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[Gerhard den Hollander <gerhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:36:11PM +0000)

> > > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 7:18 pm, Art Fore wrote:
> > > > I am running 1920X1600 resolution.
> > > WOW ! You must have really good eyes <VBG> What size is your monitor??
> > It is a 15.4 inch LCD display on a laptop.
> So what's the point in running such a huge resolution? The LCD won't be

These days laptops come with HDTV TFT screens 1920x1200, not 1600) and
these TFT screens do physically have 1920x1200 dots.

I've seen a few of those on the new dell M60 laptops, and the quality of
the display is simply stunning.

Running at lower resolutions means the (say) 1280 X-pixels will be spread
out over ther 1920 real pixels, meansing you actually *loose* clarity (as
some picels will be doubled while other don't) 

> working in anything over 1200x1024, and more likely 1024x768. If you drive an
> LCD at over its physical resolution, you lose clarity. On a CRT, you can do it
> because there is no 1:1 correlation between pixels and screen dots, but even
> there you hit clarity limits because of the physical screen resolution.

As above, the physical resolution is 1920x1200


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