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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here is a full review for you of the iPad Mini you know what it's got but should it grace your backpack let's go ahead and put it through its paces and see if this is worth your hard earned tablet behind all right so here is the iPad Mini before we get to the full on review let me remind you what this guy's got from the spec department so pricing is gonna range from 329 all the way up to 659 depending on whether or not you want cellular and how many gigabytes of storage dimensions it is seven point eight seven inches by five point three inches by 0.28 in weighs a very thin 0.68 pounds the screen which you're going to talk about quite a bit is a 7.9 inch affair it's LED display with IPS technology and a resolution you know it you love it you might hate it of 1024 by 768 that is 163 PPI keeping this guy burnin is a 16 point 3 watt hour battery giving you about 10 hours of use we'll definitely talk about that 1 gigahertz dual-core a5 chips got a 5 megapixel iSight camera 1080p video recording FaceTime 1.2 and 720p you can get it on 18 T Verizon or Sprint all jacked up with LTE alright so we quickly ran through the specs let's go ahead and talk about the iPad so before I do all of my reviews there's been a reason I waited so long to do this I like to take all of my preconceived notions and opinions and keep them off to the side and try to be as objective as possible I like to always be honest with my audience I can't do this video objectively if I was to do an objective review the iPad Mini be very different to the video you are going to see and I'll tell you why I have irrational love for the iPad Mini some about it from the spec standpoint and performance I should hate it but I absolutely love it I've actually found that there are four typical four stages of iPad Mini ownership first time take it out of the box you hold it stage one is love I can't now then and how light it is then turn the screen on we should be living in a retina world with the iPhone 5 or an iPad 3 or an iPad 4 and then the next step is Dan that screen resolution sucks 1024 by 768 we start to see pixels that you didn't see before and then you move it to stage three acceptance all right screens bad but it feels so nice in the hands maybe I can deal with it and then you go to the last stage which is finally just love and you start to love the iPad Mini those are stages that I've found most people that have used a Retina display Apple product tend to go and I went through that same as well the screen here is not awesome if you haven't used it Retina display screen that's gonna look fine to you but it is not gonna blow you away a text definitely looks a little bit pixelated but when you go ahead and watch a video things to actually look pretty good used an iPad 2 is going to look pretty familiar to what the iPad 2 looked like video not a problem at all it's good actually gonna look pretty solid pictures as well also look relatively decent really timely only going to notice that low resolution screen is when you are reading text so bear that in mind experience it's been a really enjoyable experience I always thought with 7-inch tablets that I liked they existed but I didn't think that they were for me I preferred the bigger screen size that we saw in the larger iPad but the more I used the iPad Mini the more I found I liked it I found that it was portable off take with me everywhere I went I could fit it in the pocket of a hoodie and I really liked the size even while having a new iPad for I haven't used it at all since the iPad Mini came out this has been my dedicated iPad take it with me now almost everywhere I go so I finally become that guy the experience has actually been pretty good with it it's not gonna blow you away in the specs department or Geekbench scores which is 762 by the way but if you just want an iPad 4 you know browsing the web checking emails the portability of it I've absolutely loved a lot of questions about ok it's got a smaller bezel what happens is when I put my thumb's where my thumb's going to go and actually it's not a problem if you put your thumb even resting right on the screen I actually will ignore that accidental press you can still use the tablet as you could before depending on which time you're using it's really not going to matter at all so folks were worried about that worry No more battery life apple claims ten hours they are lying even with brightness at about 50% I generally get about seven hours on a good day not going to get the full 10 hours but the nice thing is it discharged kind of quickly all of its brand-new Fingal the Lightning port on there which is one of the big reasons that think Apple released an iPad Mini trying to get lightning on absolutely everything that they have from a ram standpoint I've actually experienced some RAM issues there is a program that I use called Prezi it's a fancy web version of PowerPoint trying to open up a Prezi presentation told me I ran at around how to close applications so if you use a lot of RAM intensive things you may not want to pick up an iPad Mini I also look past an iPad Mini if you're really big into gaming I don't do many graphic intensive games on here really a bout or two of bad piggies or some temple run actually my extent of gaming on the tablet so for me it's been fine but we do some really graphic intensive games you might want to look at the larger third generation iPad or iPad 4 to get that better performance but it's not here on the iPad Mini so who is this tablet for if you like to travel quite a bit you want something light you can browse the web check emails and do just regular sort of passive computing the iPad Mini is going to be great for you if you want something is going to be more graphically capable going to be better for media creation if you want to edit a lot of videos on using iMovie or another video program on it pictures are you're going to want to look past the iPad Mini I really enjoyed it I've loved the size I love the experience of it and I can't put my finger on it people ask me why I like the iPad Mini and I can't really tell them why it's why I serve preface by saying I have an irrational love for it objectively though if I was going to review the iPad Mini I say the specs are very underwhelming and the screen is very underwhelming they're probably better off waiting until the next generation iPad Mini which Apple recycles have been very close together and hopefully we'll get that improved Retina display if you put a Retina display on this guy you upgrade the RAM to you know one gig I think you're gonna be much happier and probably get an awesome experience but for now I can't tell you why I love this everything about it should say I should hate it but I do I love that comes with me everywhere it is my baby so try it in the store go in put your hands on it see if you like it don't judge it just based on the spec sort of a very weird tablet and listen I admit I know that it's irrational I know that I shouldn't love this tablet but I really just doing I'm being honest with you I could come on camera and completely lie and try and appease people you know get called all kinds of names but Alice opinion is I really like this tablet and it worked very well I think is gonna work very well for you guys as well so keep that in mind a lot of accessories gonna be available for it I've got mine covered in wood a TechnoBuffalo branding our friends at the toast did that for us so plenty of ways to protect your iPad plenty of smart covers and smart cover knockoffs available I think you're gonna really enjoy it overall if I was gonna give this a final ranking it gets an 8.0 lack of RAM and low screen resolution definitely take some points away I can't give an editor's choice but I can't give it a John's choice so we've recommending a tablet for anybody or tablet for a gift iPad me top my listen I'm just not sure why so do you guys agree disagree in my way off base am i smoking the Apple pipe I love to hear what you guys have to say leave your comments down below I check us out at TechnoBuffalo compilation greatest tech news I am John Rhett enger' I'll see you next video bye you