Thursday April 14, 2022; 9:55 AM EDT
- I have ordered an iPad Mini 6 with 256 GB of storage that I should receive tomorrow and it will replace the iPad Mini 5 that I have been using since April, 2019. I currently use a fourth generation iPad Air mostly for work, reading sheet music, and watching video because of its larger screen, but the iPad Mini 5 is by far the most used of all my personal computing devices. I am really curious to see whether the larger 8.3 screen of the Mini 6 will be large enough to comfortably handwrite notes in OneNote and read sheet music, if it is I can imagine a future in which I only have a Mini, particularly now that I have a Macbook Air M1. #
- I like to make note of my expectations for a new device before I receive it and then look back to see how well it met expectations. I expect that the iPad Mini 6 will be good enough for handwriting but not large enough for reading sheet music, given distance from music stand to eyes and my eyesight. I hope that transfering the Apple Pencil 2 between the Air and the Mini 6 will be easy, while the Pencil cannot be paired between two iPads, I have read that pairing/re-pairing works well. The Mini 6 is going to feel large when reading compared to the Mini 5 but I expect to get used to the slightly larger size quickly. I am looking forward nearly eliminating the need for the Apple Lightning cables I have thanks to the USB-C port, which now charges all of my personal computing devices. #