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I wouldn't expect to actually use that resolution, and Windows most likely doesn't support it very well either. The way it's used is probably just like the Macbook Retina. The effective resolution will be 1600x900, but the screen will be much sharper.

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What does that even mean? Aren't 1600x900 just much sharper 800x450 screens?

What do you mean windows doesn't support it?

Windows 8 does support high resolution screens, but unfortunately it has poor DPI scaling features. This means that instead of crisper text and contours, you get smaller text and touch/click targets. While this does give you a nice, big workspace, it can be hard to see things.

When you do increase the DPI through Windows settings, applications start to have issues rendering text appropriately, and often UI targets don't scale with the text.

Windows doesn't support vector art for its UI elements. So aside from a few crude scaling options, as DPI goes up, the size of widgets, fonts, icons, etc go down. The surface pro draws complaints because the UI elements are too small to hit with the mouse easily. This is going to be far worse. It will be interesting to see how the reviews go with it.

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