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As someone who has used a retina display in daylight, it is unusable (bring up a black terminal, it is a goddamn mirror). It only compares favorably with the n

As someone who has used a retina display in daylight, it is unusable (bring up a black terminal, it is a goddamn mirror). It only compares favorably with the notoriously horrible apple glossy displays... well know for having some of the worst imaginable glare problems (unusable in many office overhead lighting situations). How the author found this better than the matte screen is beyond me. That all said, I am happy about Apple pushing forward on a decoupling of resolution from perceived size... it is long overdue. That combined with apples supply chain clout, I can't wait to see more ultra-high resolution screens everywhere.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
Can this kind of decoupling be accomplished on Windows and or Linux? I just ask because I have a 1920x1080 (native) resolution LCD which looks wonderful in Movies and Games, but makes text and other OS artefacts unusable small. Windows will let you set the text size (Medium, Large) but all this seems to accomplish is to break all non-native applications (e.g. force text off of the right hand side of the drawable area). It would be wonderful if I purchased for example a 2048x1536 display which Windows could run in 1024x768 "mode" but with four times the pixels per every dot of content on the screen.
- lucian1900 14y ago
  Don't know about windows, but it certainly can be on Linux. The only problem is the marketing: people buy "HD" screens now. Apple sells "retina" screens, and people buy them. Our world is quite sad.
- MetaCosm 14y ago
  It can't even really be accomplished well on OS-X yet. But I am delighted Apple is going for it, because the application will catch up. Right now it works really well with Apple's font render engine, and not much else. But application developers will catch up -- as will Microsoft and Linux (some Linux mailing lists are already blowing up with how to handle it). X can handle it no problems, it is the libraries that can't.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago

Can this kind of decoupling be accomplished on Windows and or Linux? I just ask because I have a 1920x1080 (native) resolution LCD which looks wonderful in Movies and Games, but makes text and other OS artefacts unusable small. Windows will let you set the text size (Medium, Large) but all this seems to accomplish is to break all non-native applications (e.g. force text off of the right hand side of the drawable area). It would be wonderful if I purchased for example a 2048x1536 display which Windows could run in 1024x768 "mode" but with four times the pixels per every dot of content on the screen.

lucian1900 14y ago
Don't know about windows, but it certainly can be on Linux. The only problem is the marketing: people buy "HD" screens now. Apple sells "retina" screens, and people buy them. Our world is quite sad.
MetaCosm 14y ago
It can't even really be accomplished well on OS-X yet. But I am delighted Apple is going for it, because the application will catch up. Right now it works really well with Apple's font render engine, and not much else. But application developers will catch up -- as will Microsoft and Linux (some Linux mailing lists are already blowing up with how to handle it). X can handle it no problems, it is the libraries that can't.