{"id":13478,"date":"2012-03-13T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:30:17","slug":"will-apples-retina-display-make-it-to-macbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13478-will-apples-retina-display-make-it-to-macbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Apple’s Retina Display make it to MacBooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Apple\u2019s third generation iPad announcement came with a lot of upgrades<\/a>, but due to most of the announcements being leaked out long before showtime, there were few surprises.\u00a0The least surprising was the long-rumored Retina display, which makes it easy to underestimate it\u2019s impact on the \u201cpost-PC\u201d era. Without a doubt, the Apple Retina display is a huge<\/em> game changer. Perhaps the biggest of all the upgrades. Really! The biggest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve had an iPhone 4 or 4s for a while, take a look at an iPhone 3Gs and see how pixelated everything looks. Now imagine that effect when viewing the non-Retina display on any computer. That\u2019s<\/em> the huge difference that the Retina Display offers, and it\u2019s a trend that\u2019s going to change a lot of people\u2019s perception of what a computer is, and the quality expectations thereof.<\/p>\n

Sure, we\u2019ve had Retina displays in the iPhone 4 for almost a couple years, but using a Retina display at a large scale is going to\u00a0dramatically<\/em> change the way people view normal PC\/Mac monitors. The pixels on today\u2019s monitors will seem obvious and huge to those who\u2019ve lived with a new iPad for awhile, relegating even a new iMac\u2019s glorious monitor to second-tier status compared the iPad display quality.<\/p>\n

The 11\u201d MacBook Air has one of the highest pixels per inch of any computer with 135 pixels per inch, with most all other monitors having somewhere from 90-110 pixels per inch. Compare that to the iPad\u2019s Retina display with 264 pixels per inch, and the iPhone\u2019s with 326 pixel per inch displays and it\u2019s easy to see that, pretty soon, all computers are going to have a lesser display quality compared to the iPad.<\/p>\n

Now think about that for a moment.\u00a0The iPad will have better display quality than anything else on the market.<\/strong> Anything. Fonts will be appear buttery smooth, photos will diplayed densely real. The experience will be quite a step forward.<\/p>\n

The Retina display is one of those types of technology improvements that when you first see it, it\u2019s easy to take for granted. It\u2019s when you step back to a non-Retina display where you\u2019ll really notice the quality shift. It\u2019s like stepping back to VHS from DVD, to DVD from Blu-ray, or to standard definition from HD. It\u2019s something you notice the huge difference after you\u2019ve lived with it for a while, and it’ll be harder to go back to the lower-resolution screen on your laptop or desktop.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll definitely be interesting to see when\u2014or if\u2014Apple will introduce Retina quality displays in their laptops. However, judging from how hard it was to get manufacturers to master making a Retina display the iPad\u2019s size, I\u2019m not expecting that to come anytime soon.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re getting The new iPad, drop us a line and let us know what you\u2019re seeing in regards to the Retina display changing your perception on computer displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s third generation iPad announcement came with a lot of upgrades, but due to most of the announcements being leaked out long before showtime, there were few surprises.\u00a0The least surprising was the long-rumored Retina display, which makes it easy to underestimate it\u2019s impact on the \u201cpost-PC\u201d era. 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