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ROSES5682 My son needs to a new ipad he currently has a ipad mini 2. Best buy will have the ipad 9.7 32 gig for 250 dollars and ipad mini 4 128 gig for 275 dollars. My understanding is that the 9.7 model has newer hardware compared to the ipad mini 4. If this is correct which would be a better purchase?
The better deal is the one for the iPad Mini 4 with 4x the storage, especially if your son plans on saving a good deal of items ‘on the device’. With that in mind, the 9.7” iPad is the better device so if he can utilize cloud services in conjunction with the available on device storage then that is the one you should get, in my opinion.