I am not an apple fan boy and never purchased any apple product till a relative of mine gifted an ipad mini 2. And boy I love to use this thing.
Still using it and I can enjoy a lag free smooth experience till now. Gets my job done. Great device for multimedia. Comes with the retina display which makes the viewing experience much much better. And as a matter of fact I tend to use it much often than my phone.
16 gb varient is a big no no as the available storage is around 10 gb maybe and the apps in the ios are much bigger compared to what we get in android. So thats a big turn off.
Camera is only good enough for facetime. Please dont think about getting quality pics on this thing. Iphones have some of the greatest camera features but I dont know why camera in this thing is so messed up. Lots of grains in dark situations.