini 6 was terrible.
 
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smulji said:
Apple sells 200 million devices a year that use OLED panels => they're called iPhones. You don't get more mainstream than that.
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Currently, Apple only does micro-OLED for its Vision Pro headsets, LTPS-OLED for iPhones, LTPO3 OLED for watches, and Tandem OLED for the 2024 iPad Pro. All the larger panels on other iPad/Mac devices are not OLED, neither are their external displays. I would expect the current mini-LED 14.2/16.1" MBPs to be next, but that is about a year away. So, mainstream I meant by Apple updating other product categories to use them, unlike now. 2026 seems to be the year we see more towards that.
 
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Loi84 said:
Same folks who defended Apple's decision in the early 2000s to not increase the resolution in monitors (literally arguing things would get too small on the screen, at a time when Windows already had proper scaling) and who now praise retina in Apple displays (which is of course awesome).
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code-m said:
It’s the tinfoil hat that swings the logic like a pendulum. If Apple says so it must be so only to do so to the contrary.
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Hate to disturb this echo chamber, but coming up with narratives to discredit your conveniently faceless opposition doesn't help your case. The opposite--it implies you don't believe in the strength of your arguments.
 
Abazigal said:
There is a saying.

You either marry the woman that you love, or learn to love the woman that you marry.

The same can be said here. I don’t understand the logic behind buying something you have so many misgivings towards, and then gripe non-stop about it online.
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Huh? Who said that? I love it. Would love it even more if it had the display tech it deserves.

I don't understand the context of your quote. Which is quoted incorrectly anyways.

Suggest you reread this thread and rethink. Thank you.
 
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