iPad Air and iPad mini 2019 review: Apple’s tablets strike an ideal balance

The 2019 iPad Air and iPad mini, side by side. [credit:
Samuel Axon ]




Apple's iPad lineup has had a gap in it lately.
At the top end, you had the 2018 refresh of the iPad Pro—an immensely powerful, envelope-pushing tablet priced and positioned as a laptop replacement. At the bottom, you had the entry-level iPad, which lacked many of the best features in newer Apple products and shipped with a CPU much slower than what's in the latest iPhones.
You were either buying a monster of a tablet for a monster price, or you were getting a tablet that compromised a lot to compete with Chromebooks at the low end. Apple was still making an iPad mini last year, but it was woefully outdated.
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