Ondrej Holzman The display of the new iMac with Retina 5K display is amazing, as everyone who has had the opportunity to see Apple's latest computer with their own eyes will agree on. With a resolution of 5 by 120 points and almost 2 million displayed pixels, it is by far the finest display Apple has ever created. When he started with the Macintosh thirty years ago, its display was black and white with a resolution of 880 by 15 dots.
This thirty-year development has decided give to Kent Akgungor's perspective on his blog Things of Interest. From today's point of view, the original Macintosh from 1984 had only 175 pixels, and its display can fit a total of eighty times on the single Retina 5K display that the new iMac has. Pixel gain? 8400%
To clearly demonstrate the significant progress, Kent created a picture that clearly shows everything. That black and white rectangle in the lower left corner is the display of the original Macintosh compared to the display of the new iMac in a 1:1 ratio (click the image for full resolution).
hmm completely irrelevant comparison
Haha, my laptop has to scroll up and down 4 times to see the whole picture :D
That's what Apple wants, it wants to make an impression.
Even though I have a screen resolution of 2880×1800, I still have to scroll 4 times to both sides.. and the image is already slightly blurry..