iPad for harpists

[David Ice]

I know this is an older thread, but I’m about to make the jump to an iPad 3 for gigs.

[barbara-brundage]

It’s pretty bad, I have to say. It’s not just the washout but the reflections. Unfortunately there’s not a huge difference between the new retina screen and the older versions this way. Personally I would much rather have had a matte low glare screen than the extra pixels, but Apple is all about shiny these days.

This is with the old ipad, but the new one isn’t a lot better. Here I was inside a fairly dim room and you’re just seeing the reflections from the sliding glass door behind me:

So I’d say what you’re going to have watch out for is when you’re in shade but the building behind you is catching the sun higher up, things like that.

[sherry-lenox]

Doesn’t anyone make a glare shielding transparent “skin” for the iPad? If not, someone should.

I remember when the original iPad came out, one of the eBook competitors made a big deal of their non-glare screen.

Apple should have caught up with that by now.

[barbara-brundage]

Yes, they do, but there are two problems:

1. It makes the washing out in bright light even worse.

2. When I tried them on the ipad it ran much hotter. This wasn’t a problem with my old ipod touches, but evidently the screen plays an important role in heat dissipation for the ipad and I’d hesitate to use a screen protector, especially on the new iPad which runs hotter anyway because of the retina screen and the power it takes to run that.

[barbara-brundage]

I remember when the original iPad came out, one of the eBook competitors made a big deal of their non-glare screen.

Apple should have caught up with that by now.

I agree, but also find it ironic that amazon, who had such a valid point in their ads, now is pushing the Kindle Fire which is just as bad as the ipad in this respect.

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