if you like Apple rumors and super sneak
peek glimpses at unreleased technology
then stick around because this video is
for you
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hi it's MJ with iFixit and today we got
a mystery package for my friends at
MacRumors
and if this were real life I would try
to make you guess go to this but since
I'm in here and you're out there I will
just tell you or show you it looks like
and iPad display but not just any iPad
display one that doesn't quite fit the
iPad 2 and has crazy good resolution so
I'm familiar yet if you follow MacRumors
regularly this might be old news for you
but I know that some of you don't read
Mac rumors as religiously as some of us
so let's take a closer look at this iPad
display together now we can't say for
certain that this is in fact an iPad 3
display because as of yet the iPad 3 is
unannounced but we can say is that the
specs fit the rumours about the iPad 3
which as Dana Carvey church lady would
say is very convenient so just for fun
let's pretend that Apple has announced
the iPad 3 and that this happens to be
the display for it and extrapolate some
likely features and possible design
changes about the make-believe iPad be
ready for lots and lots of air quotes
upon first looking at it the iPad 3 iPad
3 display looks remarkably similar to
the display in the original iPad and the
iPad 2 they're the same size the same
shape and they weigh about the same I
guess if we're gonna be technical the
iPad 3 display does weigh about point 6
ounces less than the iPad 2 but who's
counting we did attempt to connect the
iPad 3 display to an iPad 2 but the
display data cable is slightly larger
making it impossible to even connect to
the logic board so for those of you that
are gonna email us asking how to install
a Retina display in your iPad 2 the
answer unfortunately is you can't since
we couldn't power it on we had to take
it one step further and use some CSI
like skills to analyze the iPad 3
display under a microscope we took a
couple of images so you can see the
comparison between the iPad 2 display
and the iPad 3 display and it's easy to
see that the resolution on the
that three display is way more
impressive 2048 by 1536 to be exact
which is interesting because when Steve
Jobs first introduced the Retina display
for the iPhone 4 at WWDC he defined the
Retina display as 300 pixels per inch or
greater the iPad iPad 3 display is 2048
by 1536 which makes it out to only be
like 260 pixels per inch which
technically makes it not a Retina
display based on that definition but
before you go filling my inbox with hate
mail there are those that say that
because the iPad is typically held
further away from one's eyes than an
iPhone that the Retina display
resolution for an iPad should be more
like 240 pixels per inch it can be
argued that it's more about perceived
pixel density than actual specs which is
fair enough regardless the iPad iPad 3
just like beats the heck out of blu-ray
in Full HD which is pretty amazing and
it kind of makes me wish that my
television had a Retina display other
obvious differences to this display
include a different style connector on
the back which I mentioned earlier and a
slight relocation of some of the
retaining clips now even though this
bears some suspiciously familiar
markings it's not as if they stamp this
with official ipad 3 display or anything
like that so it kind of makes all this
extrapolation one big well educated
guess fortunately for you and me we
shouldn't have to wait too much longer
because word on the street is that we
can expect an official iPad 3
announcement on March 7 and of course
you can expect to hear lots and lots
from us when it actually does get
released big big thank you to our
friends at Mac rumors for being so
generous and sharing their ipad 3
display with us and if you want to stay
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