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Shop June’s dads and grads salesBest tablets of 20205 Reasons to Buy the iPad Mini 5
The beloved 2019 iPad mini is one of the best tablets to buy. It features a 7.9-inch Retina display, Apple’s A12 Bionic chip, 64GB of storage and Apple Touch ID and a Lightning charging port. In our Apple iPad Mini review, we liked the tablet’s bright, colorful display and long battery life, which lasted 12 hours and 40 minutes in our Laptop Mag Battery Test. Although the iPad mini’s bezel could be smaller, we rated it 4 out of 5 stars for its great performance. In one test, the iPad mini 5’s powerful A12 Bionic chip juggled multiple apps simultaneously with no lag. Meanwhile, Injustice 2 gameplay was fast and fluid. In our lab, the iPad mini 5 notched a multi-core score of 11,515 on Geekbench 4, which measures overall performance. It beat the iPad Air (11,471). Simply put, the iPad mini is one of the fastest tablets, period. With a weight of a mere 0.7 ounces and measuring 8 x 5.3 x .24 inches, the iPad mini is lighter than and just as thin as the iPad Air (16 ounces, 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.24 inches). For the first time, the iPad mini supports the $99 Apple Pencil (opens in new tab), which can really change the way you work. This accessory makes it easy to jot things down in the Notes app or in more-robust third-party apps like GoodNotes 5. So if you want a small yet powerful tablet that you can write and draw on, the iPad mini is a wise choice.
