GUEST,Stim wrote: Just bought and am now returning an iPad Mini. Had great hopes for it, but it is incompatible with my MacBook

You also need to be very careful when letting iOS (the operating system on iPads and iPhones) update to a new version if you are relying on connectivity to old devices. In this case Apple have not updated iTunes on OS X 10.6.8. So don't update anything to iOS 9.