Screen Resolution

[slice of heaven]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

800 x 600 here.

When I tried to enlarge the size it goes off centre and you can only see 75% of the page!

So, 800 x 600 is the best I can get.

Youll have to adjust your monitor and maybe your window size BD

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Huh?

[slice of heaven]

Even I can do that BD

[ving (David)]

your monitor will have adjustment buttons on it ken so you can resize and move the image up/down and left/right (alt/az ). oh and brightness and contrast...

[Striker (Tony)]

I run mine 1024 x 768 32bit colour with text on Medium size on a 19" monitor...

I dont like High Rez webpages.....their too small.

Its personal preference.

Even though I have a very powerful computer I actualy used to run my 3D online games on 800 x 600 with the same set up...this gave me more FPS and larger targets to shoot...its actualy a lot better to run low rez then high rez for 3D shooters..keep that in mind if you want to take the online gaming scene seriously.

[frogman (Anthony Lord)]

1024X768 on my two monitors.. i run extended desktop so i can browse on one and chat and watch videos/movis on the other!

Extended desktop rules...
Anthony

[ving (David)]

well my extended desktop is my TV... movie on the tv and whatever on the monitor

[syzygy]

I use 800 x 600 on a 17" CRT as I find it more comfortable for my tired old eyes. I think what you use the system for will largely determine your needs. I don't do graphics work or gaming so clarity of text is the most important thing to me. The sound card gets a worse flogging than the video in this box.

Regards,
Chris

[asimov (John)]

800X600 true colour 32 bit 15" monitor. Just seems the optimal size for me & my wife.

[acropolite (Phil)]

1280x1024 here, just got a new LCD monitor only 17 inch but 1280x1024 is the native resolution, hence sharpest picture. My short focus isn't brilliant but that resolution I find best. I could always increase the screen font size if it was too small. I'm just starting to build a personal web site so my page sizes reflect my own settings but I intend to set up some scripting to detect screen sizes and present alternate size pages for browsers at lower resolutions.

[Thiink]

Originally Posted by Nightshift

Warning : This is a bit of a rant.
As IT manager for a six campus TAFE Institute here on the Sunshine coast, and.... Ex Service Manager for Samsung Australia (the largest Korean Manufacturer of CRT picture tubes and second largest tube manufacturer in the world, if you dont believe me take the back off your TV) let me give you some technical background.
LCD or Plasma screens are marketing hype, mostly, yes they look sexy and the colours can be vibrant but the dot pitch resolution and the way that they colour converge leaves them looking pretty ordinary at high resolutions against a good quality CRT at one tenth the price. In short, if you are serious about high end graphic output and you work all day at your PC then buy a good CRT, if you want to impress your friends and have the latest technology but not necessarily the best image then but a LCD, weight and size should have NOTHING to do with it, buy a bigger desk if required but dont buy garbage becasue your desk wont cater for the good stuff. Now as for resolution, 1024 X 768 is the chosen resolution of most Govt agencies (including this one) and most web developers as it is the optimum resolution for web sites to be developed, 800 X 600 if your near blind and as high as your video card will allow if your in to graphics. Remember that displaying an image is not the same thing as generating it, that is a function of your video card and you can have a 50" monitor if you want but your $24.95 video card will let you down. Then comes the whole question of animation and resolution, ie. Gaming or video production, lets not go there, as you can see it is quite a complex issue and like buying a telescope, should be looked at holistically not just based on wow factor. For what its worth, I started in the computer game in 1983 and we had 320 X 200 (CGA) 8 colour screens if we were lucky and mono (Green or amber) high resolution 640 X 480 if we were not. Cheers, Dennis.

Hi Dennis. I'm sure you are the same, but I sit in front of a computer as part of my job for 7hours per day, 5 days a week. I had a good quality 17" CRT previous to this 19" LCD, and I can tell you the LCD is about 200% easier on my eyes than any CRT I've ever used (including the Samsung CRT I have at home), even at higher resolutions (up to 1280x1024). At the moment I don't think I would ever go back to staring at a CRT at work as long as I can get away with it, my eyes just cant hack it. And for what it is worth; I also work for a government department, and we are shifting to 17/19" LCD monitors as standard (mostly already happened). As for the size and weight problem, in an office with limited space, I'd argue that size and weight don't have any bearing..

My 19" LCD here looks just as crisp and sharp at 1280x1024/32-bit/60 or 75hz as the 17" CRT at 1024x768/32-bit/75hz sitting beside it.. The colour thing I cant comment on as I am colour blind.

ps. this isn't a flame, just discussing some of the points you mentioned.

[acropolite (Phil)]

I completely agree Simon, add to that the fact that you get some nasty electromagnetic radiation from the front of CRT's.

[ving (David)]

but I like electormagnetic thingys!!!

[Sausageman (Mike Boggan)]

Still using 800 X 600 I'm afraid, just for my eyesight though...LOL

Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

I think the poll is rigged, you can only vote once!

I have several PC's.
Yes I am a capitalist that keeps his aquisitions!

the list includes (complete and working) 2 laptops (2,4 P4, 3.04P4) 3 athlon2600 or better and a P4 1700 and a pentiumIII 1 gig, a sempron 2800 (I gave a second sempron away to a mate, only bought it for an assignment), and until the weekend a Athlonxp3000 (have fun Mike ). I have 4 19" monitors (2FlatScreen), 17" , 15" and the laptop screens are maxed out at 1200*800 and 1024*768. they all run at different resolutions. Mind you I was looking at getting the 30" LCD flat panel advertised at BigW for $1998, for my failing eyesight of course

[Orion]

1034x768, 14" monitor.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

I run 1024 x 768 on all the monitors and machines I owned. including the old 15" I ran at 1024x768 for a while.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

OK! I have resized my monitor to the next size up, 1024 x 768 and set the colour to 32 bit true colour.

Now, apart from the writing being to small to read what other benefit is there??????? It all looks the same, just tiny writing.

[iceman (Mike)]

You can fit more of the window on the screen, less scroll bar usage! Better use of real estate

You can also try upsizing the text size, Ving gave suggestions on how to do that on page 1.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Thanks Mike. I will give it a try for a while and see how my eyes go.

If everyone typed in bold it would be easier to read LOL