I’m Upgrading to the iPad mini 6

My favorite iPad’s all grown up.

Joshua Beck
6 min readOct 7, 2021
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It’s been no secret of mine; I love the iPad mini, and I have for a long time. I’ve loved it since the very beginning. I’ve loved it even as I’ve reviewed newer, faster, better iPads. Even as the iPad mini became more and more outdated, my love for it was undying, unending. It was, in many ways, the perfect iPad for me.

That, of course, didn’t make me oblivious to the elephant in the room: the iPad mini was getting left behind. Having been updated in March of 2019, it became more and more obsolete with every new Apple keynote. Apple, seemingly, had forgotten the iPad mini, or at least didn’t care about it any longer.

But last month, Apple introduced the iPad mini 6. Oh boy.

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Everything about the iPad mini has changed. Where once the tablet seemed to cling to the designs of yesteryear, it now looks as modern as the latest and most powerful iPads, if only in miniature. Where once it was powered by a 3-year-old processor, it now runs on one of the fastest chips Apple has ever made. It is, in every single way, an improvement, possibly the biggest improvement Apple has ever introduced from one…

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