Do we KNOW the gamut is inferior? Do we KNOW we aren't just used to the high-contrast, high-saturation look of the older screen and when presented with a more neutral screen we find it "off"?
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Haha, yes that is quickly becoming apparent.
Who are these people who are "happily" using the Mini 1 that you speak of??
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Yes, someone posted the charts in another one of these endless topics.
Ipad mini retina on top. Ipad Air on bottom. I see it a little but to me it looks like it's where it should be. Mine came directly from Shenzhen so it could be using a different panel.
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There's NOTHING wrong with that display! It looks so good, I might have to run over to Best Buy....or Shenzhen. Maybe not Shenzhen.
Can you post that pic to this thread so we can compare on our devices?
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For what it's worth, from Gruber's rMini review:
I’ve also seen reports of white-balance issue, or yellow-ish tinting, with the new Mini. To my eyes, colors are nearly identical between the Mini, the Air, and my iPhone 5S.
http://daringfireball.net/2013/11/the_retina_ipad_mini
There must be panel differences out there. However, I guess 'nearly' is the key word there.
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I'm sorry, I meant the original source photo that you are displaying on your iPads. I wanted to bring up the same hot air balloon pic on mine.
To my eyes, the blues and reds are off. The difference in saturation wouldn't bother me, but the red on the mini seems orange and the blue sky looks a bit cyan compared to the air.
If you pay for a Mini 2, you get a Mini 2, not less than a Mini 2. You get exactly what you pay for, not what you think what you pay for should include. Its up to you to decide if its worth paying for.
Actually that's a pic I took and is 16mb, I don't think I can upload it here.
I know it's a little off. I don't think it's as bad. I realize the screen gamma is bad. I wonder though if they can turn up the contrast/saturation with an update.
Likely Apple emphasized power consumption and cost on the iPad mini over color gamut. I have both (I'm likely to keep the mini and return the Air). The Air does have better color saturation, but it isn't overly noticeable to me. Remember, it has essentially the same internals and is $100 cheaper. It was the same for many years between the 13" MacBook Pro and 13" MacBook Air. The Air had a higher resolution screen (before the Retina models), but the Pro had better color gamut.
Indeed this is true....but then why was the iPad 3 (1st Gen iPad of that high a resolution - and size) so much better (with color gamut) than this (1st Gen iPad of that high a resolution - and size) iPad Mini Retina?
Kindle HDX and Nexus 7 both have color representations ~equal or better than the iPad Air. The iPad Retina Mini is pretty much the only odd man out in terms of the top selling tablets
It's unnoticeable.....the difference in each instance isn't comparable.
As for your above post - I explained why the iPad 3's display was better on gamut. Because of the sacrifices made elsewhere (battery life, form factor, heat).
So Apple decided not to do that this time and instead put the best display they could mass produce as of now in the rMini. You can bet next year we'll see a display that produces more accurate colors as they'll have the time between now and then to figure it out and perfect.
EDIT: Just for reference sake.....
Differences between iPad mini and iPad mini retina = 0.3 mm added thickness, 23 grams added weight, same 10 hour batter life
Differences between iPad 2 and iPad 3 = 0.6 mm added thickness, no added weight for wifi model (however those models weighed 601 grams.....TWICE what the retina mini weighs), battery life reduced in iPad 3 from 10 hours to 8 hours.
Well for the weight, the lighter the weight the more noticeable the weight is. You're likely going to notice the weight difference of 1 --> 1.5 pounds a lot more than you would 4 --> 6 pounds. Because 4 pounds is already heavy. The difference (albeit a little less) is roughly equivalent if you take into account that the size of the mini is smaller, so any added weight and thickness is more noticeable. Whether this comes to fruition in real life I cannot say myself, but has been noticed by others (I will know myself soon - I don't care either way though).
But regarding your first section - that is one opinion to have - the other is, seeing that the color gamut is roughly identical to the color gamut of the first iPad Mini, you can assume apple made no effort to change it for this model (in which case I wouldn't expect it to change for next years either). This could be because the technology isn't there (highly highly doubtful in my opinion - color gamut is not the hardest thing to produce...the problem with manufacturing comes with the instability of high density panels, not color gamut), or it could be because 1) they wanted to lower the cost of the iPad Mini Retina - as it sells for less but has the same specs as the Air, and 2) because a higher color gamut would hinder the battery life slightly (and having a smaller battery life than the air, but the same processor - they needed to cut corners to maintain the same usage time).
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http://youtu.be/6v2L2UGZJAM
If some of you would not mind, would you watch this video and let me know what you think rMini versus Air. Please make sure it is HD resolution when you watch.
Thanks.
If some of you would not mind, would you watch this video and let me know what you think rMini versus Air. Please make sure it is HD resolution when you watch.
Thanks.