The iPad Mini 3. The iPad Mini 3 has the same 7.9-inch, 2, 048x1, 536-pixel display that made 2013’s iPad Mini 2 such a huge upgrade over its lower-res predecessor. . But, as the new iPadAir 2 gets bumped to a 1.94GHz A8X chip and steps up to 2GB of RAM, it’s hard to not look on somewhat env.iously.it good product