I’m a tablet guy. I own four of them and use them all heavily. One of them is the iPad mini, and I use it a lot for both work and play. The new model that Apple unveiled recently has some significant hardware upgrades, and while the new iPad mini looks good on the surface it’s not enough of an improvement to get me to trade in my original model.

Two areas of improvement in the new iPad mini are the better processor and the Retina Display. The former should make the refreshed mini run faster than the original model and the latter should leverage the small display of the new iPad mini to maximum advantage. These two features combined should make the new iPad mini a great tablet.

So why don’t I want one? It’s simple: my original iPad mini works just fine. Sure, it would be nice if it was faster and had a crystal clear display but to tell the truth it doesn’t need it.

I use the iPad mini for all of the typical tablet activities, using it to do online stuff and read ebooks. I also use it to write articles on occasion, using a ZAGGkeys Cover keyboard. It works surprisingly well and I’ll bet I’ve written 30,000+ words this way.

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