Expansion is limited to a pair of DDR3 SO-DIMM slots (16GB max), one full-size mini PCIe slot that supports mSATA SSD drives and one half-size mini PCIe slot that's perfect for WiFi and Bluetooth.
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In a world of smartphones, mini and full size tablets, laptops, desktops and flat screen TVs, many designers have started to build responsive sites to serve this profusion of screen formats.
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Eight-legged creatures the size of Mini Coopers are companions in a quiet cave, or on your midnight trip to the loo.
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Placing a picture of the Google Nexus 7 alongside the iPad mini, he went through their specifications - the iPad's screen size was not so mini, 30% bigger than the Nexus, the overall experience on one was "great", on the other "not so great".
This robot is about the size of a Mini Cooper and weighs some 900kg.
These phones are really mini computers, about the size of cell phones.
In addition to their impressive response, volume, and features, the iLoud speakers are surprisingly small, exceptionally portable, and can be used everywhere. iLoud MINI, the smaller of the two, is only about the width and height of an iPad mini while iLoud has the size of an iPad.
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Blogger Dan Nosowitz, tongue planted in cheek, declared the Mini's trade-paperback size will make it a more highbrow option for e-book lovers than the smaller Kindle Fire, which more resembles a mass-market paperback.
Size feels like the iPad Mini argument playing out in reverse.
There's also an HDMI port for outputting 1080p video to a TV, along with one full-size USB port, a mini-USB connector for syncing and updates, a power port and a micro-SD card slot, for adding up to 32 gigs of extra storage.
Individually, the company planned to ship 60 million full-size iPads and 40 million iPad Mini units.
This does not mean that Apple has cannibalized sales of the full-size iPad by releasing the iPad Mini.
The size and weight of the iPad mini make it a very good choice as a gaming machine.
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The closest competitor in terms of size to Apple's iPad mini, the newest Samsung offering stands to become the largest tablet to include voice capability.
On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box -- a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge -- that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency.
If you have a Wii already, a Mini would make a great backup, or travel size companion.
Almost all of the ones before the FCX looked like mini SUVs: high off the ground for their size.
The company surprised the world last fall when it released a slightly improved full-size iPad alongside the newly designed iPad Mini.
With a population of just 650, 000 and a territory the size of Northern Ireland, the mountainous mini-state would be a midget on its own.
The company hasn't gone to any special efforts to make the Mini more comfortable to hold, but at this size it doesn't particularly matter, given how easy it is to just wrap your hand around the thing.
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It seems later this year they will have multiple size phones for you to choose from the mini or a bigger one.
Global's slightly larger version, about the size of a fist, called the iSwipe Mini, secures entranceways and can store 10, 000 iris identities, each compressed into a tiny 2-kilobyte file, and can scan 15 people per minute.
By adjusting its overall shipments and the volume of each unit (iPad Mini sales are now expected to outpace the full-size model), Apple is sending the message that its original stance toward seven-inch tablets was dead wrong.
The Define Mini excels in including a lot of features in a small size!
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With a laptop-style keyboard and well-spaced keys for its size, the Belkin Portable Keyboard Case for iPad mini helps reduce typing mistakes common on tablets.
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Apple, the company that was the first to bring touch screen phones and tablets to mass market, has been iterating rather innovating in recent years, for example making relatively incremental changes on size and form factor with the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini.
But with the one-size-bigger Countryman hitting dealerships now, and a Mini coupe and roadster coming soon, plus the likely Paceman crossover coupe, Mini to me is looking more and more like a wad of Silly Putty being stretched and deformed into too many shapes.
Apple made the iPad Mini with the same resolution as the iPad 2 and a much bigger display size.
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