![]() Everything else about it remains unchanged. The new iPad Mini 3 really just gets two things: Touch ID and a gold case option. This year, all previous patterns are busted. The main thing you got when you paid the extra $100 for last year’s Air (versus the comparably-equipped Mini) was the size of the display. The Air had better color gamut than the Mini, but I think it was very fair to say ( which I did) that they were more or less the same iPad in two different sizes. The iPhone 5S had unique niceties, though, maintaining its clear position as the king of the iOS hill: a far superior camera and Touch ID, to name just two. The Air had one small advantage over the other two devices: it was clocked at 1400 MHz instead of 1300 MHz, which gave it about a 5 percent advantage in CPU performance. Last year, the new models were roughly all on par CPU/GPU-wise, with the A7 SoC running at about the same speed on all three devices: iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, and iPhone 5S. The iPad 4 had a retina display and an A6 SoC - and double the RAM (1 GB vs. In broad strokes, Apple took an iPad 2 and shrunk it to fit in a much smaller form factor. The original Mini had a non-retina display and A5 system-on-a-chip (SoC). Two years ago, when the original iPad Mini debuted, it was roughly a year behind its 9.7-inch sibling, the iPad 4. There’s not much of a pattern with regard to how the iPad and iPhone relate to one another. I often point out that Apple is a company of annual patterns, often predictable. The relationship between the iPad and the iPhone, performance-wise, has been hard to predict. The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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