Apple's iPad Mini will cost £269

InsideInsurance

It is basically an iPad 2 miniaturized and slightly better connectivity.

At the moment there is nothing it cant do that the larger iPad can but there is a fair gap in the processors capability (but also the amount of pixels it has to drive) so it may make a difference in the future

Dreamnine

It's 2-year-old hardware shoved into an awkward, low-resolution 4:3 form factor.

I wouldn't buy one if it was £100.

DCFC79

Didnt expect anything less from Apple, was always going to be overpriced.

penrhyn

I think its all going well for a company run by a dead guy:D

InsideInsurance

DCFC79 wrote: »

Didnt expect anything less from Apple, was always going to be overpriced.

Usual tosh from apple naysayers.

Apple evidently are expensive but they spend one hell of a lot of money on design/ miniturisation etc. Find any other brand who release a similar product within 6 months of Apple launching something and they are always close to or even more expensive.

When the 2nd get MBA was released Sony released their version (which is still ~30% heavier ) about 3 months later and it was more expensive. Even now the likes of Samsung are more expensive for very similar specs (and actually achieving the same weight)

Obviously if you dont care what you kit looks like or how heavy it is when your carrying it around then yes you can save yourself a lot but then you aren't apples target market either

penrhyn

Not forgetting the money spent on suicide nets at Foxconn to catch the jumpers.:D

BigRonW

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/the-ipad-mini-seems-crazy-expensive/

"
At first blush, the iPad Mini has a lot to recommend it relative to the competition. Apple’s managed to put a bigger display on a thinner and lighter device, which—these days, especially—is mobile computing’s endgame. iOS is the most mature tablet ecosystem by a good stretch, which is worth no small something. And it comes in 4G, which much of the 7-inch competition currently lacks.
But look a little closer. With products this small that weight difference amounts to barely noticeable fractions of a pound. At 7.9 inches the iPad Mini is bigger than the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, but the whole point of a smaller tablet is to be, well, smaller. More portable. Oh, and speaking of that display: the iPad Mini’s has 25% fewer pixels per inch compared to its Amazon and Google competitors. It doesn’t just fall short of retina; it’ll be noticeably worse.
That’s partly because the iPad Mini’s processor is a relatively underpowered dual-core A5, compared to the Fire HD’s 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP and Nexus 7′s quad-core Tegra 3. It just can’t push that many pixels. Along those lines, it’s safe to assume that the Mini has half the RAM of its competitors (although that doesn’t matter much). Remember, too, that Amazon’s got about as strong a garden as Apple’s (and with weaker walls), and Google’s catching up quickly.
All of which means that when you look at the iPad Mini next to the Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7, you get the impression that it’s a pretty level playing field. And then you look at the prices...."


"....There’s a temptation to say that it’s just Apple charging Apple prices, but that instinct is dated. The real genius of the original iPad wasn’t just that it was first—it was also cheapest. It took competitors a full year to come up with a tablet that could even remotely compete at £400. Ditto the MacBook Air of the last several years; it set a price so low for ultrabook-style computers that Intel had to start a £300 slush fund to help PC manufactures hit that price point. The Apple of the last two years, thanks in large part to its Apple Store retail dominance, has been simply unbeatable. Until now.
Charging so much more for a product that’s not clearly so much better is a major step backwards for Apple, especially given its unfamiliar position in the small tablet space as a follower. You don’t enter an established market—Amazon’s in its second generation of Kindle Fires already, and has millions of loyal customers at its disposal—by asking people to assume your offering is nearly two times better than what they already know to be great....."

Dreamnine

I have a few Apple devices but my issue with the iPad Mini is that it's old tech and just a blatant cash-in from Apple. I'm not sure it even has GPS.

Apple had a chance to show off something innovative but they declined.

consumers_revenge

Nexus 7 16gb is £169 in HMV

Apple = Good product but nothing to make me want to part with £269.

custardy

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Usual tosh from apple naysayers.

Apple evidently are expensive but they spend one hell of a lot of money on design/ miniturisation etc. Find any other brand who release a similar product within 6 months of Apple launching something and they are always close to or even more expensive.

When the 2nd get MBA was released Sony released their version (which is still ~30% heavier ) about 3 months later and it was more expensive. Even now the likes of Samsung are more expensive for very similar specs (and actually achieving the same weight)

Obviously if you dont care what you kit looks like or how heavy it is when your carrying it around then yes you can save yourself a lot but then you aren't apples target market either

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411313,00.asp

so what does the ipad mini offer over the nexus 7 thats worth £100?
is 80 or so grams worth it?