Like a younger child in the shadow of an elder sibling, the iPad mini Retina sat patiently on Apple's demo tables at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center on Tuesday, waiting for someone to put down an iPad Air, and notice its charms instead.
They weren't easily spotted. The iPad mini Retina has the exact same chassis as its predecessor, the iPad mini. We put them side by side, and saw no noticeable difference in weight or thickness. We later discovered, however, that the mini Retina is actually 20 grams heavier than its predecessor, and kicked ourselves for not practicing for Apple's event by guessing the weight of household objects.
The real difference is something you only notice when you turn it on, and we're not just talking about the Retina display. That's obvious: 2048 x 1536 pixels — more than the human eye can detect. We've gotten so used to the Retina display in iPhones and full-sized iPads that this one just seems natural in the same way the original mini seemed just a little bit off.
No, what you really need to do is fire up Infinity Blade III — a processor-hogging game if ever there was one — on both devices. Then you'll see what the iPad mini Retina is hiding: a monster of an A7, 64-bit processor. The game chokes the old mini as if it were an iPad 2 — which it is, for all intents and purposes. You feel like you're playing a slo-mo version of Chariots of Fire.
But the iPad mini Retina gobbles the game up, putting you through your sword-fighting paces with incredible speed, while the old mini is still working on its load screen. Those monsters you're fighting? They're kind of like what this tablet has under the hood.
Throw in the 128GB of storage on the high-end model, and what you're effectively looking at is a slimmed-down iPad Air. In short, 7-inch tablets have never looked this appealing.
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