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Residency Evil posted:Definitely.
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geera posted:I did this and don't regret it. The form factor on the Mini is great, but the Air is better for reading (I was experiencing strained/dry eyes while reading on the Mini). It's a little more annoying to hold at length one-handed, but it's worth it to not have to constantly pinch and zoom all over the place when reading (especially in Safari). Yeah, the thing that's stopping me is that the form factor of the mini is just so handy. It slips in to my whitecoat pocket and I hardly know that it's there.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:38
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Residency Evil posted:Yeah, the thing that's stopping me is that the form factor of the mini is just so handy. It slips in to my whitecoat pocket and I hardly know that it's there.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:59
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I held onto my iPad 2 for the longest time cause I thought I barely benefitted from Retina and preferred lightness to power. I got the Air because I wanted the lightness, but now I really, really agree the screen is a major step up. It was a real significant difference the first time I loaded up the forums on my Air. I think I literally just clicked around the forum soaking in how nice the text looked for a while. Get Retina. If you enjoy your internet reading and you iPad is your main device for that, you will get your value out of it.
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Nov 27, 2013 20:35
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Maybe a little off topic, but has anyone heard of any MFi controllers that are compatible with the iPad? I'm using the Moga Ace on my iPhone but I'd love to play games like Oceanhorn on a bigger screen.
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Nov 27, 2013 20:47
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Hasters posted:Maybe a little off topic, but has anyone heard of any MFi controllers that are compatible with the iPad? I'm using the Moga Ace on my iPhone but I'd love to play games like Oceanhorn on a bigger screen. No word yet. We may see one at some point, but that would be a very costly accessory with a limited audience.
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Nov 27, 2013 21:29
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computer parts posted:Would people say the iPad Retina Mini is worth the extra $100 over the regular Mini? I haven't had a chance to look at the Retina one in person but my sister has a regular Mini and it seems okay for what I want to do (generic web surfing replacement for my laptop). The Retina Mini is ~5 times faster than the old mini, according to benchmarks. It's worth it for the A7 alone. The A5 is getting long in the tooth.
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Nov 27, 2013 22:03
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Out of curiosity is it possible to use my iPhone 5S AT&T sim in my mini retina? The 5S has an unlimited plan, so I am betting on no, but I was just wondering.
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Nov 27, 2013 22:41
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Residency Evil posted:Definitely. Hey RE, I went the opposite direction - I got the air and returned it for the mini. It was a miniscule weight difference but seemed a lot less convenient to whip out of my white coat than the mini. Loving the mini - the form factor is perfect and papers and poo poo are pretty easy to read on it. Edit - Also worth noting - I rarely put my ipad down on a surface, so portability of the mini meant more to me than the greater screen real estate. Also I guess I have smallish hands but the Air still felt a bit clumsy and large for me to use while holding it. CerebralDonut fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 23:57
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Is there any reason to have a smart cover AND a bluetooth keyboard case? I'm getting an iPad Mini for my g/f for christmas, and I want to get the bluetooth keyboard case for her so it can function as a mini laptop..but I'm wondering if there is any reason to get a smart cover too or if the keyboard case is sufficient?
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Nov 28, 2013 00:01
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unlawfulsoup posted:Out of curiosity is it possible to use my iPhone 5S AT&T sim in my mini retina? The 5S has an unlimited plan, so I am betting on no, but I was just wondering. EDIT: In the time it took you to come to the forum, write a post, and wait for this answer, you could have done it and found out.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:03
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Endless Mike posted:It should be. It doesn't take but a couple seconds to swap them. Why not find out? Maybe he's scared of extra charges or something.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:47
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One thing I have noticed with the Air vs my iPad 2 is just how the buttons and touch screen feel a lot less substantial now. The screen especially, it just doesn't feel as solid. I guess it is to get the weight down but it is my only one minor quibble with it.
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Nov 28, 2013 03:05
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It does kinda tap hollow, yea. But that's the slimming and shrinking iteration process for you...
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Nov 28, 2013 03:16
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Yeah it's just different after being used to the 2. The lightness is fantastic, though.
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Nov 28, 2013 03:18
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Endless Mike posted:It should be. It doesn't take but a couple seconds to swap them. Why not find out? I google searched and got all kind of mixed messages, and figured someone here could give a quick answer. illcendiary posted:Maybe he's scared of extra charges or something. Basically this, I have a grandfathered unlimited and I do not want to lose it because I was curious.
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Nov 28, 2013 05:14
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Obscurity posted:Is there any reason to have a smart cover AND a bluetooth keyboard case? I'm getting an iPad Mini for my g/f for christmas, and I want to get the bluetooth keyboard case for her so it can function as a mini laptop..but I'm wondering if there is any reason to get a smart cover too or if the keyboard case is sufficient?
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Nov 28, 2013 06:53
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unlawfulsoup posted:I google searched and got all kind of mixed messages, and figured someone here could give a quick answer. It should work fine, it's mostly a matter of whether AT&T s system identifies the new device as a tablet and switch you to a tablet plan. Although unlimited data was offered for tablets for a bit, so that might not matter to the system either. Honestly, it's an unknown, although ATT Corp can recover a grand fathered plan within 14 days.
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Nov 28, 2013 07:03
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Looking to buy a new iPad soon... Are there any good deals coming up? Online preferable but will go to walmart or best buy if it's worth it
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Nov 29, 2013 03:15
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Spacely Sprockets posted:Looking to buy a new iPad soon... Are there any good deals coming up? Online preferable but will go to walmart or best buy if it's worth it It's literally the craziest shopping day of the year in the US. Several places are bundling giftcards and cutting prices, discounting older generations even more heavily. Look at a deals site.
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Nov 29, 2013 03:22
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Well, I managed to gently caress up my photo backup so that (long story short) I now have a whole number of duplicates. Is there a way or an app that easily let's me delete them?
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Nov 29, 2013 10:17
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eddiewalker posted:It's literally the craziest shopping day of the year in the US. Several places are bundling giftcards and cutting prices, discounting older generations even more heavily. Look at a deals site. Just keep in mind that a lot of the really good "deals" you'll see from Walmart or Best Buy and so on are gonna be for the older generations. My roommate was so happy to have picked up an iPad mini for whatever cheap price plus a gift card or whatever, only to find out it's the iPad mini 1 and not the iPad mini 2.
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Nov 29, 2013 17:50
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You're roommate didn't get tricked. He just didn't pay enough attention if he intended to get the retina model. Both are currently in production and Target has gift cards bundled with both.
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Nov 29, 2013 17:57
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Apple Store has the Air with a free $75 gift card. Not the Retina mini though. The old versions come with a $50 gift card but don't buy them.
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Nov 29, 2013 21:14
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Anyone looking for a really cheap nice case for their Air should look at the Poetic Slimline. http://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Slimline-Generation-Manufacturer-Warranty/dp/B00CW1N6CY/ For $10 it's really well made, and works as well as my Smart Cover. I don't know if I will use it all that regularly since I am pretty happy with the Smart Cover for day to day use, but I wanted an ultra light case that covered all sides of the iPad for travelling, and this is perfect. Wish it didn't have the brand logo on it but whatever, it's not overly offensive. For the price saved compared to the Apple Smart Case I'm pretty drat happy.
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Nov 29, 2013 23:26
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You can pop those silver letters of the logo right off with the tip of a knife and it doesn't look as tacky. No glue or residue underneath.
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Nov 29, 2013 23:54
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Thanks for that idea! I bought one of these from Amazon for 5 bucks and now it looks a million times better without that logo.
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Nov 30, 2013 00:09
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My Air still crashes all the way to the boot logo once every other day, always at the most annoying times. For the first few week it seemed Safari related, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyone else getting this on the Air? I'm trying to guess if it's hardware or iOS7. I'm still running 6 on my phone so I don't have anything to compare with. I'm ok with hoping 7.1 fixes it, but if it's hardware, I've got no idea how I'd reproduce the issue at an Apple store.
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Nov 30, 2013 01:25
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eddiewalker posted:My Air still crashes all the way to the boot logo once every other day, always at the most annoying times. For the first few week it seemed Safari related, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm getting it on a 5S, an iPad mini and an iPhone 4S. It seems to be WebKit related, not Safari, so it's happening in any app with an embedded browser view.
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Sound like I'll hold out hope for 7.1 then. Thanks.
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Nov 30, 2013 01:42
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Definitely miss the stability of v6.0.whatever my original mini had. The rMini crashes a lot in Safari.
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Nov 30, 2013 01:46
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There's definitely memory management issues with Safari. My Air crashes to the home screen every time I load a large web page with lots of content. I read you can recreate it by loading a twitter feed or a page that loads comments indefinitely at the bottom and scrolling to the bottom and continue clicking "load more" or whatever and eventually it will crash. My diagnostics and usage screen in settings is full of low memory logs. Quite annoying. This thing needed at least 2 gigs of RAM.
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Nov 30, 2013 03:35
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Bloated rear end wikia pages love to crash my browser, but not my ipad entirely.
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I'm debating upgrading my 3 to an air. I'm really not a huge fan of not having the touch ID stuff, but the $75 apple credit is tempting me. Is the lack of a RAM bump that obvious? I've seen a lot of people complaining about safari reloading pages left and right. Is this a thing?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I'm debating upgrading my 3 to an air. I'm really not a huge fan of not having the touch ID stuff, but the $75 apple credit is tempting me. The lack of a RAM bump is obvious. I don't think it's too much worse than the 3, but I notice it. That said, I think the Air is substantial upgrade over the 3. I sold my 3 before the announcement, and was initially underwhelmed by the Air, but bought one because I still wanted a tablet. It's awesome, and the increased speed ands decreased weight and size really do make a big difference. That said, I'm looking forward to next year's model, which should hopefully have Touch ID and 2gb RAM.
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Nov 30, 2013 09:14
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I'm debating upgrading my 3 to an air. I'm really not a huge fan of not having the touch ID stuff, but the $75 apple credit is tempting me. Having recently done that, it's like night and day - mostly owing to the fact that the SOC in the air is five times faster than the 3. Everything is noticeably smoother, and games in particular are obviously running at a higher, smoother frame rate. As for the ram, it feels like every other iPad I've had in terms of reloading pages and the like. Except a reloaded page on the air takes a quarter the time it was on the 3, so.....
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Nov 30, 2013 14:54
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I'm usually a unitasker on my iPad so the reload thing isn't such a big deal to me. The weight, smaller size, and improved battery life or appearance of such means so much more.
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Nov 30, 2013 15:51
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Returned my day one iPad air to Target and bought another one at Target and got the $100 gift card. iCloud backup rules. Really does.
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Thanks for the replies. Two more questions. Does TMobile still do the free 200mb/month thing? Of so, are there any catches or is it as straight forward as it seems? Can you use a TMobile iPad on any of the other LTE networks if you get an appropriate SIM?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Thanks for the replies. No catches, although when I went into the T-Mobile store to do it, I had to argue with them that it is, in fact, a thing. They haven't done a good job of instructing their sales reps about it. Basically, you set up a pre-paid data account (whether you're an existing customer or not), and don't buy any data. You get 200MB/month for free, after which it automatically shuts you off. You can buy one-off or recurring data after that. Seems like a really good deal to me. I figure I might need a fair amount of mobile data only rarely, so I can buy it then if I need it--and just use minimal mobile data most months. The standard suggestion is to get the Verizon iPad, so that Verizon will never refuse to activate it--which may not be true vice versa. That's what I did, swapped in the T-Mobile SIM, and it works perfectly.
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