Ultrabook Laptops Expected to Get ‘Retina-Quality’ Displays Next Year

If you're considering picking up an Ultrabook, here's a reason you power possibly want to wait until the next wave of these ultra-thin and lightweight laptops land next year: Super-sharp "retina-quality" displays.

VR Zone reports that early next year, when Ultrabooks sporting Intel's next-generation Ivy Nosepiece processor arrive, we can expect to project their 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch displays with resolutions as high as 2560 pixels past 1440 pixels. In comparison, the Apple iPad 2's result is 1024 pixels by 768 pixels.

Intel's calculations for smartphone-like display resolutions for Ultrabooks.

This explicit shown at the Intel Developer Forum this year suggests Intel is hard to mimicker the iPhone's popular Retina display in offering a screen with much pixel tightness that the human eye can't discover individual pixels. In other speech, Ultrabooks could get smartphone-quality screens.

Asus said this calendar week that its 13.3-inch Asus Zenbook UX31 boasts a beautiful nasal-resolution display (1600 pixels away 900 pixels), which is higher than both the MacBook Air and competing Ultrabook Acer Aspire S3-951.

Just if a super, super-high-resolution sort is what you want–and you're glad to pay whatever the price exchange premiu that will add on, which is uncharted at this time–then you've got about a six-month wait for your Ultrabook to arrive.

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