Apple's 2012 upgrades for its Macbook Pro notebook series could include a retina display.
Industry sources told Digitimes that Apple's future MacBooks will feature display resolutions of up to 2880 x 1800 pixels on the high-end. Mainstream and entry-level models will keep the 1680 x 1050 and 1280 x 800 resolutions. The sources indicated that the new notebooks will arrive in the second quarter of the year.
Asus and Acer will push the resolution of their ultrabooks, Digitimes said. High-end ultrabooks will be 1920x1080 pixel screens, up from 1366x768 in the current generation.
Apple is also expected to introduce a retina display for its upcoming iPad 3. Industry rumors currently suggest that the iPad 3 will debut with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixel screen.
Since it won't make any difference visually, and therefore is obviously not intended to give the user a better experience, it is quite obviously a marketing ploy to get the loyal Apple followers to throw their money away for the latest and "greatest".
Guess they'll have to throw in a decent GPU there at last
Guess they'll have to throw in a decent GPU there at last
You can't see the difference between 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 until you get to around 23 inches.
And how do they expect to run that many pixels with the weak GPUs they put in?
Also, that seems like a really weird resolution.
2880 x 1800 will probably be an upgradable feature available to 17" models and will cost an extra $500. They better get their color gamuts right if that's the case.
Could use the screen real estate for the IDEs that suck up so much space...
Since it won't make any difference visually, and therefore is obviously not intended to give the user a better experience, it is quite obviously a marketing ploy to get the loyal Apple followers to throw their money away for the latest and "greatest".
Don't expect it. That resolution will only be useful at the desktop and normal apps. To game on it, you'd likely want to drop down to 1440x900, which actually isn't that bad.
I just can't see it!
It'll be like the retina display in the iPhone 4. Everything stays the same size it'll just be that much more crisp as the pixels will be more compact!
To these morons: higher resolutions are not popular not because they were not "invented" yet and they were waiting for some geniuses at Apple to come up with them; they are not popular because there are no applications that take advantage of those resolutions. Watching your desktop at that resolution is not considered an application. One would need multi-GPU solutions to try to manage a half-decent frame-rate in any graphics application (games included) using GPUs that are not even built yet.
It's not about Apple or anyone else; it's about not putting the carriage in front of the horse. Common sense is hard to find in Apple's camp.
No way! You mean Apple did not invent this? You surely jest, sir.
Such a joke, a bit of common sense, this is apple we are talking about.
Their laptops don't have beefy hardware so how could they support that res. its not even supported by any current gpus. yet alone intergrated gpus.
that would decrease battery life too something apple is concerned about.
This is stupid.
cant wait for the samsung tegra 3 2560x1600 tablet though! thats gonna be sweet, gonna get it for its screen mainly for photography (viewing)!
So no, you won't need a magnifying glass. They are just giving you better image quality on the new MBP.
You are correct though. They are going to need some good graphical horse power to support this but it will be nice none the less.