2880 by 1800 resolution on MacBooks like iPhone 3G to iPhone 4's retina display

Digitimes claims that Apple will release a MacBook Pro with a resolution of 2880 by 1800. That's more than quadruple the resolution of the stock 15 inch MacBook Pro. We can finally cram four times the amount of stuff on our screen right? Wrong. That's not what Apple would do. They will instead, just like the iPhone 4, keep the proportions the same but make things more crisp. I'm not against high resolution. In fact, I made sure my 15" MBP had the Hi-Res option of 1680 by 1050 pixels. I just couldn't stand buying a stock 15" pro with the resolution of the 13" MacBook Air. It seems like notebook manufacturers today get away with selling laptops with sub par resolution Apple included.

Apple already has a track record selling the Airs with Hi-Res screens. The 11 Air almost has the same resolution as the 13 MBP and the 13 MBA has the same one as the 15 MBP. With this logic, the 15" MBA should get the 17's resolution. I'd like to think that Apple will release quadrupled resolution all at once to one family of laptops. The MBP family. This could differentiate them more with the MBA. It's also more expensive to built really high-res screens, so it may not make financial sense to ship them in MBAs right now. Apple sells more Airs than Pros.

I'm looking forward to a MBP revamp, and they'd most likely get these screens then. The same Digitimes article claims that the display will ship in the second quarter of 2012.