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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2005iBook Clamshell Resolutions
Hi- I've got a Graphite iBook Clamshell 366MHz, with 310MB memory, 30GB HDD and of course, the internal 12" screen. By default, this screen is only capable of 800x600 resoltuion. Is there any way to hack the available resolutions in OS X (I'm going to run 10.3) so that I can run 1024x768? Or is there any other hacks/mods to get this model to run at a higher resolution? I love it but 800x600 is kinda old-school. All sorts of other laptops with 12" screens can run at least 1024x768, why can't the iBook? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all! * posted via http://www.mymac.ws * please report abuse to http://xinbox.com/mymac > Hi- > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > it but 800x600 is kinda old-school. All sorts of other laptops with > 12" screens can run at least 1024x768, why can't the iBook? Because the old clamshell iBooks don't come with screens that are capable of doing 1024x768. That's part of what made them cheap. I suppose someone could come up with a way to convince the Mac to try to cram 1024x768 into a screen that can only really handle 800x600, but it'd be ugly with a capital "ug".  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ >>Hi- >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>there any way to hack the available resolutions in OS X (I'm going >>to run 10.3) so that I can run 1024x768? Unfortunately it is not possible. This is because the screen on your iBook is made up of 800 rows of 600 pixels. Each of those pixels can display a colour. If you look at your screen real close up you can probably see that it is made up of lots of little squares. Because there are only 800 by 600 squares, you cannot display any more than that. I know that many 12" screens run at a higher resolution, but they are generally either more modern, or were significantly more expensive when your iBook was released. Your best bet is to sell it on eBay and use the funds towards a new iBook. >> Hi- >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> it but 800x600 is kinda old-school. All sorts of other laptops with >> 12" screens can run at least 1024x768, why can't the iBook? > Because the old clamshell iBooks don't come with screens that are > capable of doing 1024x768. That's part of what made them cheap. > I suppose someone could come up with a way to convince the Mac to try to > cram 1024x768 into a screen that can only really handle 800x600, but > it'd be ugly with a capital "ug". The newest of the clamshell iBooks models is over 4 years old, 800x600 was a pretty normal LCD resolution then for a 12 inch display. I guess that is "old-school". The next iBook model was introduced 4 years ago next month in May, it came with a 1024x768 LCD display. But it was not a clamshell iBook. Joe > Hi- > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > there any way to hack the available resolutions in OS X (I'm going > to run 10.3) so that I can run 1024x768? No. An LCD panel has discrete, individual pixels. That's all you get, although you can interpolate to display *lower* resolutions. > Or is there any other > hacks/mods to get this model to run at a higher resolution? I love > it but 800x600 is kinda old-school. All sorts of other laptops with > 12" screens can run at least 1024x768, why can't the iBook? Because it is *older* than current laptops with 12" displays. It hasn't got more than the 800x600 pixels that is displays. |
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