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intrepidcase

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Nov 13, 2019
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[EDIT: this post is completely irrelevant as I was mistaken on resolutions available in recent MBP's]

I am surprised that I couldn't find any other posts on this, but received my new 16" MBP last night and discovered that while the default scaled resolution is 1792 x 1120, the middle option is 1536 x 960 === 2x unscaled retina! I thought this was a real sore point on recent MBP's?

Very happy about this as I am coming from a 2013 15" MBP which i ran at the default 2x unscaled. The tech docs on apple.com until recently still showed the old 15" scaled resolutions and now it's been updated but still doesn't list this 1536 x 960 resolution - maybe because it's "unscaled"? weird. https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/specs/

Related questions - what's the purpose/difference between 59.94hz and 60hz? (other than 0.06hz ...)
 

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lol, I had thought that an unscaled 2x option was not available on recent MBP's. I just went back and verified that I was completely mistaken, having come from a 2013 MBP ... sigh. please disregard.
 
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