Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The phrase retina display is being used a lot these days. My reading indicates that the vendor uses this term quite loosely [1]. There you can see that the definition currently ranges from 326 to 220 ppi. The resolution of the XO's display is listed as 200 dpi [2], which is not far off. If I have

Re: Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: The phrase retina display is being used a lot these days. My reading indicates that the vendor uses this term quite loosely [1]. There you can see that the definition currently ranges from 326 to 220 ppi

Re: Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: IANAL, but the term Retina in reference to computers and mobile How about fovea display? ;-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: IANAL, but the term Retina in reference to computers and mobile devices is an Apple trademark, so any such use (referring to anything but an Apple device) would be violating their rights to that mark. IANAL too (although I Am Known

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 28 July 2012 13:51, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: IANAL, but the term Retina in reference to computers and mobile devices is an Apple trademark, so any such use (referring to anything but an Apple device) would be

Re: [OLPC-AU] Retina display

2012-07-27 Thread John Watlington
Don't go there. It is hard to talk about the resolution of the PixelQi display. In BW mode, it is 1200 x 900.In color mode, it is something closer to 690 x 520, but the human visual system has much less color resolution anyway so it appears sharper. MLJ did a great job of matching the