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Is the white better than black? Not an opinion question or me asking which is better.
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I have seen pictures of white and black iPads showing the same photo and, at least to me, the black bezel does a better job. Here is what I am talking about. http://www.richardpeters.co.uk/blog/2012/03/16/ipad-3-retina-display-review-for-photographers/
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Hi,
I'm not sure if the effect I'm referring to has been necessarily tested on a larger frame (such as the iPad) specifically. More importantly, I do not know how attention and motion (in the case of movies) affects perception. I'd be surprised if that experiment has not been done, but I am not at all an expert in vision. Having said that, you might look here to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_effect
The Munker White effect and Wallach's effect might be applicable here. Perhaps a bit less relevant is the Chubb illusion, but some of the principles may overlap. If you would like, here are some scientific reviews that may be relevant (I only browsed abstracts):
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698910000283
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/rev/111/1/142/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8493352 (full text must be somewhere!)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=luminance perception (sorry)
It guarantees that it's not an iPad 1. People want to associate with the newer of the two colors.
After reading that I may switch to a black one... might drop 4G as well and move to 32gb from 16gb... not that I NEED it but I like to future proof it a little... and I would like to store a few 1080p movies on my iPad at some point.
I prefer white when I'm reading a book or looking at websites, and I prefer black when I'm watching a movie.
Obviously the black one will run faster!
Ahh.. I'm only kidding
Southernboy
With a name like that im not surprised
Im only kidding
People bring this up often as a reason why the black iPad is better. But back in the day, television sets used to be fringed in wood, or faux wood, or all sorts of colors in plastic (white, olive, and orange especially). Black bezels are used today primarily for aesthetic reasons, nothing else.
There is no "best" color for the iPad. If you like the black bezel, get black. If you like white, get white. It's that simple.
It's probably been mentioned already but the white doesn't show fingerprints and stuff on the bezel like the black does.
I just find the black way less distracting. Had a black 1st gen, white 2nd, and preferred the black for my new one. If you read books and things you may like the white, but I think the black is way nicer for the web, and movies. I think the black makes the screen pop a bit more as well, as the white against white tends to make the screen look....idk
Apple thinks that the iPad in white is for webbrowsing, reading books etc and even Apple knows that the black IS muuuuuuuch better for watching movies. I prefer the white actually, i have a black iPhone 4 and it looks really good but i just hate it... i don't know why.
of course the black looks better, it has a black background behind the ipads. if it were white, the white ipad would look more appealing
How can you know for sure that people now knows better? What if people in 40 years thinks that the white bezel should be everywhere instead of the black and the black just disturbs you?