MacMAD Blog » pixels http://macmad.org/blog The Macintosh Meeting and Drinking Society Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:17:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 27-inch iMac: Doing the math http://macmad.org/blog/2010/01/27-inch-imac-doing-the-math/ http://macmad.org/blog/2010/01/27-inch-imac-doing-the-math/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:26:15 +0000 Jamie Cox http://macmad.org/blog/?p=145 That new iMac has a seriously big screen. Do the math:

iMac 2,560 x 1,440 = 3,686,400 pixels
19″ Monitor 1,280 x 1,024 = 1,310,720
3,686,400 / 1,310,720 = 2.8 times as big

That’s nearly as many pixels as three (3) conventional 19″ monitors. I have two 19″ monitors at work, and that’s a nice amount of screen real estate, but to have way more than that all on a single screen, whoa!

It’s also the equivalent of exactly four HDTV pictures at 720×1280. So, it has the screen area to show four different 720p HD videos at once.

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