Retina display Macs... on their way!

[Icyculyr]

MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac

They'll all rumoured to have 'retina displays'. Resolutions from 2560x1600 up to 5120x2880.

I usually wait some period of time after a new model is released but this time I'm not sure I'll be able to... 27 inch 2880p resolution, 7970M (7870/GTX 580), quad-core i5 3.1GHz IB. Gaming heaven xD.

I wonder how many FPS I'll get in The Witcher 2 at 5120x2880 on low? The 7870 gets 40 at 2560x1600 on Ultra (uber off) and the 7970M is an underclocked 7870 xD.

 

[sqrage]

Gaming heaven? The cards wont even be able to handle that high resolution. Will the games even be able to run at native, I doubt it highly/

 

[Mahucharn]

Maybe they're prepping for atom technology?

 

[Icyculyr]

Gaming heaven? The cards wont even be able to handle that high resolution. Will the games even be able to run at native, I doubt it highly/

No but it'll handle 30 FPS on high settings at 2560x1440 for most games, and maybe even low settings on some games.

 

[MrBrooks]

Macs don't live up to gaming standards. Never have done, never will do. Apple never learn.

 

[Icyculyr]

Macs don't live up to gaming standards. Never have done, never will do. Apple never learn.

How so? The 7970M is essentially a GTX 580.

 

[sqrage]

No but it'll handle 30 FPS on high settings at 2560x1440 for most games, and maybe even low settings on some games.

Really don't see the point then. What am I going to do, watch 1080p movies look like shit on a screen that's got more than necessary resolution?

 

[Icyculyr]

Your 1080p movies will look exactly the same quality on a 27 inch 5120x2880 display as they will a 27 inch 2560x1440 display, but you'll be able to play 4k movies which will look absolutely amazing -- I don't think there's too many of them on YouTube though.

The same is true of gaming at 2560x1440 on the 5120x2880 display -- it'll look the same as on the native 2560x1440 display, but some games I'll be able to play at the higher resolution which will be amazing.

The UI, photos, etc., will all be really crisp and very detailed.

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Here's a quick explanation if you don't understand how it will look the same: when you stretch any image to double its resolution, every pixel is quadrupled and normally it'd look like rubbish, but because the higher resolution 2880p display has four pixels in the same area of space as one pixel on the 1440p display, it actually looks exactly the same.

Mind you, since you'll be seeing sharper content such as UI (in OS X) and so on, lower resolution images and such will probably be more noticeable, but technically speaking it still is the same as on a 1440p display.

 

[Slapshot136]

the high resolution is one of the things I like about apple, so yay!

 

[Icyculyr]

Yeah... first thing I do when I get my new iMac: install Windows 7, load up The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, etc., and check out some games on high settings, and if it is "retina", which I think will be so, then I'll give it a shot on low settings.

Who wouldn't want to play The Witcher 2 with 10 FPS at 5120x2880? xD

 

[Accname]

But higher resolution needs a more powerful graphics card (to process the images) and therefor more energy.
I dont know if i would really like such a screen resolution. I am currently perfectly fine with my 1024x768.

 

[Icyculyr]

It's not so much the resolution itself that will increase the amount of power required, but the backlight which will need to be much more powerful to push light through such a high pixel density.