iPad Mini 2021 Review: Pocketable Power!
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2021
- iPad mini 2021 is the refresh this form factor deserved.
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Who’s there in may 2024?
As an iPad mini user, I find that the iPad mini is the perfect size for reading ebooks. That’s what I’ll be using it for
Also, it fits perfectly in the pocket of a doctor's apron and comes really handy while taking care of patients.
Intro was so smooth
As a person who flies single engine piston planes, you're 100% right. Having your own plane and flying it is pretty expensive and you wouldn't believe how expensive it is to upgrade the panel with modern screens. if you have, for example, a Cessna 177 RG, which might run you $75K, you can easily spend $75K just upgrading the screens that show how fast you're going, your altitude, etc (called "avionics"). If your plane isn't fancy (and you don't have the budget), it's not uncommon to not upgrade it and instead use an iPad mini as the screen. Believe it or not, even in commercial airlines, pilots use the iPad mini!
Anyone here in June 2024?
Yeah, Civil pilots pretty much always have an iPad nowadays, they call it their EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) and replaces pages and pages of Airport charts, flight plans, weather reports etc. Updates in real time whenever the next AIRAC cycle is out (flight plan updates), and are the main way that an airline will inform a civil pilot of the routing. iPad is now pretty important for any pilot's life, not just private light aircraft pilots.
I watched the intro like 5 times to get it.
I don’t need one but dammit I want it.
I’ve been using this for school with the pencil for around a week now and all I can say is that it’s amazing. It does everything you need for college and is a lot bigger than I expected!
PILOTS! Pilots buy them!
I've been a long time iPad mini fan. I've used other iPads, including the current gen iPad Air and 11 inch iPad Pro. I keep going back to the mini due to the size and pocketability. Thanks to all of the supply chain issues it was next to impossible to locate in stores. I stumbled upon one at Costco the other day and snatched it. I'm replacing my 5th gen Mini, and I'm so grateful for the redesign. My biggest complaint with any of the iPads with the home button was the aspect ratio while watching widescreen content.... This is so much better!
Everyone else: Uses the Mini for flying, note taking, medical tasks, art, editing
im currently in school for physician assistant and this is an absolute game changer instead of constantly running out of pages on small notebooks and having a stack of them in my backpack. Also easily can store the ipad mini in my lab coat as i would a small notebook. Use it solely for notetaking and reading research articles
I bought the iPad Mini 5 with 256gb. I basically use it as my primary computer and video editing machine. It took a lot of practice to make it my primary computing device, but even now it still crushed all of my 4K content creation and file management needs.
I have the iPad Pro and picked up the mini and I’m just blown away by how ,Cush more I use it. The fact you can type in portrait mode almost like an iPhone is game changer for me. Means I can actually use the device completely away from a keyboard so I don’t really need to carry the case anymore. This is the perfect coffee shop companion. I’m also using this in my pouch alongside my fuji camera to edit some, pics on the go. No backpack needed to carry this thing. :) the screen isn’t great like the iPad Pro but it’s honestly fine as you said. I already forgot about the 120hz. The perfect iPhone and Mac companion.
I’m a pilot and I use mine for navigation and flight planning. Having the smaller screen isn’t ideal, but when you don’t have a lot of space to work with and still need to keep checklists and stuff somewhere secure, you can’t beat an iPad mini 6 on a kneeboard. I think pilots were specifically considered in the decision to redesign, too. They used touchID instead of faceID, which is super hard to use from a kneeboard (though I’d prefer both and to have a choice, but it is what it is) and Tim specifically mentioned it being strapped to the leg of a pilot in flight along with flying being in one of their ads. Honestly for that use case, at least in small planes, this thing is incredible.
As a physician rounding in the hospital, the mini fits my use case as the larger models are too big to fit in my white coat or scrubs pocket. I have the mini 5 currently and have been waiting 3 years for the refresh we have all been requesting!
As a retired person who has used a macbook pro for years I have been toying with the idea of using an iPad for my main computer. Getting emails, UA-cam and Twitter would be my main use. The easy portability and quality of the mini appeals to me.
The iPad Mini is a fantastic Emergency Management tool, with cellular. Even in a rugged case, it fits neatly in bunker gear pockets, and is able to provide live weather mapping, quickly pull up FEMA info, run WebEOC, have HazMat info at a glance and fill out ICS-214 paperwork on the go, along with EMS charting on the fly. I use it with a a knee board, which is used primarily by pilots.