I find it absurd that the iPad gets this glorious screen, when the highest level of content is 1080p. Yet you cant resolve a whole page in Word on a 13 MBA or a 15 MBP. Come on Apple, lets get a glorious screen in the laptop line!
I really can't see how Apple would stick a crappy TN panel in the new Pros. I still have a hard time adjusting to the fact that we may not even have a retina display in the Pros and the iPad 3 would have a better screen still. It's proposterous. The Macbooks need something special in the screen department this year to make them on par/better than the iPad 3. I'm thinking OLED, that's more like it.....I wish.
While I cherish high quality screens and personally would like to see an IPS screen on an Apple notebook (one can dream), it is worth noting that Apple notebooks rate very highly when it comes to comparisons with screens on other notebooks.
However, according to
PCPer:
"Ultrabooks cause problems for displays from two angles. One is size. The strict limit on a laptops maximum thickness places strict limits on what will fit inside the laptop - including the display panel.
Another issue is cost. At CES I asked a representative of a manufacturer that produces both laptops and tablets why they can squeeze such awesome displays into their tablets, but cant do the same in their laptops. His response? The other components in a laptop are too expensive.
You could see the results of this on the show floor. Over at Samsung, for example, I checked out the new Series 5 and Series 9 ultrabooks. They were both nice. But I was struck by the Series 7 Chronos, a more conventional line of laptops. These laptops offer brilliant high-resolution displays that seemed to have much better viewing angles than the displays on Samsungs ultrabooks.
This is an issue not only because of other laptops, but also because of smartphones and tablets. While laptop display quality has been stalled for years these more portable devices have been making huge strides. Several 1080p tablets were shown at CES, while smartphones are dabbling in 720p. Its also not uncommon to see tablets and smartphones use IPS display technology.
Eventually, consumers are going to start wondering why they can view 1080p video on their $600 tablet but not on their $800 ultrabook. And as consumers notice this, theyll start to more strongly prefer tablets to laptops for content consumption - which probably isnt the result Intel is hoping for."
16:9 aspect though really grew on me with the 11" MBA. It just looks...sleeker and more modern whereas the big tall 15" MBPs look last year. As long as the resolution is respectable losing 150 pixels over a 16:10 panel doesn't bother me.
No thanks. I prefer the 16:10 aspect ratio for general office use. 16:9 is best when viewing movies, like on my HDTV.
TV shortly along with the Zaggfolio and other accessories. 
