The dslr industry has a lot of concurrent development and similar chip designs used in different models. I wish they would use more of them without low pass/AA filters like medium format digital has for years.
Yes, and when Nikon took it off of the customized D800 many shooters were like . . . . meh because MF had it for years, and in some cases brave photogs or those with enough cash had the AA and LP filters removed.
Some need to remember that tech is tech. Once out in limited numbers, you can expect it to be ubiquitous in a matter of months. I think it was the first Mac Pro that had a custom Intel chip made just for the MP. Apple bragged about it, but 3 months (or so) later it was in every Intel workstation and server you could find.
HiDPI will be standard in a few years. Meanwhile, the 13" and 15" standard are still running with STALE and OLD circa 2005 resolutions.
Wow. Great display.
Too bad it's wasted on a Chromebook. I wonder how much the Retina Chromebook costs. The non-Retina Chromebook is already drastically overpriced for a laptop that only runs a browser:
I say too bad it's WAY overpriced. I can get a top notch decent resolution laptop running a full OS . . . . and I mean, Windows 8, Ubuntu, or Mac OSX for that $1300.
Chrome is a nice OS for Google services junkies like myself, but the $200 Chromebook is too cheap and limited, the Acer, Samsung, and HP ones are too ugly and meh, and the Chromebook Pixel is too much. Even if it was $700 which is HIGH, I'd consider it. At $500, it'd be on my desk now.
Amusingly, there will be people using High PPI screens on their other products that aren't aware they're using the same kind of screen. XD
True. To use the DSLR concept again, there was (and still maybe) a time when my fellow Nikon shooters cracked jokes about Sony DSLRs, forgetting that the sensors in everything but the FX (full frame) and top end DX (crop frame) cameras were all designed and fabricated by Sony, or designed by Nikon and fabbed by Sony.
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Last at their own game?
The 15" rMBP is still highest-resolution laptop on the market after almost a year of availability.
Most of your posts seem like trolling. Apple has flaws but being last in the display game is not one of them. IMO they are first by a very long shot.
Nope! The rMBP upped the ante, but Apple had been plagued for half a decade with having the worst laptops on the market (the G4s that is) then once they finally made laptops that could compete, the top end 15" PCs had 1680x1050 resolutions at least CTO. Apple did eventually give us the option to up the rez on the 15" but not the 13" which is still a bit sad.
Then, many, not all because PC makers still want to push cheap systems, come with 1680x1050 standard, with the option to go 1920x1080. Apple still had 1440x900 . . . standard.
They surpassed the monitor game, but it was a long time coming.
Agreed. Most laptop screens cannot be seen unless you're right in front of them. Macs have had wide viewing angles for years.
That's because of the panel which isn't made by Apple. Laptops in general in the past have had rather mediocre viewing angles.
I can't agree with that, for the same reasons I wouldn't for other historic steps forward in technology, outside of personal computing.
Be aware, This isn't me taking sides with Apple either. I personally don't care if a technological step forward comes from Google, Samsung, LG, Honda, KTM, Dial, or even Kleenex, Technology is relevant as soon as it does something New, more efficiently, or better than anything previous.
If the screen technology was irrelevant, I doubt we wouldn't be seeing other corporations buying, or using such pixel dense screens in their own products.
I agree, but tech does need to be far reaching before we can claim it's really made an impact. Putting the price so high it can't reach the masses won't benefit anyone but those that can afford it.
Remember, other corporations don't need to buy pixel dense screens. The ones that have always been making screens are the ones peddling them to Apple in the first place.
