[nagromme]

What resolution modes do you see listed in System Preferences > Displays? (Option-F15)

I'm contemplating a PowerMac with display, and Apple's specs pages only list SOME of the supported resolutions for their displays. (Non-native modes aren't sharp, but are relevant to some projects I'm working on.)

Thanks in advance!

[nagromme]

Someone at MacRumors posted the list:

2560 x 1600
2048 x 1280
1920 x 1200
1856 x 1160
1792 x 1120
1600 x 1200 (stretched)
1600 x 1200
1600 x 1000
1344 x 1008 (stretched)
1344 x 1008
1344 x 840
1280 x 960 (stretched)
1280 x 960
1280 x 800
1024 x 768 (stretched)
1024 x 768
1024 x 640
800 x 600 (stretched)
800 x 600
800 x 500
640 x 480 (stretched)
640 x 480

That's a lot of modes

[anthonyvthc]

Originally posted by nagromme:
Someone at MacRumors posted the list:

2560 x 1600
2048 x 1280
1920 x 1200
1856 x 1160
1792 x 1120
1600 x 1200 (stretched)
1600 x 1200
1600 x 1000
1344 x 1008 (stretched)
1344 x 1008
1344 x 840
1280 x 960 (stretched)
1280 x 960
1280 x 800
1024 x 768 (stretched)
1024 x 768
1024 x 640
800 x 600 (stretched)
800 x 600
800 x 500
640 x 480 (stretched)
640 x 480

That's a lot of modes

mmmmmmm.....640 x 480 (stretched) :drool:

[nagromme]

You could play checkers on those pixels!

[Jasoco]

I'd love to see that. Actually, iTunes visualizer would do that. Any reason iTunes visualizer doesn't have resolution options? Other visualizers do, but iTunes default one is just plain 640x480. Maybe in iTunes 5?

[Link]

On a widescreen, itunes' fullscreen is actually a little wider (from what I see) -- maybe I'm wrong but when I screencapped them once, it sure seemed that way.

[nagromme]

I wish iTunes' default vis had res options too, for faster machines and bigger screens.

Right now it stretches/distorts (look at the album art, or circles in the vis) to fill wide screens. Which means it looks best on an iBook or 12" PowerBook... and no other Macs!

Plus it's chunky on big screens.

[iREZ]

The Fry's around the corner from my house has the 30" on display with 1024 x 768 stretched. I tried changing it to see what it would look like to have illustrator and photoshop files running next to each other with a web page and ichat window floating around, but the weenies had put a lock on the display settings. When I asked who's idea it was to use it at such a low resolution, the guy claimed himself....I left him after he said that. Yesterday I saw him pitching the 30" to some shmoe who knew nothing about computers, get this, he told the customer "look how big the icons are, look how big the type is, I just grinned and walked on by.

[nagromme]

How sad. You're not paying 3 grand for big and blurry... they make TVs for that!

He didn't even use 1280x800 which at least would not have been distorted.

[ideasculptor]

He probably had a customer or two complain about small icons and fonts, and decided that it was an easier sell to the kind of customer that needs to ask questions about a $3K purchase (who buys something that expensive without doing a boatload of research online before walking into a store?).

Dumbass

[Rev-O]

on the topic of iTunes visualizers: I run Gaslight on my 30" display and it looks pretty swell (massive understatement). Even the stock visualizer looks nice. Yes, it is a bit pixely, but to offset that, it is freaking huge and you get monster framerates. I can live with it!

[nagromme]

Well the price is getting better... one more price drop might do it.

How close can you get to it before the far corners start to dim or color-shift? I've heard conflicting reports.

[Burke]

The most difficult pitch to potential consumers is the need to keep an LCD at its native res. Explaining it only elicits looks similar to those you see when you click your tongue in the presence of a dog.

[nagromme]

"There are modes that make everything on the screen bigger. But usually people don't use those modes, because the picture is much less sharp."