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LCD replace for a 15.4" MacBook Pro
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Tacoma, WA
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Hi all,
I have a question regarding an LCD upgrade for a 15.4" MacBook Pro. Is it possible to replace the 1440x900 LCD w/ a 1920x1200 LCD?
~Nick
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Primary: Windtunnel (MDD) 1.25DP, 2G DDR, 128M Radeon 9000 Pro (PC Mod, have the original 64M Mac one for GP), Combo drive,
2x NEC 4X DVD-RW's, 2x Seagate 120G, 2x IBM 9.1G U2W in RAID 1, 2x Samsung 191T+ LCD's
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The deep backwoods of the PNW
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Possibly.
I did it with my clamshell...
However, our key was finding the correct edits to Open Firmware to trick into thinking the iBook into thinking it was running an XGA display (it thinks it's a 500MHz white iBook). At the very least, if you could trick a 15" into thinking it was a 17" (1680x1050), and you could find a 15" laptop LCD at that higher resolution, you could do the upgrade that way.
It's not *completely* impossible - the hardest parts are finding the right LCD cable, and trying to get the OS to realize that you're running a higher resolution. Unlike Windows and Linux, OS X makes it virtually impossible to force resolutions within the OS.
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