On October 23, the iPad Air and the iPad mini2 were released together, and the iPad mini2 attracted attention from all parties due to its huge hardware upgrade and excellent cost performance. On the surface, except for the size, other hardware configurations are the same as the iPad Air, which even makes the iPad Air look a bit "chicken ribs". In practical use, is the iPad mini2 really as beautiful as it looks? Let's experience it.
Unpacking
We got the National Bank version of the iPad mini2 (the official name is iPad mini with Retina Display, which is too long, let's use the plain mini2 below). From the packaging point of view, it is the same as the iPad mini. Of course, from the front of the packaging, the iPad mini2 uses the new iOS7 ▼
There are some hardware information on the back ▼
The iPad mini ▼ is still marked on the side
The internal structure of the package is no different from the previous iPad series products ▼
Exciting film tearing moment ▼
The front of the iPad mini2 is almost indistinguishable from the previous generation. Of course, the screen is much more exquisite ▼
The symbolic home key has not been added to fingerprint identification as rumored ▼
Sensor and front 1.2 megapixel camera are above ▼
The color of the back is quite different from the black iPad mini in the past. The gray of the iPad mini 2 is more metallic, giving a good feeling. And the iPad mini2 also adds a microphone ▼ to the back
5 megapixel back lit camera ▼ in the upper left corner
Apple's classic logo ▼
The buttons on the right side of the body are still the standard equipment of the iPad, the volume button and the lock button ▼
There are switch keys, microphones and 3.5mm headphone connectors ▼ on the top
At the bottom are dual speakers and lighting connectors ▼
The second layer of packaging is accessories and instructions ▼
The accessories are very simple, related instructions, special three guarantees certificate of the Bank of China, power adapter and Lightning data cable ▼
The charging current of the power adapter is 2.1A ▼
Smart Cover ▼ common to iPad mini
It also fits well. Since the iPad mini has the same length and width between the two generations, with only a thickness difference of 0.3mm, accessories like Smart Cover are completely universal ▼
It is believed that many users have heard of the screen problem of the iPad mini2, and many professional evaluation agencies have tested the screen of the iPad mini2, and the results are very disappointing. The 7X% sRGB color gamut is obviously far from the excellent screen, while the editor uses the iPad Air to compare with the iPad mini2 on hand, only comparing the icon on the dock, The difference in color between the two can be seen with the naked eye. The iPad Air has a much higher color gamut, so the color saturation of the icon is better, while the iPad mini2 is very ordinary, even a little white ▼
As for the problem of "Yin Yang screen", Xiao Bian is lucky. Neither the iPad mini2 nor the iPad Air has this problem ▼
UI and performance
IOS7 doesn't need to be introduced any more. It is exactly the same ▼ as other iPads
The first batch of iPad mini2 comes with iOS 7.0.3, which can be upgraded to the latest version of iOS 7.0.4. The usable capacity of 16G iPad mini2 is 12.8G ▼
System album ▼
The iPad mini2 is equipped with the dual core A7 1.3GHz processor of the Cyclone core, which is completely consistent with the iPhone 5S. We also use some conventional runs to test its performance:
Sunspider 1.0.2， As a web javascript tool, the iPad mini2 has a very strong performance, breaking the 400ms threshold, but due to the lower dominant frequency, there is still a gap between it and the iPad Air (iPad Air reference score: 369ms, the lower the better) ▼
GPU graphics score, GFXBench 2.7, the score is at the same level as iPad Air and iPhone 5S ▼
Basemark X， Similar to the iPad Air, but their Off screen is not as good as the iPhone 5S, which is a surprising result
3DMark and iPad Air are also basically at the same level ▼
Figure test frame number comparison ▼
The CPU is divided into Geekbench 3. From this application, we can see that the RAM of iPad mini2 is 1GB, and the previous "512MB event" has been hyped up. The CPU frequency is 1.29GHz, 100MHz lower than the iPad Air. Both single core and dual core are slightly lower than iPad Air (iPad Air reference scores: 1481, 2691) ▼
The game compatibility is no problem, and it runs smoothly ▼
From the above tests, the theoretical performance of the iPhone 5S, iPad Air and iPad mini2 are all at the same level. iPad Air has advantages in some tests with higher CPU frequency. In practice, we will make a more in-depth comparison of the speed of iPad mini2 and iPad Air in the form of video. Please wait.
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