In 2012, I switched away from using Windows all my life and purchased a Macbook Pro Retina (which was expensive considering I had just finished my undergrad).

In 2012, I switched away from using Windows all my life and purchased a Macbook Pro Retina (which was expensive considering I had just finished my undergrad). The one factor that prompted the switch? The display. I've always been a sucker for high quality screens, and even before I saw what a high DPI screen looked like, I knew I couldn't stand the low-res 1680x1050 monitor I was working on. I'm frustrated that it's almost 2016 and there still aren't any good desktop monitors available for a reasonable price. My MBP is nice, but I like having lots of screen real estate while programming, so I either set the font to 8 px and squint, or I hook my laptop up to an iMac and try to ignore the pixelation. Neither is a good solution, and 4K displays still look kind of pixely to me, so I'm not going to buy one of those. The 5K options, as mentioned in the article, include the one that Dell sells or the iMac 5K, but the Dell is expensive for just a monitor and the iMac's CPU/etc. will quickly become obsolete. The problem is the amount of bandwidth current generation display cables are capable of handling (HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.), and if I remember correctly, I think the few 5K displays that exist have to kind of hack together a solution — one cable is not sufficient. As soon as I can get a nice 27" or 30" 5K IPS display for a reasonable price (preferably OLED with a wide color gamut if I'm dreaming), then I'll be set for years to come.