Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Post your thoughts on phasing out 800x600 and start designing for 1024x768 and up

RawAlex · 2006-03-19, 05:55 PM

Jim, interestingly, by your logic we could all build for 640x480 because then you won't piss anyone off... or perhpas 320x160 to make the atari and apple II people happy too, right?

I very, very rarely see anyone using 800x600 in real life anymore, as most computers made in the last 3 or 4 years all use larger screen resolutions. We have also gone a long way from 14 inch to 15 inch to 17 inch monitors now being the "bare minimum" that gets sold with a system. A quick check through bestbuy, example, shows that their smallest crt type monitor is 17 inches... all of $130 dollars.

We are pretty much down to the same level that we all stopped paying attention to the 640x480 screens... it might be time.

Alex

2006-03-19, 05:55 PM	#21
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	Jim, interestingly, by your logic we could all build for 640x480 because then you won't piss anyone off... or perhpas 320x160 to make the atari and apple II people happy too, right? I very, very rarely see anyone using 800x600 in real life anymore, as most computers made in the last 3 or 4 years all use larger screen resolutions. We have also gone a long way from 14 inch to 15 inch to 17 inch monitors now being the "bare minimum" that gets sold with a system. A quick check through bestbuy, example, shows that their smallest crt type monitor is 17 inches... all of $130 dollars. We are pretty much down to the same level that we all stopped paying attention to the 640x480 screens... it might be time. Alex