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Last night saw the first wave of reviews of the new iPad hit the web, from the expected set of A-listers including John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, Joshua Topolsky of The Verge, David Pogue of The New York Times, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, MG Siegler at TecCrunch and a handful of others.
These early reviews are not good. They’re glowing, full of enthusiastic praise for the 3rd-gen iPad and superlatives that could be straight out of an Apple unveiling event.
Here’s a quick selection of examples of the glowing reception the latest iPad is getting:
On the New Retina Display
Joshua Topolsky:
Yes, this display is outrageous. It’s stunning. It’s incredible. I’m not being hyperbolic or exaggerative when I say it is easily the most beautiful computer display I have ever looked at.
John Gruber:
If you’re familiar with the experience of switching from the old iPhone display to the 4/4S retina display, the experience of switching to the new iPad display will prove familiar. It is astonishingly good. … Reading on the big retina display is pure joy.
Even iPhone apps look better — retina-display iPhone apps run at 2× size on the iPad 3 take advantage of their higher-resolution UI elements and text rendering.
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Read the rest of First Wave Reviews of the New iPad – Glowing (569 words)
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