If your new Mini will be your primary iPad, I think you did well by going with 256, conservatively speaking of course. We use them in different ways. My Mini 5 as a supplement to my 256 10.5 Pro so 64 was plenty of room for that. I use it for web, games, reading so nothing that really eats up disk space. It's a beast and is pretty much on par with my 10.5 in terms of performance. It's also nice that it supports Pencil 1 which I had already for use with the 10.5. I figure if I'm ready to part with it, I'll give it to my mom since she just can't seem to let go of her Gen 1 Mini despite the fact that she's also got an Air 2.
Congrats on the purchase.
Thanks!
It's a lot of money but I figure I'll put it to good use, and I really don't care about how long these devices are meant to last according to Apple -just as long as it physically works I see no need to replace it. And with all that storage space I can take more advantage of actually having easy access to a lot of media files instead of spending time deleting and replacing files.
Great to hear about its performance. My first and only iPad is my 1st gen. iPad Mini so I'm not spoilt ?
I've made the most out of the available 16 GB, but with some larger apps there's a lot of waiting and sometimes restarting of apps (I assume the storage space is also used as a scratch disk), so it's time to move on.
Looking forward to receiving it, and I'll probably get the Pencil 1 as well further down the line. I can see this iPad being used as a more productive tool as well although I really have no idea I'm hoping there are some nice apps that allow me to quickly make illustrations/diagrams, make quick sketches and stuff like that. Actually that's one of the things I'm having trouble doing on my Mac (I loved using
OmniGraffle back in the day (it came bundled with a Powerbook I've since sold) and see that it's now also available for iOS, but at a price! hopefully there's something similar for a more "non-professional" price).
