[lancer383]

I would love to see Retina Display picture quality on iPad, but can you imagine the resolution of that screen?

Today the screen is 132 ppi - taking that up to 326 ppi would make it somewhere in the vicinity of 2528x1896. Would Safari then be blowing up web sites so ~960px width sites don't look tiny on that resolution?

[masklinn]

> Today the screen is 132 ppi - taking that up to 326 ppi would make it somewhere in the vicinity of 2528x1896.

They wouldn't actually do that. They'd "just" double the resolution so the applications can easily be scaled up losslessly, as with the iPhone 4. So you'd get a 2048x1536 screen at 264dpi (one thing to consider is that you'd probably hold your iPad further from your eyes than your iPhone, so the you can have slightly bigger pixels).

Modern hardware absolutely isn't able to provide such pixel densities on such a small surface at an affordable price, and even less able to drive those things using mobile CPUs and GPUs (we're talking about the resolution of your average 30" screen, which still kicks modern GPUs in the teeth)

[ugh]

Quadrupling the number of pixels is what they might do (in a few years). That’s 2048x1536. Quite high for a ten inch screen today but realistic in a few years. Also not quite iPhone territory but close. That would bring the resolution up to 264 ppi. The big question is whether they want to wait until they can make that kind of jump or whether they will increase the resolution before that.

[jackvalentine]

My computer here is 146 DPI (1080p 15" screen) and I have everything blown up to 125% of it's original size so it isn't too small. So in answer to your question: Yes!