I work in Medical Illustration, and this stuff is way too ahead of its time. Most OR's are still in SD, as the equipment is installed with the room. New theatres being built are being kitted out in HD (ie: 1080p), which means at the hospital I work in, out of 36 operating theatres, 12 are HD and the rest are SD. Some of the newest (designed for cardiology) have "walls" of displays (40", 1080p) with 6-8 screens in, and the surgeons are in total love. They're mounted to the ceiling and can be pushed around as a bank, or split up into pairs/threes as needs demand.
This thing though? We don't have QuadHD cameras, we don't have the rear-end hardware to run QuadHD, and we don't have the displays. Give normal HD a chance to filter through before pushing this stuff out.
Because Apple use the much better IPS panels in their screens, and it's also LED backlit rather than CCFL. That adds up to an expensive screen, no matter who stuck the logo on the front.
Except Apple had this keyboard type on the Core Duo MacBooks back in the summer of 2006? Sony just saw a good idea and lifted it. Shame it has taken Apple this long to roll these keyboards across the whole line.
My personal vote (in Europe anyway) is for the TomTom system. I've got a One XL installed in the car, and a Rider v2 on the bike - both of which do a sterling job. I've had two instances of it not having brand new roads mapped, but really, that is to be expected now and then. They do a great job of re-routing and avoiding roads that you tell it to.
Plus, the One XL is really quite cheap at the moment.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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This thing though? We don't have QuadHD cameras, we don't have the rear-end hardware to run QuadHD, and we don't have the displays. Give normal HD a chance to filter through before pushing this stuff out.