Macworld (2019-06)

86 MACWORLD JUNE 2019

FEATURE iPAD MINI (2019) REVIEW

want if you crave an unstoppable power-

house. Subjected to a Geekbench battery

test at 200 nits of brightness (down from

the impressive maximum of

500), it failed to last as long as

any of its contemporaries. In

actual field practice, though, I

rarely saw any problems. Over

the course of a week, I used it

to play Fortnite. I used it for

reading novels on the bus, and

I watched an episode of the

new Twilight Zone from Jordan

Peele. And through it all the

battery chugged along, never needing the

kind of attention I tend to give my iPhone

XS Max.

If you don’t like the Apple Pencil, you can also use the $70 Logitech Crayon. Some people like
it, but I find it feels too much like writing with a carpenter’s pencil.

Here’s a comparison of graphics performance.

0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000

iPad Air (2019)

iPad mini (2019)

iPad Pro 12.9 (2018)

iPad 9.7 (2018)

iPad Pro 10.5 (2017)

3DMARK

Ice Storm Unlimited

77,734

56,928

105,842

77,356

38,662