Messages Beta Hints at Future Retina Display Macs

Messages Beta Hints at Future Retina Display Macs

Some Retina sized artwork has been found in Apple’s new Messages Beta, reports MacRumors. This is a strong hint that we could be seeing Macs with Retina displays some time in the near future.

As MacRumors explains:

As on the iPhone, Apple’s plan was to make it easier on developers to jump to exactly 2x the linear resolution. For example, a 1440×900 pixel screen would go straight to 2880×1800 pixels. This would allow applications to automatically scale up by a factor of two without necessarily having to include high resolution artwork. Apple already made such a transition when going from the iPhone 3GS’s screen (320×480) to the iPhone 4’s Retina Display (640×960).

Apple also explains it in the developer documentation:

The inclusion of the @2x modifier for the high-resolution image is new and lets the system know that the image is the high-resolution variant of the standard image.

We’ll see what happens, but I hope that they come out with a Retina display Mac soon, especially to go with Mountain Lion.