Retina Display
Updated: 12/31/2022 by Computer Hope
Retina Display is a term, or brand, coined by Apple for display screens on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and MacBook Pro. It means that a display has a high enough number of pixels per inch, or PPI (pixels per inch), that the human eye can't detect any pixelation at standard viewing distances.
The PPI qualifying a screen as a Retina Display varies from device to device as each one has a different viewing distance and screen size. For smaller devices, like the iPhone, there are 326 pixels per inch. The iPad, having a larger screen than the iPhone, has 264 pixels per inch, and the MacBook Pro, having the largest screen, has 220 pixels per inch.
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Most human eyes cannot observe detains above 300 PPI at a distance of 12-inches.