On 4 March 2011 09:56, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Retina display could not be used due to physics i.e. energy
> consumption and economics i.e. the number of screens which could be
> produced? I don't see how this is relevant! This is a "Magical" device
> and since when do "Magical" devices have to care about physics and
> economics? Granted sometimes they care about mana levels and relevant
> and vulnerability to elemental attacks (I wonder if there are minimum
> owner magic proficiency stats in order to equip the iPad 2?).
>
>
To quote Arthur C. Clarke:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Which leads, quite naturally, to the conclusion that:
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
> On Mar 3, 10:38 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 3, 6:25 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > If the argument was that the iPad could
> > > not support retina display because it would take too much graphics
> > > power to push that many pixels then with a 9x increase in graphics
> > > power could it have coped with higher res?
> >
> > The problem is not the graphics power, the biggest problem is the
> > screen: Nobody can produce the 30-40 million iPad 2 screens at
> > 2048x1536 that Apple is projected to sell at acceptable yields and
> > therefore at acceptable costs.
> >
> > Look at Samsung and their AMOLED smartphone screens for the Galaxy S.
> > Now these are roughly one quarter of the iPad size, and Samsung sold
> > about 6 million Galaxy S phones over six months. First HTC used AMOLED
> > but had to switch to LCD because Samsung couldn't make enough of them.
> > Then came the Galaxy Tab at half the screen size of the iPad - and it
> > only used LCD. Now the Nexus S comes to Germany (in March, I believe)
> > - and it's supposedly got an LCD screens instead of AMOLED (like it
> > had in the U.S.) because Samsung still can't make enough screens (or
> > rather enough at acceptable yields).
> >
> > Having four times the pixels would have also increased power
> > consumption and reduced the graphics power increase quite a bit. So
> > for all these reasons, Retina iPad screen has to wait until iPad 3.
>
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