Anybody still using 800x600

[willawake]

I am interested for web design purposes whether anybody is still using 800x600 or less whether at home or work/school.

Usually only for corporate sites i design for 800x600 but it is rather limiting especially if many users are using tfts at default resolution, so i usually design for 1024x768.

Anyway if you are using 800x600 or less please post here.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

Yes, on the monitor I have connected to my servers, it only supports 800x600 :P

It also has the letters "UT" burned into the CRT; it has been used as a login/out screen at a workplace, letters UT stand for OUT in Swedish :P

And my answer is no, nobody uses 800x600 anymore ;-)

[willawake]

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actually i have seen quite a few offices to still have 15" crts with 800x600 (and pretty shitty computers also), also some of the old farts like low resolutions. I remember one client preferred 640x480 cos he was half blind so i had to design his website for that hahahhahaha......

[Rainbow]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

My notebook has only 800x600 LCD panel. And there are some older machines with 15" monitors at work.

[Spacedye69]

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Yup. I have many 15" monitors.

[Rainbow]

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Actually, I'm using 15" monitor at home too - but a better one with 1024x768@85Hz. These at work with 800x600 are either older types or total crap - they can do 1024x768 but only @60Hz which is unusable.

[Topcat]

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wow... I havent looked at an 800x600 desktop in 10 years.... 1920x1200 @ 100 on a 16:10 aspect ratio 24" trinitron truflat CRT...

[gdement]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

800x600 is pretty common on old laptops. Some P3 laptops have that screen resolution, and it's more common on P2 and older machines. Since laptops are convenient, and new ones are expensive, old laptops tend to stay in use for a long time. That doesn't apply to me though, my laptop is 1024x768.

Myself, I have been using 800x600 a lot lately because I had to temporarily revert to an old PCI video card. That's an abnormal situation though.

[Shroomie]

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Nope, 15" at 1024x768, 17" at 1152x864 or 1280x1024...

I think a lot of blind/extremely new users might be on 800x600 though.

[gonzo0815]

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If your surfing the web frequently, i would say it is impossibly to do it with 800x600 without getting mad.

I have used an 21"crt with 1024y 768 and now using 17"tft with 1280x1024 and it is mutch sharper than with my old 21crt, wich probably suffered some cap aging and thus would have been required a focus adjustment for 1280x1024.

I would say 1280x1024 is now standard for a good web experience.

[Tom41]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

I still have a P166 machine that I occasionally use for playing old DOS games that don't run properly under XP. Windows 95 is installed on there as well, and for some reason, the graphics card can't do 1024 by 768 in anything more than 256 color mode. So I either have to suffer the agony of changing palettes in 1024 by 768 mode, or go down to 800 by 600 - where the 64,000 color mode works fine (card doesn't have a 16 million mode).

I also have an LCD TV mounted on the ceiling above my bed, so I can watch TV in bed easily while lying down. Sometimes I play Flash games on a laptop connected to the VGA port of that TV, and to get the Flash game window to be properly visible from a distance, I reduce the resolution to 800 by 600.

But no, I try and avoid 800 by 600 whenever possible

[willawake]

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hey google analytics tells this stuff

[gdement]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

Weird... what happened to 1600x1200?

[willawake]

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its only the top 10 in the graph. theres some last month
anyway i only have google analytics on the index page



some of those res look wierd

[Maxxarcade]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

I use 1280x800x85hz on my 24" Sony, I think Topcat has the same kind of monitor. On my old 21" I used 1024x768x85hz. But I'm nearsighted as hell

[Per Hansson]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

Hijacking the thread a bit but I saw something funny in the above graphs, there are many resolutions which are not 4:3

I.e. from the top: 1280x1024, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050. These do not give the result 1.33 when divided so they are not 4:3...

The next 3 resolutions are though: 1152x864, 1280x960, 1400x1050

How come they are so popular, are wide screen monitors really that common or do so many ppl really set their res wrong?

I used to use 1152x864 on a 19" monitor, using 1280x960 for Windows now on my current 21" monitor, 1600x1200 or 2048x1536 when gaming. I tried those resolutions in Windows but I can't take them, guess it's time for a new eye checkup

[archae86]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

Hijacking the thread a bit but I saw something funny in the above graphs, there are many resolutions which are not 4:3
...
How come they are so popular, are wide screen monitors really that common or do so many ppl really set their res wrong?

A lot of laptops have widescreen monitors these days. Also if you look at larger LCD monitors (say 24 inch), I think you will find most are widescreen.

I like it for DVD watching, but that is because there is no television set in my house. I hear most people don't watch DVDs of their PC, so I don't know what drives the popularity overall.

[willawake]

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yes it must be laptops. quite interesting, i did not anticipate that

[Shroomie]

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I haven't quite figured out why 1280x1024 is so popular. It's hardly different from 1280x960, and 960 is 4:3... I'm on 1280x1024 right now, though, since my video card screws up the display size if I change resolutions (ie, I have to resize/shape the monitor's picture) and the few games I play don't offer 1280x960.

[willawake]

Re: Anybody still using 800x600

1280x1024 is default resolution for many 17" and even 19" non widescreen tft