I am so tired of all this spec war. Why would you want a 2+ ghz CPU in a tablet if it runs like hell half the power.
What do the quad and octa core CPUs bring to the table?
In my opinion you should be fine getting the rMini now if you don't mind a newer model being released in a few month. If you like it now, get it if you can afford it.
Dude, I got my Mini Retina like 3 days ago. If indeed I bothered about spec wars I would have bought a 2.5GHz quad-core Android tablet, or waited for the next Mini Retina with the much improved specs. Fact is I looked over mere specs and took the plunge.
All I am sharing with him is my first hand experience. When I bought the Mini Retina, I expected better. Like I said above, RAM management, performance and OS smoothness used to be the hallmark of Apple/iOS. But these are exactly the stuff that has had me disappointed.
And I was also sharing info based on the iPhone's reported spec list. A jump from 1.3GHz to 2.3GHz, and 1GB to 2GB of RAM is no small joke.
My humble iPad 2 with half the RAM and less than half the processing power used to run rings around my Tegra 3 tablet, so don't lecture me on specs. I know how they mean nothing, especially cross platform.
PS: To clarify myself, these performance issues are not chronic and probably irrelevant to the average Joe. It's just me personally...I expected nothing less than absolute perfection based on Apple's track record. It's up to you at the end of the day. If you are very nit-picky about performance, wait. Otherwise, get it.