Why Rob Waugh loves the iPad Mini

Classic design but spanking new technology: Why Rob Waugh loves the iPad Mini

Apple iPad Mini

From £399 

Having recently been forced to play Peppa Pig Snap for five solid hours on a train, I’ve come round to the idea that iPads really are essential, if only as a useful ‘Mute’ button for children.

I’ve always liked iPad Mini best – the smaller 7.9in screen makes it feel less like you’re handing a five-year-old an expensive, fragile pane of glass, then saying something absurd like: ‘Be careful.’

 You can use this with Apple Pencil, which pairs wirelessly with the gadget. It’s nice, but it costs another £90, pretty steep for pressure-sensing pencil shading

The new one is exactly the same design as the last Mini (from 2015), and I had to occasionally remind myself that it is, in fact, a new machine.

Oddly, it’s not even the ‘cheap’ option: there’s a ‘big’ but less brainy iPad for £319, and then Mini for £399. The extra 80 quid buys you various fancy screen technologies, so everything looks very, very crisp.

You can also use this with Apple Pencil, which pairs wirelessly with the gadget. It’s nice, but it costs another £90, pretty steep for pressure-sensing pencil shading.

Most small Android tablets are slow and dreadful: this is pint-sized perfection, even if it hasn’t changed a great deal since 2015

Most small Android tablets are slow and dreadful: this is pint-sized perfection, even if it hasn’t changed a great deal since 2015

The Mini remains a design classic (and is armed with a fingerprint reader to repel thieves and unauthorised children). There’s just not much else like it.

Most small Android tablets are slow and dreadful: this is pint-sized perfection, even if it hasn’t changed a great deal since 2015.

 

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