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  • Hands on with the small and mighty 6th-generation iPad mini

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    I sold my mini 5 a few months ago in anticipation of this one. I picked it up Friday.

    it is everything I expected but…not a huge amount more; and, in some ways, a bit less.

    Despite loving the great-looking new form factor I can’t help but feel the rounded edges of the previous design suited one-hand holding better.

    Relocating Touch ID to the side actually makes it harder as there is no visual indication as to where the button is (apart from the hard-to-see front camera).

    No Smart connector means there will never be a cute little keyboard similar to the ones for the Pros.

    And finally….the space between the icon grid and the bezels is huge! One more column of icons could easily fit each side.

    I’m a little underwhelmed but given the lockdown we are currently in (Melbourne) Apple have said you have until the stores open up for returns, so much longer than the usual two weeks. Hopefully more tinkering will get me used to these shortcomings!


    williamlondonGeorgeBMacdewmewatto_cobra

  • New Apple Watch Series 7 with more durability, larger screen area revealed

    dymmasdymmas
    My Series 5, you are safe for another year…
    GeorgeBMac

  • Black 12.9-inch Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro listed as 'new,' unavailable to order

    dymmasdymmas
    I chatted with Apple Support yesterday afternoon - they confirmed that my iPad Magic Keyboard, which I bought in June last year, is compatible with the new 2021 iPad Pro.
    watto_cobra

  • Scottish school system to supply students and staff with 39,000 iPads

    dymmasdymmas
    Please - give them less tech. It will be infinitesimally better for their learning...
    martinxyz

  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

    dymmasdymmas

    dymmas said:
    The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product. 

    Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn. 
    What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...
    Without an an AppleTV - a product that should be retired just for its ungodly remote - just as external speakers to any old TV (as thousands of speakers can)?

    Pray tell us how... I'll wait. In the meantime, you can educate yourself with this (as can the ignorant poster to whom I responded above): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207705
    Of course we can’t show you how as it cannot be done without an Apple TV. Your original post did not include the adverbial phrase “without an Apple TV”, which would have added the necessary modification to your statement.

    Adding this qualification in a future post and calling people ignorant for not reading it in the original one is a little disingenuous. 
    williamlondon