Did Apple take credit for making the Retina...no...they are taking credit for being the first to offer it in their devices.
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Intel Looking Toward Retina Display PCs by 2013
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Did Apple take credit for making the Retina...no...they are taking credit for being the first to offer it in their devices.
Learn the difference.
The whole 'Retina' term is marketing bulljive. Sit far away enough from *any* screen and PRESTO! ITS RETINA DISPLAY!
'Retina' should mean; 300dpi, literally that many dots (or pixels) per inch at ANY distance, thereby truly being 'retina'
Its basically false advertising.
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When you give your product the tag line 'RESOLUTIONARY'...
Yes.
The whole 'Retina' term is marketing bulljive. Sit far away enough from *any* screen and PRESTO! ITS RETINA DISPLAY!
'Retina' should mean; 300dpi, literally that many dots (or pixels) per inch at ANY distance, thereby truly being 'retina'
Its basically false advertising.
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When you give your product the tag line 'RESOLUTIONARY'...
Yes.
300ppi at 1 inch isn't retina, sorry. You need to revisit your math.
You do realize that Thunderbolt is DisplayPort 1.2 + 4x PCI-E 2.0 connection right? They run in parallel.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
Here ya go. Credit where credit is due :
"Display :
The display of the iPhone 4 is manufactured by LG under an exclusive contract with Apple. It features an LED backlit TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch (ppi) on a 3.5 in (8.9 cm) (diagonally measured), 960×640 display. Each pixel is 78 micrometres in width. The display has a contrast ratio of 800:1. The screen is marketed by Apple as the "Retina Display", based on the assertion that a display of approximately 300 ppi at a distance of 12 inches (305 mm) from one's eye, or 57 arcseconds per pixel[42] is the maximum amount of detail that the human retina can perceive.[43] With the iPhone expected to be used at a distance of about 12 inches from the eyes, a higher resolution would allegedly have no effect on the image's apparent quality as the maximum potential of the human eye has already been met."
At one inch away, yes I can. And it isn't unlikely, it's scientifically based. The formula is:
tan(a/2) = s/2d
Again..the product is 'resolutionary'...it's the first to offer that quality of display.
Again, show me where Apple states that they created the display and are responsible for it's engineering/creation/manufacturing.
The one thing I don't like about these HiDPI modes is that you can't really customize them. 2880x1800 sounds great, but in reality you only have 1440x900 in actual screen space.
I guess you can still use smaller fonts, so you gain a bit in that area. But the menu bar and window chrome will still be relative huge when you are used to the 15" Hi-res screen.
I guess you can still use smaller fonts, so you gain a bit in that area. But the menu bar and window chrome will still be relative huge when you are used to the 15" Hi-res screen.
I moved to a 1920 x 1200 display last year and the first thing I realized, after the IPS-ness wore off, was that my GPU was definitely not up to the task.
But its not even like the rest are following. Apple is leading and Intel is taking the other companies by the hand (like children) and going OK here are your complete design specs for Ultrabooks, and here is a road map of display technology and here is your lunch today...When is Intel just going to build their own dang computers?
Please don't post lies, the human eye is incapable of seeing past 300 dpi, it even has trouble at 250dpi.
Unnecessary density
These resolutions are higher than necessary given that people don't view computers screens as closely as they view iPhone screens...
These resolutions are higher than necessary given that people don't view computers screens as closely as they view iPhone screens...
I am in the same boat. 2007 MBP and my 2nd Nvidia graphics card just blew...I did just break down and get a 2010 Mac Mini refurb to make sure I had one optical drive going forward. Good deal for like $500 and I dropped 8gb of ram in it but the damn integrated graphics SUCKKKKKK
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Am I missing something? PC's have always had higher available display resolutions than Mac computers.
You mean like when you zoom on iPhone or iPad? I think it is working great. If I want to fit more on the screen, I just adjust the mapping from pixels to physical size in one way, and if I want higher detail I adjust it the other way.
Besides, if you have support for resolution independence you can set it to behave like Hi-DPI anyway, but not the other way around.