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href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Apple-Macbook-Pro-laptops-2011-open.jpg">
class="aligncenter wp-image-8706" title="Apple Macbook Pro laptops 2011 open" src="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Apple-Macbook-Pro-laptops-2011-open.jpg" alt="Apple Macbook Pro laptops 2011 open" width="543" height="304" />Do you believe in Unicorns? Well if so then you shouldn’t have too much trouble believing the latest Apple related rumor. According to
href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111214PD204.html" target="_blank">DigiTimes sources in the “upstream supply chain” Apple is going to update their
title="Apple Macbook Pro" href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/tag/apple-macbook-pro/" target="_blank">Macbook Pro laptops next year and add 2800-by-1800 resolution displays.
With that jump in resolution Apple will be not only introducing a brand new resolution for laptops, but they will further differentiate their premium Macbook Pro notebooks (that aren’t cheap) from the growing number of high-end Windows notebooks. However according to the same supply chain sources Apple competitors Acer and Asus are readying 1920-by-1080 equipped Ultrabook notebooks for 2012 to fight Apple’s rumored high-resolution Macbook Pros.
Is rumor believable? I don’t take any rumor related to Apple to seriously if it’s not backed up by photo/video evidence, but even for this particular story I don’t think any type of photo/video evidence would be able to convince me of its validity. The highest resolution display that Apple offers for their Macbook Pro notebooks is 1680-by-1050 for the 17-inch Macbook Pro, going up to 2800-by-1800 would mean an increase of 285% for total pixels.
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Around the web folks are referring to the proposed 2,800-by-1,800 resolution displays as Retina Displays. If you’re not familiar with
href="http://ipod.about.com/od/ipodiphonehardwareterms/g/retina-display-glossry.htm" target="_blank">what a Retina Display is they’re basically displays with high pixel-per-inch counts, the term was coined with the 2010 release of the iPhone 4 smartphone which sported a 3.5-inch 960-by-640 resolution display that scored 326 pixels per inch (ppi).
href="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Apple-Retina-Display-marketing-promo.jpg">
class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9249" title="Apple Retina Display marketing promo" src="http://laptop-computer-planet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Apple-Retina-Display-marketing-promo.jpg" alt="Apple Retina Display marketing promo" width="435" height="339" />Currently Apple offers Macbook Pro notebooks with integrated only and dedicated AMD Radeon HD graphics, if Apple is to make a smooth transition to 2800-by-1800 they’ll need to get dedicated GPUs into every Macbook Pro. Intel’s integrated solution that powers the lowest-end
href="http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/" target="_blank">Macbook Pro (the 13-inch model) can handle the 1280-by-800 resolution it has to push out now, but for the future I think Apple would do their users more justice by outfitting all Macbook Pro notebooks with dedicated GPUs.
At this time Apple’s competitors are able to include pretty powerful dedicated graphics solutions to their notebooks that match or even beat the cheapest Macbook Pro (starts at ,199 USD) on price.
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