Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Macworld UK

    iPad mini (2019)

    May 17, 2019 6 minutes
    Henry Burrell

    Price: £399 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2DyVlQ9

    This wasn’t meant to happen. The mini hadn’t been updated since 2015 and was left out in the cold, costing more than the larger 9.7in iPads that were released since. We thought Apple had left it for dead. The introduction of this 2019 model is a surprise – it’s barely different on first glance and yes, those bezels sure look huge after the past four years of consumer technology working towards bezel-less displays. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the mini, finding that I pick it up far more often than I do with a larger iPad.

    Using devices more is sometimes a bad thing, but this iPad lends itself to reading far more than it does scrolling through endless timelines. It’s not an iPad for Instagram or Twitter. At its heart it’s a great eReader, news app displayer and Netflix enabler.

    Unlike Apple’s other iPads it’s not striving to replace your laptop, but instead quietly does some things better than one. If you don’t mind

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Macworld UK

    Macworld UK1 min read
    Apple Ekes Out A Small Year-over-year Revenue Gain On Eve Of Vision Pro Launch
    After a somewhat disappointing string of quarterly releases, Apple reported a 2 percent year-over-year revenue gain in the first fiscal quarter of 2024 on the back of $119.6 billion in revenue. And that’s with one fewer week than last year’s quarter
    Macworld UK1 min read
    If You Use GarageBand On Your Mac, There’s A Critical Security Update
    After a string of operating system updates last month that patched billions of devices with hundreds of security fixes, Apple released one more in March targeting a very specific vulnerability in GarageBand. The GarageBand 10.4.11 update is for users
    Macworld UK5 min read
    9 Ways Apple Can Improve Apple Vision Right Now
    Apple Vision Pro is clearly a first-gen product. Expensive, flawed, limited and impressive. Much of what it needs to really become a mass-market device will need new hardware that is lighter, more affordable, and more fully featured. But that’s not t

    Related