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I was getting excited about the hype around the super high resolution screen on the next iPad. But John Gruber makes some good points and is very convincing.
by dave1619 16y ago
I was getting excited about the hype around the super high resolution screen on the next iPad. But John Gruber makes some good points and is very convincing. It would make sense that the next iPad is just faster, maybe thinner, adds camera, etc. (like the 3gs was to the 3g). Oh well... maybe for 2012.
- baddox 16y agoWhat good points? He vaguely references his sources, makes an unsubstantiated claim that there couldn't possibly be enough RAM to drive a 2k display, and makes an unsubstantiated claim that such a display would be cost prohibitive. I agree that cost and performance would be two huge obstacles, but the iPhone 4 seems to have overcome similar obstacles. Also, those double resolution graphics seem pretty telling. Of course, I've been planning on buying a new iPad if the display rumors are true. I'm probably exhibiting some wishful thinking. (An iPad at its current resolution and size will never interest me.)
- cloudwalking 16y agoRetina display on iPad is 5x more pixels than retina display on iPhone. That takes significantly more processing power and RAM to deal with. Since the iPad is a $500 machine, the math doesn't work. It's prohibitively expensive.
- Someone 16y agoI do not understand what's wrong with the current resolution. Maybe I'm getting old, but I am myopic, so I have better near vision than most, and I do not see pixels and only very occasional staircasing (e.g. When zooming in on 'w' characters) on an iPad display. I think iPad 2 will be fine at the current resolution, especially if it can drive HD television at 1080[pi], even if programmers have to do work when they choose to support it.