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Author Topic: What is your computer's monitor resolution? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-28-2005 02:23 PM                     Seriously, is there anyone still running 800x600 resolution out there? I would think the vast majority of people would be running 1024x768 by now, but would like to get feedback regarding potentially changing the size of images permitted on the forums here. Please reply with what resolutions your various computers are running at. On Windows, simply right click the desktop and go to PROPERTIES, then click the SETTINGS tab.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-28-2005 02:28 PM                     I'm currently running 1152 x 864. That's a comfortable resolution for my eyes. Any smaller and I need to squint.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-28-2005 02:58 PM                        Remember that not everyone maximizes his web browser to fill the screen. I run anywhere from 1152x900 to 1600x1200 on various systems, but I rarely have a GUI browser window that is more than 900 pixels wide (I prefer tall, relatively narrow, browser windows). I doubt that I'm unusual in this regard. When using Lynx, I use a terminal that is 80 characters wide by whatever the height of the screen is.  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 10-28-2005 03:11 PM                     1280x854 on my laptop 1280x1024 on my desktop  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-28-2005 03:13 PM                     1600 x 1200, native resolution of the LCD panel.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-28-2005 03:46 PM                     By the end of the year I will probably have nothing less than 1024x768. At the moment I have: 1024x768 on a cheap Goodmans LCD panal on a Mac Mini. This is what I would usually use for viewing websites now. 800x600, or sometimes 640x480, on a Pentium II pc with an old 15 inch CRT. Runs Windows 2000, 98 and Linux. 1280x1024 on an Apple 17 inch Studio Display LCD, 1600x 1024 on a SGI 1600SW with Multilink adapter, 1280x1024 on an old Apple Multiple Scan 20 CRT monitor that I scrounged from work that is so heavy that I can hardly lift the thing. All of these are on an Apple dual G4 system. Mac Mini and Goodmans monitor purchased new, everything else either secondhand, or donated to me. Pentium II has been patched up many times, and really is on it's last legs; will buy something to replace it when I've got the money. When that happens it will probably share the Goodmans monitor with the Mac Mini. The Mini was bought as a cheap general purpose relacenent for the Pentium, until I can afford a new pc, but I still have to use the old machine for certain things. The G4 is mainly used for working on photographs and DVDs. It can also drive a PAL or NTSC television with composite or s-video, which can be useful to check how a DVD will look on a normal television, though I don't have a working one at the moment. The big Apple CRT is in store most of the time, and only brought out when I need it. At work I have a Dell pc with a Dell LCD, running at 1024x768. I use Internet Explorer on pc, and Firefox on Mac.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-28-2005 04:05 PM                        800 x 600 on my laptop (PowerBook 1400) 1024 x 768 at work Have to check desktops at home.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-28-2005 04:07 PM                        1680 x 1050  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-28-2005 04:18 PM                        1280 x 1024 or higher.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-28-2005 04:28 PM                     quote: Scott Norwood Remember that not everyone maximizes his web browser to fill the screen. Well that's not my problem, and those people can easily remedy it by maximising their browser, so that's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned. Keep 'em coming please.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-28-2005 05:25 PM                  I set mine to 1280 x 800 or 1680 x 1050 depending on how small the text appears. Native is 1920 x 1200.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-28-2005 05:37 PM                        1024x768 I use a 17" screen here at work. My home machine is a 19" screen, I think it's higher res than that. Theatre has a 15" monitor that's 800x600 but I don't usually do any websurfing there because it's a dialup modem. (Even if I do, I have mastered the use of scroll bars.)  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-28-2005 06:04 PM                    Usually 1600x1200  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-28-2005 06:24 PM                     1680 X 1050 on my notebook's 15.4" screen. 1800 X 1440 on my 21" Viewsonic P815 desktop monitor, hooked up to my old Dell 1GHz PC. 1600 X 1200 times 2, dual monitor setup at work (two 19" CRTs hooked up to a Pentium D 840 system) The next monitor I'll buy will likely be a 23" or 24" TFT LCD screen with 1920 X 1200 native resolution. When I buy a HDTV monitor, I will insist on both computer monitor connections and HDMI connections. Also, anything under 1920 X 1080 native resolution equals no friggin' sale.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-28-2005 06:34 PM                        Home desktops are 832 x 624 and 1024 x 768.  |  IP: Logged

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