Disinclined as I am to use Apple's "Retina" marketing term, it is a conceptually useful distinction. On a given display at the real world distance you use it fo

Disinclined as I am to use Apple's "Retina" marketing term, it is a conceptually useful distinction. On a given display at the real world distance you use it for work, you can't see the pixels. That is what we as users want, and it is also the limit of what is useful: packing additional pixels into the same surface area doesn't help anything. This monitor isn't quite there. But it is still a big leap in terms of progress over the standard 2560x1440 27" inch panels currently used by Apple, Dell, etc. We already have similar monitors in Japan for like $4000... it will be interesting to see how this one is priced. I have a couple 30" and a newer 27" monitors, but I'd trade all three of them for one 24" truly retina monitor.