01-18-2012, 08:18 PM
It's a wildly better screen on the iPhone4/4S and latest iPod touch if you ever read text. For movies, no, you won't care.
For those that haven't compared the two screens, consider that with Retina, text looks sharp even without making it larger. The fact that it's displayed smaller than iPad text to begin with should highlight the difference even more.
I got an iPad. Then I got an iPhone 4. Then I didn't like the iPad as much. I immediately wanted something like that for the iPad. I haven't missed the greater speed, more RAM (well, that's not true ...) or other features of iPad 2. But if Retina comes to I'll pull that trigger fast.
What I've read is that the iPad's version of Retina won't match the insane 326ppi of the smaller screens but that it'll still be over 200 --- and therefore sharper than any Mac laptop, for example.
For those that haven't compared the two screens, consider that with Retina, text looks sharp even without making it larger. The fact that it's displayed smaller than iPad text to begin with should highlight the difference even more.
I got an iPad. Then I got an iPhone 4. Then I didn't like the iPad as much. I immediately wanted something like that for the iPad. I haven't missed the greater speed, more RAM (well, that's not true ...) or other features of iPad 2. But if Retina comes to I'll pull that trigger fast.
What I've read is that the iPad's version of Retina won't match the insane 326ppi of the smaller screens but that it'll still be over 200 --- and therefore sharper than any Mac laptop, for example.