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1. #Mac retina display resolution more space not available pro
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What complicates things is that screen resolution doesn't necessarily match the pixels on the display.

#Mac retina display resolution more space not available windows

Usually, standard windows frames and controls will draw in high resolution, even in these older apps. Older applications will get their window contents scaled up by the OS, which leads to the fuzzy look. When you have the resolution set to something like 1440x900, modern applications that are written to be retina-aware see 2880x1800, and can draw into every pixel.

#Mac retina display resolution more space not available software

I asked James Thomson, a noted software developer (PCalc, Drag Thing) about that, and he confirmed it all in an email to me.

#Mac retina display resolution more space not available pro

Anand Shimpi first explained this in: " MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis," back in 2012. What happens if you pick one of the other resolutions that isn't the same as the native resolution of the display? It turns out that the OS writes the display at the selected 1x resolution, say 1680 x 1050, renders the page at 2x (Retina) and then scales the display buffer to the native screen resolution. The upshot is that each rendered pixel has a real, physical pixel on the LCD display at these resolutions on those two Retina MacBook Pros. The Mac's OS and graphics system then write the rendered display 1:1 to the Mac's display at native graphics resolution, which works out nicely. On a Retina MacBook, if the Cocoa app has been compiled to be Retina aware, it can write to each of those Retina pixels. The math for the 15-inch MacBook Pro works out in a similar fashion: 220 pixels per inch, and the MacBook comes in at 226 ppi. That's how Apple arrives at (2560/11.27) = 227 pixels per inch (ppi). So, for example, the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro is 11.27 inches across, sideways. On a display with an aspect ratio of 16:10, the x (horizontal) coordinate is 0.8475 of the diagonal measurement.

That is, if you count the physical pixels across the display, horizontally, you'll find 28 pixels. If you inspect the technical specifications for the 15-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pros, you'll see that the native resolutions are exactly those last two, respectively. When you double those resolutions to achieve a Retina display, they become: Two popular ones at the 16:10 aspect ratio are: There are some fairly standard, legacy notebook resolutions. To explain the wrinkle, I need to backtrack a bit and review Retina technology. However, compared to the other Apple MacBooks, its Retina display does have one quirk that you may notice right out of the box. Apple's new MacBook is a light, beautiful and capable notebook for general purpose work.