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Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by jl6 »

beedogs wrote: post #14
fierarul wrote: post #9

I'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.

Glad to see the i8k mentioned. I have one, its screen is indeed an incredible thing, and it's still working in tip top condition today. I find tech kit either breaks within weeks or lasts forever.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by jgw »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #17
fierarul wrote: post #9

I'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…

I've enjoyed 1920x1200 on my laptops since 2003, and I lament this demise, too. I can't match the resolution I had nine years ago.

I'm a hardware engineer, and the more pixels I can pack into my display, the more I can see in my waveform viewer. It makes a real difference to me.

I can't say I fully understand the trend to almost-exclusive 16x9, either. I hear enough people complain about it that I'd have thought there would be a market for a 15.4" 1920x1200, even if you had to pay a premium for it.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by FootballMuse »

jbverschoor wrote: post #13

So does that mean that everybody's on a 13" macbook?

The 11" MBA is 1366 x 768, but the 13" MBA is 1440 x 900. The 15" MBP has been 1440 x 900 since 2006 but in 2010 added an upgrade option to 1680 x 1050.

As far as I know, the 11" MBA is the only Mac to ever offer that resolution.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by huggyface »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #16

Sad 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 :/

I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone

What the heck....pray tell me that this is some sort of parody or satire?

Those 42" 1080p screens were "retina" displays before Apple decided to excuse lazy graphical scaling with the title. You are so off base holding Apple as the leader that you must be playing soccer.

EDIT: Downvotes, yet the parent is making such an astonishingly revisionist claim that it should be obliterated purely for such fawning ignorance.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by huggyface »

bo1024 wrote: post #27
seanp2k2 wrote: post #16

Sad 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 :/

I don't care so much about pixel density; it's the ratio that bothers me. 16:9 is ridiculous for anything except watching HD television. (It also now works well for gaming, but only because developers decided to cater to widescreen.) 16:10 is the widest that makes sense for any day-to-day computing tasks, yet it's getting harder and harder to find; forget reasonable 4:3 types.

A world of users seem to disagree with you. Maybe it isn't quite as ridiculous as you hold it to be.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by OzzyB »

Alex3917 wrote: post #28
tjoff wrote: post #2

1024x768 is still the best window-size for browsing (and most other tasks as well) in my opinion. Don't get any silly ideas of designing a web page for wider than 1024 pixels (the only thing I miss out today is in the "worst" case ads).

"Don't get any silly ideas of designing a web page for wider than 1024 pixels" Do you think there's anything wrong with fitting the essential information within 1024 pixels, but then putting non-essential stuff to the right of that?

I agree with tjoff; just because a majority of users' screensizes are increasing, doesn't mean we have to keep "upping" the size of our webpages accordingly.

I don't think the guy that just bought a brand-sparkling new 27" cinema display really wants all the websites he visits to now start filling his entire screen -- he bought it to do multiple things at once.

Speaking from experience, I keep all my browsers at around a 1024px viewport and I get frustrated when I visit a site and need to scroll horizontally.

I think the best target size for webpages is still 1024px with 960px^ as its main content area size. The 960px grid is still very strong and useful and there's nothing wrong with it -- I would even go as far as to say that it's a "standard". (http://960.gs).

To me 1024/960 page size is the web's A4/Legal.

^Doesn't have to be 960px obviously...

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