John Gruber on the new iPad Mini with Retina Screen

John Gruber writes:

After three days of extensive use of the Mini (a review unit on loan from Apple), it works and feels exactly like the iPad Air. Everything about it is of equivalent or identical quality: the display, the cameras (front and back), the performance, the battery life.

This is the iPad I’ve been waiting for. I don’t have a good reason to buy it, really, except that I love reading on my iPad 3’s Retina screen, but it sometimes hurts my hands.