The retina iPad manages to pull off a resolution close to that with only an ARM CPU. If applications deal with half the vertical and horizontal resolution in lo

The retina iPad manages to pull off a resolution close to that with only an ARM CPU. If applications deal with half the vertical and horizontal resolution in logical pixels and leave the X2 image and font rendering to a highly optimized engine using a good GPU it sounds do-able. Then again I agree it would bump up costs considerably, which negates one of the main reasons for buying a chromebook at the moment.