Exporting jpegs from llustrator for retina monitors

I'm a web designer that designs my mockups in AI (yes, in AI and I love it) and then sends those native files over to my programmer when it gets time to code. We've been working this way for years and he's quite comfortable with that, so no issues there. My issues come when exporting the draft versions in jpeg for my clients to approve of the designs and go through revisions cycles from there.
Up until five months ago, I was still using a pre-retina MBP but since upgrading, it's been a real nightmare seeing what those jpegs look like on screen and I can only image the face some of my clients will also be making when seeing those files.
Now I know that AI cannot increase the image resolution without increasing the image dimension as well on export, and since I don't want to work in Photoshop (for many reasons related to workflow and time), what other options do I have? Does anyone have a workflow that I'm maybe missing out on?
I generally create my mockups at 1920px, so naturally if I export them at 144dpi or whatever, it will double to pixel dimension and I don't want that - I'd like my clients to be able to view the actual size of the elements.
Anything suggestions or is this a dead end as long as I use AI?

Interesting. Well, when I think about it, I have had one client complain recently that a mockup for an HTML newsletter was very "low quality" (I always export at 100% quality and Art Optimized). I assumed he was on retina and thus that was why he was mentioning the quality.
Either way, I will definitely look into it, perhaps directly with Apple, because this is not only draining in terms of time + energy but it is also driving me bonkers and defeats the purpose of even having a retina display in some sense...
Thanks again.

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