Screen Size Shenanigans in Microsoft’s iPad Comparisons

Elliot Temple:

The iPad screen is 7.76 by 5.82 inches. The ASUS screen is 8.8 by 4.95 inches. ASUS is larger in one direction but smaller in the other direction, and has 3.55% less area than the iPad, not 36% more as Microsoft depicts.

How can the screen with a larger diagonal measurement be smaller? Because it’s a different shape. Long and thin gets you a bigger diagonal but a smaller screen, for the same diagonal inches.

Weak sauce from Microsoft, especially the diagrams that are not to scale.

★ Thursday, 23 May 2013