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Strange, I did the same root method, and the OTA update worked fine for me.
Well the MBPr has the same res but it only translates to a resolution of 1920x1080 because of pixel density.
If you actually had a resolution of 2560x1600 the text wouldn't be able to be read on a 10 inch tablet.
OK I am getting confused hear me out...
On MBPr I installed windows 7 and it showed at a resolution of 2560x1600 on the laptop, it wasn't usable. OSx has more DPI and therefore 1 pixel is not equal to 1px of width, it has more pixels per inch.
I am obviously confused but please try explain this for me....
EDIT: Just to explain what I mean further, when running Windows 7 in a VM on OSx then it showed at a res of 1920x1080...
Double edit: Look here for what I mean: http://blog.laptopmag.com/windows-7-tested-on-retina-display-macbook-pro-how-good-is-it see the
On MBPr I installed windows 7 and it showed at a resolution of 2560x1600 on the laptop, it wasn't usable. OSx has more DPI and therefore 1 pixel is not equal to 1px of width, it has more pixels per inch.
I am obviously confused but please try explain this for me....
EDIT: Just to explain what I mean further, when running Windows 7 in a VM on OSx then it showed at a res of 1920x1080...
Double edit: Look here for what I mean: http://blog.laptopmag.com/windows-7-tested-on-retina-display-macbook-pro-how-good-is-it see the
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Kind of. Can someone do me a favour and print screen bbc.co.uk/news and m.bbc.co.uk/news for me?
I think that is the issue, whereby although the advertised resolution is 2560x1600 on the 13inch mbp you can only set it to a max 1680x1050 in OSX.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-macbook-pro-handles-scaling
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Actually I imagine some scaling occurs with the nexus too, can't say I've noticed it.
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I know there won't be any tiny url bar or anything, that's kind of my point.
I obviously haven't wrapped my head round resolution well because I know physically there are that many pixels but they are not being used in a traditional sense. There are something like 330 pixels per inch as opposed to roughly 140 normally.That means for every 1 inch of display you get half-ish the actual display size for the same amount of pixels.
Here is an article explaining better: http://www.swell3d.com/2008/07/how-many-pixels-per-inch-lets.html
Actual resolution is 2560x1600. Everything is 1 pixel to 1 pixel, just like the retina Macs. Any apps well coded can take use of this. Some apps will upscale to make it more comfortable for the user, such as the browser. For example, Chrome upscales the webpage to treat it as 960 pixel width (or something like that), but the rest of the Chrome interface is still 2560 wide (or 1600 depending on how you're holding your device). Any apps not designed for the large resolution will be upscaled by Android. The same can be said for OSX, it displays everything as 2880x1800/2560x1600 with 1 pixel to 1 pixel, with some of it's software designed to take advantage of it. Everything obviously has been made bigger to appear normal size to us, but it's still 1 pixel to 1 pixel. For those that can't properly make use of the retina display, OSX will upscale it to something more comfortable. Windows also has the ability to change the scaling via the DPI options (meaning you will have to do it manually unlike OSX), but it's not as good as OSX/Android since it will upscale everything regardless if the software can take advantage of the large DPI and to be honest can cause rendering problems.
Have you ever thought that the 1920x1080 res on the VM could be either the VM software's limit, or just OSX thinking the software can't be used at retina level and is upscaling it?
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Resolution is still 2560x1600, whether the apps can display at this resolution, it depends if it was coded to take advantage of the higher pixel density.
I actually had to get off my tablet and type this on my laptop to type so much
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"You get the effective desktop resolution of the standard 15-inch MacBook Pro's 1440 x 900 panel, but with four physical pixels driving every single pixel represented on the screen. "
So what I am saying, compare this to the note 10.1 which has a rather poor resolution of 1280x800, what is the actual difference like? How much less 'real' estate can you see on the 10.1 over the Nexus 10?
Play a 1080p movie on both. I garantee you will see a difference. The film will be upscaled on the Nexus, to fit at 2560x1440 pixels (yes, black bars, but a 16:9 film will look crap if you changed it to 16:10), but on the Note it will be downscaled to 1280x720, meaning you'll lose some pixels and in turn the film will look more blurred.
I'm not too fussed how sharp stuff is, I am just curious as to how Android handles all the extra pixels and if you get more information in 1 inch of screen as you do on the note for example.