But then again, the old iPad mini was fine, too, for the basic tasks I threw at it. Where I did notice an improvement was in the Wi-Fi department. Thanks to its adoption of Wi-Fi 6E (up from Wi-Fi 6), ...
The iPad Mini 6 is absolutely the cheaper of the pair: you can pick up the base Wi-fi model, with 64GB storage, for $499/£479/AU$749, whereas the iPad Air starts at $599/£569 for the 64GB Wi-Fi ...