OK, I certainly don't need an iPad Mini. I have a little MacBook Air, a perfectly fine iPad Maxi and an iPhone 5. But i really, really want an iPad Mini, and I've been spending way too much time playing with one at the Apple Store. First of all, it would fit easily into my small-ish Chanel handbag. It could also function as my mobile phone, and there is a case with a small built-in keyboard that would make it so easy to type in Active Rain comments from almost anywhere. And I'm seriously considering re-gifting my current iPad and downsizing.