> Can you help me understand what that means? Is it not possible to run it at the "full" resolution? Will it be scaled to what equates to the 1800x1169 that you mention?
Yes, Apple doesn't provide for running at the native resolution out of the box (utilities like SwitchResX make those options available, though I don't know if they work with the M1s yet), all the display modes they propose are scaled.
Historically there was a default mode at 2x scaling with 2 above and 2 below, apparently on the M1s the default 2x scaling is the second-to-last and you only have one mode above.
So on the 14" with a physical 3024 x 1964 display, the modes provided natively by macOS are:
1800 x 1169 (1.68x)
1512 x 982 (2x, default)
1352 x 878 (2.24x)
1147 x 745 (2.64x)
1024 x 665 (2.95x)
Don't ask me why they selected these wonky-ass resolutions aside from the 2x one though. The 1024 one could make some sense but it seems like adjusted luck: the 16" bottoms out at 1168 instead. Could be a question of pixel density I guess but you'd have to run the computation.
I think on older machines you could hold down the option key and get a secret menu that let you set more options - not sure if that's still the case though.
Yes, Apple doesn't provide for running at the native resolution out of the box (utilities like SwitchResX make those options available, though I don't know if they work with the M1s yet), all the display modes they propose are scaled.
Historically there was a default mode at 2x scaling with 2 above and 2 below, apparently on the M1s the default 2x scaling is the second-to-last and you only have one mode above.
So on the 14" with a physical 3024 x 1964 display, the modes provided natively by macOS are:
Don't ask me why they selected these wonky-ass resolutions aside from the 2x one though. The 1024 one could make some sense but it seems like adjusted luck: the 16" bottoms out at 1168 instead. Could be a question of pixel density I guess but you'd have to run the computation.