February 22, 2012

iPad 3 with retina display

Let me start out by saying that I grossly overestimated what retina display was. My mind instantly moved into some kind of futuristic Jetson type world where the iPad screen matched your eye sight for the perfect viewing experience… Well I hate to say it, but I was wrong. I was way off base.

What “retina display” actually means is resolution so sophistocated that your eye cannot pick up the pixels. Exciting, but way less exciting that iPads that read eye patterns. This new iPad is set to be revealed at an Apple media event on March 7th, so all of the more detailed questions will be answered then.

Until that time, I can only tell you that this new iPad will have a resolution up to 2048×1536 which is twice the amount of the current iPad 2. Now that’s exciting. But what isn’t exciting is that I still don’t have enough money for an iPad 1 let alone an iPad 3. The woes of being a college blogger.