iPad 3 Coming This Year With 2560x1920 Resolution Display?

[kiljoy616]

You SOLD your old iPad to your mom? She gave birth to you. You couldn't just give it to her? I could never accept money from my mom for an electronic.

Really, but I could see me selling it to my wife 😉 its not like she is that important, oh crap she is in the room!😛

I was just kidding, really why are you picking up the crowbar, dam should never have gotten her to play half life 2. 😀

 

[Yamcha]

Not going to happen, I don't know why we constantly see rumours regarding high resolution, you would need an amazing GPU to run at that resolution, not to mention I don't know of any company even apart from Apple that can put something equivalent to a HD 5870 or GTX580 into something as thin as the iPad 😛..

Imagine running games at a native resolution of 2560X1920 using an A4 chip & Integrated graphics 😛

 

[RafaelT]

If this is true than Apple is going to make a lot of people angry.

I am not going to debate the legitimacy of this article, it is way to early to tell at this point.

That statement however is ridiculous. Apple is always releasing new products. The more updates the better, it keeps the latest generation using great technology. Why should this make anyone angry? Why should they only be allowed to release once a year? Yeah it might make your iPad not the latest and greatest, but you still have an awesome product.

 

[gnasher729]

Not going to happen, I don't know why we constantly see rumours regarding high resolution, you would need an amazing GPU to run at that resolution, not to mention I don't know of any company even apart from Apple that can put something equivalent to a HD 5870 or GTX580 into something as thin as the iPad 😛..

Imagine running games at a native resolution of 2560X1920 using an A4 chip & Integrated graphics 😛

It's not quite that bad, because there is no point in running games at that resolution. You would run all pixel shaders at 1280 x 960 and the geometry at 2560 x 1920, so you would effectively get something that looks slightly better than 1280 x 960 antialiased with slightly less performance requirements. Where you really want the high resolution is for text, and that has low requirements otherwise. So it's borderline doable.

 

[3goldens]

Could happen, with Christmas sales in mind.
It's close enough to 2012, and they would certainly reap the benefits of something like this in huge sales during the holiday. Course sales will suffer leading up to that launch but, its so just a rumor at this point.

I don't believe any of the specs though. It's just too early for an of this nonsense.

Probably just more people trying to get their 15 seconds of fame compliments of MacRumors and the BS of the internet.

 

[natey1]

2 iPad lines

Seems more likely if something like this happens it would not be a straight replacement (iPad 2 -> iPad 3) it would be a second tablet line adding more consumer choice, like a laptop line. They could call this "iPad3" the MacPad, or iPad pro or something and have it be a full laptop replacement running OSX (as they have been integrating iOS features into OSX). Adding this second higher line starting at $699 or $799 would still net many buyers and they could push the 16G iPad price down to $399 getting the lion share of the holiday tablet sales.

With the internals of the Macbook Air and tablets looking so similar, and adding Core i5 into macbook air's they could do something really crazy if they wanted to .... although that wouldn't hit the $699 price point 🙂

-Just my made up ideas

 

[slicecom]

I don't get why people still spread rumors like this—there won't be an iPad with a resolution that isn't exactly doubled (or quadrupled, or some other even multiple) in each direction. It's not about some arbitrary high resolution or dpi, it's about allowing for a high-res display while preserving backwards compatibility with existing apps.

1024x768 x 2 = 2048x1536 (right!)
2560x1920 x 2.5 = 2560x1920 (wrong!)

Exactly.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

There is always the possibility of Apple pre-announcing an iPad 3 in Q4 2011 to start shipping in Q1 2012. This way SJ is technically correct in saying 2011 is the year of iPad 2. However, it makes very little business sense because it would kill sales of iPad 2 during the holidays. The only way this rumor can be true is if Apple is prepared to ship a ton of iPad 3s for the holidays. I just don't see that happening considering the trouble they are having with supplies for the current model.

 

[ratsg]

Apple && backwards compability??

I don't get why people still spread rumors like this—there won't be an iPad with a resolution that isn't exactly doubled (or quadrupled, or some other even multiple) in each direction. It's not about some arbitrary high resolution or dpi, it's about allowing for a high-res display while preserving backwards compatibility with existing apps.

1024x768 x 2 = 2048x1536 (right!)
2560x1920 x 2.5 = 2560x1920 (wrong!)

When has Apple ever been concerned with backwards compatibility? Especially in recent years. Reference the loss of Rosetta, Classic environment, UFS filesystems, NFS & FTP server on OS X server, etc.

If there was any technical incompatibility, this would be an opportunity for developers to sell updates to existing applications.

 

[cube]

Sold.

 

[BMcCoy]

2011 is indeed going to remain the "year of iPad 2"..

But in September, we are going to see Ipad 2 HD.

..at a suitably premium price point, of course.

 

[slicecom]

2011 is indeed going to remain the "year of iPad 2"..

But in September, we are going to see Ipad 2 HD.

..at a suitably premium price point, of course.

That would be a terrible idea. The App Store is loaded with apps called "HD" for the iPad versions. I foresee millions of angry customers yelling "Why is your "HD" app not HD!?"

 

[ChristianVirtual]

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2011 is indeed going to remain the "year of iPad 2"..

But in September, we are going to see Ipad 2 HD.

..at a suitably premium price point, of course.

That would be a terrible idea. The App Store is loaded with apps called "HD" for the iPad versions. I foresee millions of angry customers yelling "Why is your "HD" app not HD!?"

That why it will be "iPad Pro"; implying and justifying a more pro pricetag.

 

[slicecom]

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That why it will be "iPad Pro"; implying and justifying a more pro pricetag.

That works for the MacBook and Mac Pros because they're targeted at pros. iPad is a consumer level device through and through. They'd have to add some pro features besides the high res display. I don't think Apple will fragment the iPad like that, I think if there's a new iPad before Christmas, it will be the iPad 3.

 

[akaralias]

Let's see....

... if I was a competitor way left behind, should I pay to spread rumors like that to confuse iPad's future buyers, hmmmmm?

I think I would....

 

[akaralias]

When has Apple ever been concerned with backwards compatibility? Especially in recent years. Reference the loss of Rosetta, Classic environment, UFS filesystems, NFS & FTP server on OS X server, etc.

If there was any technical incompatibility, this would be an opportunity for developers to sell updates to existing applications.

A 10 year backward compatibility? Why? Why a company should drag their customers and programs down to the speed of evolution of someone who would like to work with the first version of Quark Xpress p.e.

Technology is obliged to move further and be flexible, to be the future not the past...

Apple did support for more than a logical period of time the older platforms.

 

[skellener]

Apple can't even keep up with demand for iPad 2. What possible incentive do they have to put out an iPad 3 this year? March/April 2012 earliest. Probably even pushed to May 2012.

 

[kevingaffney]

I held off upgrading because the differences between my original iPad and iPad two are minimal. Glad I did,I'll have gotten two years of great use out of it when I pass it on to one of my daughters and move on to what will be a real upgrade, ipad3. Best part is I'm not too bothered when it's released

 

[mclaugaa]

No iPad 3 in 2011

2011 is the year of the iPad 2, but what if Apple decided to shorten the refresh cycle and do iPad 3 in January, then they could line up the iPad 4 for a September release.

 

[MythicFrost]

Apple won't use 2048x1536, because it's considerably less than 300 dpi "retina" resolution. And even 300 dpi is "retina display" only for average human eye and for viewing distance of about 30 cm, and for example I often bring my iPad much closer to my eyes, and there are still 10-15% of users with good vision for whom 300 dpi is not enough, so ideally even much higher resolutions are still useful and make difference.

It's about 60 DPI less, and that isn't such a big deal and it is a huge improvement over what we have now. They certainly won't trade off quality and the rest of the problems with using an uneven resolution for an extra 60 or so PPI.

 

[tdream]

Do people know the difference between fiscal year and calendar year?

 

[DaBlackMamba]

This won't happen. 2011 is the year of the iPad 2. The iPad 2 is still a hot and new item. They won't be releasing an iPad 3 this year.

I can only say forsure there is going to be a iPod lineup refresh in September. I do believe that there will be some new iPhone upgrade but nothing worth ditching my iPhone 4 for. Lastly, lets see the new airs.

 

[Devinm88]

I also agree that it wont be released this september, but only because they simply dont need to being as how they dominate the industry right now, and they wont want to pull revenue from the next gen iphone. as far as saying they wont release it due to the ipad not being able to handle such resolutions i dont agree... i cant see apple releasing a new ipad with this rediculously high res screen and not changing the hardware to be able to handle it.

 

[jdougal]

This won't happen. 2011 is the year of the iPad 2. The iPad 2 is still a hot and new item. They won't be releasing an iPad 3 this year.

I can only say forsure there is going to be a iPod lineup refresh in September. I do believe that there will be some new iPhone upgrade but nothing worth ditching my iPhone 4 for. Lastly, lets see the new airs.

I really don't see them doing anything with the iPod lineup this year. I was hoping that the iPad 3 would come out at the end of the year for the holiday season. It looks like the iPhone 5 may be that holiday device though. I don't think they can get enough screens to get the iPad 3 out this year.

 

[GoNGaXiNHuO]

Shouldn't it be 2048*1536? If not, all the apps would have to be redone