Exactly, Bro-seph! Apple turned these categories on their ear and created something out of nothing. Thanks for seeing things in a logical way.
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Samsung 2560x1600 Tablet LCD Paves Way for iPad Retina Display
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Yes exactly
I couldn't wait till iPad 3, coz I think the iPad 2 trumps the iPad 1 in MANY ways already. The shape, size weight and design of the iPad 2, to me, is the IDEAL tablet computer size..... it's so much better to hold iPad 2 than the iPad 1.
Sorry buddy, pixel density and resolution are both squared functions. You're referring to pixel dimensions, which is a linear function. Just because you hear someone use a term in one way doesn't make it the correct usage.
Do some basic reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
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Mac OS X is practically unusable on a touch screen, so no. It is not a good idea to put OS X, a full-fledged OS, onto a mobile device like the iPad.
If the hardware does not exist, they can't include it in their devices. The new panel is more or less vaporware at the moment. We don't know if it will be available in time for the iPad 3. There is no way it could have been included in the 2.
I am sure, more than one company will sell panels of that resolution. If Samsung will not sell it to them, someone will.
I am hoping it will come out on December 31st. Then it will be a New Years resolution.
Your usage of your preferred term of "unit" is the same as the definition of resolution. You state yourself in your little equation that you'll end up with 4x the "units".
Your math and logic are there, just grab a dictionary.
No way, I'm not getting the iPad 3, I'll wait for the iPad 4 and all the features IT will have.
NO, forget that, I'll wait for the iPad 5...yeah, that's the ticket. You'll all be stuck with your iPad 4's and I'll have saved my money because I'm smart and get the iPad 5.
WAIT, only makes sense that an iPad 6 will be after the 5. So I'll wait for that....
NO!
I want to haz!
OK, now I need a raise so I can get one of those darn things. That was about the only thing really lacking on the iPad 2. It's not that I expected it. It's just that the iPhone 4 display spoils you like crazy. The iPad 2 display is still really good, but just not five-star awesome.
For those who clamored for a pixel bump, please learn a bit more about building an app for a certain resolution and the problems with increasing resolution by a fraction. Yes, it could be done, but you're talking more complexity and probably more storage for something that probably wouldn't be worth all the effort. Svelte apps are prime stuff on mobile devices.
OK, now I need a raise so I can get one of those darn things. That was about the only thing really lacking on the iPad 2. It's not that I expected it. It's just that the iPhone 4 display spoils you like crazy. The iPad 2 display is still really good, but just not five-star awesome.
For those who clamored for a pixel bump, please learn a bit more about building an app for a certain resolution and the problems with increasing resolution by a fraction. Yes, it could be done, but you're talking more complexity and probably more storage for something that probably wouldn't be worth all the effort. Svelte apps are prime stuff on mobile devices.
You shouldn't even own a MacBook Pro of an sort then as clearly, it is over-spec'd for your needs.
A 2560x1600 iPad is NOT ideal - graphical power required to run such a display is not around at the moment in an energy efficient form.
Meh.
The iPad 1 display is fine. I am sure more pixels would make it even more beautiful, and I'll take it if Apple offers, but I don't care very much about that.
I certainly won't upgrade for more pixels.
Give me more speed. Let me use Thunderbolt. Let me use USB cables. Give me more battery life. Give me decent cameras. Let me use a mouse. Give me multitasking. Improve the foreign language support (specifically, the ability to use character recognition for Japanese, not just Chinese). Let me change my default browser. Let me access folders directly.
I'd upgrade for this stuff.
The iPad 1 display is fine. I am sure more pixels would make it even more beautiful, and I'll take it if Apple offers, but I don't care very much about that.
I certainly won't upgrade for more pixels.
Give me more speed. Let me use Thunderbolt. Let me use USB cables. Give me more battery life. Give me decent cameras. Let me use a mouse. Give me multitasking. Improve the foreign language support (specifically, the ability to use character recognition for Japanese, not just Chinese). Let me change my default browser. Let me access folders directly.
I'd upgrade for this stuff.
While I'd love to see a Retina display in the iPad 3 a couple of things would make me cautious about assuming such a thing will happen:
1) These are, more or less, prototypes. To make it available on the iPad Apple would need tens of millions of units a year so yields have to be high and costs have to be (relatively) low. Until we find out more about these panels I'd be inclined to assume the opposite is the case at the moment.
2) The panel itself isn't enough, you've got to be able to drive the thing. Which, if you doubled both horizontal and vertical resolutions from the current iPad, might not be the easiest thing in the world to do. At least the current GPU in the iPad is supposed to scale in a more-or-less linear fashion with more cores so they could bump it up to a 4 core GPU / CPU combo but that's still going to be a pretty expensive (and potentially battery draining) part. Possible yes but not a done deal.
1) These are, more or less, prototypes. To make it available on the iPad Apple would need tens of millions of units a year so yields have to be high and costs have to be (relatively) low. Until we find out more about these panels I'd be inclined to assume the opposite is the case at the moment.
2) The panel itself isn't enough, you've got to be able to drive the thing. Which, if you doubled both horizontal and vertical resolutions from the current iPad, might not be the easiest thing in the world to do. At least the current GPU in the iPad is supposed to scale in a more-or-less linear fashion with more cores so they could bump it up to a 4 core GPU / CPU combo but that's still going to be a pretty expensive (and potentially battery draining) part. Possible yes but not a done deal.
What you are saying is sensationalism. It must be hard for you then to believe now that a single core GPU and CPU on the iPhone can have retina and still have the best battery life to date of all the previous generations.
Quad core CPU's and GPU's are expected next year and there is no reason why a high resolution such as this is not feasible.
Yup, since this is a decision that doesn't depend on hardware availability or anything.
They should have had Retina even in the iPad 1, don't you think!
considering the price of my 2550x1440 monitor, i'd had to guess how much an iPad with that much pixels is gonna cost
...straight from the horse's mouth (via the iPhone 4 page):
(http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/features/retina-display.html)
don't be so fast there! who says "resolution" is always a linear function? i can easily say retina has 4x the resolution of a non-retina display, just like a "12 megapixel" camera has 4x of pixel as a "4 megapixel camera."
these are really just semantic. the important thing for people to know is that when length and width double, the graphic power needed is quadrupled.