That's great, keep your ACD. You have to understand a lot of people *can* see the difference between, say, a typical computer display and printed text. For those of us, quadrupling the number of pixels is *extremely* welcome. I can easily see the pixels on the 23" ACD in front of me as I type this. It doesn't bother me, as I'm used to it. But to have everything much smoother will be a welcome enhancement IMO.
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That's great, keep your ACD. You have to understand a lot of people *can* see the difference between, say, a typical computer display and printed text. For those of us, quadrupling the number of pixels is *extremely* welcome. I can easily see the pixels on the 23" ACD in front of me as I type this. It doesn't bother me, as I'm used to it. But to have everything much smoother will be a welcome enhancement IMO.
iPad 3 is going to be my <3rd!
Sold iPad 1 (64GB/3G/Wifi) for $595 which included Apple's vinyl case and a green silicone skin.
I sold iPad 2 (64/Wifi) for $530 which included a Smart Cover and a case.
Sure I lost money, but on average over the last couple of years, it works out to renting the devices for about $24 a month. I'm ok with this.
Ultimately, I wish I could afford to just simply trade up, having kept both the iPad 1 and 2. They are both beautiful and very functional. Unfortunately, I can't justify it with the pocket book.
Looking forward to iPad 3!!!
No. The TI OMAP is NOT a "CPU." It is a SoC, System-on-a-Chip that has CPU, GPU and other components in it. In fact Exynos and OMAP4460 in Nexus both use a ARM A9 CPU clocked at 1.2Ghz, and A5 is also the same. They all use different GPUs, but their CPUs are all very similar.
Now not all A9s are created equal. For example the older Tegra2 carries a A9 CPU as well but it doesn't perform as well as the later A9s. However it can be safely said that there isn't much difference between OMAP4460 and Exynos in terms of CPU and neither is A5 and others except the clock speed. The clockspeed was a deliberate decision made by Apple to keep the battery life in check.
I don't have a ruler near me, but i'd say about 20 inches? For what it's worth, i can hold a page of printed text at the same distance and it looks smoother
Also depends on the size of the font. If this were a 250 ppi monitor I wouldn't expect to be able to see the "stepping" in the "M" in MacRumors at the header of the page at this distance.
Retina displays are more about text legibility
than anything else. It will make reading books and magazines and surfing the web a real pleasure on the iPad 3.
But having all those pixels won't make 1080p video content look any better than 720 content at that small of a screen size. Not to mention, the higher the pixel count the higher the compression has to be giving the bandwidth most poeple have coming into their homes these days. Seeing that the current "HD" content from Apple TV and Netflix already macro-blocks to hell and back over my 8 Mbps connection, TV I'm not holding my breath for all this "1080p" content. If they go 1080p it will strictly be for people who are impressed by numbers (higher number must be better, right?) not for a real boost in video quality.
than anything else. It will make reading books and magazines and surfing the web a real pleasure on the iPad 3.
But having all those pixels won't make 1080p video content look any better than 720 content at that small of a screen size. Not to mention, the higher the pixel count the higher the compression has to be giving the bandwidth most poeple have coming into their homes these days. Seeing that the current "HD" content from Apple TV and Netflix already macro-blocks to hell and back over my 8 Mbps connection, TV I'm not holding my breath for all this "1080p" content. If they go 1080p it will strictly be for people who are impressed by numbers (higher number must be better, right?) not for a real boost in video quality.
To get around the battery life problem, I'd love to see Apple make the next iPad a little thicker, and maybe add a second battery, to maintain the "ten-hour" battery life, that Jobs implied was the magic number, as far as minimum life is concerned.
I have a question.
If resolution doubles (retina), will websites halve in physical size to look at?
Text might be vector based for true scaleability, but bitmap graphics wont.
The web world is still made for 1024x768 screens. I can only think that retina would just make sites tiny to look at, with a whole lotta wasted space around the content. Like a pea on a mountain.
If resolution doubles (retina), will websites halve in physical size to look at?
Text might be vector based for true scaleability, but bitmap graphics wont.
The web world is still made for 1024x768 screens. I can only think that retina would just make sites tiny to look at, with a whole lotta wasted space around the content. Like a pea on a mountain.
No. Safari doesn't care about maintaining the exact pixel dimensions. It automatically rescales pictures along with text.
It is already pretty obvious that it will look a lot better than mine, isn't it? The thing is, I *don't need* higher resolution display for things I'm doing on my iPad, and that's what counts for me. I wasn't serious about not looking at iPad 3, I love playing with new gadgets, but what I was trying to tell was: "I cannot differentiate the pixels on my iPad 2 right now, but one look at iPad 3 will most probably change that". So even if I start to see pixels clearly on my current iPad, since I'm not in the need of a higher resolution display, I'm not interested in the upgrade.
Not that hard to understand, really
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