Another perspective for the OP...

Do you have a laptop? Unless you have something obscenely expensive, it probably has a resolution that gives about 100 pixels per inch. Based on that alone, does it look too awful to you?

If the answer is no, do you think an iPad Mini with 163 ppi will?

An accurate comment.

We adapt to what's there, and when tablets mass arrived with the iPad 1 1024 x 768 was all we had.

Originally Posted by Coconutcreampie
That said, the current mini likely has the best screen on the market, for it's level of resolution.

As Dark hints, the Mini is a perfectly 'adequate' tablet.

Yet I would say that the 'superlatives' were pure invention.
It has never been anything but 'adequate', even on release date. Only by moving the clock back can we use a superlative.

That being for the IPad 1 which gets commended for being the first mass market tablet.
Time though does move forwards.

While I agree about the Nexus and Kindle Fire, I'm afraid I'm going to have to call you out on the Blackberry Playbook unless by 'lower resolution' you meant 'higher resolution'.

I have an, Ipad 2 an Ipad "Retina" and a mini. The mini screen is perfectly fine and great for work.
A retina upgrade for the Mini is simply not something i will rush to buy, it's good as it is.

My hubby has an IPad and I have an IPad Mini. His screen is much better than mine but I am very happy with my screen and use my mini for almost everything except for typing reports etc. I find it a much lighter and more portable size. I also have a laptop and hardly use it now. I must say that the camera on my hubby's IPad takes much better pictures than mine so we use his for this.

Well I was in a mega size Tesco the other day.
There seems to be what must be a national policy to remove the web browser access, but only on the Ipad. In that every Tesco I have been in has Safari missing/not available on the display unit.

Maybe this is due to the missing Flash or the missing Desktop Browser mode in Safari?

Currys, PC World etc. normally have Safari enabled! Tesco also had their Hudls locked down to demo mode only tonight - no live anything at all!!! - so it is not just the iPad. It could be just them!

What's this Desktop Browser I have not missed in TWO years?

Probably panicking with the bugs.

It tried the Samsung Note 8 plus one other one and they were fine. The iPads have been like that in all Tescos I have been in for quite a while now.

LOL. Flash has been dead on mobile devices for quite some time now. One can easily use any other browser on an iPad to get a desktop mode but it doesn't make much sense because in most cases you do get the same experience.

Am I missing something. Lol, why would they do that?

My wife has the iPad and when she was buying it she compared the screen on the iPad and the iPad Mini and the Mini is poor in comparison. As it is to my Nook HD+ and my previous Nexus 7. It's not a bad screen - as it's very clear the resolution is just a lot lower than it should be at that price point.

Don't mind him, he's very anti-Apple. That's his way of trying to point out deficiencies in the iPad that don't really exist.

Maybe I was. Quite weird innit.
That is what makes Apple quite fascinating, the minutia and all that, even if it deems one anti-Apple.

Is it Tesco or an Apple requirement?
Worth asking though I doubt a reply will be forthcoming.

I'm not being ironic, i really do not know what you mean.
Why would Tesco disable browsing specifically on the Ipads?
I presume people expect to be able to browse the internet on their tablets??????

I have 4 browsers installed my computer and i prefer Safari by far. Is anything wrong with it?

It's possible that Tesco have had a bad experience with their display units in the past, where people have gone into the store, navigated to a load of porn and left it on the iPad for the next unsuspecting customer. (Kids these days eh?!)

If that did happen, they may have asked for the browser to disabled on the display units.

If you go into a John Lewis, Apple store, PC World, the browsers are usually there and working. It's highly unlikely that Apple are removing the browser from display units. It's much more likely that Tesco have done it, or requested it be done.

What desktop browser mode do you think is missing in Safari?

I use my iPad on the desktop version of every site I use. You obviously have a great deal of experience of this causing problems.

Are you actually saying that you can now change the default?

I thought the idea from Apple for Safari was that their tablets and phones always got mobile website unless the actual website itself let you change version.

And with regards to Tesco it also could be as grumpyoldbat says.

i have two ipad 2s here and the screen on them is ok not great so the mini at same res is smaller and looks a bit better for it. I wouldn't go for it based on the screen but I don't think it that bad that it's a deal breaker.

The form factor would be a bigger issue for me

My iPad using safari (many other browsers are available) has always gone to the desktop version.

Please please please get yourself an iPad, or go to an Apple Store or grab one off a friend and USE it for browsing for at least a while and you'll see it's perfectly fine. Even embedded YouTube videos work! What's with that? (pssst they don't use Flash anymore. Car-azy isn't it? Apparently some legacy systems still do. Like PCs).

This is a SERVER side setting - based on the browser id string! While most sites will serve mobile pages to an iPhone the normal default for an iPad is to serve the regular (non-mobile) webpages.The few sites which don't do by immediately by default allow the user to change.

I also imagine kidspud is also often clicking 'desktop mode' when available on the website. That saves a cookie so next time you visit the site, it heads straight to the desktop web version.

One can only speculate, as ever. That's kids style for you. I think I once called him 'the man from Del Monte'.

Kidspud l'ikes to say yes' yet I'm always left wondering what the 'yes' is with regards to.

I can't remember the last time my iPad went to a mobile site instead of a desktop one. In fact, I'm not sure it's happened at all.

I don't know where you got the idea from that Apple designed Safari on iOS to retrieve mobile versions - one of the early selling points of the iPhone was that you got the "full" Internet. I can't find the UK version, but this was the advert - http://youtu.be/6lZMr-ZfoE4?t=1m