Any one else running 1280x1024?

strumpusplunket said:
Wow, and I thought I was old-skool for haivng a 1680x1050 20" monitor until three years ago! ;)
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My monitor at work is that resolution (at 22") ... in fact the machine I use the most at home was using a 22" screen with that resolution until a couple of weeks ago (now has a 22" 1080p screen as I swapped some things around). Nothing wrong with it for light browsing etc ...
 
ubersonic said:
I was running a 1920x1080 screen flanked by a pair of 1280x1024 ones until 2012 when 21:9 came out and I replaced the lot with a 2560x1080 flanked by a pair of 1920x1080 screens.

I still use the 1280x1024 screens for setting up/troubleshooting computers.



If you don't watch films, play games or use spreadsheets there isn't much difference between 1080p and 1280x1024. I can see why he might not have changed as for the average user it won't make that much of a diff. Thanks to mobile phones less websites actually use widescreen compatible layouts these days than a few years ago (I.E the OCUK site).
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I disagree with your first point, and as for your second point, CTRL+ mousewheel is your friend :)
 
Never used that resolution as the aspect ratio always annoyed me. I had it available on my 19" CRT but I always used 4:3 ratios.
 
My first flat screen monitor (19” Sony X-Bright SDM-HS95P) was that resolution in 2004 due to a failing 19” CRT.
 
My 75 year old Grandad who can barely use a computer has a 1680x1050 monitor. I gave it to him so he didn't have to use a 1280x1024 monitor anymore :p
 
I had been using 2x HANNSG 1280x1024 monitors at work since I started over 5 years ago. I buy and manage all the gadgets and hardware so it was a bit of a mystery as to why I didn't just upgrade them all these years. Nostalgia? They were decent quality screens really... Only recenlty upgraded them to a single 21:9 monitor. Desk at work looks mega.
 
Flibster said:
For a server monitoring screen, an arcade machine and a small virtual pinball backglass? :confused:
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Was a reference to the screens floating about your house, as in poltergeist. Come on chap, wake up :p

As it happens I have a 19" 1280x1024 panel as my third screen for RDP to servers, powershell and Notepad++ etc
 
mistersprinkles said:
I disagree with your first point
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You can't disagree with a fact dude, if you're not doing anything that utilizes the additional sideways space then having a wider screen with the same PPI will not make a difference to you. This is exactly why some people still use 5:4 displays (and why people still buy 16:9 now 21:9 is out).


mistersprinkles said:
and as for your second point, CTRL+ mousewheel is your friend :)
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If you zoom in a website to fill a 21:9/16:9 screen not only does it make it horribly blurred but your actually displaying half as much as you would on a 5:4 screen due to it going off the bottom.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Work laptop is 1366x768, trying to explain to management how awful it is, is like trying to get blood from a stone.
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My work lappy is this, I think it's pretty good, but then with my eye sight bigger is probably better!
 
My laptop is 1366*768, which as far as i'm concerned isnt a resolution it's a crime.

Main rig is 1440p main with an old 1600*1200 dell as secondary, used to have just the 3 dells in eyefinity but one died and not long ago a second died as well.
 
A very high percentage of my workplace still use that resolution as we've not had any form of monitor hardware refresh in about 10 years, only new ones we buy are for new starters.

I do feel sorry for our users when they're there trying to use spreadsheets on a 2006 17" Samsung at 1280x1024 :(

Luckily working in the I.T. department i've sorted myself out with dual Dell 22" 1080p monitors
 
Loads of these in the lab at work, the software we run is designed for that res, it looks too small on bigger address screens.
 
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