[manderley]

Plenty of Windows laptops with good quality IPS screens were available 10 years ago, even 13" models.

And I primarily remember pre-Retina Apple for only offering laptops with very low screen resolutions.

[spectre3d]

1920x1200 on the 2009 17” MacBook Pro, pre-Retina.

The consumer MacBooks and iBooks before them definitely had frustratingly low resolutions.