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Next MacBook Air Update to Focus on Retina Displays Too?

ristlin said:
Here are a few more headlines MacRumors could use:
Next iPod Touch to Focus on Retina Display As Well?
Retina Display on iPod Nano?
New Apple TV to come with Retina Display?
Galaxy Vision: Samsung's Answer to Retina Display?
Retina Display?
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I know you are joking, but iPod touch and nano already have retina displays...

edit: well ok the nano I guess isn't technically, but it has 220 ppi as opposed to the 264 ppi in the new iPad (for comparison)
 
I have the current 13.3 inch air(love it!!) and it has a 1440x900 screen resolution. That is the same res as the old 17 inch, swivel neck iMac's screen.
So, I'm already at HD. Anymore pixels and it's a goddamn gimmick.
 
Peace said:
So i'm guessing from all the reading yesterday that no professional or corporation has any of these right ? There is no ethernet port.
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For anywhere that requires ethernet the usb adapter is more than enough
 
Something about this one doesn't smell right IF they plan on keeping separate MBA and MBP lines. It would make a lot of sense to keep the 11" and 13" MBA just the way they are now, with the obvious bump in processor, graphics, and RAM, but leave everything else the same. Market the MBA to travelers and the mainstream for casual computing. From there they could ditch the 13" MBP and just leave the 15" and 17" and give those stock SSD, 8GB of RAM (with both still being user upgradable), and discrete graphics and then use the pro line for the high end display.

Got to think it is going to be really tough to handle a high end "retina" display with on-board graphics.

Just my 2 cents.
 
IGZO Beyotches! ​


Sharp announced in mid-April 2012 [3] that they were producing bulk volumes of 32-inch 3840x2160, 10-inch 2560x1600 and 7-inch 1280x800 IGZO panels; it had been thought that the 'retina display' for the iPad 3 would be produced with Sharp's IGZO technology, but this turned out not to be the case.
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I think it could happen
 
With built-in HD4000, and the extra processing demand from Retina screen, I wonder exactly what improvement we will be able to see in terms of this machine's graphics. I was hoping for an improvement in MBA's graphical performance.
 
ralphthemagi said:
I suspect that it will work a lot like SLI works for gaming rigs. Different quadrants of the screen are rendered by different cores.

I don't know for sure, but I'd take a guess that this is actually how the A5X works in the iPad. Each core is rendering a quadrant 1024x768 and they're frame rates are synced so you don't see any tearing.
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Most gaming SLI setups use what is called AFR, this is when each CARD (not core) renders all odd or all even frames.

see here for info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface#Implementation

Note: I don't think the iPad3 is using SLI type tech! [correct me if i'm wrong]
 
Diode said:
My guess is saving the 5~10 cents in additional components. Considering they sold millions of Airs last year - that's at least a 1/2 million in extra revenue.
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Apple could turn that lights off an hour early for a year and save that money. Chump change.
 
9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to iPad
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9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to Mac one day...
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9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to MBP soon...
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9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to iMac also...
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9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to MBA too...
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9to5Mac: Apple will bring Retina Display to Mac Pro as well... or not...


[edit] Dargn, ristlin beat me to it! ;) [/edit]
 
I do have a 11" MBA and I don't really think retina is needed. Current display has a very good quality already and I'm not sure how much more nicer it would be if it would get a retina upgrade. I seriously doubt it would be a big difference and that without a doubt would be a huge waste of energy and I'm worried that such an upgrade would prevent the device from possibly having a longer lasting battery and other components that other vise could be better. For example higher capacity SSDs.
 
adildacoolset said:
Apple are really going crazy with retinas!

It's like an industrial addiction. The first addiction was thinness, and now high resolution.I'm not saying that they shouldn't. This is extremely good. My question is: what will be the next industrial addiction?
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Holograms.
 
pauliaK said:
I do have a 11" MBA and I don't really think retina is needed. Current display has a very good quality already and I'm not sure how much more nicer it would be if it would get a retina upgrade. I seriously doubt it would be a big difference and that without a doubt would be a huge waste of energy and I'm worried that such an upgrade would prevent the device from possibly having a longer lasting battery and other components that other vise could be better. For example higher capacity SSDs.
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go look at a new iPad.

Hey were did everyone get their Electrical Engineering Degrees at? Everyone one here seems to be experts on power consumption despite not knowing what technology is being used.
 
Peace said:
So i'm guessing from all the reading yesterday that no professional or corporation has any of these right ? There is no ethernet port.
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Yeah, I don't know why they bother reporting on these things no one buys. You can't even call it a computer if ethernet cables aren't hanging all over it.

Everyone knows the iPhone 6 is going to fail if they don't finally stick an ethernet port on there.
 
hmm... may be the sound?

adildacoolset said:
Apple are really going crazy with retinas!

It's like an industrial addiction. The first addiction was thinness, and now high resolution.I'm not saying that they shouldn't. This is extremely good. My question is: what will be the next industrial addiction?
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KylePowers said:
There's nothing to bring. USB 3.0 is included with the Ivy Bridge chipset, is it not? And wouldn't it take additional hardware to make it only support USB 2.0. This is just silly.
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This. It would be really strange if Apple didn't have USB 3.0 on all ivy bridge powered computers.
 
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