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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday March 02 2021, @11:16AM (2 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday March 02 2021, @11:16AM (#1118822)

    I'm not sure why one would choose 2880x1800 as a native resolution, but that's Apple for you I guess. It's a nice amount of pixels at least.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 19 2021, @08:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 19 2021, @08:01PM (#1126424)

    I'm not sure why one would choose 2880x1800 as a native resolution, but that's Apple for you I guess.

    Because it was exactly 2x each horizontal and vertical resolution of their then-standard 1440x900, so the resulting image size was the same, just really sharp.

    • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Saturday March 27 2021, @05:10AM

      by toddestan (4982) on Saturday March 27 2021, @05:10AM (#1129785)

      Apple does this because they just aren't very good at scaling things for high DPI displays. All their retina displays are just 2x of a common (or once common) resolution like 1440x900. Then they just draw all the OS elements like it's 1440x900 blown up by 2x in each direction, then use the extra resolution for smoothing things like the fonts.