Don't care about iPad, give us new MBPs and Airs
Isn't it funny, how Apple's best product, OS X, gets the least attention from both Apple and consumers?
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First Unboxing Video of 3rd Generation Retina iPad
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Isn't it funny, how Apple's best product, OS X, gets the least attention from both Apple and consumers?
I hope they wont put "retina" displays on the MacbookPro line because it is just nonsense. You cannot see the pixels on 15" @ 1440x960 either. Unless you put your nose to the screen
They should put effort to maximizing the battery life on those laptops. There is plenty of heat, power and fan noise with todays laptops already. They have gone in the wrong direction if CPU temperatures hit over 100C and they call it normal behaviour...
Well normal or not, definitely anti-green if nothing else. 100C temps for electric components means quick death.
that's why they ought to expand the MBA line. Low power consumption and dissipation, slim, powerful... with a 15" footprint yuo get plenty of battery life... but keep hot powerhouses like the 15" pro for power users as well !
Yes you are right. The minimum is four times the pixels because you just cannot put for example 3x pixels because the pixels are grouped 2x2 you know? You cannot put them 1x2 instead of 2x2 , the aspect ratio would go just wrong.
My english is not so clear today. Maybe my point is not understood.
More pixels draw more power from battery. That is not what we need today.
CPU's are powerful enough on MacbookPro's and Air's we could use some low-temp machines now with at least 12hrs Wifi with one charge?
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You make the assumption that most people are idiots (which they are) but I figure if they get hosed that's on them (and their stuidity in getting hosed is a good life lesson). The image on the 3 is also backwards when compared to the 2.
I hope they wont put "retina" displays on the MacbookPro line because it is just nonsense. You cannot see the pixels on 15" @ 1440x960 either. Unless you put your nose to the screen
I want a macbook air with 1920x1200, 8GB ram 512SSD
I want a macbook air with 1920x1200, 8GB ram 512SSD
Oh boy I want that sucker so much too... You nailed the specs there! And 15" display of course!
Are you sure? Afaik does the HiDPI mode in OSX Lion just doubles the size of bitmap UI-graphics which is only usefull if you also double the screen resolution.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/12/enable-hidpi-mode-in-mac-os-x-lion/
It did seem strange to hear that idiom on the Vietnamese video.
I was wondering what the French would do with that phrase. Do they say "Le retina-display" today?
this guy is soo lucky to get his really early!!! he probably has some inside connections or something...
Those lucky stinking bastards!
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Anandtech estimates 1 GB, Apple said it has more RAM than an XBox 360, so it's more than 512 MB. RAM is paired, so they reason that to have less than 1 GB they'd have to install uneven amounts on each side, which would decrease performance. So 1 GB seems the most likely.
Although bear in mind this thing has 4X the pixels of iPad2 and the PowerVR SGX uses a unified memory model, meaning extra texture memory is going to be coming out of that RAM. Therefore it seems likely that you'll actually have somewhat less than 2X the available RAM of the iPad2. Still, it should be a nice increase.
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Anandtech estimates 1 GB, Apple said it has more RAM than an XBox 360, so it's more than 512 MB. RAM is paired, so they reason that to have less than 1 GB they'd have to install uneven amounts on each side, which would decrease performance. So 1 GB seems the most likely.
Although bear in mind this thing has 4X the pixels of iPad2 and the PowerVR SGX uses a unified memory model, meaning extra texture memory is going to be coming out of that RAM. Therefore it seems likely that you'll actually have somewhat less than 2X the available RAM of the iPad2. Still, it should be a nice increase.
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I thought it was funny that I got a kindle fire ad at the end of the video...
I thought it was funny that I got a kindle fire ad at the end of the video...
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I thought it was funny that I got a kindle fire ad at the end of the video...
Yeah, just like here in the Macrumors frontpage every once in a while.
Most Mac and iOS sites get swarmed with Android ads.
Definitely a desperate attempt to call for attention.
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Right, but OS X (unlike the iPad) already runs at many standard resolutions, so it doesn't have to pixel-double the current MBP/MBA resolution, just some other common, existing resolution. For example, they could double 960x600 and give you 1920x1200, double 1280x800 for 2560x1600, double 1024x640 for 2048x1280, or whatever.
The guy from Epic games said it had more RAM than the Xbox 360, not someone from Apple. I believe him though. It's just that I don't think Apple has ever talked about RAM in an iOS device outside of developer presentations.
That's true, but if they decreased the resolution you'd be losing screen real estate which is hardly desirable.
Yeah but that extra memory needed for the higher resolution display is hardly anything, just a few Megabytes:
3 Megapixels x 24-bit color / 8 bits = 9 Megabytes.
or hopefully:
3 Megapixels x 36-bit color / 8 bits = 12 Megabytes.
Now, lets exaggerate and multiply it by 10 times for buffering: 120 Megabytes at most.
There's till plenty of RAM, at least 768MB free for apps, if we assume iOS takes 128MB.
Is this the same Vietnamese site that had the 64GB White iPhone 4 prototype with Exposé style multitasking?
Why? Retina describes it very very well. It is unique and trademarked by Apple. I don't see why it should go.
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he opened it up and there was textbooks inside
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Have you taken a tour of AppleHQ to back this up?
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I am like that always when waiting for something like this
Unfortunately I am not waiting for this iPad >< Never owned one and probably never will. My budget at the moment is restricting me to the needs instead of the wants I second that. Therefore I would appreciate to stay at the actual "screen estate" (which is 1280x800 for the Macbook 13") for each display. That means Apple has to increase the resolution to 2.560x1600 for the Macbook 13".
Rumors say that Samsung will present a 10" tablet whith exact the same resolution this year:
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/samsung-unveils-new-10-inch-2560-x-1600-pixel-displays-20110513/
(Ok, the report is from last year.)