I’ve been using the A17 Pro iPad mini for a few weeks now, and one of two things has happened: either I’m suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, or it’s a better tablet than I expected.
When Apple announced the new mini back in October, my principal reaction was one of disappointment, because we had waited so long for so little to change. Three years (and one month) after the launch of a major redesign that made the iPad mini relevant and desirable again, Apple gave us the same design with the same outdated portrait-orientation FaceTime camera. The cameras are the same in other respects too, other than a minor software bump to Smart HDR 4, and while a double-generation processor jump from A15 to A17 sounds good, it still leaves the mini a long way behind even the iPad Air, let alone the iPad Pro, both of which are multiple generations into Apple’s desktop-class M chips. And the new colors are just… boring.
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