Two Huge Displays on Macbook Pro?

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I am looking at buying a Macbook Pro but I have one question. Is the Macbook Pro able to power two 40-42 inch LCD Tv's displaying the same image at the same time, running at 1920x1080p ? What about one 50 inch?

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According to:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/graphics.html

You get three options for using your display: dual-display mode, video mirroring, and lid-closed mode.

So it looks like a NO to have 2 external displays.

The 17" MacBook Pro's native resolution is 1920 x 1200, and the page touts their ability to connect to Apple's Cinema Displays, the larger two of which support that resolution, so I would be inclined to say YES to the single 50" TV.
 
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OK thank you. I needed it for my business, but the one 50 inch might be better. I just check the sales paper and they have a good 50 inch TV for not too much money but the problem is that its resolution is only 1366x768, would the Macbook pro be able to display a full screen on that tv without any distortion?
 
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I dont see why not... the size of the tv/monitor has nothing to do with what it can output to... its the total resolution of the displays (how many pixels the GPU can handle).

Like two 1080p TV's would be a combined resolution of 3840x2160 (thats how many pixels it has to reproduce). Myself... I think a 8600 can pull that off, easy.

1366x768 is a cake walk... the MBP 15" already does 1440x900.


We are also talking about DVI here... through DVI should be ZERO distortion, if there is any... its going to be the TV's fault.
 
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The MBP can't natively as it only has one DVI output. There are DVI adapter splitter solutions out there, so you might look into that.
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1403

What do you need the displays for? If you're just running videos, the 50" model's resolution is fine, but not full HD.
 

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