The fundamental difference of iPad Mini With respect to the new iPad, it could refer not so much to the size of the screen, as has been insisting so far, but to the weight of the device. From the multiple rumors about the iPad Mini and the definitive name that Apple will end up giving it, it seems that the blogosphere is gradually opting for iPad Air, and it is an idea that is not very far-fetched according to some speculation and news that we have known lately about the device.
Steve Jobs it once charged 7-inch tablets in what appeared to be an all-out defense of the iPad, as well as its proportions. The founder of Apple explained that 10 inches was the minimum size that it should have a device so that adults could use it comfortably. In fact, in a somewhat humorous tone he mentioned the following regarding the smaller screens: “They are useless unless they include sandpaper (…) so users could sand their fingers a quarter of their size to use them”. Although later, according to Eddy Cue in an email to other Apple executives, Jobs had accepted the idea of make a smaller tablet, It seems that the measurements of the device would not be the truly differential factor, with which the ideas of Steve Jobs would have prevailed in the design of the tablet that Apple is about to launch.
With measures obviously smaller than those of the new iPad, the weight it could, however, be the defining factor in the concept of the new device. In fact, there is no reason to reject such a hypothesis, quite the contrary: iPad Air It would not be the first device in which Apple plays that trick: remember, for example, the MacBook Air. There are also other signs that we must remember, how the iPad Inside picks up. Several experts place the weight of the new tablet between the 250 and the 300 grams, and some even venture to give an exact figure: 256 grams, which would make a big difference to competitors like Nexus 7 which weighs 340.
Latest device rebuilds that proliferate on the Internet, in fact, maintain this hypothesis to a certain extent, since the differences in size they suggest in relation to the new iPad are not excessive and they do show a significantly wider screen than the Nexus 7. In addition, the rumors as to inches, they placed it closer to 8 '' than 7 ''. But if there are no really marked differences between the size of the screen of the New iPad and the iPad Mini, it should be noted that there are in terms of weight: the New iPad, with 652 grams, it would weigh more than twice the estimates for the iPad Mini. The asset of the greater "portability" of the iPad Mini would be precisely there: a tablet lightBut with a screen big enough to support the applications that Steve Jobs said made sense of the iPad. We will have to be attentive to September 12 to clear up doubts.