Highres screen on 15" MBP - supported resolutions?

[spokk]

Hello

I am looking to pick up a 15" macbook pro and since I will be using it for coding (in both OSX and Win7) i am looking at the high res screen.

However I also want to use the machine for gaming in Windows 7 and in some cases I will probably need to lower the resoultion to get better framerates. Which resolutions are supported on this screen? I cannot find any documention on this. Also are all modes supported in Windows and does for example 1280x800 still look somewhat ok on the high res screen?

Anyone with the high res 15" model care to answer?

 

[GGJstudios]

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

 

[ksmith173]

640x480
640x480 (Stretched)
720x480
720x480 (Stretched)
800x500
800x600
800x600 (Stretched)
1024x640
1024x768
1024x768 (Stretched)
1152x720
1280x800
1280x1024
1280x1024 (Stretched)
1440x852
1440x852 (Stretched)
1680x1050

Notice there is no 1440x900. 1280x800 looks fine to me. Not sure about the availability in windows.

 

[spokk]

thanks!

the specs for the high res screen are not up on apples page so i guess those are taken from OSX display config?

hmm no 1440x900, why can this be? By stretched this means fullscreen?

Can anyone confirm the displaymodes in windows?

 

[spokk]

bump

 

[spokk]

anyone

 

[ksmith173]

the specs for the high res screen are not up on apples page so i guess those are taken from OSX display config?

hmm no 1440x900, why can this be? By stretched this means fullscreen?

Yes, they are taken from the display config. Stretched means it is stretched to fill the screen. Not sure why there is no 1440x900.

 

[spokk]

ok, thanks.. i suppose 1280x800 would work in bootcamped Windows also then..?

For gaming this would probably be a good resolution..

 

[a4209797]

but in osx does any non native res look distorted?

 

[ksmith173]

ok, thanks.. i suppose 1280x800 would work in bootcamped Windows also then..?

For gaming this would probably be a good resolution..

I would assume that it would be an available resolution under windows.

but in osx does any non native res look distorted?

They all look ok to me. Some do not use the entire screen real-estate (1440x852 for example). The stretched ones look a little odd of course.