{"id":410,"date":"2010-05-07T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:19:27","slug":"pixel-densities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/pixel-densities\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel densities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are thinking about buying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Pro<\/a>&#8230; I calculated the LCD screen pixel density for each new model. How convenient! How nerdy!<\/p>\n<p>I did this because I wanted to find out whether the high-resolution upgrade for the 15.4&#8243; model would make objects on the screen appear truly tiny. Here are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13.3&#8243; laptop: <strong>113 dpi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>15.4&#8243; laptop: <strong>110 dp<\/strong>i<\/li>\n<li>15.4&#8243; high-resolution upgrade: <strong>129 dpi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>17.0&#8243; laptop: <strong>133 dpi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summary, the pixel density on the high-resolution 15.4&#8243; display is still slightly less than on the standard 17&#8243; display. I&#8217;d seen the 17&#8243; laptop in an Apple store before and it seemed reasonable. So I went with the high-resolution 15.4&#8243; model. I now have the computer in hand, and I&#8217;m happy to report that its display is indeed not too squint-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the iPad screen is very similar at <strong>132 dpi<\/strong>. The iPhone screen (all existing models) is <strong>163 dpi<\/strong>. Rumors have it that the next iPhone will double that density to 326 dpi. [Update: the rumors were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/features\/retina-display.html\">true<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/compare.html\">MacBook Air models released today<\/a> are <strong>128 dpi<\/strong> (13.3&#8243; model) and <strong>135 dpi<\/strong> (11.6&#8243; model).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are thinking about buying a MacBook Pro&#8230; I calculated the LCD screen pixel density for each new model. How convenient! How nerdy! I did this because I wanted to find out whether the high-resolution upgrade for the 15.4&#8243; model would make objects on the screen appear truly tiny. Here are the results: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/pixel-densities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pixel densities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}