Your screen resolution of choice

Marty_J

Leopard wrote: »

Marty J,

You really would benefit from exploring how Spaces in OS X can assist you with this.

Yeah, I keep meaning to give it a try. It would be hard to watch TV and browse the internet if EyeTV and Safari were on different desktops though.

Millionaire

Here is a good site for comparisons for resolutions and also I have seen this site referenced by many, when they compare statistics for articles. Has other comparisons to.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=17

I use what ever is native to the screen I use.

Percy1983

22" 4:3 1360x1024
40" 16:9 1920x1080

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1680x1050

totalsolutions

Screen resolution is a fixed reference by the screen manufacturer to a particular screen size and model. You do not generally choose what to have, it's what you have, and set the video driver resolution to match normally set for you in XP, Vista, Win 7.

weegie.geek

Excellent pedantry, but choosing what resolution to run your monitor at is what was meant.

How do you define the resolution of a CRT, incidentally?

KimYeovil

Marty_J wrote: »

I guess it's because Mac OS X doesn't have a maximise button, it has a zoom button which resizes the window to fit its contents.

No, it's more because System 7 had a proper multiple windows system before Windows did. Macintosh users are used to using several documents and programmes at once. 'Windows' should have been called 'Window'.

And the resolutions in the original post are very archaic. But screen resolution is (mostly) irrelevant, anyway. What matters is the size of browser windows. And many people want the flexibility to alter the width of their windows, particularly on a site like this where there is a lot of vertical reading material (humans like reading narrow columns).

There's nothing worse than being almost but not quite able to have two web pages open side by side even when using a 1680 or 1920 wide monitor.

thelawns

Mine is 1920 x 1200 on my Benq 24" LCD...

thelawns

DKLS wrote: »

1920 x 1200 on 2 x 24"s

Don't you have it as 3840 x 1200 on 2 screens??

If not, why not! :eek:

passau91

I'm using a macmini ppc and a Polaroid 1080i 26" TV as the display. The 1280 by 720 is the best option for me because it fills the screen and doesn't make everything look stretched (unlike the other 1280 options available for this format for me). I also have the refresh set at 60hz (NTSC). If anyone can suggest something better for this set-up, I'm all ears, but I suppose at the moment it's a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it...:rotfl: