Dzisiaj w internetach pojawiło się sporo recenzji iPada Air 2 i Mini 3. Jak część z Was wie, miałem iPada, iPada 2, a potem zrobiłem upgrade do iPada 3 przez Retinę. Chwilę później kupiłem iPada Mini tylko do zrecenzowania, z zamiarem sprzedania go kilka tygodni później. Stało się jednak co innego – pomimo braku Retiny odpowiadał mi jego rozmiar i waga, a iPad 3 leżał i się kurzył. Sprzedałem go. Rok później Apple wypuścił Mini 2 z Retiną i iPada Air o prawie identycznych specyfikacjach. Kupiłem oba – mniejszy dla mnie, większy dla Iwony. Oboje jesteśmy do dnia dzisiejszego zachwyceni nimi, chociaż brakuje mi lepszych kolorów w Miniaku. Bardzo żałuję, że w tym roku Apple postanowił nie uaktualniać Mini 2, bo trudno Touch ID nazwać znaczącym upgradem, ale jednocześnie to świetna okazja do zakupu Mini 2 po niższej cenie. Pomimo, że tak lubię Miniaka to przesiadam się na iPada Air 2 – przekonał mnie jego laminowany ze szkłem ekran, a jeszcze go nie widziałem. Jeśli jest w połowie tak dobry efekt dotykania pikseli jak ten w iPhonie 6 to będzie dobrze. Pełne recenzja będzie w grudniowym numerze iMagazine – trochę zresztą hardcore’owa…
Nilay Patel dla The Verge o iPad Air 2:
Pick up an iPad Air 2 and you’ll immediately understand why Apple pursues that thinness with such single-minded zeal. It’s so, so thin: 18 percent thinner than the older Air, and even slightly lighter. It’s hard to believe that there’s a computer back there, let alone a computer as powerful than the laptop computers of just a few years ago. If there is anything magical about this new iPad it is this, this feeling of impossibility. The Air 2 makes the original iPad look and feel archaic, like a horrible monster from a long-forgotten past.
The Air 2 has a vibrant, sharp display that looks almost painted on. Apple says the new antireflective coating on the Air 2 reduces glare by 56 percent, but I didn’t really notice it making a huge difference; you definitely can’t use it in bright sunlight.
Joanna Stern na łamach WSJ o iPad Air 2:
No, we aren’t at the point where it feels like you’re holding a feather, but there is a substantial difference between grasping the 0.96-pound Air 2 and any of the earlier iPads with one hand. I even noticed a difference between it and last year’s original Air. Apple has squeezed down the svelte case so much that it feels as if you’re holding nothing but a screen.
The iPad Air 2 is also far more manageable than Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S 10.5, and its premium aluminum build and soft curved edges top Samsung’s slimy, dimpled plastic cover.The new Air’s display addresses one of my biggest complaints about previous iPads: You can finally see the screen outdoors. A thinner display with an anti-reflective layer means unless the sun is really beating down, there’s no need to pitch a towel tent over the screen while sitting by the pool.
In my outdoor test, the Air 2 beat last year’s Air, Samsung’s Tab S and Amazon’s previous Fire HDX, displaying a more even balance under both sunlight and shade. Outdoors, it only loses to a bona fide e-reader like the Kindle Paperwhite. But you’ll still have to crank the brightness all the way up to see the screen in the sun, which will run down the battery faster.
But it doesn’t move ahead in one area where some of us have been waiting (desperately) for evolution: true multi-tasking, going beyond the one-app-at-a-time functionality. Perhaps that’s the big surprise that Apple will bring when it introduces a 12.9-inch iPad next year.
Walt Mossberg dla Re/code o iPad Air 2:
Here’s what the iPad Air 2 doesn’t have: A higher-resolution screen, a bigger screen, a changed height or width, longer battery life, a snap-on keyboard, or a lower base price. Also, while it does work with Apple Pay, it does so only when making in-app purchases online, not in stores. (Waving a large tablet over a payment terminal isn’t a great idea, anyway.)
So I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older models? That’s a different story.
If you have an iPad 2, 3 or 4, the new Air 2 will make a big difference. Its thinness and lightness will be a dramatic change, and it will be faster and more fluid.
John Gruber na łamach Daring Fireball o iPad Air 2:
It is remarkable not only that the new iPad Air 2 is faster than the iPhones 6, but also that it’s faster than a three-year-old MacBook Air, and within shooting distance of a two-year-old MacBook Air. It’s more than half as fast as today’s top-of-the-line 13-inch MacBook Pro, especially in multi-core.
The iPad is no longer following in the wake of the iPhone, performance- and specs-wise. It’s forging ahead. With 2 GB of RAM, it’s a year ahead of the iPhone (we hope) in that department. Performance-wise it’s fast enough to replace a MacBook Air for many, many people. The demos that Apple chose for last week’s event — the Pixelmator image editor and Replay real-time video editor — emphasize that. Those are performance-heavy tasks, and the iPad Air 2 handled them with aplomb.
Apple didn’t anticipate people loving to use their iPads as cameras. I certainly didn’t either. But they do, and now Apple is embracing iPad photography.
The end result is a markedly improved iPad, just in terms of it being an object you hold in your hands. It really does feel like we’re getting close to just holding a piece of glass. It’s very thin, very light, and very comfortable to hold. The improved display is a noticeable improvement over all previous iPads.
It really does feel like the difference between pixels-under-glass and pixels-on-glass. Now the iPad Air 2 offers the same thing, and it’s gorgeous. Even better, the iPad Air 2 one-ups the iPhone 6, with an anti-reflective coating. It’s quite noticeable, and very welcome.
John Gruber na łamach Daring Fireball o iPad Mini 3:
The new iPad Mini 3 really just gets two things: Touch ID and a gold case option. Really, that’s it. Everything else about it remains unchanged.
It’s disappointing that Apple is charging $100 more for a Mini that it didn’t really upgrade. Perhaps, as its iPhones get bigger, the company wants to focus less on smaller tablets.
It’s a disappointment, and not because Apple released an average tablet instead of the miniaturized super tablet I’d been hoping for. No, it’s a disappointment because for the past year there was one „best” tablet, the iPad, and you could pick the smaller one if you wanted. This year bigger, it seems, is better again.
The iPad mini 3 doesn’t feel staid or old, if only because the competition in the small tablet game still hasn’t caught up.
The iPad mini 3 is still great, even if it’s not a great deal.The iPad mini 2, on the other hand, is both — it’s nearly exactly the same device minus a huge chunk of the price tag. Really, right now is a stupendously good time to buy an iPad mini 2.
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