#Macbook retina vs non retina 1080p#

The quality of the displays is unmatched by the competition. There’s a reason I chose Apple over the competition, and why I’ve stuck with them.

#Macbook retina vs non retina 1080p#

Watching HD video on an iPhone 5 is almost like looking through a window, and watching HD on another device with a full 1080p display is like looking through a screen and a dirty window.

You need to focus on color representation and sharpness. But once you’ve decided on your pixel count then you need to focus on quality. This is because number of pixels alone doesn’t equal quality, only clarity, and after a certain point it’s completely useless to increase the pixel count. Other phones have ridiculous amounts of pixels in them, but they still fail to look as good or as sharp as the display on my iPhone 5. I wholeheartedly believe that the only time you need full HD is with larger screens. The difference would even be subtle on a 15 inch laptop I think. But is there really a difference between the 326ppi of the Retina Display and the 446ppi of full 1080p HD displays on other phones or tablets? Nope.

Are they necessary? Not by a long shot, but they look nice, and are much easier on the eyes. I have also played with some devices with full 1080p HD display screens. Retina Display! Full 1080p HD display! The cries of the marketers, but how important is such clarity? I have an iPhone 5 with Retina Display, I have an iPad Mini without Retina Display, and I have an old laptop with no sense of HD anywhere in the display.