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For those who are looking forward to having a laptop display with a high raw pixel count (the MBPr can only be run at 1920x1200 IIRC without hacks) - I guess this is it, and it looks like it'll run Win8 too.

Props to Samsung. Hope they don't call it a "cornea display" or something mocking.

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rMBP can already quite easily be run at a high raw pixel count resolution (higher than this Samsung laptop in fact, as the article points out.) Obviously, it runs at this raw resolution by default when booted into Windows, so I'm not sure what your point is. As it turns out, it can run Windows 8 as well!

Its not really a hack to run rMBP's at > 1920x1200, just a cli tool. Apple doesn't expose it in the UI anymore, thats basically it.

Windows 7 on the rMBP defaults to 2880×1800 resolution.

Shouldn't Microsoft be getting the props in this case? Samsung makes great displays (they make the MBPr display too) but the OS is the limiting factor in actually running them at the native resolution.

The operating system has to be adapted for one, but the biggest problem would be the app developers: they have to make changes to their pixel assets to suit the new resolution. Apple has the same problem, they are just aggressive about pushing developers in the right direction. Its a classic chicken/egg problem, especially when considering PC diversity (its obvious where Apple is going, its not obvious where the Window hardware providers are going).

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