Yesterday, a Microsoft employee went out with a claim on CNET that he believes the company's new Surface RT tablet has a screen which is superior in sharpness, compared to the acclaimed displays on Apple's iPad 3
The claim sparked uproar among fateful Apple followers, but piqued an interest among those less inclined, looking to see if the claim can truly hold water.
In a rebuttal against the claim, which was made by Microsoft engineer Steven Bathiche, director of research for Microsoft's Applied Sciences group, the President of DisplayMate Technologies, Dr. Raymond Soneira, called the possibilities of the Surface RT screen being sharper "very unlikely."
Like most people, Soneira has yet to see the Surface RT screen for himself, but the DisplayMate president argued that the lower resolution of the Surface RT could not possibly make up for its lower pixel density, not even using the different technology called sub-pixel rendering that the Surface machines utilizes.
The Microsoft Surface is due for release on October 26, coming in three different versions at price points starting at $499 for the 32 GB model without the touch-cover, while models that include the touch-cover starts at $599 for the 32 GB version, and $699 for the 64 GB model.
Official Microsoft Surface product site
