The Tech Report takes a look on an Ivy Bridge ultrabook from Asus
No, really. Ask your Mac-using friends. Some of them might already be toting Apple's new 15" Retina MacBook Pro, basking in the glory of its 2880x1800 IPS display. This isn't a cheap computer we're talking about, but at least it exists. Good luck finding something equivalent on the PC side. Rumor has it Apple is prepping a cheaper, 13" model with a 2560x1600 resolution, too.Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A Ultrabook Review
Or ask your tablet-using friends. The latest premium slates all have gorgeous IPS screens with high pixel densities: 2048x1536 for the new iPad and 1920x1200 for the latest Transformer Pad from Asus. Heck, even the original iPad had an IPS display, and it came out over two years ago. Tablets and high-quality IPS panels seem to be inextricably tied together—most of the time, anyway.
Now look at your PC laptop. Take a good look at it. Oh, it might have the world's fastest hardware roaring away under the hood. It might even be quicker than your desktop. But that's no guarantee that the manufacturer hasn't saddled it with a TN panel, a 1366x768 display resolution, and a reflective coating—the trifecta of disappointing, generic blandness that pervades almost all Windows notebooks today. Even if you had the good fortune to find a machine with a 1080p screen, you probably had no way to avoid the the poor viewing angles and ugly color shifting of TN panel technology.
