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Retina
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Have an old iPad laying around collecting dust? Why not turn the display into an external monitor for your PC. That's exactly what a polish hacker did when he managed to get an iPad display online and then hacked the Retina display to run as an external display at maximum resolution. Using the DisplayPort technology, an interface board (available on GitHub), and a lot of skills most of us don't possess, Emeryth managed to get the display running in tip-top shape. -
"The highest resolution notebook ever. And the second highest." That was Apple's slogan for their Retina MacBook Pro, until now, when Google's recent Pixel Chromebook has forced this slogan to change. While Apple's retina MacBook Pros used to top all other laptops in terms of resolution, Google's recently released Pixel has a resolution that bests it. The Pixel sports a 2560x1700 12.9-inch display for a pixel density of 239 ppi. This is compared to 227 ppi on Apple's 13-inch Retina and 200ppi on the 15-inch Retina. Apple used to prominently display ... more -
Apple has had two more trademarks added to their ever growing arsenal today. The US Patent and Trademark office granted Apple the trademarks today for the word Retina as well as for the company's Game Center icon. Apple uses the term Retina to describe any display where the pixel density is so high that the human retina cannot pick out individual pixels. Currently, the iPhone, iPad and as of just recently, the Macbook Pro have the feature. Apple's trademark on the term Retina only covers computers and portable devices, ... more
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Pulp was recently updated to support the Retina display on the latest generation MacBook Pro. Pulp is a popular news reader for OS X and iOS that takes your RSS feeds and other news sources and displays them in a unique, magazine style layout. This is a really cool feature with the Retina display as it will allow you to view high resolution images and text for easier viewing. Pulp currently sells for $9.99 in the iTunes App Store, so make sure to check it out if you own a MacBook Pro with ... more
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Damn, those cool cats over at OWC have managed to get three external displays running on the brand new 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina laptop, and they got two running across one Thunderbolt port, and one via the HDMI port. Add in the built-in Retina display in the laptop, and the computer can drive four displays in total. The last generation Macbook Air could only drive one external display on the Thunderbolt connection, and the last edition MacBook Pro and iMac could only drive two external displays respectively. According to ... more
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Nic Lake - - 3 responsesFrom the "uneducated fear mongering" department normally monopolized by Fox News, The Wall Street Journal brings you an epically stupid post stating the MacBook Pro's Retina displays could "wreak havoc on CIO's networks and connectivity budgets". [quote]... [B]etter quality displays require more network bandwidth, which allows users to increase data consumption. Consider that experts told CIO Journal earlier this year that the new iPad, which includes a Retina display of 2048-by-1536 resolution with 3.1 million pixels, would slow enterprise networks to a crawl and increase data costs from carriers. Now ... more
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Retina displays are the hot topic item around the rumor blogs these days, and today we've got word from Joanna Stern, perviously of Engadget and The Verge) during an ABC News report that both the MacBook Pro and iMac lineup will be getting an ultra-high-resolution Retina display. From Stern's ABC report: [quote]The laptop will see the introduction of the “Mac Retina Display,” which is said to have a very high resolution. ABC News has similarly heard from its own sources that both the next MacBook Pro and the iMac would ... more
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Apple continues to roll out Retina ready application icons in OS X, which many expect is heralding the fact that Apple is gearing up to release Retina displays for the Mac. Apple Insider found further evidence that Apple has increased the resolution of its TextEditor application, along with some other apps: [quote]Hidden within the OS X 10.7.4 update issued on Wednesday is a Retina-display-caliber icon for Apple's built-in TextEdit application. In OS X 10.7.3, the highest-quality version of the application's icon was 512-by-512 pixels, but after updating to 10.7.4, its ... more
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There's no arguing that the new iPad features the best screen in the tablet market. This is because of its insane high screen resolution of 2048 x 1536 with a pixel density of 264 pixels per inch. So now that you have all 3.1 million pixels in your hands, how are you going to use them? With apps of course! Below, I have created a list of my top four Retina enabled iPad apps. 1. TweetBot If you're looking for the the best Twitter client, look no further. Tapbot's latest application: Tweetbot ... more
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iAd Producer 2.1, the app which allows developers to create iAd content for iOS apps, has added a few new doo-dads... one of which is Twitter support. In addition, iAd Producer now offers support for third-generation iPad Retina display. There's a nice little blurb about the other stuff it has to offer over at Mac Observer: [quote]Version 2.1 also added the ability to include WebGL content in iAds, loads faster and improved overall performance. Ads can be tested ahead of release through iOS devices connected to your Mac via USB. [/quote] iAds is ... more
