I could manage to book a couple of new iPad mini : an iPad mini Retina of course, but also an iPad mini as I am planning to cook you an iPad mini vs iPad mini retina review.
Stock level of iPad mini Retina are insanely low and I fear a lot of Christmas trees will miss the new Apple 7.9″ tablet on Dec. 25th ! But I got mine, so ahead of the full iPad mini Retina review, let’s start with its unboxing :

As you can see, the iPad mini Retina is delivered with the bigger 10W charger, not the thiner 5W one as the iPad mini.

Of course, the iPad mini Retina comes with a Lightning cable and that is fortunate as iOS 7 will not allow you to use a third party Lightning cable from a uncertified accessory manufacturer.

The iPad mini vs the iPad mini Retina : who is who ? You can hardly find out as their thickness is only 0.3mm different.

I hope to get shorter charging cycles with the 10W charger of the iPad min Retina which gets a 50% more powerful battery by the way.