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Retina display in new technology

“Retina displays” packed with pixels are magicking away the jaggies.

By Peter Griffin In Technology

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30th June, 2012
Chances are that if you buy a high-end smartphone or an expensive laptop this year, you’ll also get a retina display. It sounds like some sort of implant in your eyeball, the type of thing that would feature in a Philip K Dick novel. Not quite – the implants are a little further off than that. Instead we have retina displays being built into the gadgets we use. Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop, released last week, is the first mass-market laptop to get a “retina display”, which previously had largely been the domain of smartphone screens. In fact, Apple founder Steve Jobs popularised ...

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