I will have to spend more time with mine because at the moment I am torn. A tablet is all about the screen, so if the display sucks well a lot of the experience will suffer. I love the form factor of the mini, even though I also don't think the full sized iPad is THAT big or heavy. But seeing as how I mostly use a tablet to read text on the screen, losing retina really is annoying. You can clearly see pixelated text on the mini. I may just end up returning it and getting the 4.