Apple’s iPad Mini is a classic example of that old saying, first impressions can be misleading. At a quick glance, the smaller version of Apple’s now-iconic tablet hardly looks like a business tool. The screen is just shy of 8 inches, and as anyone who has ever used a similarly sized Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus 7, or Amazon Kindle Fire knows all too well smaller tablets haven’t really cut it as serious productivity devices.
Sure, they make for handy e-readers, email-checkers, and media players. And they suffice for occasional web surfing. But their reduced screen size, typically in a widescreen format better-suited for movies and games than documents, is a real limitation doing serious work, like composing and marking up PDF and Word files.
