Question: is the A5 powerful enough to drive a display at this resolution in various scenarios such as gaming and 1080p video watching? Or would the A6 be a better pair? If the A5 is good enough, then likely this will make its debut this fall. Otherwise, it will have to wait on the A6 which by many accounts suggests that the A6 won't be ready until winter.
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Samsung and LG Reportedly Quality Testing 'Retina' iPad Display Production for Apple
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It is highly annoying to whine about not getting instant gratification and complaining that one MUST buy from scalpers.
There is nothing wrong with putting in an order and getting it when it is ready. When you live all your life without a product, I consider it NOT life- threatening having to wait a few weeks.
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That's what he said...that's what the man said...that's what he said.....
16x9 is really ugly as a ratio for tablets.
But what about existing content?!
Seriously though, how is existing web content going to work with this screen? It's ok for app developers to just rescale their imagery, but what about websites, photos etc?
How daft is the 270 so pixel google logo going to look on a 2048 pixel screen?
I know on my 27' iMac, a full screen web browser looks stupid, won't this have the same problem?
Seriously though, how is existing web content going to work with this screen? It's ok for app developers to just rescale their imagery, but what about websites, photos etc?
How daft is the 270 so pixel google logo going to look on a 2048 pixel screen?
I know on my 27' iMac, a full screen web browser looks stupid, won't this have the same problem?
Still wouldn't be until a 2012 release date. Could tie in to the rumors of Apple testing out 1080p delivery of movies from iTunes.
Better have a good broadband connection for that though. I can guarantee it ain't gonna work over 3G. Now 4G, real 4G could probably deliver, but watching one movie would probably hit your data cap. We'll have to see how that whole scenario will play out. It would really suck if arbitrary caps by the carriers were the one thing that hinders Apple pushing forward on this.
That being said, I never watch movies on my iPhone/iPad. Short video clips, sure. Full blown movies? Nah. They need to be seen on a big screen in the theater or big screen at home IMHO.
Better have a good broadband connection for that though. I can guarantee it ain't gonna work over 3G. Now 4G, real 4G could probably deliver, but watching one movie would probably hit your data cap. We'll have to see how that whole scenario will play out. It would really suck if arbitrary caps by the carriers were the one thing that hinders Apple pushing forward on this.
That being said, I never watch movies on my iPhone/iPad. Short video clips, sure. Full blown movies? Nah. They need to be seen on a big screen in the theater or big screen at home IMHO.
If you hold an old and a new iPhone side by side, they look identical from a distance - if you get closer you will see that text and pictures have higher quality on the new iPhone. The same would happen with the iPad. Nothing changes except the display quality.
The GPU is plenty for text and static images. With video, the hard work is decoding it. When you watch 1080p video, the player _must_ decode it at full resolution, then the very last step is scaling the 1920 x 1080 image to the screen. That last step is a tiny percentage of the total work, so the A5 should be fine with that. For games, there are ways to get quality on a 2048 x 1536 screen that is slightly better than 1024 x 768 antialiased at no extra cost.
3D gaming at 1024x768 is more stressful than 2D images at 2048x1536. And the GPU in the A5 is more than capable of rendering a 1080p image.
There will not be amazing 3D graphics rendered at full resolution for performance reasons, but I don't think most games are 3D in the first place.
That won't work. The display itself is going to use the same amount of power. All the pixels are still going to be on whether they're doubled or not. The display doesn't know or care.
Maybe you save a little juice on the GPU side, but maybe not even actually, and I doubt it would matter much.
And to top it all off you have this configurable setting that seems to advertise to the user that the Retina display is a bad thing that drains their battery.
The iPhone 4 has made me realise that a high res display is really great for reading text on. Just one example would be the magazine apps on the iPad at the moment; they would really benefit from sharper text, as they would get that much closer to matching the quality of printed magazines.
But doesn't that only work because the iPhone retina display is still smaller than most modern day PC monitors?
It's easy to downscale images to fit a smaller number of pixels, but upscaling them is going to be much harder surely?
For example, you have an webpage with an image on that is 1200px by 900px, you can scale that down to fit in the iphone screen easily, but that same image is going be half the size of a Retina ipad screen surely? So they would have to upscale images (which would look ****) or keep them native, which would leave loads of space about most websites?
Whats the matter truth hurt? Does none of the fanboys want to admit that without Samsung Apple wouldn't be as successful as it is.
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Would it make sense for this iPad to have a display so superior to MacBooks?
Or would this also mean that Macbooks are likely to see upgrades of display resolutions perhaps beyond this display?
Or, would the other rumor about OS X running on A5/6 plus this rumor mean that maybe the iPad Pro could be a hybrid option (running both iOS and OS X in different modes of use). My wife has an iPad 2 plus a Zaggmate keyboard case. I am shocked at how much more (content production) capable the iPad is with that keyboard case. It made me see an iPad as a serious on-the-road option for content producers for the first time. And then it made me think what a small jump it would be if an option for full OS X could also run on the rumored iPad Pro/3. A Zaggmate-like keyboard case and maybe a mouse/touch pad and you would have a MacBook Air-like device with so many more options and the whole iOS library of apps to boot.
Or would this also mean that Macbooks are likely to see upgrades of display resolutions perhaps beyond this display?
Or, would the other rumor about OS X running on A5/6 plus this rumor mean that maybe the iPad Pro could be a hybrid option (running both iOS and OS X in different modes of use). My wife has an iPad 2 plus a Zaggmate keyboard case. I am shocked at how much more (content production) capable the iPad is with that keyboard case. It made me see an iPad as a serious on-the-road option for content producers for the first time. And then it made me think what a small jump it would be if an option for full OS X could also run on the rumored iPad Pro/3. A Zaggmate-like keyboard case and maybe a mouse/touch pad and you would have a MacBook Air-like device with so many more options and the whole iOS library of apps to boot.
I am just waiting on the 5120x2880 27" Retina displays to come out...now that would be amazing if we had a retina display on a Mac! Apple is focusing too much on the iPhone/iPad and not on the Mac!
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I am also concerned that such an incredible resolution could lead to problems. The iPhone 4 has a resolution of 960x640, which is within an acceptable margin if you consider that most websites are optimised for a resolution of at least 1024x768. If the resolution is too high, then there could be some serious issues with images on websites. I remain sceptical, although I would definitely purchase the iPad right away if it offers the same crisp text as the Retina Display. We'll see.
I am also concerned that such an incredible resolution could lead to problems. The iPhone 4 has a resolution of 960x640, which is within an acceptable margin if you consider that most websites are optimised for a resolution of at least 1024x768. If the resolution is too high, then there could be some serious issues with images on websites. I remain sceptical, although I would definitely purchase the iPad right away if it offers the same crisp text as the Retina Display. We'll see.
