Would you pay more for iPad retina screen ?

[ActionableMango]

I was originally happy with iPad resolution, but the iPhone 4 retina display has completely spoiled me. Now the exact iPad screen I used to think was fine looks like garbage.

I won't buy iPad until it is higher resolution. It's Apple's fault really.

iPad 2 completely wrecked the competition that was aiming to kill the iPad 1. I fully expect the iPad 3 to once again take a huge jump. Whether that is resolution or something else completely I don't know (twice the battery life? half the weight?), but I hope it goes hi-res.

Suppliers had samples of displays with double the linear resolution in early 2011, so we know they exist. Does anyone doubt they won't be production ready after a year and a half? (Assuming iPad3 is mid 2012.) A year and a half is forever in the tech industry.

 

[xraydoc]

I spent $829 on my 64GB 3G iPad. That's plenty for an iOS device. $200 more? No way. $1029 for an iPad?? Never. I love mine, but not that much.

 

[S.B.G]

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Nope, not that much extra. If I can see and read the screen the way it is now, I'm content. I'd go for the retena for about $50 more.

 

[sebastian...]

I spent $829 on my 64GB 3G iPad. That's plenty for an iOS device. $200 more? No way. $1029 for an iPad?? Never. I love mine, but not that much.

Some say that the cost shouldn't increase. But it would be a miracle if Apple can pull this off and manage to keep the same price. You have to think there are so many things involved. Not just the LCD screen will cost more but the hardware will have to pump much more power, and with that said - obvious the battery would have to be really special or expensive to manage that. So everything will have to be much more powerful. Even the backing light will have to be stronger, I heard.

And on top of that, the ipad 3 will have to be faster than the ipad 2. I don't think customers will accept an ipad with the same speed as a one year old ipad 2, but with a retina.

I won't buy iPad until it is higher resolution.

Let's say that Apple will build that ipad 3 with the retina and an acceptable price for you.
But another unseen price for many will be the ipad speed. For a retina ipad with a good speed (for browsing, movies, apps, games) the speed would be higher if the ipad wouldn't have a retina. The battery will last longer, the games could be richer with more effects and so on. Are you ok with that ?

 

[fertilized-egg]

Let's say that Apple will build that ipad 3 with the retina and an acceptable price for you.
But another unseen price for many will be the ipad speed. For a retina ipad with a good speed (for browsing, movies, apps, games) the speed would be higher if the ipad wouldn't have a retina. The battery will last longer, the games could be richer with more effects and so on. Are you ok with that ?

Absolutely. We have already seen what high resolution can do to improve legibility of text and aesthetics from iPhone 4 and the processor will be more than fast enough to handle all the regular tasks without any noticeable speed difference. The only challenging part will be games which will probably have to run at a lower resolution.