
And this is where George got confused I think, between RAM and storage. All iPads and iPhones have 1 GB of RAM, but they come with different storage capacities (the flash memory is the equivalent of the hard drive on your computer, George.)
I recently bought the new iPad Mini Retina and this is by far the best mobile devices I've seen (through the years, I've had the iPad 1, 2, 3 and a Google Nexus 7, and now the iPad Mini Retina). It is so fast, snappy and nice to use!
About movies, the iPad's storage capacity doesn't always matter, for example if, like I do, you have them on a NAS : then you just watch them through streaming.