quick question - imac screen res?

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neon

macrumors member

Original poster

• Mar 28, 2004

• #1

hi all

i just changed from using a g4 pm to an imac at work and i just wanted to email myself some nice wallpaper... hehe... so if anyone could tell me what the standard screen res is (i'm like, not at work on a sunday 😉 ) i would be most grateful 🙂

its 17in btw

 

Colonel Panik

macrumors regular

• Mar 28, 2004

• #2

Greetings Neon,

The highest resolution for the iMac 17" is 1440 x 900. And beautiful it is too.

 

HexMonkey

Administrator emeritus

• Mar 28, 2004

• #3

From http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html:

17-inch display resolutions: 1440 by 900 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio

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Using a slightly large picture won't be a problem though. Mac OS X uses some pretty good scaling technology. 🙂

 

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neon

macrumors member

Original poster

• Mar 28, 2004

• #4

Colonel Panik said:

Greetings Neon,

The highest resolution for the iMac 17" is 1440 x 900. And beautiful it is too.

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muchos gracias! now i can set about some resizing 🙂

 

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neon

macrumors member

Original poster

• Mar 28, 2004

• #5

HexMonkey said:

From http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html:



Using a slightly large picture won't be a problem though. Mac OS X uses some pretty good scaling technology. 🙂

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ahh! well aint that clever! 😉

most of my pics are 1280*960 or 2048*1536 (so they need resizing for email anyhow..)

 

blue&whiteman

macrumors 65816

• Mar 28, 2004

• #6

HexMonkey said:

From http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html:



Using a slightly large picture won't be a problem though. Mac OS X uses some pretty good scaling technology. 🙂

Click to expand...

you got that right. I use a wallpaper thats 1024x768 and my screen res is 1920x1440 but it looks great and is being stretched almost 4 times its size. not grainy at all.