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1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
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Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#12What about tablets? How does the iPad's 2048 x 1536 resolution work out in the real world? I assume web sites don't appear in a 1:1 pixel ratio, or a 960 pixel wide site would appear tiny in the browser.
I use the 960 grid from http://960.gs/ when I build a site, and I find that sites on my 1680 x 1050 monitor look great at 960 pixels wide.
I would assume that sticking with a 960 pixel wide grid is still optimal, but I'd love to hear people's points of view.
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#13So does that mean that everybody's on a 13" macbook?
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#14I'm not surprised. Only the "high end" laptops have a resolution that's not 1366x768 in Romania. I used to have a 14" Dell with a 1600×1200 resolution back in 2008. But in 2012 you really have to pay extra for something like that. 15.6 inch and 1366x768 is just incredible considering the 4 inch iPhone is 960x640 nowadays.
One of the senior managers at a place I worked in 2001 had a 15" 1600x1200 Dell (Inspiron 8000). Now it's nearly, if not completely impossible to find that many pixels in a comparable form factor.
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#15What's the most popular monitor size nowadays? 20"?
I run a site that requires users to report their monitor size in inches (pective.com). 15"/17" are the most popular.
http://blog.pective.com/post/361455212/the-distribution-of-s...
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#16Sad that our pixel density hasn't gone up since the 90s, really. Tv ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p. I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone, and I await their high-density MacBook displays. Hopefully they'll be out this fall, but a quick survey of the 4K-rezo landscape suggests that they'll likely have to wait another year for prices to drop :/
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#17I'm not surprised. Only the "high end" laptops have a resolution that's not 1366x768 in Romania. I used to have a 14" Dell with a 1600×1200 resolution back in 2008. But in 2012 you really have to pay extra for something like that. 15.6 inch and 1366x768 is just incredible considering the 4 inch iPhone is 960x640 nowadays.
14" 1920x1200 here....laptop is from like 2008 (c2d Dell Latitude D830.)
I won't upgrade because the "upgrade" has 1920x1080, and being a Sysadmin, vertical pixels lost means less lines in my term and more scrolling. It's a shame that we moved from 16x10 to 16x9 to save a few bucks. Last I checked, Apple and levovo (w-series) still offer 1920x1200, but my laptop cos $280 used, and the lenovo or MBP would be close to 3 grand.
Sad.
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#18Sad that our pixel density hasn't gone up since the 90s, really. Tv ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p. I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone, and I await their high-density MacBook displays. Hopefully they'll be out this fall, but a quick survey of the 4K-rezo landscape suggests that they'll likely have to wait another year for prices to drop :/
Pixel density isn't the real problem, it's the lack of content. Even though there have been Full HD displays for quite some time most of the HD content is only 720p, especially games on current generation consoles.
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#19Sad that our pixel density hasn't gone up since the 90s, really. Tv ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p. I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone, and I await their high-density MacBook displays. Hopefully they'll be out this fall, but a quick survey of the 4K-rezo landscape suggests that they'll likely have to wait another year for prices to drop :/
TV ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p.
Actually, that pixel density is typically too high because they sit so far back. From http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/high-definiti...
"A survey made some years ago by Bernard Lechner, a television engineer at the former RCA Laboratories, near Princeton, New Jersey, showed that the median eye-to-screen distance in American homes was nine feet. At that distance, a 1080p HDTV set (with a screen 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels high) needs to be at least 69-inch across a diagonal if viewers are to see all the detail it offers."
When I play games on my XBox, I need to pull up a chair so I can sit about 5-6 feet from my TV. My couch is about 10' from the TV, and I simply can't make out the detail as well from that distance.
Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide
#20By the way, I'm using 11 inch mba as my main dev machine and here's how to take advantage of 16x9 displays if you're using emacs:
- you can split your emacs frame into multiple columns with C-x 3 (and balance them with C-x +), this way you can see two or even three files side by side.
- you can use emacs follow-mode which creates one virtual window split into multiple buffers, which is very useful for 768px high displays.