Ipad 2 now or wait for ipad 3?

I remember watching the 4S keynote, I can't believe people actually cheered when they said "Retina display" WOOOOO, "8 megapixel camera" WOOOOO, "Improved battery life" WOOOOO

American people get way too over excited.
 
Generally you look at a phone's screen more closely than you do a tablet though, so I'd imagine you still won't see pixels unless you are literally jamming your face into the screen. As said, I have a 13" 1200p laptop - that is ridiculously sharp, so going to an even higher res on a 9.7" screen is going to look super. I just hope that it's not backlit LED as (and I've probably said this already to), the black levels and therefore contrast aren't the best. It won't cost more either, Apple are so rich they can afford to buy huge amounts of the components needed, which drops the price, and it's their hallmark to release better versions of products at the same price.
 
"andy" said:
do we think they will bother with higher res ? i mean the macbook pros have had the same res for years and apple haven't cared when others are doing better res as standard.
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Lion has plenty of code/icons in now for up to 4k res. I really do feel that the rest of their product line will get a significant bump in resolution over the next couple of years. They have untold billions to spend on R&D so it's not like there should be any technical reason for them not to be able to do it, and it's also an Apple trademark to spread advancements over all their product line, so I doubt only iOS devices will get that particular goody. Given they're apparently going to merge the MBP and MBA lines, I'd wager once that product portfolio is more streamlined then we'll start seeing higher res as standard.
 
TBH I'm interested to see what they do with the Classic (if anything other than retire it) and whether to turn the Nano into the Apple Watch concept
 
Jay794 said:
I saw Apple presentation where they showed off retina display, but in real world terms, it makes zero difference, if text is difficult to read, you just zoom in
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Whereas on a higher-resolution display, you wouldn't have to zoom, so there is a difference. There's a world of difference in the usability of being able to comfortably read an entire page at a time without zooming and panning around.

james.miller said:
Chances of it being retina are almost non-existent, I'm sure. at 10.1", the display would have a resolution of something like 2800x1868. That would make it one very expensive panel.

No, the current panels are great but they are a bit soft. A higher density would fix probably the only real criticism I have of the panels. It doesn't have to be a retina display though - 1600x1280 is about half way between retina and the current panels and that's about where I'd expect then to head next, if they do increase the resolution.
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As I've said a million times before, if they do hike the resolution, it will be doubled on each axis to 2048x1536, no more no less.

All other resolutions are irrelevant, they'll have to do this so that legacy applications which won't scale correctly can be simply pixel-doubled rather than creating nasty scaling effects.

This is why the retina display on the iPhone is 960x640. It's not an arbitrary choice, it's exactly double the previous resolution.

The iPad3 will have a 2048x1536 resolution panel, you just wait :)

james.miller said:
do people think doubling the ipads current resolution would make it a retina display? That isnt correct!
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What's a 'retina' display though? At the end of the day it's just Apple's marketing name for it. Yes, they said anything over 300dpi qualified as 'retina', so a 2048x1536 iPad screen wouldn't technically qualify under their own 'rules' but who cares tbh.
 
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Jay794 said:
TBH I'm interested to see what they do with the Classic (if anything other than retire it) and whether to turn the Nano into the Apple Watch concept
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The Classic will get retired once Touchs come in 128GB (if they do at all). Yes it's less capacity, but it's still over 100GB and once they merge the MBP and MBA lines together and start doing away with mechanical drives for everything but the iMacs (and surely they'll lose mech drives at some point too), then the Classic really will stick out like a sore thumb.

The Apple Watch concept is actually killer if it's the same one I'm thinking of; phone in pocket but you can still read your notifications, see who's calling you before you dig your phone out and so on. Nike have their Fuelband+ coming out which links to iOS devices and it pretty sweet, and while I think the Nano looks a bit silly unless you have huge wrists, as a watch, an Apple Watch with a more suitable form factor would be very neat.
 
Vertigo1 said:
As I've said a million times before, if they do hike the resolution, it will be doubled on each axis to 2048x1536, no more no less.
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Ideally, yes. lets hope they sort out the apparently dreadful yield issues on those panels then.
Vertigo1 said:
What's a 'retina' display though? At the end of the day it's just Apple's marketing name for it. Yes, they said anything over 300dpi qualified as 'retina', so a 2048x1536 iPad screen wouldn't technically qualify under their own 'rules' but who cares tbh.
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well i think you've just answered your own question:)
 
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