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MacBook Pro with Windows XP and the 30" Cinema Display
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Does anyone know if Windows XP on the MacBook Pro supports the 30" Cinema Displays native resolution?
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Yes, of course, why wouldn't it?
The graphics driver that Apple bundles with Boot Camp is just ATi's generic Catalyst driver AFAIK.
(Last edited by mduell; Apr 5, 2006 at 07:55 PM.
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The ATI driver is not entirely the same, or the folks who were doing XP before Boot Camp was announced wouldn't have had so much trouble getting accelerated video working. The Toshiba Tecra and Acer Travelmate 8200 that are hardware identical to the macbook in many ways (even using the same device ID for the video) -- the drivers from those machines wouldn't work on XP on a macbook. So as is often the case with windows laptops, the OEM has taken the vendor's reference design, modified it in some way and ships their own driver.
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The drivers are modified to talk to the Mac ROM on the graphics card without having to use the Windows ROM which would cause the card to not work under Tiger. The drivers also support EFI.
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Actually, the days of 'Mac ROM' and Wintel ROM for video cards is over.
Instead what we have are video cards whose ROM supports the old BIOS standard versus cards that support EFI - and I don't know enough about EFI to say that those are not one and the same. From what I've read so far from Intel, there is no difference.
The old Mac ROM cards weren't Mac ROM because Macs were PPC, but because they used Open Firmware from Sun and OF had to know how to address the card, just as a PC BIOS does on boot.
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Originally Posted by lizardgator
Does anyone know if Windows XP on the MacBook Pro supports the 30" Cinema Displays native resolution?
I'd really like to know, too. If anyone has actually verified it (not just presume that it would work), please post.
I'm seriously considering replacing my three machines with one MBP, so the 30" under Windows would be nice to know.
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Yes it does... I have Windows XP installed on a 2GHz MBP and the I've got the 30 incher set as my primary display with the full resolution. Gaming and everything is good to go on the primary display... you do have to go into the ATI driver settings to switch the primary display. Right clicking on the desktop and trying to switch the 30 incher to the primary display does not work on my setup... to do this you have to go into the ATI driver settings.
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Originally Posted by vmarks
Actually, the days of 'Mac ROM' and Wintel ROM for video cards is over.
Instead what we have are video cards whose ROM supports the old BIOS standard versus cards that support EFI - and I don't know enough about EFI to say that those are not one and the same. From what I've read so far from Intel, there is no difference.
The old Mac ROM cards weren't Mac ROM because Macs were PPC, but because they used Open Firmware from Sun and OF had to know how to address the card, just as a PC BIOS does on boot.
So how come none of the On Mac crowd could get EFI supporting ATI 1600 drivers to work?
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Originally Posted by trancepriest
Yes it does... I have Windows XP installed on a 2GHz MBP and the I've got the 30 incher set as my primary display with the full resolution. Gaming and everything is good to go on the primary display... you do have to go into the ATI driver settings to switch the primary display. Right clicking on the desktop and trying to switch the 30 incher to the primary display does not work on my setup... to do this you have to go into the ATI driver settings.
Thats great news! I'm ordering an MBP today.
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Originally Posted by trancepriest
Yes it does... I have Windows XP installed on a 2GHz MBP and the I've got the 30 incher set as my primary display with the full resolution. Gaming and everything is good to go on the primary display... you do have to go into the ATI driver settings to switch the primary display. Right clicking on the desktop and trying to switch the 30 incher to the primary display does not work on my setup... to do this you have to go into the ATI driver settings.
Cool! Thanks for the info.
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MBP 2.12 GHz running bootcamp, and currently it does NOT work with my 30in apple display
supWTF
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went out for a run told my roomates if they fixed the problem i'd buy them dinner... apparently all I had to do was turn the computer compleltely off, not just restart it
good news, works perfectly
bad news, i'm out $40
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Originally Posted by Super Mario
So how come none of the On Mac crowd could get EFI supporting ATI 1600 drivers to work?
Probably because Apple's OEM card's device id is different.
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