All iPads Performance comparison between rMini and Air?

Anyone?

I bought an Air. Great machine, smooth, fast, etc. But it was still just too large. I use the ipad for everything including general aviation pilot use and I like to have one-pad-to-rule-them-all.

Which is were the Mini has shone. I still have my pre-order first gen Mini, working great.

But the speed of the Air was impressive.

Just last night I got to play with an rMini in the Apple store but it didn't seem as fast as the Air. I was messing with opening up Pages files and it seemed more like my 1genMini. It had the gray back so it was an rMini. The display too seemed a lot like the 1gMini, which is no slouch ...

I thought perhaps I would order for in-store pickup later this week and play with it longer.

But thought perhaps someone may already have gone down this road.