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Originally Posted by jswinden
I think I'll probably upgrade from my iPad3 to the iPad Mini2 sometime early next year. I don't buy into Faterson's BS rant about needing a bigger screen to read on nor his BS about iOS7 being horrible. Heck, I read hundreds of books on PDAs which had 3" squared LCDs with only 320 x 320 pixels for 151 ppi! Granted my eyes were a decade younger then. But the Mini2 will have more real estate than 7" tablets and it will have 324 ppi. That is more than enough to comfortably read on. I'll wait a while to make sure the hardware doesn't have any issues, but I don't think it will as the iPad Air seems to be okay.
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Totally agree.
And again, the Mini (like any other tablet, even 10 inches iPad) can be used on landscape mode, which makes fonts even bigger.
Having said that, I may keep my 1st gen. Mini and keep the 10 inches iPad air as well.
My initial plan was selling my Mini , which is wifi+4G, and get the new one. However, after using the 10 inches iPad air and hold it for hours and hours at home , I may keep the 10 inches iPad air instead and forget about the 2nd generation Mini this year.
The price of the 1st gen Mini dropped so much, that I think it's better for me to keep it than sell it. I do not have a 10 inches iPad though, so that's a different story. I will continue using the Mini at work, for my meetings, lunch break, etc, and keep the iPad air at home only.
Last but not least,I compared weight and the differences between iPad Mini retina display (in terms of weight) vs iPad air wifi is just a few grams. So what I am losing in portability I am gaining in display and CPU power.
Any of them will be a good choice though. The new Mini has a fantastic resolution. And the 10 inches iPad air is finally light enough to use it as a PDF reader or to hold it comfortable for longer period of time.