Sorry I have not been paying much attention to the Tec news
The question is Is it time to sell our Ipad Mini's (retina)
Is a new release imminent?
I think i have had mine for nearly 9 months a new model must be close?
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JimmyC: Bound to be an iPad Air 2 launch later this year (October?) packing the A8 SOC that'll be in the iPhone 6. They're bound to put that puppy in the Mini Retina too...
There will be but will it offer much over last years model. I think the rule of thumb is to skip a year. The ipad air is still incediably fast. Also ipads seem to have a longer life than iphones, eg people keep ipads for longer. The ipad 2 for example which is nearly 4 years old, is still getting ios updates, and even gets ios8, and it is actually still very usable in terms of speed under ios7.
mattwnz:
There will be but will it offer much over last years model.
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Satch: I'll be looking for two things if I am going to upgrade from my iPad Air this year. Top of the list will be more RAM. I am sick of apps crashing, and Safari tabs having to continually load due to my iPad running out of RAM when I have bugger all open. Second would be the finger print sensor as iOS 8 will bring new uses for it.
Are you sure that the ram is a problem. I have about 20 tabs on safari open all the time on my ipad 2 and never had a problem with it crashing or laggy. Maybe having the retina screen uses a lot more ram.
JimmyC: But how do we know what we want until Apple gives it to us??
I have noticed that with the iwatch, companies are actually waiting for apples iwatch, which will define what such a device will be like. The current offerings are possibly quite different to what the iwatch will end up being like. But once apple have released the iwatch, it will define how other companies will build them. The same happened with music players, smartphones and tablets.
mattwnz:Satch: I'll be looking for two things if I am going to upgrade from my iPad Air this year. Top of the list will be more RAM. I am sick of apps crashing, and Safari tabs having to continually load due to my iPad running out of RAM when I have bugger all open. Second would be the finger print sensor as iOS 8 will bring new uses for it.
Are you sure that the ram is a problem. I have about 20 tabs on safari open all the time on my ipad 2 and never had a problem with it crashing or laggy. Maybe having the retina screen uses a lot more ram.
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