iPad mini 6 - A Student's Perspective!

I've had the iPad mini 6 since last Friday, and although I am still working on putting together a full review, I thought I would share the ways I've thought to use it as a college student! In this video, I give you a school-work oriented demo of the redesigned form-factor, working with the Apple pencil second generation as well which now charges on the side of iPad mini just like with iPad Pro and iPad Air 4!

[TheFreeCheez]

Anybody else keeping track of how many times he says he’s gonna “whip it out” 😂

That was a refreshingly different review. No nitpicking about the camera or display refresh rate, just solid coverage of what actual humans use a tablet for.

[rdyt]

An iPad before purchase: video-editing, art creation, note-taking, journaling...
An iPad after purchase: Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Minecraft...

[mollysong]

I never understood why some professors prohibited the use of technology like tablets and laptops during lectures. College ain't free, it's hella expensive. I ain't gonna be scrolling through social media or playing games when I'm paying thousands to sit in lectures.

[lorensims]

It's the perfect size for me. Big enough but never too big. CRAZY portable.
I've heard a lot of people are getting this new mini with cellular to us as a cheaper, larger iPhone.

[alma.beee_]

As a junior currently in high school wanting to change from my current iPad mini 3 I’ve used since freshman year, this was not only the most informative educational video but an actual student view review. I love being informed about specs of the new iPads, but get easily annoyed from not getting the feedback I actually want and this definitely was the best video to get feedback on the new iPad mini 6 that I looking for. So thank you! ✨

[amosreginaldjr.]

No one is gonna mention the 1:54 SMOOTH pencil flip?
That was seriously smooth bro

[mikemo]

I used the iPad mini 1st gen throughout college and it was absolutely perfect. I used it for reading textbooks, blackboard website, heavy emailing, reading notes, a planner, and researching. Mind you this is before the iPhone 6 Plus even existed and before light and thin laptops were mainstream. I was using a clunky Lenovo that would like 3 minutes to load up so the mini was so helpful to always have around. Plus, the battery life was incredible. It would last like a week on a charge (for my use case) compared to my 3 hour laptop battery life.

[thomasharveymusic]

Apple now has a great opportunity for iPadOS 16 to include Split View in portrait mode, where one screen is at the top and the second screen is at the bottom, this would be amazing for jotting down notes while watching a lecture with the iPad Mini in one hand and Apple Pencil in the other. With how Split View appears in iPadOS 15 portait mode right now, that ain’t it chief.

[AlgoCurioso]

I wish they split the apps horizontally while multitasking in portrait mode. It is way more comfortable and less squeezed.

[honeysal]

It frustrates me to no end all these washed out vegetables saying “no tech in the classroom” as if they think we’re playing Minecraft rather than listening to the lecture. No old frog, this is putting me 100k in debt I’m going to pay attention. I need to learn or I will die, open your dusty eyes and pay attention.


Anyways great review, you seem like a cool dude, your perspective on its use cases was very helpful and insightful. Great video.

[melloman]

Honestly, the best reviewer out there. All the other "you tubers" just bought these devices and said the same things about the size differences and what not. Not a single one out there actually used these devices like you did.

[DevineDigital]

This video was super helpful as someone who isn't a student, I can still see how the iPad will be useful for me. I'm a busy analyst and always writing down notes in meetings to ensure I get the client the information they need so the notes with pencil can be really helpful. Also I very much enjoy video content on the go so this is the perfect little device. Another great thing about it is the ability to draw my kids photos with some downtime and send it to them.

I'd like to note I really enjoyed your video as a first time watcher, you are true to your title by giving an honest perspective unlike most techtubers so I appreciate that. Like you said, it's not a perfect device, but in my opinion on the go, it's as perfect as it gets currently.

[csy]

Basically the ipad mini is for use when you'd use a notebook or reading a novel and ipad pro is for use when you need an A4 sized paper

[rmaha]

I've gotta say that of all the multitude of iPad mini review and unboxing videos out there this week, this one is by far the best. You actually show what it can be used for instead of focusing on the specs, or the chips, yada yada. Great video!

[mzmel]

“If I’m ever going to read a book for leisure…” Yeah man you are definitely a student. 😂😂😂 That was me all college and grad school.

[mckenny]

It’s unbelievable how hard it is to find videos on the last iPad mini and about the new one in regards to reading. FINALLY!!!! I have been considering upgrading my old mini to this one. I feel sold on it after watching this 😭💵💸 lol the subtle humor here and there in the video 😂👏🏼

[GuitarRJP]

I feel like I had to write this comment. To give some perspective I am a 61 year old college instructor, so I always love when students talk about how things "really are" as sometimes we don't know what we don't know. I also understand I have 2 eyes, 2 ears and 1 mouth, so sometimes I have to just be quiet and learn! This was very well done, and although I am not looking to get this for the exact uses that you are making from it, I would be upgrading from the iPad mini 4, and I don't really like the larger iPads. So, not wanting to waste money I always go to YouTube and learn from others who had taken the time to work through these devices. I plan on using it primarily as something that will replace the laptop (temporarily) to do activities like read, email, notes (I hadn't considered the pencil at all, but you do have me thinking about it), and doing some on the road removing photos and videos off of my iPhone 13 Pro when traveling and doing some work in iMovie, etc. I think the screen real estate will be fine in this size. Thanks for taking the time to do this - subscribing!

[livingit_]

This is why I love you man! You give a real-world student view and helps provide insight into how product daily usage could be. I'm excited to use the mini in my flight training. Just hope it handles well in a flight deck and doesn't overheat much.

[woodcider]

My LSAT Prep classmates were eating thru printer paper & ink and there I was with my iPad just chillin’.
I have Notability but I find myself using PDF Expert for annotating. I like it’s folder system better.