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I was thinking something similar. My 13" MacBook Air has a decent screen for my purposes,.but I noticed the retina display on the new 15" MacBook Pro is much s

• pja 14y ago
  The resolution on a MacBook Air is low enough that you can resolve the individual pixels at your normal viewing distance. The difference here is that a 720P TV already has pixels smaller than the resolving power of your eyeball at normal living room viewing distances; 1080P even more so. Going to 4K is completely pointless unless you're viewing the screen from sufficiently close up that it makes a difference. People doing film editing want these kind of displays because they are going to be putting the data in front of viewers who will be close enough to resolve features at that kind of resolution. But that's because they're going to be putting the data in front of the viewing audience at their local multiplex, not in their living rooms.