Apple’s Messages beta drops high resolution Macs

Will there, or will there not be a high resolution Mac down the road that sports Retina Displays? That is a question that has gone begging for some time already, and today, we caught a whiff of such a possibility yet again. It seems that the most recent beta release of Messages for OS X comes with support for double-pixel resolutions – which is hard evidence that Apple has something magical up their sleeves, such as a high-resolution Retina Display on Mac hardware that will be released down the road. MacRumors were the ones who did all the digging, where they found out that quite a bunch of graphics that came with the software are available in two resolutions – that is, regular and double. These images are contained in multi-part TIFF files, and have been slapped with the label “@2x”.

For the uninitiated, the “@2x” modifier originally debuted in iOS, especially when Apple wowed the world with the iPhone 4’s Retina Display. In order to make life easier for everyone during the transition to a handset that has a higher resolution, Apple decided to double the resolution of the iPhone display. Do you think what was discovered in the Messages beta is the real deal, or just a red herring?

Edwin Kee
Categories: Apple
Tags: Apple Inc