Honestly it is so expensive. It should have at least 4k or higher specs right?
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iPad Pro Why iPad Pro is not 4k?
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Do you want the price to go up?
I don’t know if it’s worth it for the screen size. It’s already “retina” so theoretically your eyes shouldn’t be able to tell the difference if it had more pixels (unless you put your face up to it). It will only eat up more batteries unnecessarily and as AutomaticApple mentioned, it will probably drive up the price.
What's the benefit to making it 4k? It seems that would just decrease battery life for no real purpose.
I highly doubt you would be able to tell the difference between the current resolution and 4K from a normal viewing distance. That’s the whole point of the ‘Retina’ pixel density label.
Depends what normal viewing distance is.
Something text heavy, I find the lines are just a tiny bit cleaner on the 326 ppi iPad mini. Granted, I tend to hold all iPads at the same 1-1.5 ft distance.
With the iPad on a desk at 2-4 ft viewing distance, I can't tell the difference between 264 ppi and 326 ppi.
Ooooh that’s a fair point, I did always notice and love the iPad mini’s extra 60 ppi. Maybe it’s just everything after that wouldn’t be noticeable!
The screen size is too small for 4k to be noticeable to the human eye.
There has honestly never been a time when I had complaints or thought the screen on my 2018 12.9 didn’t look amazing. I can only imagine how good the miniLED display will now look. I’m not saying 4K isn’t worth it, but at a certain point, there’s just such diminishing returns just to say a product has a certain feature (ahem…Android).
Ooooh that’s a fair point, I did always notice and love the iPad mini’s extra 60 ppi. Maybe it’s just everything after that wouldn’t be noticeable!
Yeah. I'd like 326 ppi, as well.
With that said, I primarily use my iPads with just the onscreen keyboard. I would hate it if Apple switched to 16:9 4K. That would make both the display area and keyboard more cramped when the OSK is visible.
Viewing distance is the same for me on both phones and tablets (1-1.5 ft).
iPhone 6/6s/7/8+ are 401 ppi and use the standard RGB stripe.
4K is just the pixel count. I can make a super big 4K TV and it would look awful. Don’t look at the pixel counts, look at the PPI. Personally, the Pro is already good, with a Retina display.
Pro max ppi is 458, it makes sense that Apple considers this ppi is great with reading distance from phone or tablet, then ipad pro should match this ppi. Would ipad pro becomes 4k or higher with 458 ppi?
Apple considers it fine for a phone, but as Apple explained when the original retina iPad came out you hold tablets farther from your face so it needs less ppi to become retina. Apple doesn’t add 4K to the tablet because most people hold it far away the current resolution is beyond acceptable and it would degrade the battery life.
Are you seeing pixels? If not an upgrade to 4K wouldn’t be helpful to you.
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In this case however you wouldn’t buy it because it’s 4K but because it’s the only 32’ to display a wide color gamut for HDR.
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I always see people hold phone or tablet with around same distance. Apple just wants to earn more and not put an even better screen for ipad pro because there is just no competition.