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They might have accidentally stumbled on a real topic though - I've observed my iPhone bringing my home WLAN to a grinding halt with iCloud backups...

There are sites that provide different images for different resolution devices. Bandwidth used when accessing those sites may in fact go way up when accessing from the Retina MBP compared to when accessing from a "normal" laptop.

The best I can come up with is adaptive streaming video. But I doubt anything streams higher than for output to 1080p and you certainly don't need a retina display matrix on a laptop to display 1080p.

It's page view trolling - I'd prefer not to have contributed a hit.

It all makes sense. Having a higher-resolution monitor increases the resolution of HD video! Somehow!

Thanks for the laugh. Wow.