Illustrator is Shrinking JPG when Imported from Photoshop

I just recently started working on a MAC (have been a PC user for years) and I have never had this problem with the DPI/PPI. Not sure if it may be a Mac issue, a CC issue or user error on my part.
I create an image in photoshop ie 1900x600 300PPI, no resampling. I import into Illustrator to the same size 1900x600 and the image is about 1/4 the size of the board. So I go back into photoshop and change the PPI to 1200PPI with the same result. The only way to get the image the save size it to quadrupule the size of the image in terms of pixels. This seems rediculous to me and there must be an easier/more logical way of doing this. i never had this issue on any of my other computers where I have a physical copy of the master collection which makes me think this could posisbly be a CC issue.
Any thoughts?

What you are explaining is different. Anythign online is automatically 72dpi unless there is a download for a larger version so anything you bring in will already be small. Then on top of that, if you a dragging straight from google images for example, it will grab the thumbnail image and place it on the artboard. You best option would be to either get images from a stock site, create your own or if you need to image trace an image from online, Right click the image, Copy Image URL, paste it into the URL bar and then save the image directly to your computer. Do not drag and drop on your desktop as the image (depending on your computer) will optomize the image to a low-rez image. Then open the image in Illustrator and image trace. Keep in mind that you have image tracing options you can use to get a better quality trace if needed.
Now back to my question, can anyone help?

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