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Are You Disappointed from Retina Display Exclusion?

I just find it hard to imagine apple can swing a retina in the ipad without skyrocketing the price.

It would be a higher resolution than an apple cinema display in a smaller monitor and the cinema (and competitors) cost 1k. for JUST a display.

I mean, maybe.. but I don't know if it's feasible.
 
zacware said:
Please keep in mind that having a 2X "retina" display on the iPad would mean FOUR times the pixels of the current model. That's 4 times as much work for the graphics chip to paint a frame on the screen.
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Yeah, but iPad 2's GPU, according to Apple, is 9x faster than Classic's, so it should handle Retina just fine.
 
I find it hard to believe that anyone is disappointed the iPad 2 didn't have a retina display. The simple fact of the matter is that Apple never guaranteed or even said the iPad 2 was going to have a retina display. How can you be disappointed with something that was never promised? You can be disappointed that it didn't live up to your expectations, but that's where it ends. It would be a different story had Apple promised a retina display and not delivered, but they never did.
 
baummer said:
I find it hard to believe that anyone is disappointed the iPad 2 didn't have a retina display. The simple fact of the matter is that Apple never guaranteed or even said the iPad 2 was going to have a retina display. How can you be disappointed with something that was never promised? You can be disappointed that it didn't live up to your expectations, but that's where it ends. It would be a different story had Apple promised a retina display and not delivered, but they never did.
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People were playing off the finding that there were already pixel-doubling UI elements in iOS for the iPad. Just because Apple is doing it now doesn't mean that it's happening any time soon.
 
baummer said:
I find it hard to believe that anyone is disappointed the iPad 2 didn't have a retina display. The simple fact of the matter is that Apple never guaranteed or even said the iPad 2 was going to have a retina display. How can you be disappointed with something that was never promised? You can be disappointed that it didn't live up to your expectations, but that's where it ends. It would be a different story had Apple promised a retina display and not delivered, but they never did.
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You are anthropomorphizing the iPad 2 and then identifying with it. Knock it off!
 
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