iPad (2020) 8th Generation Vs iPad Mini 5! (Comparison) (Review) By Simple Alpaca

Welcome back everyone, so, as you guys all know, the iPad 8th generation just got announced and released, and I actually went ahead and picked it up, and I've had the iPad Mini 5 for a while, and I actually do like it. I think it's a pretty good iPad overall, but let's go ahead and see how both of their kind of cheapest iPads that they make kind of compared to one another. Now Apple is still selling both of these iPads. At the same time, so I feel like these will probably end up being some of the most popular iPads people will buy because, first, the cheapest iPad, the iPad 7, the iPad 8. These type of iPads are always apple's. You know, typically their best-selling iPads.

They tend to support the Apple Pencil. They tend to support a lot of other things too, and with the iPad Mini, you know the biggest difference I would say between these two things would definitely come down to the size. If you're a student, if you're somebody like that, you might be looking at both of these for portable reasons. Maybe you don't want to pick up a MacBook, maybe you don't want to have a Windows machine. Maybe an iPad can suffice for a majority of your tasks and if that's the case, then these two iPads are right down your alley.

Now I will find the cheapest ones of both these on Amazon, I'll link them down in the description below. If you want to get them from there, you can, and you can also help support the channel at the same time, which would be really awesome for us now, starting off with the front panel. The iPad Mini 5 has that 7.9 inch display it's an IPS panel. I think it looks great it's 1536 by 2048. Now, a really cool thing about the iPad Mini 5 is that it does have the true tone technology which is really nice, so it kind of shifts and kind of warms the display a little, which is really, really cool, and I actually really do like that, and you have obviously bezel around the whole entire display of it.

The top bezel is pretty big. The bottom bezel is pretty big, but it's really not that bad you're kind of already used to this type of bezel. It's not like they redefined it or anything. You have that home button on the front with touch ID and I think for the most part, it's a pretty good-looking panel, and it's a pretty good-looking iPad. I really don't have too many problems with it.

The display looks nice and, if you're somebody, especially a student, and you're carrying around your iPad, a lot maybe having a smaller display for you- isn't really that big of a deal because it means that it's more portable for you. So that's another, pretty big thing to keep in mind. Whereas on the iPad 8th generation we have a 10.2 inch retina IPS panel and technically these two panels are retina. That resolution is 1620 by 2160, so a little higher resolution, but also keep in mind that the PPI is much slower on the iPad 8th generation, because the panel is much bigger. Now on that panel you know it still gets fairly bright.

You know it's a good-looking panel, it's pretty much the same thing as a 7-gen, but the biggest changes for this one are the internal. You know the main changes are the internal specs. Now both of these panels, I think look great, but the iPad 8 generation is the bigger panel, so you're going to have to ask yourself: do you like having a bigger panel? Do you mind having a smaller panel and that's really going to determine which one of these iPads that you have now as far as I've seen throughout my whole entire life, I prefer having bigger panels? You know I prefer it. I don't know why it's just one of those things, but you might prefer small ones. The iPad Mini will be good for you now, if you're, a student, if you're somebody who's taking notes and all that stuff, maybe having a bigger display may be, you know in your favor you'll, be able to multitask a little better.

You know see more of each app you'll be able to type and all that stuff obviously typing on both, but the keyboard seems more full size on the 10.2-inch iPad than on the iPad Mini 5. So kind of keep that in mind. That's kind of my experience now both of them have lightning ports on the bottom and both of them have single camera setups. On the back and a very good feeling, devices on both one doesn't necessarily feel more premium than the other one, but I kind of do like the size of the iPad Mini. You know it feels pretty good in the hand the iPad 10.2 inch, though, still looks great. I think, obviously the design hasn't really changed too much from the 7th gen, and especially the iPad 85, that design hasn't changed in forever, but both these are very good iPads.

You know considering apple still selling them now they both support Apple Pencil support, so they both support it, which is cool. I've, said support four times now. Now they only support the first generation, one, so don't buy the know the Apple Pencil 2. You want to buy the Apple Pencil, one that has a lining part at the top that Apple Pencil is supported on these. The Apple Pencil 2 will not work on these things because they don't have a charging.

You know section for that iPad so for that Apple Pencil, so make sure you're getting an Apple Pencil one if you're trying to use it on these things and that's another reason why I would recommend students to pick these things up, because that pencil support is a really, really cool thing for sure. So when it comes down to the outside and the Apple Pencil, and all that really pretty much covers it up for the most part now hitting on the software life cycle of these things- and you know to find out which one will last longer now they both have the same chipset inside them. They both have the Apple A12 bionic chip. Now that is something to really keep in mind because that's going to determine a lot of the performance, but it's also going to determine the software life cycle of these things. So, even though the iPad Mini 5 came out last year in March, so it's over a year old, it's kind of like a year and a half old.

At this point, it's still going to last pretty much just as long as the iPad 10.2 inch. So that's a huge thing to keep in mind, even though the iPad 8th gen is the newest one, and all that, whatever it's still going to last, just as long as the iPad Mini 5 and vice versa, so I wouldn't necessarily get one over the other one if it's just based on you know the software life cycle and which one's going to get more soft or whatever, both of them theoretically should last exactly the same amount of time unless apple switches, something up which I really doubt, there's like a 0.0.1 they're going to do it if they are going to do it's probably not going to be during this time in this era. So I'll probably tell you both these iPads will definitely last as long as you want them to last they're not going to your know, die on you or anything like that in terms of software anytime. Soon, and just imagine this, and both these iPads will last pretty much just as long as the iPhone 10s, 10r and tennis max and those things just came out in 2018, so we still have quite a bit of time before these things are outdated with iPadOS. So in terms of software, these both things are going to last a very long time, and I wouldn't even worry about anytime soon in terms of performance.

They both have the Apollo 12 bionic chips both have score CPUs and both have three gigs of ram. Now that is a very important thing to keep in mind here, because both of these are going to be perfect performing devices for the most part for a somewhat you know, budget iPad release. You know we just had the iPad Pro fourth generation be released with, like the a12 z chip and on top of that the a14 chip just came out for the iPad or four. So we're probably going to be getting new iPad pros and everything, so you might want to wait until those come out, but on top of that, the greatest thing about both of these is that they both had the same amount of performance. You know with the iPad 95, it was a very good performing device.

Anything I did with it like I've stated a billion times before it was a very good performing iPad. If I was playing games, if I was trying to multitask, if I was trying to be like a student and write docs and all that stuff like you could do everything you want on the iPad Mini 5 and be perfectly fine with it, like, I said before, my only gripe may be the display not even the way it looks, but just how big it is. I kind of prefer a bigger size display, but that might not be for everyone. You might be okay with a smaller display, and that is just something you're going to have to keep in mind with the iPad 8th generation. That thing has a bigger display, which is something I actually do like and because there are less pixels to push it kind of gives the impression that it's faster, which it's not really I'll, be honest, but that could give you an impression that it might be a little faster.

So that's another big thing to keep in mind. You might find yourself having a, maybe, not necessarily a better performing device, but a better feeling device from the iPad 10.2 inch, because it has that bigger display me personally, I really like having that bigger display, but maybe you like having that smaller display, so really the performance wise they're, almost exactly the same. The biggest differences you're going to find are pretty much when it comes down to the whole entire screen size of both these things, so that really pretty much covers it up there now hitting on the cameras, like, I said, both single camera setups on the back they're 8 sensors. You know they can do 1080p and for the most part, they're exactly the same they're, pretty much like iPhone 5 cameras on the back. So don't expect to make like you know, full-fledged films or anything like that, but you can definitely make you know like a FaceTime call and Zoom calls and all that stuff for sure on the back camera on the front camera, though, there's a little of a difference.

The iPad 810 has a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera with that iPad Mini 5 has a 7 megapixel camera. So the biggest difference between This is that you can do 720p on the 8th, gen iPad, where you can actually do 1080p on that iPad Mini 5. So that's another big thing right there you might be totally okay with the lower end. You know the 1.2 megapixel camera. I personally think you know.

Maybe you don't see a big difference, but you know maybe there is a little of difference, not on your end, but at the other people's end. So that's another big thing to keep in mind there. You might be better off picking up the iPad Mini 5 if you're doing a lot of Zoom calls and face times and all that stuff with customers, clients. You know your school or whatever you'll pretty much be getting a clearer image from the iPad Mini 5 than on the iPad 8th generation. So that's another big thing to keep in mind there too, so that's pretty much how it sums that up now ending it off with the battery life apple hasn't.

Given us, you know those full William hour battery life on the iPad, 8th generation, the iPad Mini 5 had a 5124 million power battery and if the iPad 7 gen is anything like the 8th gen, it's probably going to have around an 8 000 million power battery, I would say so: you're probably going to be getting better battery life from the iPad 8th generation, which is probably expected because you know that's a perfect iPad. You know it's not necessarily a crazy high resolution display by any means, but it's still a good-looking display and because the same chipsets and everything you're probably going to have better battery life from the bigger size battery on the iPad, 8th generation than on the smaller size battery from the iPad Mini 5. So that's kind of how it sums that up and to kind of sum up this whole entire comparison. You know, should you pick up the iPad Mini 5? Should you pick up the iPad 8th generation? First, if you have either one of these iPads, I would not necessarily go from one of these iPads to the other, so I'll not go from the iPad, 8th generation to the iPad Mini 5 and me personally, I would not go from the iPad Mini 5 to the iPad 8th generation. These things are just so close like neck and neck that that's kind of how I would sum that up now, if it was me personally, I would probably end up picking the iPad, 8th generation, and the reason for this is that I like having that bigger display.

The resolution and everything doesn't really matter to me. I just like having that bigger display and since everything else about these iPads are pretty much the same, except for the front cameras the battery life. I will probably end up. You know be okay, sacrificing that high resolution camera on the iPad Mini 5, in that smaller form factor that some people may prefer just for the bigger display on the iPad, 8th generation and maybe the better battery life. However, if you are somebody like I stated before, who uses the front camera a lot you're making a lot of FaceTime calls and Zoom calls and whatever you might be better off picking up the iPad Mini 5.

Just because of that front facing camera being high resolution, it might not be that crazy of a jump, but a jump is still a jump and if you're doing a lot of those type of calls you're better off, you know spending, maybe a little more money to pick up the iPad Mini 5. You should honestly be taking these calls in like a professional setting with like a really high quality camera. If you're trying to like go up to that type of level, but if you're, okay with doing it on an iPad, then obviously the iPad Mini 5 is a better way to go for that front facing camera, you might be better off getting like an iPad Pro or something, but that's kind of how I would sum up the differences between these two. I wouldn't go from one of these to the other, but I think both of these are perfect iPads for the most part and honestly, you can't really go wrong with either one of these, so that really pretty much covers it up for the most part, if you guys have any other questions or anything, let me know in the comment section below hit the like button. That means so much but definitely hit that subscribe button, every single subscriber that we get really discount.

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