What's realistic about that? The 11" and 13" Air both got bumped over the 13" "pro", but I'm still stuck with my pricier 13" "Pro" model with screen real estate below what consumer grade PC laptops offer for half the price.
This is a good point. I guess the only explanation that doesn't involve cheaping out or questionable market segmentation attempts is that they don't see a jump to 1440*900 / 128 DPI as worthwhile and would prefer something more.
Me, I like my 133 DPI Thinkpad for when I need screen space, so I'm pretty neutral on this :)