Post your thoughts on phasing out 800x600 and start designing for 1024x768 and up

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

...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.

I can't think of any friends for family who currently own anything larger than a 17 inch monitor. (I should mention that I am very socially limited, so I am using a very small market sampling.) Anyway, I think the number we really need is the actual montior sizes in use. As I said in a previous post - 1024x and above tends to be fairly difficult to read on a 17 inch monitor.