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Samsung 2560x1600 Tablet LCD Paves Way for iPad Retina Display
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Correct sir. A great chef can make a great dish from the same ingredients available to everyone else. Why people want to hammer Apple for not "making" this or that component is silly. It's how they put it all together. The components are there for anyone else to use and yet, all they can do is wait for Apple to create so they can copy.
Correct sir. A great chef can make a great dish from the same ingredients available to everyone else. Why people want to hammer Apple for not "making" this or that component is silly. It's how they put it all together. The components are there for anyone else to use and yet, all they can do is wait for Apple to create so they can copy.
Escape internal HD nonsense.
When the inevitable crash occurred on my internal HD, I chose the following option which I will continue to use from this point forward.
Buy two external HDs. I have two 2GB G-Technologys. Install the system and all programs and files to one of them. Make it the startup disk. Use SuperDuper or equal to make a full lock-stock and barrel backup automatically each night. Buy all future Macs with the smallest HD available. Whenever you buy a new machine, set it down and change to external-1 for startup, make system adjustments when and as desired to take advantage of the new machine's capabilities. Continue to work without a single hitch. When one of your externals inevitably fails, make your other external the startup disk if it wasn't made so automatically by the 1st external failing, and continue to work without a hitch. Buy a new external to replace the failed disk sometime soon. In other words free yourself from Apples internal HD games forever! And save on each new Mac by buying the smallest internal drive available.
When the inevitable crash occurred on my internal HD, I chose the following option which I will continue to use from this point forward.
Buy two external HDs. I have two 2GB G-Technologys. Install the system and all programs and files to one of them. Make it the startup disk. Use SuperDuper or equal to make a full lock-stock and barrel backup automatically each night. Buy all future Macs with the smallest HD available. Whenever you buy a new machine, set it down and change to external-1 for startup, make system adjustments when and as desired to take advantage of the new machine's capabilities. Continue to work without a single hitch. When one of your externals inevitably fails, make your other external the startup disk if it wasn't made so automatically by the 1st external failing, and continue to work without a hitch. Buy a new external to replace the failed disk sometime soon. In other words free yourself from Apples internal HD games forever! And save on each new Mac by buying the smallest internal drive available.
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And make money, Brother. Exactly.
Sine that's what Samsung is in the business of doing.
Probably sound advice.
Wrong thread, though.
The closer the PPI is to DPI of the printed page... the better it will be. Most of the time the resolution of the iPad is OK, but the times its not its a PITA. For example, reading PDF's of scientific papers, the ones with double columns and small type, is painful without zooming in because the resolution of the current screen makes the letters appear wonky (at least to me).
What happened to all the people saying Samsungs wasn't good enough for Apple or Samsung would die without Apple?
Just goes to show you all these people suing each other actually need each other to survive.
Just goes to show you all these people suing each other actually need each other to survive.
when this happens
Hope the price of an iPad won't change. A nice rumor. I think the retina display will really help with the size of web page fonts in iPad take on Safari. I can see what Full of Win means about certain PDFs and Pages documents too.
As long as they give you and option to opt out of a 3D related iPad and the price point stays the same, I'm fine. I haven't seen the retina displays in action but I like the concept.
Hope the price of an iPad won't change. A nice rumor. I think the retina display will really help with the size of web page fonts in iPad take on Safari. I can see what Full of Win means about certain PDFs and Pages documents too.
As long as they give you and option to opt out of a 3D related iPad and the price point stays the same, I'm fine. I haven't seen the retina displays in action but I like the concept.
Count me in too.
Reading literal text is one thing I would definitely avoid on the iPad.
Um, no, sorry. You're actually wrong on this one. Resolution is a linear measurement (typically arc-seconds or units/inch). Display resolution (commonly shortened to 'resolution' in computer hardware/graphics circles) is a *pair* of resolution measurements, typically measured in units of an arbitrary size called 'pixels'.
You can't tell the resolution of an image just by looking at it's pixel width/height, because a pixel doesn't *have* a pre-defined size.
If you want some examples of the term resolution being properly used in computer image processing try printers and scanners, both of which give resolution in a units/inch format (DPI and PPI respectively).
Doubling the resolution of a display (PPI) results in quadrupling the pixel count simply because they double the resolution on *both* the horizontal and vertical. It would be perfectly possible to double the resolution in *one* direction simply by not forcing square pixels.
The technical definition of 'resolution' says it's a linear measurement. Sure, you can *say* a the iPhone 4's retina display has 4 times the resolution of the 3GS's non-retina display. You'd can say it, you'd just be wrong.
You'd also be wrong if you claimed that a 12 megapixel camera has 4 times the pixel as a 4 megapixel camera.", though in a different way. (Had you claimed it had 3 times the pixels of a 4 megapixel camera, you'd be right, but you still wouldn't be making a claim as to its resolution, just its pixel count.)
The pixel count of a display is a product of its horizontal resolution *and* vertical resolution. That's why when you double the resolution of a display (and keep the pixel's aspect ratio the same) you get 4 times the pixel count.
Just like when you double the measurements of a table you get 4 times the surface area.
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I think you both are in agreement...higher dpi is good
That's said, I think its silly when iPad owners scoff at a res bump and say its not needed..etc. Some folks just downplay tech that places their own in a possibly irrelevant light. Like all the 2011 13 inch MBP owners who criticise people who complained that Apple didn't include a 1400x900 screen as with the older MBA. News flash, its ok to accept the outdating of tech. Nobody is calling your kids ugly for heavens sake
Price point?
Maybe they will sell a regular iPad for $400, and an iPad HD for $650 or something like that.
Maybe they will sell a regular iPad for $400, and an iPad HD for $650 or something like that.
The size "is not right" because it's not for iPad. It's not actually an iPad related rumor (although someone tried to make it to be one). It's an official Samsung announcement. Motorola uses panels made with this technology in their Altrix phones so this new panel very well might be targeted for next XOOM (and Galaxy Tab).
Very nice, but will it be cost-effective for selling? The word 'prototype' sounds more like a 'teaser' in this case. A "maybe, maybe not".
And we all know that Apple usually doesn't get influenced by what their competitors do; instead, they focus on implementing what works best at the present time; contrary to the common trend of stuff-all-the-possible-features into a device that will in result perform with mediocracy (did I spell it right?).
For now, this is a prototype, just a prototype in the meantime. But it's good to know that the technology is available. The irony would be having Samsung make Retina Displays for the new iPad.
And we all know that Apple usually doesn't get influenced by what their competitors do; instead, they focus on implementing what works best at the present time; contrary to the common trend of stuff-all-the-possible-features into a device that will in result perform with mediocracy (did I spell it right?).
For now, this is a prototype, just a prototype in the meantime. But it's good to know that the technology is available. The irony would be having Samsung make Retina Displays for the new iPad.
To Apple. They want to make some money after all. The Galaxy tab is a failure.
Very nice, but will it be cost-effective for selling? The word 'prototype' sounds more like a 'teaser' in this case. A "maybe, maybe not".
And we all know that Apple usually doesn't get influenced by what their competitors do; instead, they focus on implementing what works best at the present time; contrary to the common trend of stuff-all-the-possible-features into a device that will in result perform with mediocracy (did I spell it right?).
For now, this is a prototype, just a prototype in the meantime. But it's good to know that the technology is available. The irony would be having Samsung make Retina Displays for the new iPad.
It's a prototype with commercial availability in the second half of this year (according to Samsung). It's not such a new tech. It's used in Motorola Altrix panels.
Yeah. Just like they do with SAMOLED panels.
Yes...now back to the iPad!
PS...my iPad 2 is very very worried it will be looking for a new home soon.
I think game designers and graphic designers will have a heart-attack if this screen resolution made it into mainstream tablets.
This is great, 300dpi retina displays should be standard, it will make web design a lot more innovative again.
I remember being on a thread on here five years ago where I was hoping for 300dpi display technology to be used for computing devices and getting lots of negative responses along the lines of it is too high resolution to look at, no-one needs this kind of resolution etc...
Being right is a good feeling
I remember being on a thread on here five years ago where I was hoping for 300dpi display technology to be used for computing devices and getting lots of negative responses along the lines of it is too high resolution to look at, no-one needs this kind of resolution etc...
Being right is a good feeling
Awww how cute! You went out of your way to make "Full of Fail". Wonder who really is behind this screen name.
you should have read it yourself. From the article:
"In digital measurement, the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch."
This does not say "per square inch".