POLL: What res do you typically run for web browsing/ general computing?

[Electric Amish]

1600x1200 at home (19" monitor)

1792x1344 at work (21" monitor)

amish

 

[glugglug]

Any analog monitor that can do 1600x1200 at a given refresh can do 1920x1200 at the same refresh (from the monitor's perspective, the signal timings are the same). You might run into a RAMDAC limitation if you're using an old video card though...

As far as the type being so "tiny" and the "young people's conspiracy..." I think a lot of people percieve things as being smaller when on a screen then on paper because they are still technophobic. A lot of people frequently read print in the newspaper that is smaller than things they claim to be to small to read on a screen. (And most computer dialogs are in sans-serif fonts rather than the serif fonts in papers that are technically more difficult to visually process).

When I see the resolutions most people use I wonder how they can get by with so little screen real-estate (I despise scroll bars 8) )

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
1024x768

17" LCD

? I've never seen a 17" LCD thats native at 1024. You're not running it at one of the lower resolutions and having it scale are you?

 

[MrCodeDude]

1280 x 1024 on my 21"Viewsonic P815
-- mrcodedude

 

[Insidious]

1280 x 1024 x 32 x 85Hz

(Viewsonic PF790)

 

[j@cko]

1280X960 @ 85hz

 

[magomago]

1024*768

 

[Swanny]

1600x1200 on my Sony G420 19"

 

[MJ99]

1024 at home (17")
1280 at work (21") would probably go smaller if it had a better cideo card.

question is interesting but the video card and size of you monitor and has a lot to do with the resaloution used.