Here we go again. The rumor of a Retina Display iPad 3 to arrive later this year is being dusted off again.
According to The Economic Daily, we’ll be seeing the iPad 3 in Q4 of this year.
What’s interesting about the rumor this time is that The Economic Daily even goes as far as to say that the iPad 3 will have a Retina Display with five to six times the resolution of the current iPad.
That’s what sinks this report to the level of just mouthing. Apple’s not going to release a Retina Display for the iPad 3 that has five to six times more pixels than the current model. The reason’s simple: the easiest way to upscale for a higher resolution tablet is pixel doubling. That’s why the iPhone 4’s Retina Display has exactly four times the pixels of the iPhone 3GS.
Not only is a 6144 x 4708 Display just absurd for a tablet, it would be prohibitively expensive prove extremely difficult to upscale lower-resolution UI assets for. Consider this report a puff of smoke, and nothing more. If Apple does release an iPad 3 with Retina Display, the more likely resolution is 2048 x 1536… anything more is just bonkers.
[via MacTrast]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
36 responses to “Report: iPad 3 With Ridiculous 6144 x 4708 Pixel Retina Display Coming Before Christmas”
Well, you screwed up your calculation. It’s not 6144×4708…that would be six times each dimension, or 36 times the resolution.
The original Economic Times article states 2560×1920, which would work out to 6.25 times the total resolution of the current iPad..2.5x in each dimension.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/…
For a thorough analysis on this topic, see the blog series on the “Retina Display in the next iPad?” published before the release of the iPad 2:http://www.kybervision.com/Blo…
Double post – sorry, ignore.
The maths here just isn’t right.
6144*4608 (not 4708) would be THIRTY-SIX times the resolution of the current iPad. You’ve multiplied the current dimensions by six in both directions, so you end up with 36 times as many pixels.
You need to multiply both by sqrt(6) to get 6 times as many pixels as the current iPad. That equates to roughly 2508 * 1881 – a much more sane suggestion.
[edit] Beaten to it by Bobbo87!
For a thorough analysis on this topic, check out the blog series on the “Retina Display in the next iPad?” published before the release of the iPad 2:
http://www.kybervision.com/Blo…
(sorry the previous post had the wrong link)
Without these intelligent math lovers below, I would surely have been fooled by the cult! :(
Cause seriously, a resolution of that is INSANE! You don’t just stuff that resolution down every screen, especially that of a tablet’s.
They posted an article and say not to believe the article. Why even bother posting it? Duh.
I would buy an new iPad only if it came with a higher resolution.
“Consider this report a puff of smoke, and nothing more.”
Then why did you post it?
“Consider this report a puff of smoke, and nothing more.” I would do this not for the report but for this stupid post.
“That’s what sinks this report to the level of just mouthing.”
That’ll never stop Perez Brownlee from turning it into linkbait.
6144 x 4708 (!)
Step away from the math, Perez Brownlee.
Perez, is this you?
http://www.stltoday.com/suburb…
Yo Perez, do get paid to write this bullshit?
To be completely honest, the next-generation iPad would do just fine with the new displays that Samsung just came out with for tablets. 2560 by 1600 would do fine on the iPad’s 9.7 inch screen, giving it roughly 312 ppi, which is still a Retina display.
Honestly, anyone who believes this is seriously kidding themselves. That kind of resolution on an iPad would push the PPI north of 700 (over 2x what Steve Jobs said is beyond the limit of what the human eye can see).
Besides, the amount of processing power required to drive that many pixels would be far more than the iPad could possibly pack in 2011.
having just bought a 2, that would be frustrating, but so it is being a member of a cult. always something new.
Seriously, plus 6144 x 4708 is just ridiculous on its face, thats basically a 29 megapixel image! For a 24 bit image it would take 256MB to address all the pixels.