Apple removed the embargo, journalists and bloggers to publish iPad mini reviews. The plates were provided to reviewers in advance, so that today, the first publications. I remind you that on sale in the US iPad mini will be November 2nd. From this day forward, you can expect and gray supplies to Russia. Especially because the plate, according to the American colleagues, was above all praise.
David Pogue, a columnist for The New York Times, compares Apple tablet with the three main competitors (Google Nexus, Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD) and notes the lack of iPad mini. Its screen has a lower resolution - 1024 x 768 pixels. Tablet itself significantly more expensive counterparts. However: «iPad mini is much more elegant, more attractive and slimmer. It has two cameras instead of one. It is great in the hand. And Apple App Store offers a huge catalog of applications, which the owners of tablets based on Android can only dream of. "
The main fan of Apple John Gruber considers only downside no iPad Mini retina-display. "If the Mini had a retina-display, I would in an instant went at him with iPad 3". And then he continues: "I'm so much like the size and weight of the iPad Mini, I put up with this lack." Are you ready to give up the retina display in favor of a lower weight?
Jim Dalrymple (Jim Dalrymple) of Loop blog used to be one of the main opponents of seven-inch tablets. Today he recognizedThat was not right. "I was wrong. I have publicly doubted whether the plate is smaller to fit into my scheme of work or not. I assumed that the larger iPad will be better. I was wrong". Jim points out that a large iPads used mainly in the late afternoon. Then he checked the mail, read your favorite sites, preparing for a new day. iPad also copes when it was necessary to go on a business trip. But the iPad mini wins it at the expense of size and weight. This is a tablet that you can constantly carry with them. And, accordingly, you use them often.
Very balanced review appeared on CNET. Scott Stein also notes that many of its competitors iPad mini higher screen resolution. But Scott everything else noticed that watching movies on the iPad mini is not as convenient as the Nexus 7. And the matter is that the aspect ratio of 4: 3 at the plate against epplovskogo 16: 9 - the Googley. If you watch movies and TV shows on the iPad mini, black bars will be larger. According to Stein, the absence of retina-display - a small disturbance. "Never caught myself thinking that I can not enjoy a magazine or book, although, of course, would like to see the resolution was clearly (for example, when you read the comic Dark Knight Returns)». Author ultimately boils down to is that the iPad mini justifies its "premium value".
Highest rated Joshua Topolsky"No tablet the same size, which would also be beautifully designed, also worked perfectly and offered a wide range of applications."
"A terrible» Apple once again left us with no choice. Better alternative is not there.