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I'm running at 1280x1024 on a 21" CRT. and it's just about comfortable. Someone said they were running 1600 on a 20" TFT (admittedly that's about the same or bigger as a 21" CRT) but I couldn't do that. The fonts would just be too small unless I bumped the font size up. Can't see the point straining one's eyes to see tiny print' date=' that's all [/quote']

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I was just wondering (not being technical) if you were referring to brain-strain from screen contrast (or similar) rather than font-size. Apols if any confusion.

Thanks

Mo

D600 here, same res as already posted. It is not that small Just has good quality screen

Got a 20" and 19" monitor at home, 1600x1200 for both at good refresh rates which is perfectly fine. The trick is to have the right resolution for the size of the monitor and distance you are away from it

800x600 sure is the most common, 1024*768 next, the rest is too variable to really worry about

800x600 is XP's almost standard resolution these days and the next step up works well with most 15" & 17" monitors, TFTs. I am surprised the percentage of 1280*1024 isn't a little higher though as higher quality TFTs tend to be that res.

As for fonts being too small - you can tweak windows to sort that out, so you get the correct size fonts using more pix per height unit.

I know about using larger fonts - but I go the other way and reduce the size of the menu bars etc. under my current resolution. You need pretty fancy equipment to run 1600 without any flicker, so I like my solution - plus I am slightly shortsighted, so can't use really teeny stuff.

I know about using larger fonts - but I go the other way and reduce the size of the menu bars etc. under my current resolution. You need pretty fancy equipment to run 1600 without any flicker, so I like my solution - plus I am slightly shortsighted, so can't use really teeny stuff.

Not a problem with a DVI flat panel

smug :hat:

TBH, Nick, at 20 inches viewable, the actual "size" is not really different to my old 15" TFT running 1024x768.

1900 x 1200

or 1400 x 1050.

Handy tip, I now design for 1024 but make 800x600 usable. The tip aspect is downloading firefox, it has a handy resize plugin. Allows you to have a few open and set the res; saves guessing I guess.

I must admit higher resolution also means having to have a pretty fast gfx card, even for standard windows use.

The Radeon 9800XT does a decent enough job though

Cant afford to upgrade my machine at the moment due to the car and all that, but the 9600 could not drive the monitors at that kinda resolution without dropping it's refresh to unacceptable levels.

It's very nice to have dual-mon setups for doing R&D work, one for outputs and so forth, the other for the environment. There are other mixes available

I must download that plugin Colin, handy tip

I don't know if this helps but at home I have 1024x768 and in the office I have 1200x1024 (I think).

When we prepare our lessons for online broadcast we aim at 1024x768 as it's what most standard aspect laptops supplied by LEAs seem to use by default.

ColinD's probably the best person to answer this. Isn't screen resolution in the HTTP request header?

Depends on the browser, but usually it is

I was on 800 x 600 until last month then changed to 1024 x 768 and much prefer it. Wouldn't like to go any smaller with my 17" basic thingy writing would be too small for me!

on my laptop i am running 1280x800 and the shed is running 1024x768

about 20" tft versus 20" crt there would be quite a size difference imho

my 15.4" widescreen seems about the same size as the 17" 4:3 crt

a 20" tft would be equivilent to a 22" or 23" crt i think.

Running at 1680 x 1050 on a 20.1" Widescreen TFT @ home

But works laptop only runs at 1024 x 768 :(

Just tried 1600x1200 - ouch! Even with larger fonts it made me squint. Back on 1280x1024 now - can see again

I have the opposite of you, Steve, my home laptop will only do 1024.

1680 x 1050 - widescreen baby!

My new 15" Laptop will only do 1024x768.

My PC (17" CRT) will only do 1024x768 while staying above 85hz (I can't view a CRT below 85hz or it makes me feel sick!).

Laptop is running 1600x1200 (yum! ) and my 17" TFT on my work desktop is running 1280x1024, but only because my graphics card won't do any higher :(

Chris

Just got a laptop a month ago, it's ace!

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 card outputting 1400 x 1050. Nice.

Oh how I love gadgets.

I can't into thishi res stuff - it hurts my head! I run 1024x768 on a 17" tft at home and at work. My developers all insist on running 1280x1024 which i hate when i sit with them :(

Whenever they are not looking i change the res back down to 1024x768 which messes up all their icons and they get the right hump

If someone changed my settings without my permission I'd not only have a right go at them, but stop helping them from thereon.

You have any idea how much grief it causes to change resolution? Visual Studio magically feks about with everything when you do that if it's running.

That said, they shouldn't leave their machine unlocked in the first place - dumb of them...

If someone changed my settings without my permission I'd not only have a right go at them' date=' but stop helping them from thereon.

You have any idea how much grief it causes to change resolution? Visual Studio magically feks about with everything when you do that if it's running.

That said, they shouldn't leave their machine unlocked in the first place - dumb of them...[/quote']

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