Last year I got this as a birthday gift, ipad mini is sleek , compact and comes with 7 inch screen.it has strong and attractive metal and design. Its light and has great battery back up. It comes with 8.1 ios and with old A5 processor wchich is a bit worry and 512MB ram , capable of doing muktiple task.
The speaker’s below are good enough and it also has a jack on top unlike the I phone 5c.the only drawbacks is it smaller touch target and higher price.APPLE products now days is a status symbol and once your are apple user you are always an apple user.