Retina iPad mini review: High density
Sometimes it’s the little things.
Introduced in late 2012, the iPad mini was as slow as the iPad 2 (which was then almost two years old). It didn’t have the gorgeous Retina display that Apple had added to the iPad earlier in the year. But none of that mattered because, for some people, smallness rules.
The original iPad mini might not have been on the cutting edge, but it was half the size of the full-size iPad and half the weight, and those two facts mattered more than a state-of-the-art processor or a pretty screen.
But why compromise when you can have it all? The new iPad mini with Retina display is here, and it eliminates the original mini’s two biggest failings by adopting Apple’s A7 processor and gaining a gorgeous high-resolution screen. The only catch is that the iPad mini is no longer half the size of the iPad: With the introduction of the iPad Air and slight increases to the thickness and weight of the mini, the latter is now roughly two-thirds of the size and weight of its larger counterpart. The lines separating large and small iPads have blurred.
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