As I type this, I'm sitting ~32 inches away from a 27-inch monitor with a resolution of 1920x1080, or 81.59 PPI. At that distance, my monitor would need to pack at least 107 PPI (pixels per inch ...

Super high resolution displays are becoming more common on Windows laptops, but densely packing pixels into a small screen comes with some trade-offs. The resulting image can be great—text looks ...

The current standard for high-end displays is '4K' — so called because its 3,840-by-2,160 resolution delivers four times the number of pixels as 1,920-by-1,080 HD (8,294,400 versus 2,073,600).

Newegg stocks multiple 27-inch displays with a 2560x1440 resolution in the $850-$1600 range. At 108 PPI, that's high enough to qualify as a Retina display at a nominal 32-inch (80cm) viewing distance.