When hopping on a Zoom call, I opened my MacBook Pro. To binge-watch New Girl, I grabbed my remote. When I needed to jot down some notes, I reached for my Sailor Moon Moleskin and ballpoint pen. Instead of opening an ebook, I grabbed a paperback from my bookshelf. Perhaps partly because we're all still stuck in pandemic land.
Then the love bomb wore off, and it didn't take long for reality to set in. It comes in a few fun colors! It looks modern with slim borders around the screen, it has a USB-C charging port, and it's petite! Apple took its sweet time with proper upgrades to its smallest slate, but these improvements feel well worth the wait. It's easy to feel enamored with the thing. A cloud formed above my head, and I began to imagine all the wonderful adventures ahead with this tiny tablet: reading all of my ebooks, writing to-do lists with the second-gen Apple Pencil, streaming Ted Lasso (again), and FaceTiming friends while scrolling through social media-whenever, wherever I want. When Apple’s new iPad Mini came out of the box, it was love at first sight.