Retina in the MacBook. Maybe in the summer

When I bought the iPhone 4, the personal iPad for the week was forgotten entirely. Web surfing, reading, games - all delivered in the novice and even had thoughts of selling the tablet. The reason for that - an unparalleled Retina-display, unique time in the mobile market simply did not exist. After a glance at the "fuzzy" fonts on the screen iPad evoked tears, and MacBook Pro - gnashing of teeth. Of course, after some time passed shock and awe, the tablet has returned to its rightful place in their personal lives, but the dream remained. Just a couple of weeks ago, Apple sold one of them in the new iPad. Flatbed with Retina-display fine. It is possible that the summer will be implemented and the second dream - MacBook (Air, Pro?) With the same clarity of the screen. The next hint of it were found in the latest beta version of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

In particular, one of the sources of ArsTechnica, who has access to the latest available to developers and beta testers version of OS X 10.8, talked about the mass of the so-called 2x a GUI operating system. It can be icons, buttons and other elements that have twice the resolution increased in comparison with the original. It has long been a proven method to iOS, thanks to which the interface on the Retina-display does not look too small. In fact, it is no different from that displayed a relatively low resolution, but the picture is much clearer.

By the way, there are traces of Retina in OS X for a long time, since the early beta versions of Lion, and then they were found and the final product, and later - in the beta version of OS X 10.7.3 and even in the Messages Beta. But somehow they were not enough, it's all for some "back streets" program hiding. In this case, the hints are literally popping up on screens ochumevshih programmers and developers in the form of giant icons and other features, they even do not have to look. One example is seen in the screenshot below - audio chat icon to Messages from the beta version of Mountain Lion does not fit into the dialog box, because it is too large, or rather, it is four times larger than the original. Just the same 2x-element:

And there are traces, according to a source, was found a few. Release of OS X 10.8 is planned for this summer and "nafarshirovannost" beta version of the OS interface elements with an increased resolution alludes to the issue at the same time, the new MacBook with Retina-display. Another indirect confirmation - is the use of hardware devices Intel Ivy Bridge, which can easily cope with ultra-high resolutions up to 4K, as well as playback and encoding 4K-video.

What awaits us in the near future, the world's Mac: 14-inch MacBook Air, thin model MacBook Pro, a trivial transition to the new Intel platform or is it the appearance of Retina in laptops and another small revolution in the IT-industry?