Raymond Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies, has wanted to refute the theory of Stevie Bathich, head of the department of applied science at Microsoft, according to which, the mixture between resolution and contrast of the Surface screen would make this a better technology than Retina Display of the New iPad. After having carried out several tests, Soneira doubts that Microsoft is correct.
Microsoft is throwing the rest in terms of marketing to make an important niche in the market with its new Surface tablet. Yesterday we had the opportunity to see a couple of interesting videos about design and technical performance of this device and, in addition, we learned that one of its models was out of stock in pre-order in the United States. This data could indicate that those of Redmond go for the good way, although it is too early to draw any conclusions about it.
However, those at Microsoft must have been disappointed to learn that Raymond Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies, has shown skeptical Regarding the possibility that the Surface screen is better than the new iPad. For this independent expert, the technology Cleartype it is not enough to conclude the superiority of the Surface, since other devices had previously incorporated this feature and they do not reach the power Apple tablet display.
Soneira believes that the Surface screen is very similar to that of a asus neetbook which also uses ClearType and the result is that, although its sharpness is vastly superior to that of the iPad 2, it is also substantially less than that of the New iPad. While the Microsoft screen uses a sub-pixel rendering and presents the green, red and blue pixels independently, Apple's is standard pixel and presents them together, but still the differences in resolution are abysmal.
However, while for Soneira the Surface RT model would have no chance to come close to the New iPad in terms of sharpness, Pro version of the tablet with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a density of 208 pixels per inch if that could cope with the Retina Display.
Source: Slash Gear.