When combined with the company's 240 Hz technology, the display can refresh 480 images per second.

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This includes increased display resolution, color depths and refresh rates, improved support for Full HD 3D stereoscopic displays, and with MST, better support for multiple monitors connected to a single DisplayPort receptacle.

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While some may be disappointed that Apple did not refresh the entire notebook line with retina display, there are positives to the limited introduction of retina display initially.

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To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.

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Less certain (but certainly believable) is an iMac refresh, which would again get served with a Retina display, and a fourth major Mac update is apt to see the practically forgotten Mac Pro or the Mac mini updated with bolstered internals.

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Nintendo, meanwhile, is preparing to launch a significant refresh to its line-up, the 3DS, a handheld that can display games in 3-D without the need to wear special glasses.

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He sees the refresh as a natural step to take alongside the new iPad with its high-definition display.

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Confirmed to ship sometime this holiday season, this variant of Samsung's phablet refresh sports a 5.5-inch 1, 280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display, 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos processor, 8-megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p video capture, beefy 3, 100mAh battery and, of course, a refined S-Pen.

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