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Resolution Independence and Retina

A lot of people sent feedback with asking questions that and their questions revealed that they had a mistaken notion of how How Mac OS specifically deals with retina displays. So I wonder John if it would be best if you took a crack at this because one of the things I referred this listener to was Some old arse technica Mac OS 10 reviews. What makes Retina screens and retina displays so crisp if it's just two times the regular resolution But it's showing the exact same stuff. Why would it look better? Yeah, we're doing that to express the change in density right for the most part is if there had been a preexisting thing like say the 27 inch Thunderbolt display. And

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