top 5 resolutions

Danzla · 6 Oct 2006 at 13:26

am doing a unit it a university, and need to research what the most popular desktop res are.

so far i think these are them:-

1920x1200 WS
1680x1050 Ws
1440x900 Ws
1280x800 Ws
1020x768

can i have peoples opinions as to the most popular size. would be a great help thanks guys

Spyhop · 6 Oct 2006 at 13:32

At a guess, world wide..

1. 1024x768
2. 1280x1024
3. 800x600

Rob43 · 6 Oct 2006 at 13:41

wush said:
At a guess, world wide..

1. 1024x768
2. 1280x1024
3. 800x600

I would have thought the same,deffo for number 1 at least

Rob

paddy · 6 Oct 2006 at 13:45

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The most popular screen resolutions on the web  in the world  are: 
 
1. 	1024 x 768 	57.38%
2. 	800 x 600 	18.23%
3. 	1280 x 1024 	14.18%
4. 	1152 x 864 	4.95%
5. 	1600 x 1200 	1.67%
6. 	1280 x 800 	1.56%
7. 	1600 x 1024 	0.55%

http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox38.html

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 The most popular screen resolutions on the web  in the world  are: 

 
1. 	1024 x 768 	56.15%
2. 	1280 x 1024 	15.79%
3. 	800 x 600 	12.04%
4. 	1280 x 800 	4.09%
5. 	1152 x 864 	3.90%

http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox43-screen-resolutions.html

Got to love the internet :rolleyes:

HangTime · 6 Oct 2006 at 14:03

I'd be utterly amazed if any widescreen rezzes were in the top 5, most mainstream users will be using much more standard screens.

~1280x800 is an exception as I believe some Workstation/CAD type monitors from Sun etc have used that for a while.

Danzla · 6 Oct 2006 at 14:25

thanks thats an amazing website just what i need.

fish99 · 6 Oct 2006 at 14:36

Have a look at the steam survey too-

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

1024*768, 1280*1024, 1152*864, 800*600, 1600*1200, 1440*900 and 1680*1050 in that order, and that's among gamers. There's no doubt widescreen monitors are selling well now but they only became affordable 6 months ago really.

Shakey_Jake33 · 6 Oct 2006 at 15:10

1360x768 is becoming more and more popular, as it's the most common resolution found on LCD HDTV's (since they're actually cheaper to make than 1280x720 screens).

It's a proper 16:9 resolution too, not some wierd-ass 16:10 broken ratio nonsense

V1N · 6 Oct 2006 at 17:40

Shakey_Jake33 said:
1360x768 is becoming more and more popular, as it's the most common resolution found on LCD HDTV's (since they're actually cheaper to make than 1280x720 screens).

It's a proper 16:9 resolution too, not some wierd-ass 16:10 broken ratio nonsense

Now Now, there's nothing broken about my 16:10 weird-ass ratio nonsense

taz488 · 6 Oct 2006 at 17:59

i use 1280*1024 for everything

Baddass · 6 Oct 2006 at 20:32

in case it helps, these are the top resolutions of users visiting my site:

WotDa · 6 Oct 2006 at 22:29

Baddass said:
in case it helps, these are the top resolutions of users visiting my site:

Zomg, you know what rez I run at, I call hax.

Nice to see 1280x1024 win something though.

Daytrader · 8 Oct 2006 at 01:07

whats really strange is that 1280 x 1024 should not really be used on a 4.3 screen as it stretches stuff, the true res should be 1280 x 960 true 4.3

just like 800 x 600 & 1024 x 768 is true 4.3, that goes for games also.

welshtom · 8 Oct 2006 at 09:06

Danzla said:
am doing a unit it a university, and need to research what the most popular desktop res are.

so far i think these are them:-

1920x1200 WS
1680x1050 Ws
1440x900 Ws
1280x800 Ws
1020x768

can i have peoples opinions as to the most popular size. would be a great help thanks guys

how wrong can you be?

also you are doing a university course and your first port of call for research is an overclockers forum.

:rolleyes:

fobose · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:39

I think 1920x1200 would be one of the least used resolutions, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 would probabilly be quite highly used though.

PinkFloyd · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:35

I'm amazed how many people still use 800x600 according to those surveys :eek:

fish99 · 8 Oct 2006 at 15:08

Among gamers in the steam survey from March 2006 it's only 3% using 800*600 thankfully

HangTime · 9 Oct 2006 at 00:28

PinkFloyd said:
I'm amazed how many people still use 800x600 according to those surveys

Personally on anything less than 17" I use 800x600, and there's quite a lot of those type of screens in use in offices.

joeyjojo · 10 Oct 2006 at 23:54

Having read this I decided to give 1024 a rest and move up. Got an old 19" CTX CRT which won't do 1280*1024 at anything higher than 60Hz :eek:

which gave me a headache almost immediately. Settled now for 1152*864 at 70Hz and love it.

It's always a bit scary going to a higher resolution. Going from 800 to 1024 was a shock, but you always like it better in the end.

Now to find a CRT which will do some proper resolutions at a good high refresh rate. On the bay for me I think

james.miller · 10 Oct 2006 at 23:58

Daytrader said:
whats really strange is that 1280 x 1024 should not really be used on a 4.3 screen as it stretches stuff, the true res should be 1280 x 960 true 4.3 just like 800 x 600 & 1024 x 768 is true 4.3, that goes for games also.

good job these screens are 5:4 then, eh?

Danzla, honestly...how on earth can you think 1920x1200 is a popular resolution. how many people actually own a 24" widescreen lcd??