Below is a condensed review of apple's iPad Mini:
Speed: The Mini
Retina with the newest Apple A7 silicon is
considerably faster than the original Mini,
which was a saddled with a relatively poky
A5 processor.
"It's miles beyond last year's iPad Mini,
performing up to 4 to 5x faster or even more
depending on the benchmark," CNET said.
It's a big enough difference in performance
to make this the only reason to upgrade.
And rumor has it that Apple considered
bringing out an iPad Mini with a faster
processor sans the Retina screen to address
this shortcoming (because Apple didn't
believe it would have enough Retina displays
for a 2013 release).
Retina: This is the reason that most people
consider the new Mini, and of course it's a
very good one.
The effect of the Retina display on the eyes
can best be summarized by a couple of hard
facts. The first Mini has a pixel density of
162 pixels per inch. The Mini Retina doubles
that to 324 pixels per inch.
That's no mean feat on a 7.9-inch display
stuffed into a 331 gram package with all-day
battery life.
One of the best explanations of the
difference in resolution was made
by a Japanese journalist writing for Nikkei.
He showed (with a side-by-side of the Retina
Mini and the original Mini) how kanji are
more resolved and easier to read.
He also made the case that the entire front
page of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese
language) can be displayed and read legibly
on the Mini Retina. That wasn't possible
with the first Mini, he explained.
That obviously applies to English too. Clearer
text is easier on the eyes.
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