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The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device—iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch—that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2 because its pixels are smaller.
Repair Labs put every iPad screen under the microscope to compare pixel size and found that though iPad 1 and iPad 2 have the same pixel size (and iPad 3 and iPad 4 have the same), the iPad Mini’s pixels are much smaller. And when compared to the Retina Display iPads, the iPad Mini’s pixels aren’t that much bigger. Repair Labs says:
The iPad mini is where things get interesting. Its smaller size necessitates a few sacrifices, and the Retina Display (at this point) simply cannot be made to fit the new small chassis, so to speak. But lo! The difference between the 4th Gen and the mini is not that huge when examined under the microscope. In fact, the pixels of the Retina Display are only 2/3 the size of the iPad mini. In the older iterations, the pixels of the 4th Gen are ½ the size of the older versions, or .50. Here, they’re a full 16% (.16, since the 4th Gen’s pixels are 1/3 or .66 of the size of the mini) larger in comparison. This means the difference between the two, is less noticeable. In fact, to the naked eye, it’s negligible. Why is this? Since it’s a smaller screen, the pixels are packed much more densely.
So is it shitty that the iPad Mini isn’t a Retina Display? Absolutely. Only a little less shitty after going under the microscope. [Repair Labs via Cult of Mac]
Same resolution in a smaller screen = smaller pixels? SHOCKING!
I think Chan is going for a Pulitzer with this one..
Captain fucking obvious to the rescue
“The iPad mini is where things get interesting. Its smaller size necessitates a few sacrifices, and the Retina Display (at this point) simply cannot be made to fit the new small chassis, so to speak”
Cannot be made? What? I thought the iPhone 5 had a Retina Screen with a much smaller screen and chassis.
Dumbest. Article. Ever.
“To the naked eye, its negligible” – is he genuinely retarded or something? The iPad Mini has a pixel density of 162. Anything with a pixel density below 200 will look horrifyingly pixelated.
Stupid biased article to promote iPad Mini.
Sent from my sharper displayed Nexus 7.
Give this guy a medal!
So my year old Archos Gen9 80 with an 8″ screen and 1024×768 has better pixels than an iPad/1/2. Thank for pointing out the obvious.
Another laughable Gizmodo ‘technical’ article.
>**Repair Labs // found // the iPad Mini’s pixels are much smaller.”****”And when compared to the Retina Display iPads, the iPad Mini’s pixels aren’t that much bigger. Repair Labs says: The iPad mini is where things get interesting. Its smaller size necessitates a few sacrifices, and the Retina Display (at this point) simply cannot be made to fit the new small chassis, so to speak.”****”But lo! The difference between the 4th Gen and the mini is not that huge when examined under the microscope. In fact, the pixels of the Retina Display are only 2/3 the size of the iPad mini. In the older iterations, the pixels of the 4th Gen are ½ the size of the older versions, or .50.**<
No, this is wrong. The pixels in the 4th Gen (and 3rd Gen) iPads are a *quarter* of the size of the pixels in the 1st and 2nd Gen iPads – not a half. This really is basic stuff, Gizmodo get this wrong time and time and time again.
Imagine a cake, you cut it into four equal pieces – now Repair Labs (and vicariously Gizmodo) might think each of these four pieces are half the size of the original cake, but the rest of the world would describe them as being a quarter of the size of the original cake.
And the pixels of the iPad's Retina Display are *not* 2/3rds the size of the iPad mini's pixels, they are nowhere near 2/3rds of the size of the iPad mini's pixels.
The rest of the article is similarly full of shit. Hopeless stuff.
**”the Retina Display (at this point) simply cannot be made to fit the new [iPad mini] small chassis, so to speak . . “**
‘So to speak’ ? Yes it can. A retina (individual pixels are indistinguishable to the naked eye) display is perfectly possible, Apple have managed to fit a Retina display in the larger iPad (3rd & 4th Gen) and in the smaller iPhone 4, 4S and 5, I wonder what limitation Repair Labs think they’ve discovered ?