Apple iBooks app indicates iPad 2 will quadruple resolution to 2048x1536

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  • Reply 121 of 187
    joe hsjoe hs Posts: 488member
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    Originally Posted by nvidia2008 View Post


    Um... 2560x1600 on a 11" OS X display, the UI is not designed for that. Maybe Lion 10.7, but even then, this would require extensive OS X redesign. Which could come as OS X 10.8 is merged with iOS.



    Let me clarify: simultaneously 1366 by 768 (native) and 2560 by 1600 on an external display, via desktop extension (ie. drag and drop from one to the other). the OS is already designed for that, using only the NVIDIA GeForce 320M found in the 11" MBA.

    I was simply pointing out that if a MBA can support up to 5,145,088 pixels, why can't the alleged iPad G2's A5 support 3,145,728?
  • Reply 122 of 187
    There is no doubt that Apple will, eventually, release an iPad with such a high resolution. But there is no indication that it is viable today. Let's keep in mind that the next iPad is probably already well past the design phase and likely weeks away from being formally launched. What indication is there that a 9.7" display with such outrageous resolution is a part that anyone can deliver at this time at an affordable price.



    Apple can't conjure up such a device. It needs to land a deal with a supplier for the screen and that supplier has to make a profit, as does Apple, of course.



    It is true that such resolution would put a huge strain on the entire system but then again, just because the iPad would be capable of displaying an ultra-high resolution, does not mean a developer would be obligated to provide it. If you're developing a game, you're not going to produce something that can't play well on the device for which it's intended. As such the resolution would be scaled to suit the processing power of the target device.



    Still, it seems highly unlikely that Apple is ready to unleash an iPad with an incredible resolution. There are other priorities, including better battery life, weight reduction, faster processing, more memory, all of which would be negatively impacted by a massive leap in screen resolution.



    Perhaps Apple is toying with those seeking out advance info. Feed them some nonsense about the resolution being dramatically higher and imply that a new device will have to wait until April. Meanwhile, lots of changes other than a higher-res screen and an intro closer to February is what's really going on. Let's remember that Apple does not want to negatively impact first-gen iPad sales by having it thought the next iPad is mere weeks away. If, on the other hand, the belief is that it's going to be April, sales don't miss a beat.



    I predict no on the high-rez screen and no on the April intro of the new model. Apple's just messing with us by floating nonsense to keep some occupied, maintain high interest, and make the rumour sites look bad when it doesn't play out as predicted.
  • Reply 123 of 187
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    High resolution displays are very much the way the world is going.



    For example Hitachi has a 302ppi display of 6.6" and Toppan has one with 458 ppi in a 4.8" display. Once you find yourself doing these size displays the only thing that keeps you from marketing a 10" display is customer demand.



    Technology is moving very very fast with respect to display screens, do not underestimate Apple here.

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    Originally Posted by fatal28 View Post


    Why is this even here? The technology to produce an LCD with a resolution such as this at a size such as the iPads doesn't even exist. If it did Apple definitely wouldn't be able to put it in a device as entry level and cheap as the iPad. Wouldn't you think they would of had a higher resolution in there Macbook Pro if they had the tech to just produce any resolution on any screen size?



  • Reply 124 of 187
    While I wouldn't be shocked if we didn't see this, I am shocked that people are wholly doubting Apple here. When they announced the Retina display and put it not only in the iPhone but the iPod, I had a feeling we'd see a significant resolution increase to match a sort of "retina" line. I don't doubt at all that Apple could find a way to pull this off with their absurdly high volume orders.
  • Reply 125 of 187
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    My shopping list for iPad 2 in order of importance is:



    - lighter! (I would give up half the current battery time if it would save half the weight)



    This I don't get. Lighter? The thing already weighs less than 2 lbs. Maybe you need to get to the gym more often.



    With all the extra power expected, I'm sure we will need some equally increased battery power. Likely that Apple will shave off a gram here and a gram there in the case, but I wouldn't expect the iPad 2 to be any lighter given the the fact that batteries are where most of the weight comes from and I expect more battery in the next version.
  • Reply 126 of 187
    kolchakkolchak Posts: 1,398member
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    Originally Posted by JeffDM View Post


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    Originally Posted by Dunks View Post


    I wonder what pre-iPhone-4 apps will look like on it at 4x zoom.



    How many such apps are still out there? By now, that would likely either be an app that the user neglected to update, or the dev abandoned.



    I think pretty much all iPhone apps do. Many support the Retina display, but I don't know of any that require it. Even with the apps that support Retina, Apple refuses to let iPads use that resolution, so we're stuck with the original 480x360.
  • Reply 127 of 187
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    Originally Posted by mstone View Post


    This I don't get. Lighter? The thing already weighs less than 2 lbs. Maybe you need to get to the gym more often.



    I've read a lot about the iPad being heavy to use one handed. Holding 1.5lb in one hand out in front of you in the same position for an extended period, like when reading, is going to be a strain after a while.
  • Reply 128 of 187
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    I say that with no intent to cause you excitement rather it is a reflection of your posting style. Your style is very much that of a sheep that has been trained to respond to the sheppards dog. Clearly you are not thinking objectively here.



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    Originally Posted by thesmoth View Post


    I'm not an android fanboy, i've just used a good android phone with 2.2 and find it to be better than iOS in many ways (although the market place is garbage compared to the app store, which obviously is a huge deal and makes iOS much better for multimedia). And I know that most people on these forums are apple fan boys.



    I don't consider myself to be an Apple fan boy at all. In fact I bought my MBP in early 2008 and my iPhone a few months after that. Given that I can't help to classify you either as a Fanboi or a troll, I really don't know which one in this case.



    However it is clear you can't evaluate what Android is. That is basically a platform for google advertising. The OS has many issues and as a platform is terrible to program for.

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    I'm trying to give you guys an 'outside' opinion from what 99% of the posts on this forum are (i.e. apple fanboys who are so busy nut-hugging steve jobs that they would pie a big turd if it had an apple logo stamped on it).



    If that where the case you would be relating facts that we could use to evaluate Android. You have failed so far to show us in anyway how Android is better. Frankly that is extremely difficult as Android isn't all that great of a platform.

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    You can't deny that the CES videos of the playbook and honeycomb blows away the ipad in every single way.



    With Android that is very easy to do because there is nothing about Android Honeycomb that makes it significantly better than iOS.



    Playbook I see as an entirely different story but they have gone nuts with the hardware. Playbook needs sane hardware for a portable. Beyound that they needs a native SDK if they expect to attrack serious developers. I do see Playbook as having the ability to become major competition for iPad but I'm not sure RIM can pull it off. Further in it's initial release it won't be the competition that Apple needs.

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    My point is that apple fanboys (forum members here) will buy the iPad regardless of whether the specs are great or bad, or there is a big or small iOS update. Honeycomb tablets could come out that blow away the iPad in EVERY sense, and you guys would still look down on it and praise the pants off of apple.



    I don't think you are giving any one here any credit for being objective. In any event you speak in terms of could which is the same as comparing vapor ware to shipping product. In any event in order for Apple to be blown away there needs to be shipping product. Android has nothing in the way of viable shipping hardware or software. Even when it does ship Android will still be a mess as far as the software goes.

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    I'm giving you a more realistic viewpoint from other people who are NOT apple fanboys, and who are interested in the best product for the money.



    A view point yes. However that is a position with nothing to back it up. Come up with some hardware specs that are actually impressive and likely to ship. More so show us an Android ecosystem that isn't crap. Since this is impossible right now I suspect you are either trolling or ignorant about what you are talking about.

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    Now I KNOW that there are tons of people who aren't fanboys, that will buy the iPad because it's trendy and who don't know the difference between ram, rom, gpu, cpu, etc... These would be most all people, so really what i'm talking about are the techies and nerds, and even people who are typically anti-apple.



    I don't even own an iPad yet because it is obviously a very gen one Apple product. However as a tablet and system I can already tell Apple is the only way to go if you want to buy a tablet. Personally this generation hardware isn't up to snuff for me.



    However it doesn't take much effort to see that Android is a horrible mess right now and that Playbook has a very long way to go to realize it's potential.

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    These people may buy an iPad 2 regardless of their previous dislike, or preference for android, if apple really steps up their game and puts up some awesome stats. I will buy one without hesitation if apple does this. On these forums most of these discussions are pointless in the end, because all of these fanboys are going to buy it regardless. They are just having fun discussing rumours and specs, and hoping for the best. There ARE other people who aren't like this and will actually consider other options and not just buy apple because it's apple.



    Isn't that the whole point of rumor sites? That is to speculate on what coming hardware will be like.



    I also think you are wrong about people buying Apple hardware by default. I actually think an under 7" device would be far better for my needs than iPads almost ten inch screen size. However there is nothing on the market right now that even comes close to fulfilling my needs in that format. Zip, nada, nothing.



    You really go out on a limb here categorizing everybody as a Fanboi. There are many here of course but that is to be expected. My interest in iPad though comes from the fact that there is nothing comparable on the market. If you look at the entire ecosystem I think you will see this as true.
  • Reply 129 of 187
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by ajprice View Post


    I've read a lot about the iPad being heavy to use one handed. Holding 1.5lb in one hand out in front of you in the same position for an extended period, like when reading, is going to be a strain after a while.



    You are holding it wrong. I have a 500 page paper back that I'm reading. It weighs more than my iPad.



    Go ahead and hold your arm out in front of you empty handed, for an extended time you will feel the strain in a mater of a few minutes. That is normal.
  • Reply 130 of 187
    bugsnwbugsnw Posts: 717member
    When comparing Apple's products to others, there's a lot of factors to bring into the comparison. Do they have something like iTunes to manage the plethora of multimedia we all have? Does it sync effortlessly to my computer or in the cloud? Does it have a well stocked app store? Is the OS easy to use? Will the hardware/os be supported by a reputable company in the future? What kind of ecosystem of 3rd party products are available?



    I just don't see anyone else putting all the pieces together like Apple has. That said, my dad purchased an android phone and kept badgering me about a few features like voice navigation. Another friend touts the Swype typing system on his phone. But then I can do the same thing on the iPad with numerous apps.



    It's not a case of fanboyism but a matter of comparing more than hardware an app or two.



    Kinda reminds me of:



    "It's like a finger pointing towards the moon.....<slap!>....don't concentrate on the finger or you'll miss all that heavenly glory." - B.L.
  • Reply 131 of 187
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
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    Originally Posted by pmz View Post


    Truthfully, you know zero about what the Apple A5 is capable of. So no matter how many times between now and the announcement you repost this same point, you're not contributing anything useful. We all get it. 3 million pixels is a lot to push. We'll see what happens.



    What you and I don’t know abut Apple’s next SoC does change the numbers. I see and hear people make wild assumptions that simply don’t hold up with the simplest of crunching of numbers. If you’d rather read about wish lists than equations then move to the next post, it’s not my calculations are hard to spot. If you take issue with my calculations then make a rebuttal correcting them, but don’t deny that math isn’t universal or that it isn’t factual.



    I suppose if you don’t think any facts should be stated because we “know zero about what the Apple A5 is capable of” then why are you posting here at all? Why make any comment on any forum about a future product?



    Do you honestly think that the unknown means that anything is possible? How about a 4096x3,072 resolution since "know zero about what the Apple A5 is capable of?” I’ll tell you something, that won’t happen and I dont’ have to know a damn thing about Apple’s next SoC because I’ve used common sense, logic and deduction to figure it out.
  • Reply 132 of 187
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody View Post


    This is like the fifth time you've worried about battery life on this thread alone. What are you doing with the iPad that you're battery isn't satisfactory?



    I use my iPad very extensively all day, everyday, and I've never come close to running out of power. I don't even plug it in at work like my iPhone, just at home at night, and I think I could even skip charging it for a day and it wouldn't matter. IMO battery power is the least of the iPad's worries.



    Well yeah in the current model that is true. I think people are worried (correctly) that iPad 2 being thinner and higher performance will not have as good battery life. Frankly we won't know for sure until iPad 2 ships.

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    My shopping list for iPad 2 in order of importance is:



    - lighter! (I would give up half the current battery time if it would save half the weight)



    Not me, if anything I'd want longer battery life. If Apple can do this and make the iPad thinner than great. In anyevent run time is a huge selling point for iPad.

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    - more powerful (working on large documents makes iPad 1.0 stutter and pause)



    I'm surprised that more people don't see this as it is obvious to me right in the Apple store. This is a combo of issues though. One is that the unit simply doesn't have enough RAM, which is an issue that got worst with the addition of multitasking. Further CPU bound apps slow to a crawl.



    Because of GCD and Apples heavy focus on threading I suspect a multi core processor in our near future. This should bring along a considerable speed up to the device. Especially for apps that follow Apples guidelines. The big question is how many cores. 2 seems to be group think but yet there are already quad core A9 based SoC coming.

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    - more memory (currently can only really hold something like 1.5 open programs in memory)



    This is a massive issue and will only get worst with a much higher resolution screen. 1GB of RAM will likely be needed to really move forward.
  • Reply 133 of 187
    ajpriceajprice Posts: 320member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mstone View Post


    You are holding it wrong. I have a 500 page paper back that I'm reading. It weighs more than my iPad.



    Go ahead and hold your arm out in front of you empty handed, for an extended time you will feel the strain in a mater of a few minutes. That is normal.



    Not my arm and I haven't got an iPad, I said I'd read about it being heavy one handed .
  • Reply 134 of 187
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    Originally Posted by mstone View Post


    This I don't get. Lighter? The thing already weighs less than 2 lbs. Maybe you need to get to the gym more often. ...



    Not lighter as in "it's a pain to carry around" (like a laptop), but lighter in the sense that it's in my hands (or hand) all day long and yes, it causes a great deal of pain and awkwardness when you use it a lot.



    The current iPad is really too heavy to hold in one hand for a long period of time, but when you say that, the response is usually "well lay it down on a table then," but this goes completely against what the thing was actually designed for which is mobile use. If I'm going to have to lay it on a table to use it, why wouldn't I just get a MacBook Air?



    Thumb typing in portrait mode (again one of the key things the iPad is actually designed to do), is also very awkward at the moment. You need large hands (which I have), but the entire weight of the thing presses into your palms and with the sharp edge of the current model can be quite painful after a few hours use. The current iPad and also threatens to tip out of your hands in this mode because you are forced to hold it lower than it's centre of gravity.



    Even laying on the couch and reading on it is difficult after a while and you simply have to put it down on your lap. If you consider the iPad as an electronic book, the current model is about as heavy as one of those gigantic "Biology 101" textbooks you have to lug around in University. It should be more in the weight range of the average pocketbook instead.



    At about half of it's current weight, all these things, (which again, are the things the iPad is specifically designed to do), become much more "do-able."
  • Reply 135 of 187
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe hs View Post


    Let me clarify: simultaneously 1366 by 768 (native) and 2560 by 1600 on an external display, via desktop extension (ie. drag and drop from one to the other). the OS is already designed for that, using only the NVIDIA GeForce 320M found in the 11" MBA.

    I was simply pointing out that if a MBA can support up to 5,145,088 pixels, why can't the alleged iPad G2's A5 support 3,145,728?



    It doesn't matter that the machine can output at those resolutions. The thing is that the OS is not resolution independent. When you cram 2560x1600 pixels in 11 inch space you get extremely small pixels, which would mean everything on the screen would be so small it would be difficult to read. Thus the need for resolution independent scaling, a feature Windows 7 supports already and OSX 10.7 will finally do as well.



    As it is, scaling the UI in OSX is totally broken but can be accessed from Terminal. Even in Apple's own applications, icons will end up as blurry pixelated mess due to no higher resolution icons being available while text in menus for example will jump out of their frames etc.



    On the iPhone the 960x480 resolution is high for its display size, but otherwise it doesn't require huge performance from the GPU, CPU or RAM. 2048x1536 would be a whole another matter, considering with todays desktop graphics cards many PC games don't run well in 2560x1600. For anything else it shouldn't be that much of an issue provided that iPad2 has sufficient RAM.
  • Reply 136 of 187
    noirdesirnoirdesir Posts: 1,027member
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    Originally Posted by nvidia2008 View Post


    Um... 2560x1600 on a 11" OS X display, the UI is not designed for that. Maybe Lion 10.7, but even then, this would require extensive OS X redesign.



    The post you quoted said verbatim: "2560x1600 on a external display", and the external displays that support 2560x1600 are not 11" displays. You are not really paying attention.
  • Reply 137 of 187
    joe hsjoe hs Posts: 488member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kasakka View Post


    It doesn't matter that the machine can output at those resolutions. The thing is that the OS is not resolution independent. When you cram 2560x1600 pixels in 11 inch space you get extremely small pixels, which would mean everything on the screen would be so small it would be difficult to read. Thus the need for resolution independent scaling, a feature Windows 7 supports already and OSX 10.7 will finally do as well.



    As it is, scaling the UI in OSX is totally broken but can be accessed from Terminal. Even in Apple's own applications, icons will end up as blurry pixelated mess due to no higher resolution icons being available while text in menus for example will jump out of their frames etc.



    On the iPhone the 960x480 resolution is high for its display size, but otherwise it doesn't require huge performance from the GPU, CPU or RAM. 2048x1536 would be a whole another matter, considering with todays desktop graphics cards many PC games don't run well in 2560x1600. For anything else it shouldn't be that much of an issue provided that iPad2 has sufficient RAM.



    External display.
  • Reply 138 of 187
    shogunshogun Posts: 362member
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    Originally Posted by melgross View Post


    I agree that on a monitor for a desktop or laptop, because of the way they're used, 120 Hz monitors are better looking when moving things around, though, I don't see a difference with a static image. But, for tablets, unles we're doing stereo,it won't matter much, because we don't manipulate the desktop of apps in general, the same way. We might see a slight improvement when dragging something, but I don't think it will be nearly as dramatic.



    Um, except for the seldom done task of scrolling, right? It's one of the main reasons I do t have an ipad. When I s roll a webpage it becomes a massive blur until it comes to rest. This is true even for moderately fast scrolls.



    I'dove to see a much faster refresh rate on the ipad. A little lighter, too and with a camera and I'm probably in.



    (By the way, Melgross, I enjoy your posts on this board. Often very helpful and informative.)
  • Reply 139 of 187
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
    I don't know anything about what the resolution of the next iPad's screen will be, but I do know this, with utter certainty:



    Now that this rumor is out and about, if the iPad has the same or modestly bumped resolution, there will lots of people acting as if Apple had promised us much more and then, inexplicably because obviously they could have if they wanted too except Steve Jobs is too greedy FAIL, let us down, AGAIN.



    In fact, how about this:



    WHERES THE RETINA DISPLAY APPLE YOU HAVE REALLY LOST IT NO INNOVATION NO MORE I GIVE UP I'M GOING ANDROID



    can just be a sticky to save time the minute the new iPad is announced.
  • Reply 140 of 187
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    Originally Posted by Wings View Post


    Bull. You ARE an Android fanboy and it shows in everything you say. And you think you will have something some day in Android that will blow the socks off last year's iPad. Wow. No kidding. You've been given a sneak peak at something Android will have one day and since Apple doesn't do sneak peaks all you have to go on to compare the two is your imagination. Why not wait and see what the new iPad has and compare it to what the new Android has (key word is "has", not "will have").



    Just because I can acknowledge that android is a much better phone OS than iOS, doesn't make me a fan boy. I can also acknowledge that for games, music, and the app store iOS is much better. Now i've read through some rebuttals to my post and i'll admit, i'm not a programmer and have no idea what i'm talking about beyond my basic interfacing with the phones. Android is indeed slow and buggy, and really more like a beta version of a potentially good OS. Having said that, I find it much better as a phone than the iPhone, based on the things i've listed below.



    Widgets and superior notifications make android a killer for information and communications, and the app store and ipod feel of the iphone makes it a killer for media content (when I say media I mean music, videos, applications, games, etc...).



    Personally i'd rather have my phone be a great phone, and then get a tablet that is great for media. In that sense i'd be more likely to get an apple iPad to go with my android phone.



    My big beef is that now that i've actually gotten a good bang for my buck out of android, I really want apple to step up with some good competing specs for me to grab an iPad 2. I think if they step up a lot of other people like me will do the same, and increase apples sales. I took one look at the iPad, could see it was horribly crippled by 256 megs of ram, and knew that it would be one of their little scams they use to force people to upgrade in the future. Now look at where we are on the iPad. It has multitasking and lots of issues with safari refreshing, large pdf files not reading properly, etc... If the iPad 1 had 512 megs of ram it would overall be a much more pleasant experience. I don't buy into products that are so obviously intentionally crippled for apples own greed, and so I said no to the iPad 1. I'm just hoping that apple comes out with a reasonably spec'd iPad 2 so I can buy one.
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