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The screen is just awesome.

And your point is?

Typed with iPad's voice dictation.

Brains...delicious apple brains....

Yummy.. Back to topic.. I thought my portfolio looks awesome Itself, on the new iPad it's just stunning. Especially at full size resolution.

Mmmmmmmm brains.......

But if you enjoy your brain and want to put it to good use - this article is quite interesting in regards to the iPads retina screen. Quite impressive!

http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_ShootOut_1.htm


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I heard on the news today that the ipad3 runs 13 degrees hotter than the ipad2 -- because of the new screen.

The battery consumption is higher when the screen is on high so it would stand to reason it is hotter.

Power input = BTU output

There is a direct correlation between the amount power a device receives and the amount of heat it rejects.

I have heard the same thing. But so far under my normal use it has not even gotten warm to the touch at all. I think the issue stems more if the display is set to the Brightest level - and thats really bright - and running high processor apps, like games, that will cause any heat issues to actually maybe be concerned with.

Gizmag.com has some thoughts on how better isn't always better for everything.

interesting article... and I am happy to stay with my ipad2 for sometime to come. I'll wait for the rest of the world to catch up to the change in technology before I upgrade.

I don't have time to dig em up now but there have been studies into how the ease of reading affects retention. Apparently by making the reading too easy you can actually lower the retention. If I recall correctly the studies were for people that had accessibility issues and they found that it appeared that if the tools increased the accessibility too far retention went down. This was measured through brain activity, when the text was at a particular level of challenge to decipher this engaged a peak level of brain activity. Easier to read text led to less brain activity. Of course, this does not mean that reading incredibly difficult to decipher text increases retention. This could of course be about adaptability on an individual level but the study included enough participants to consider that. Is there a difference between screen clarity and readability? The article then rhetorically asked what are the implications for ereaders? Sure, an incredibly sharp screen can render text that has the complexity required for activity but, if this is actually how this all works, will it be the way text is rendered? In other words considered when the things we read are delivered to us.

Perhaps someone in the education/cognition fields can offer more than my simplistic telling?

I have no idea about such studies so I unfortunately cannot say hogwash - although I'd like too! Lol. However, I only see the clarity of the text on the new iPad as something matching a printed book (particularly a well printed book on good paper - like oh say a school textbook). I guess my logical mind us failing to see how clarity of text would lesson retention. I think subject matter plays a bigger role there.

In going back to the article ion posted - I did find that magazines had text issues if it was from a raster file. However I have yet to notice any issues with web photos that is described. And I take full issue with the writers typography issue - again the retina display actually takes us closer to printed text - and that is back to the old way. It would seem his old way is old school 2 bit pixelated text from the old Pet computers.

That concludes my rant for today

I wish I were a cognitive scientist but I am not so take what I say with a chunk of sodium chloride. My understanding is that on a basic level we make sense of visual things by looking at lines and the brain marks them as similar or different to what we have built in our memory. When it is doing that other areas of our brain get fired up as we make sense of the lines. The more you can activate a brain in doing this the better. Look into the work of John Medina for corroboration of the benefits of overall brain activity that's pretty accessible. Increased difficulty does not lead to increased activity due to coping strategies such as giving up and losing interest. There is a considerable amount of study and data to support this. How it relates to reading is not necessarily so clear yet. These tests would have been done on subject matter that was flat across the body of participants. Yes, of course subject matter will increase or decrease brain activity but if you're able to remove it as a variable by choosing a topic of uniform difficulty across your study group it becomes less of an issue. And, if you can create an environment in the brain where it is receptive to taking in new things by priming it with making sense of the lines and the directions they are going in this is a good thing.

That said, if the "new iPad" takes us in the direction of being closer to the traditional reading experience I think that is very good news. I'm not a screen reader if I can help it, especially with novels or anything where I really want to think about the subject. My opinion specific to this product is I'd like to see some more grunt behind it without the heat issues. That's a lot of stuff to move around. As the article posted, and lxdesign's post stated, the world will be catching up to that screen for at least a little while including Apple themselves. I suspect that screen will be the foundation further tablet innovations are built around.

Very interesting - did not know that - but that does make sense. The more you gave to work to figure out something the more active your brainiac and that is a good thing.

In regards to iPad I have yet to experience any heat issue while browsing the web or playing basic games. I think there is more to this heat issue - ie high intense graphics game with brightness on full while plugged in charging. At any rate it works great for me. There maybe some content issues for a little while, but someone has to push the envelope and we need hardware before the content. But with that my photos I download to my ipad sure look damn good on that screen!

I see NO reason to upgrade (at this time) as the new iPad offers no benefits (for me).

I'll probably get a second iPad2 now that they're cheaper.

One iPad 3 still has twice the resolution of two iPad 2's. Just teasing ;P

Planned obsolescence is the trend nowadays isn't it?