Rocket_Girl
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On November 12th I ordered an iPad mini with Retina display from Apple. Soon thereafter I began reading reports that its display has a narrower color gamut than the iPad Air and that some units are showing image-retention. This is the image-retention test page made by Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper: Retina MBP (rMBP) image-retention test. I tried it on my first-generation iPad and was surprised to discover that it exhibits the image-retention issue. I would not have noticed if it was not for the test. And yet, after paying $829 for an iPad mini, I am not happy about purchasing a product with a lesser display --meaning a display with a narrow color gamut that is prone to image-retention. Since the first rumors that Apple was working on an iPad mini surfaced in February 2011, I have been holding-out on replacing my primitive iPad. When it was finally released without a Retina display on November 2012 I was disappointed and continued to wait. Should I return the iPad mini that has already shipped and wait until 2014 when Apple releases one with a better display? I do not like the larger 10-inch form-factor. What are your thoughts on this?
First- 'narrow' color range cracks me up when I recall childhood, with MSDOS in the wide range of: Amber. Or green. On sea of pixelated black.
Better is quite relative. Will you buy when it seems like "best ever" or when it is loads better than what you've got?
You could spend days comparing a bunch of images next to each other (on a screen that degrades them both). Or you could try try it --for real-- next to what you just called your "primitive iPad". That is the comparison you will *experience* vs the one you will read about and try to decide on based on images on your primitive iPad. Bit like viewing crystal through wax paper, that.
Do let us know if you take your iPad to the store, compare it to the mini with retina, and walk away feeling like the mini-R is not good enough.