Ironically, I can't show you any screenshots demonstrating the difference effectively, because we only do pictures at 72dpi - not the 144dpi that the "Retina MacBook Pro" (RMBP from here on) offers. Displays with a quarter of the resolution look as if they're smeared with butter. Consider yourself lucky that you haven't used it for any length of time and then reverted to something older. You may have seen the photos and the TV pictures and shrugged. Appearance TAG-1 Flash drives: because you're going there anyway Processing: there's fast, and 'already there' Thunderbolt USB 3.0 No Ethernet? No lights? Good news, Windows users! Downsides (there's a few) User-unfixability Unready web Price Conclusion Pictures on websites can't do it justice, because they're on websites, and those are only 72ppi, typically. It has 220 pixel-per-inch precision, and wow, it's really stunning. "Retina-optimised" programs (especially browsers, but text and film and picture editing too) leap out at you, and demonstrate the precision. The difference on this display leaps out at you. Here's the fact of it: with the "retina" display on the "new iPad" (aka iPad 3, aka the version released in January of this year), you had to put it side-by-side against another one to see the difference (something Gawker exploited wonderfully by giving people an old one and telling them it was a new one and filming their delight… and then telling them the truth). ![]() That works out to about 104 pixels per inch. OK, I'm back on my old machine now - with its standard display resolution of 1280x800 on a 13" screen.
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