M17x and Apple 30" Monitor

Please forgive if this has been covered in another thread because I couldn't seem to find anything.

I have an Apple 30" monitor that has 2560x1600 resolution. I really would like to pick up the M17x to pair with it.

Does the R1 have HDMI 1.3 (the version that Dell told me can support 2650x1600.)

Thanks in advance.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/408425-m17x-hdmi.html. I found this from Scook, and he's extremely reputable. I don't have any idea if this can be bypassed or modded, or whatever though. You could pick up an R2 as well.

 

Most 2560 by XXXX monitors do not RECEIVE higher than 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 via the HDMI port. It's a little known fact buried in the technical monitor documents. U2711, U3011, U3010 and the various HP models all have this issue and likely more if you can find the technical specifications. Basically your problem is twofold, can the PC output the higher HDMI signal, and can the monitor receive a higher signal. Then you get into the chicken and egg syndrome where no card or laptop outputs a higher signal because no monitor recognizes it, and then no monitor recognizes it because no one builds a higher end HDMI output from a PC. Couple that with the very small market for higher resolution and you are just going to get next to zero support from the manufacturers for a while. HDMI is intended for home theater. The higher resolution specs are nice on paper but that is all because no transmit and receive pairing utilizes the higher resolution. All the mainstream intended destinations for a HDMI signal are 1920 or lower, and all the sources for said signal from players and pc's are tuned to the same market.

Go DVI-D or DP for a 2560 digital signal.

 

Looks like a display port to dual link adapter might do the trick. I think this is the way I will go and see if it works.

 

THANKS FXi...I posted before seeing your response. I think I will try the DP to dual link adapter and see if that works.

Appreciate the response.

 

Just be sure it's dual link. There are a lot of DP to single link adapters out there and folks get frustrated when that fails. Has to be a dual link DVI to support that high resolution.

 

Is the the latest Cinema Display? Those only have the miniDP input...