1600 x 900 resolution

Hey all-
I have a roughly 3 year old black MacBook. I just bought a Dell monitor with a native res of 1600x900, and my MacBook will not give me that option for a resolution.
I am connected via VGA, using an adaptor from MonoPrice (non-Apple, but it works great...).
Graphics chipset is the Intel GMA 950 (built in, 64 mb shared).
Do I have options? Or is it simply time for a computer upgrade?
Thanks!

Mirrored. I do a ton of external monitor/projector use with my Mac and am quite familiar the settings. I noticed that when plugged into my MacBook it would not show the monitor model, but it did on my finance and brothers MacBooks (it also worked in 1600x900 on theirs). Turned out to be a bad adapter...odd that it worked on theirs and not mine....
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