Originally Posted by b00bie

One of the greatest things about the iPad is the tremendous battery life, to adequately run a display of this rez would require a processor upgrade (probably an A5), you can kiss your 10 hour battery span goodbye.

Why is that? If the A5 is made using a smaller fabrication process, it will require less power to run and therefore any increase in graphical processing power may not necessarily come at the expense of battery life - it may even improve slightly.

If Playboy comes to the iPad i can't Steve encouraging pixel peeping..........

Wonder if they"ll do a volte face and allow flash with the extra power?
They have done over the lock screen button and it has been the biggest outcry against the tablet.

Actually I just wish they would redesign some of those foul fixed icons such as Itunes, Notes and Contacts. Have them all penned up in a rejects folder hidden on the last screen....

Originally Posted by xune

Where do I get a crystal ball like the one that you're using?

While I agree that it is improbable, it's impossible to know already what wil be or will not be coming this year.

Not a crystal ball, it's just over a quarter century of building software and hardware myself. The processing power required to push over three million pixels is considerably more expensive and more power consuming than that required for the current one quarter of a million pixels at a framerate that Apple would be happy with. Also factor in the fact that developers would have to create resources for yet another iOS device resolution.

Apple is very conservative with their design changes, and this would be a radical change for them to make just to stay ahead in a market they currently own.

Originally Posted by donka

Originally Posted by b00bie

One of the greatest things about the iPad is the tremendous battery life, to adequately run a display of this rez would require a processor upgrade (probably an A5), you can kiss your 10 hour battery span goodbye.

Why is that? If the A5 is made using a smaller fabrication process, it will require less power to run and therefore any increase in graphical processing power may not necessarily come at the expense of battery life - it may even improve slightly.

Well two things, first I was also taking into account that the screen itself would require more power to operate. Second from what I read about the A5 is that it is a dual core chip and while it is made with a smaller fabrication process, the rez of the screen we are talking about doubles the current size and would require four times the processing power to operate, even with the smaller die that still equates to more power. I am no engineer so I can't begin to speculate how much of a difference in power consumption we are talking about but we are looking at huge increase of pixels here and unless Apple has some new battery technology to deploy with more juice I don't see how we can realisticly expect to get the same battery life out of such a powerful device. Nothing is free.