In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

he was looking at a separate display, not an all in one mac, which
means he didn't consider retina displays.

Then why did you drag in Retina displays?

because they're much higher quality, much sharper and overall better.

But, as you have now explained, irrelevant to the discussion of
PeterN's needs. So why did you drag them in?

i said no such thing.

in fact, i said the *opposite*.

You wrote:

"he was looking at a separate display, not an all in one mac, which
means he didn't consider retina displays."

As you well know he *couldn't* consider retina displays as there
were/are none independent of the computer.

he could have. he chose not to. as did you.