I wonder if these manufacturers are expecting people to dump their current tablets and buy their "new" products. If all Toshiba has to offer at this point in the game is industrial design, I'm afraid their product will be another Titanic. Asus came late with its transformer which offer so many features... This is just another me too product.
Actually, amazingly enough the tablets should start seeing 1920x1200 in Q2 this year. I asked several manufacturers, "How is it we're getting 16:10 aspect ratio tablets with IPS WUXGA displays, and you still can't put anything better than a low quality 1366x768 TN panel into your laptops?" Naturally, they all blamed the display manufacturers and consumers for not being willing to buy better quality laptops.
There's certainly some truth to that, but it's a matter of supply and demand; if ASUS for instance were to order a million 13.1" 1920x1200 IPS laptop displays, I'm sure they could get prices down to tablet levels. They're just worried that the laptops wouldn't sell well enough, and with all the $500 Best Buy laptops floating around they're probably right.
Long term, I think the higher quality displays in tablets and HDTVs are eventually going to force laptops to get better displays. What's sad is that I have a 1920x1200 laptop from five years ago, and that display probably cost Dell $350. Today's $350 displays are almost universally worse, other than having brighter LED backlighting. Meanwhile, the $1000 Core 2 Extreme CPU in the laptop is now slower than even a basic $130 Core i3-2310M in most tasks, and this formerly $4000 laptop is also slower than today's laptops that cost just $750.
Anyway, I'll be writing something about this in the near future, in the hopes of highlighting a serious issue with display qualities.
Jarred, I'm glad you typed that. This pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with laptops and displays right now.
Almost every person I know who's bought a new notebook has mentioned the screen quality being substantially worse then what they're upgrading from.
How many more steps back is the LCD industry going to take? How many cost cutting maneuvers is too much? Every LCD specification standard is a lie made to hide their crap panels from unsuspecting customers.
Not to mention the whole 16:9 resolution, supposed to be good for watching movie content and yet every movie is wider still with giant black bars taking up 50% of our vertical resolution.
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Gasek - Friday, January 13, 2012 - link
I wonder if these manufacturers are expecting people to dump their current tablets and buy their "new" products. If all Toshiba has to offer at this point in the game is industrial design, I'm afraid their product will be another Titanic. Asus came late with its transformer which offer so many features... This is just another me too product.surt - Friday, January 13, 2012 - link
Still waiting. Won't be buying a tablet until I can get at least movie resolution.JarredWalton - Sunday, January 15, 2012 - link
Actually, amazingly enough the tablets should start seeing 1920x1200 in Q2 this year. I asked several manufacturers, "How is it we're getting 16:10 aspect ratio tablets with IPS WUXGA displays, and you still can't put anything better than a low quality 1366x768 TN panel into your laptops?" Naturally, they all blamed the display manufacturers and consumers for not being willing to buy better quality laptops.There's certainly some truth to that, but it's a matter of supply and demand; if ASUS for instance were to order a million 13.1" 1920x1200 IPS laptop displays, I'm sure they could get prices down to tablet levels. They're just worried that the laptops wouldn't sell well enough, and with all the $500 Best Buy laptops floating around they're probably right.
Long term, I think the higher quality displays in tablets and HDTVs are eventually going to force laptops to get better displays. What's sad is that I have a 1920x1200 laptop from five years ago, and that display probably cost Dell $350. Today's $350 displays are almost universally worse, other than having brighter LED backlighting. Meanwhile, the $1000 Core 2 Extreme CPU in the laptop is now slower than even a basic $130 Core i3-2310M in most tasks, and this formerly $4000 laptop is also slower than today's laptops that cost just $750.
Anyway, I'll be writing something about this in the near future, in the hopes of highlighting a serious issue with display qualities.
blzd - Sunday, January 15, 2012 - link
Jarred, I'm glad you typed that. This pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with laptops and displays right now.Almost every person I know who's bought a new notebook has mentioned the screen quality being substantially worse then what they're upgrading from.
How many more steps back is the LCD industry going to take? How many cost cutting maneuvers is too much? Every LCD specification standard is a lie made to hide their crap panels from unsuspecting customers.
Not to mention the whole 16:9 resolution, supposed to be good for watching movie content and yet every movie is wider still with giant black bars taking up 50% of our vertical resolution.
2ezasia - Saturday, January 14, 2012 - link
Hello !!! First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!I hope that this tablet is very light and also looks feels like quailty too.
2ezasia.