iPad Mini 6 vs iPad Air 4

while apple kept improving the ipad pro and ipad air continuously and kept the appearance of ipad mini same for years and thankfully in the latest event apple unveiled the much different ipad mini next to the brand new iphone 13 with a 15 bionic chip, all-screen design, and lots of clear-cut upgrades the ipad mini is turning up more like the ipad air but in a smaller form factor this very likely will give a hard time to people who are thinking about purchasing or upgrading to a newer ipad

 

let's take a deep dive into both of these devices from a comparative perspective and figure out whether you should settle for the ipad mini or the ipad air

 

starting off with the processor we have apple's latest a15 bionic chip on the ipad mini that according to apple is 40 % faster in processing and 80 % in terms of graphical improvement than the previous ipad mini while the a14 chip on the ipad air is still a very capable mobile chip it still lags behind what the a15 has in store for us according to nanoreview.net's geekbench 5 testing a15 is 9% faster in single core and 17% faster in multi-core performance needless to say a faster processor simply means better optimization improved machine learning and an overall satisfying user experience with that being said

let's talk about the cameras although both are rocking a 12-megapixel wireless camera some of the most recent features of apple are lacking on the ipad air these differences are beautifully illustrated in a chart done by 925mag.com in this chart we can see that the ipad mini brings along remarkable features such as extended dynamic range rear camera flash and zoom capabilities on the front camera that are missing in the ipad air you also get the center stage feature on the latest ipad mini that indeed is a useful part when face timing the only two aspects with the ipad air goes bigger than the ipad mini is dimension and battery with the 4^th generation ipad air you are getting a 10.9 inch liquid reading screen with an 81.3 inch screen to body ratio

 The ipad mini however has a slightly smaller 8.3 inch screen with a 77.4 screen to body ratio the ipad air is powered by a 28.93 watt hour battery while the ipad mini integrates in 19.3 watt hour one though the market battery life for multimedia use remains the same at up to 10 hours which might be due to processor optimization it is quite clear that the latest ipad mini does more than the ipad air in terms of processing capturing and portability while cutting the cost down by 100 but if a bigger screen is what you're craving for going for the ipad air won't hurt you that much so