{"id":246932,"date":"2025-05-19T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apple-2\/michael-tsai-blog-in-praise-of-the-ipad-mini-7\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:04:12","slug":"michael-tsai-blog-in-praise-of-the-ipad-mini-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=246932","title":{"rendered":"Michael Tsai &#8211; Blog &#8211; In Praise of the iPad mini 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2025\/05\/15\/ipad-mini-7-the-best-ipad-for-a-lot-of-people\/\">Adam Chandler<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ipad\/comments\/1knmtn9\/im_amazed_at_how_useful_it_is_to_have_literally\/\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DK3W6TV6\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Amazon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2025\/05\/15\/ipad-mini-7-the-best-ipad-for-a-lot-of-people\/\">\n<p>Right now, the iPad mini with an A17 Pro and 8Gb of RAM is $399 through some retail partners.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Something surprising happened since picking this up. Following setup, I\u2019d start casually grabbing it and carrying it around the house. The mini fits in my cargo shorts and pants pockets of my mostly-outdoors-hiking-pants that have larger pockets. It fits in the tank bag of my motorcycle and I can hold it with one hand with my thumb and index finger around the backside then interact with my other hand.<\/p>\n<p>The display actually has a higher pixels per inch than two of my other devices at 326 PPI (MBP @ 254, iPhone at 460, iPad at 264). So clarity of this display compared to my OLED iPad Pro or MiniLED MacBook Pro is actually more crisp and I just wish it was slightly brighter outside or had a nano-texture display.<\/p>\n<p>I found triaging emails, reading RSS feeds, Instapaper stories or Reddit to be most of what I navigate to. Anything that may prompt typing like MS Teams, Slack, Safari or Messages I avoid because I\u2019m not prepared to thumb through when I can literally get up and go to my MacBook Pro and compose the message even faster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For my purposes, the \u201cpro\u201d stuff just isn\u2019t there on the iPad, and I\u2019m not sure it ever will be. The iPad Pro with its keyboard is heavier and more expensive than a MacBook Air, yet less capable. But there\u2019s certainly room for something between an iPhone and a Mac. For me, this has mostly been my Kindle, because its weight and display are better for reading than anything Apple offers. But if you want to do more than reading, the iPad mini is a good mix of capabilities, size, and price. Apple doesn\u2019t update it very often, so the time to buy is right when it comes out or when there\u2019s a third-party price drop like this.<\/p>\n<p>To me, if you\u2019re trying to use a keyboard with an iPad, you\u2019ve failed. It\u2019s better to lean into what it\u2019s good at. For years, Apple tried to resist the idea of an iPad as an iPhone with a larger screen. But the apps have trended in that direction, and I think that\u2019s actually not a bad way to think of it. It\u2019s actually what a lot of people want.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\"><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/apple-a17-pro\/\">Apple A17 Pro<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/bargain\/\">Bargain<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/ipad\/\">iPad<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/ipad-mini\/\">iPad mini<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/ipados\/\">iPadOS<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/ipados-18\/\">iPadOS 18<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/tag\/kindle\/\">Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"respond\"><\/a><br \/>\n12 Comments<br \/>\n <\/h2>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<hr class=\"com-hr\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Chandler (Reddit, Amazon): Right now, the iPad mini with an A17 Pro and 8Gb of RAM is $399 through some retail partners. [\u2026] Something surprising happened since picking this up. Following setup, I\u2019d start casually grabbing it and carrying it around the house. The mini fits in my cargo shorts and pants pockets of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11768],"tags":[3767,2234,1823,1605,20845,17088],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-246932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-2","tag-blog","tag-ipad","tag-michael","tag-mini","tag-praise","tag-tsai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Tsai - Blog - In Praise of the iPad mini 7 - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=246932\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Tsai - Blog - In Praise of the iPad mini 7 - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adam Chandler (Reddit, Amazon): Right now, the iPad mini with an A17 Pro and 8Gb of RAM is $399 through some retail partners. 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