i bought the ipad mini three months ago
and i really couldn't recommend it but i
realized i was wrong or sort of wrong
for not giving it more of a chance now
my criticisms about this device still
stand nothing has changed with those the
issues still remain
but
i still couldn't bring myself to get rid
of it so i'm gonna go over what this
device does well what i like about it
and
the issues i have with it after three
months of using it now i'm not going to
go too deep into my dislikes i covered
all of those in the original video that
you can find down in the description
also put links to the ipad and the rest
of the current lineup now which ipad are
you using let us know in the comment
section now before we start i went on a
vacation with my family a couple weeks
ago for seven days i took with me the
ipad mini the 11-inch ipad pro and the
16-inch macbook
pro that just came out i used pretty
much the mini for the whole trip i
didn't pull out my laptop except for
once to look for a file this covered me
on the plane at the hotel took care of
everything i needed now the first thing
i like about the ipad mini is the size
that's what drew me to my original ipad
many years ago i have been using the
11-inch ipad pro for a while it's not a
huge device but once you put it in the
magic keyboard case this thing starts to
get heavy if you put it into one of
apple's folio cases one of the thinnest
options it's still kind of a bulky
device compared to this ultra portable
um ipad mini now i have to do the
mandatory put it into a pocket so you
know that it's small
see it's portable next i love the design
of this i like that it's the same design
as the ipad pro
with no home button on it i do wish it
had face id like my ipad pro and my
iphone this instead uses touch id you
just rest your finger on it it's quick
it did take a little bit of getting used
to
but overall like the look of it bezels
look really big on this because the
screen is so small
some of the other changes they have side
speakers on them now so you get stereo
sound when in horizontal uh you have
upgraded cameras i like that it has no
home button that it supports the second
generation apple pencil put right on top
the fact that it has usbc like my ipad
pro and my macbook pro if only my phone
seemed to have it which it never will
because it's apple but the design's
awesome the next thing i like is having
just a tablet again
the ipads have changed a lot since i
bought my ipad pro in 2018. there's a
lot of desktop features that just didn't
uh exist before on the ipads now the
mini has the power to do all those same
things as my ipad pro it's just that
some things are really small on here
like my photo software that if i go in
here icons are
super small so this is a device that
having the pencil might come in handy
even if you don't use it for riding but
just for navigation in case you do have
to use those apps at with the scaling
just don't look that great but i can
move past some of the scaling stuff
because i don't need to use all of those
apps instead i can just enjoy this as a
tablet for what it does well i've been
using the same ipad pro for the past
three and a half years so i didn't mind
getting this as a nice addition i don't
need it to do all the stuff as my pro
instead i can just enjoy this as a
tablet and take advantage of these next
things that i really like one of the big
uses for me is taking notes with the
ipad mini if you didn't know you could
just take the pencil and touch the
screen and that's going to open up a
blank note that you can just start
writing on you also have the option if
you do have the screen open up to swipe
up from the bottom and then you could
add links in there you could add text
send that note off to the side to grab
later on or
you can just close it out all together
if you need a back you just swipe up
from the bottom i love that supports the
second generation apple pencil and just
attaches to the side this is a great
size for taking notes on the go
or anywhere i tend to write in the
morning um just thoughts and stuff and
super convenient and then i'll take
notes for my videos on it finally i'm
using a lot less paper these days
because of the ipad mini i do enjoy the
ipad mini for video it really makes a
nice media device it doesn't have a 120
hertz screen so it's not smooth as my
ipad pro it's not mini led which is okay
i do have to say it's probably one of
the worst apple displays in years
that's because of what they call jelly
scroll and what happens is as you scroll
quickly through websites you will
actually see a little wave happens um it
doesn't really it doesn't apply when
you're watching videos and a lot of
other things but if i do kind of scroll
through quickly to look at some news
articles i see it is a little annoying
it's not something you know in a
horizontal position but just something
to be aware of even with the jelly
scroll this is still a great apple
display apple makes better displays than
a lot of other manufacturers so it looks
good colors look great on just that
scroll watching video this thing is a
great size for sitting on the couch
watching video lying in bed and dare i
say for some
good size for the toilet you know who
you are you're using your mini on the
toilet i mentioned earlier there's the
speakers on the side this helps for
stereo sound this also supports spatial
audio if you're not familiar with that i
made a whole video i'll put it down in
the description but spatial audio is
basically a surround sound uh with your
supported air pods if you have air pods
definitely check out that video in the
description next is web browsing i find
this is a great device for browsing the
web
in a horizontal mode in vertical things
start to get a little too tiny and even
apple recognizes that now
by default the browser loads a mobile
websites and we'll talk more about that
in a minute in the mornings when i'm
getting ready for my live streams or
doing uh research for a video a lot of
times i'll just hold this while i'm on
the treadmill walking and a horizontal
layout because the size is on par
with my ipad
pro when it's in a vertical format they
are about the same width i turned off
the loading mobile websites because
mobile websites sometimes have
limitations where you can't interact
with them the same way as you can as a
desktop
browser so although small i'll just keep
using it horizontal at night i read on
my kindle but throughout the day if i
want to read a book or
use the news app that's where this gets
a lot of use uh checking out the apple
news app this is my reading device most
of the time again with some of the stuff
you might run into the text looking a
little small depending on your app you
might be able to adjust the size of that
another addition that helps is the new
12 megapixel cameras this device is
great for video calling i don't use the
12 megapixel camera on the back to take
pictures that's what my phone is for and
so unless that disappears or i'm feeling
extremely lazy this camera is not really
going to get used
but the front face time camera is great
it has the feature center stage and what
center stage will do is keep you framed
up within the center of the screen so
what it does is uses an ultra wide
camera and then just crops it down to
you and if someone else enters the frame
it'll widen out and then it just moves
as you move within the frame so great
for zoom calls you'll have some of the
best-looking zoom calls out there or any
other video calls now let's talk about
some of the issues i'm not going to go
too deep into them if you want to see
what problems i have with this device
check out my original ipad mini video in
the description it'll help painful a
picture of the ipad mini now the first
thing i think the scaling on this is
bad i don't understand why
stuff wasn't like increased in size like
10 to 15 percent to utilize the space
i i don't get it it's it's like apple
dumped the 11 inch format on this and
just said forget it now apple did make
this a little narrower so you're going
to see some apps that have a little
extra space on the side
really kind of annoying especially early
on with the youtube app you go full
screen and then you have almost a
quarter inch of unused space um apple
transfer the responsibility to
developers to format their stuff to
utilize that space i don't know why we
didn't just
make it evenly so it's the same format
as the rest of the ipads now another
thing is in a lot of cases the text is
smaller on here than it is on my phone
i've increased the text size as large as
it can get and still it's smaller
than my phone the icons are smart i
i don't get it uh with the smaller text
it makes it hard to use certain things i
mean if we look at widgets the text is
so small it's not as usable as a mobile
version if we look at the keyboard
shrunk down i don't get why
it's smaller than my iphone that makes
no sense to me really they need to take
the keyboard widgets and some other
features of
a phone and put it into the ipad to take
advantage of the smaller size again i
don't think this is great for desktop
web browsing in its size it gets a
little tiny horizontal makes that better
we talked about that jelly scroll that's
weird to me and just something that uh
i'm surprised to see on an ipad but
really other than how tiny things are on
the screen and i get it's called the
mini but that doesn't change bad scaling
and for those of you who are going to
say apple's going to fix that
i wouldn't count on that you got to buy
the device
as it is now there's a lot of stuff
apple hasn't fixed and they've made
excuses for or they just neglected
think about that now if you want a
really compact tablet and you're willing
to accept the compromises of the ipad
mini this is a great device for reading
watching videos facetime taking notes
and the occasional email or other
professional tasks you might want to do
i don't use this for gaming although
many people say this is a great gaming
device i don't use it for work tasks
that much
if you're thinking about getting one of
these i really recommend seeing it in
person navigate around and see if it's
going to be a good option for you i
think for a lot of people you might be
better off going with the ipad air now
are you thinking about buying an ipad
mini let us know in the comment section
next make sure to check out this video
over here so you can learn more about
the things i don't like about the ipad
mini i'll see you over there thanks for
watching bye