CES 2012 brings with it new tablets

[Bryf50]

I don't get why everyone is so obsessed super high res ips/amoled tablet and smartphone screens, yet no one has ever given two shits about laptop screens. It is literally impossible to find a 13-14" laptop with a quality high res screen. They are all 1366x768 and the few that are 1600x900 have abysmal viewing angles and contrast ratios.

 

[Mopetar]

For phones it makes a big deal. A higher resolution means that more information can be displayed on the screen and that the visual quality of that information will be better. Most people don't sit as close to their computer monitors as they bring their phone to their face when using it. If cell phones were to use the same, low resolutions found in monitors the devices would need to be bigger and the visual quality would be crap.

It's altogether likely that the demand for these high-density screens is what's driving the technological innovation that will eventually give us notebooks with the same high resolution screens. It's just that a lot of the technology is new and more expensive. Making 13"+ screens at 300+ ppi is going to be expensive and the yields are going to be abysmal if you don't want to allow for any dead pixels.

 

[sgrinavi]

...My tablet actually has a keyboard dock that is meant to be used with it. That plus a bluetooth mouse is part of the reason it can replace my laptop. With an Internet connection and Splashtop I can do any work that a "real" laptop can do.....

Ah... splashtop, good thinking. If only had an internet connection that was worth a hoot I could probably do that too...