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would live on in the ipad mini yeah of all things in the ipad mini like that i am i am blown away you know i gotta hand it to apple they can still surprise me i mean and it makes sense when you think about like what do they do with the rejects i can think of something because if you throw them away like because i believe in on both the iphone 15 pro and the iphone 15 pro max they all had six working gpu cores so anyone that came out with one non-working gpu core what are they gonna do throw it in the garbage

would live on in the ipad mini yeah of all things in the ipad mini like that i am i am blown away you know i gotta hand it to apple they can still surprise me i mean and it makes sense when you think about like what do they do with the rejects i can think of something because if you throw them away like because i believe in on both the iphone 15 pro and the iphone 15 pro max they all had six working gpu cores so anyone that came out with one non-working gpu core what are they gonna do throw it in the garbage

no save it for the mini put it in a box for a year i don't know if that's enough like it was that sufficient to to work with the ipad mini and did they have to manufacture a bunch of new ones and a bunch of ipad minis actually have six working gpu cores but they just disable one of them or something like i don't know how that works but like this has got to be a cost like a shrewd cost saving measure because there's nothing about the ipad mini as we'll see when we get to the

no save it for the mini put it in a box for a year i don't know if that's enough like it was that sufficient to to work with the ipad mini and did they have to manufacture a bunch of new ones and a bunch of ipad minis actually have six working gpu cores but they just disable one of them or something like i don't know how that works but like this has got to be a cost like a shrewd cost saving measure because there's nothing about the ipad mini as we'll see when we get to the

that is like this is such an important product apple really needs to give it the pro processor from last no they absolutely don't like this just has to be a cost-saving measure based on like you know bind uh chips that they would otherwise throw away that's that's that's all i can think of that's the leading theory for this it makes some sense but it does it's total it's a total tim cook move like how can we economically make use of what would otherwise be a waste product but uh

that is like this is such an important product apple really needs to give it the pro processor from last no they absolutely don't like this just has to be a cost-saving measure based on like you know bind uh chips that they would otherwise throw away that's that's that's all i can think of that's the leading theory for this it makes some sense but it does it's total it's a total tim cook move like how can we economically make use of what would otherwise be a waste product but uh

It's really weird. The iPad mini is weird and not a well-loved product, not frequently updated. And as we'll see in a second, not really that well updated this time around either.

It's really weird. The iPad mini is weird and not a well-loved product, not frequently updated. And as we'll see in a second, not really that well updated this time around either.

But Apple's not saying as usual. Exactly. But they did list Apple intelligence as a feature. I guess Apple intelligence is now code for portable device with eight gigs of RAM or more.

But Apple's not saying as usual. Exactly. But they did list Apple intelligence as a feature. I guess Apple intelligence is now code for portable device with eight gigs of RAM or more.

That's a quote from Apple. Supports smart HDR4 for natural looking photos with increased dynamic range. Increased over what? Like for the life of me, I was like, is there a new camera on this or not?

That's a quote from Apple. Supports smart HDR4 for natural looking photos with increased dynamic range. Increased over what? Like for the life of me, I was like, is there a new camera on this or not?

because that thing that they wrote is that just a software thing and by the way all the features you read it's like hey you know all the stuff the iphone 15 pro had because it's part of the soc well now the ipad mini has it too because it's part of the stupid soc but like the camera i'm like hey did they replace the camera they wrote this is for apple's copy the sentence they wrote about the camera on this new thing and it has the word increased

because that thing that they wrote is that just a software thing and by the way all the features you read it's like hey you know all the stuff the iphone 15 pro had because it's part of the soc well now the ipad mini has it too because it's part of the stupid soc but like the camera i'm like hey did they replace the camera they wrote this is for apple's copy the sentence they wrote about the camera on this new thing and it has the word increased

And it says Smart HDR 4, but I think that's all compute stuff. So it's not clear to me whether the camera on the iPad mini parentheses A17 Pro is a different camera than the iPad mini parentheses 6th generation.

And it says Smart HDR 4, but I think that's all compute stuff. So it's not clear to me whether the camera on the iPad mini parentheses A17 Pro is a different camera than the iPad mini parentheses 6th generation.

They put new right in there. So the flash thing, maybe that is new. Yep.

They put new right in there. So the flash thing, maybe that is new. Yep.

If you have really good vision. Did you look at the blue and purple colors?

If you have really good vision. Did you look at the blue and purple colors?