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indi
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Posted: 24th May 2005 21:42
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I was doing some print work on my older 800 mhz g4 with 1.5 gigs of ram and i noticed that the screen res was a little different. I looked into it and found it was one notch up from the usual size i have, then i explored viewing the forum at the highest res this older machine can get up to.

click the image for a laugh, its so illegible at that size. 2048 x 1538

I have to check my g5 now with only one monitor as two of them reduces the screen res.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 24th May 2005 22:03
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wow, macs are cool

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 24th May 2005 22:15
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My god that's seriously gigantic Now do you understand why you check the avabile display modes BEFORE setting them??? I actually saw a blitz proggy trying to run at that resolution (2048 x 1538)

...which of course is a whole new topic all by itself

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 24th May 2005 22:20
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Looks good here I do quite like the "wide-screen" format of the Macs. Your dock is ultra tiny though!

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Lukas W
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Posted: 24th May 2005 22:22
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how many hertz can you run with that resolution?

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Raven
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Posted: 25th May 2005 00:14
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60Hz..
you know the desktop resolution all depends on the size of the monitor and person using it.

I find 2x1K to be a very good resolution on a 23" Monitor

An example more to what people would be used to here though.
14" 1280x1024 is illegiable but at 17" it's resonable, though on that 1600x1200 is illegiable but at 21" it's fine.

So just about the hardware.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 25th May 2005 02:07
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ive always used 1280x1024 @ 60hz on my 17" CRT.
2 days ago i switched to 1024x768 @ 85hz.
now guess was i surprised, everything moves so fast, and is so cool!
i can sit all day just moving the mouse wathcing the arrow move across the screen!

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Eric T
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Posted: 25th May 2005 02:10
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I do 1152x864 @ 75hz. Its really comfortable on the eys and works great on my monitor. But that 2048x1538 would be awesome to use.... if only my monitor could take it

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David R
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TFT here.... So I can't use anything above 1024x768 (my display's limit- which is annoying. Plus its only 15" ) . Oh well.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 25th May 2005 03:48
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haha

on me dads laptop he runs 1152x864 @ 80hz i think.
and that laptop runs DoomIII at High res mode with 1024x768 with NO lag though he doesn't use AA... but its quite cool

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David T
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Posted: 25th May 2005 04:55
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I like 1152 x 900 on my 17in TFT - just right right balance between 1280 and 1024.

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Megaton Cat
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Do people all the sudden think they're too good for 1024x768???

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I agree with Megatron, I still ues 1024x768, it's more than enough!
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My old 19" CRT can run at over 2000, but is only for people who want to be able to see past their nose come their 40th birthday Personally I've used 1600x1200 on >=19" screens for some years, and love it. Currently my main machine has a 1600x1200 panel using DVI on a 20.3" screen with 16ms response (fastest I could find at the time for the resolution). Tis nice. Especially when you rotate it and use 1200x1600 mode for viewing things like this forum. Tops. Although my laptop knocks out something like 1920x1200 at 15.4" widescreen. You would have thought this would have been too small, but everything is seriously crisp and clear. Plus I'm not Mr Magoo so don't suffer any problems.

As far as I'm concerned I find it hard to program in anything less than 1600x1200. Then again I have had over half a decade to get used to the resolution. This is also in Visual Studio though, so you need a bit more space a lot of the time. Work is kind of annoying (1280x800 or whatever on 17") although at least they upped the specs lately (3Ghz P4 effort) and everything is now in black. Nice.

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Posted: 26th May 2005 00:53
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Quote: "Do people all the sudden think they're too good for 1024x768???"


Yes - to pixellated on my screen.

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I use 1280x1024 on my 17inch crt. I just cant go down to 1024x768 anymore.. its too blocky and everything is too big. When you're trying to work in a modeler, photoshop or even just working with exceptionally long lines of text you learn to rejoice over every extra pixel you can fit on your screen. I just couldnt imagine doing my photoshop artwork in 1024x768 anymore x_x

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Benjamin
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I use 800x600. Anything above hurts my eyes after a while, meaning I have to take a break, which just wastes time that I could be spending programming.


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I use 2560 x 1024 - two 17" monitors side by side. I set it up like that initially just to see if I could but now I would be lost without it.


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Posted: 26th May 2005 10:35
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Although I don't have resolutions that big, two 1024x768 monitors is great one for music.....

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Posted: 26th May 2005 20:40
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Personally I quite liked an option I had for my main monitor. Basically a frame that allows 4 of the same monitor (2 on top, 2 on bottom). Basically gives an overall size of 40.2" diagonal (not including black borders around screens of course) with a total resolution of 3200x2400. Although the three screens in a row frame is also pretty neat, giving a resolution of 4800x1200. Mmmmm. Hmmm, I can also rotate for a 1200x1600 resolution. If you did the same thing for the quad frame then you would get 2400x3200. Even better for forums....

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