# What is the resolution of your desktop? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836 "2008-09-30T13:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FourPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@FourPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FourPaws)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/1 "2008-09-30T13:43:23Z")
I’ve gone around the office, and it seems that most of us here have our desktop set to 1280x1024, with a couple of exceptions (a few have theirs set to 1024x768). So Dopers, what’s _yours_ set at? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/2 "2008-09-30T13:48:38Z")
dual 1280x1024. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/3 "2008-09-30T13:49:04Z")
1920 x 1200. 24" widescreen monitor. I wish I had two of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/4 "2008-09-30T13:51:24Z")
Mine’s 1280x1024. It was at 1024x768, then I realized I could reclaim some real estate by upping it. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/5 "2008-09-30T14:01:58Z")
1920x1200 and 1680x1050 (17" laptop and 23" screen) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/6 "2008-09-30T14:02:38Z")
My computer at home (Mac widescreen notebook) is 1680x1050. My point-of-sale system at the bookstore (Windows desktop) is 1024x768. My main writing/layout system for work has a primary 1920x1200 24" flat panel and a secondary 1280x1024 CRT. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/7 "2008-09-30T14:03:39Z")
2560x1600 + 1920x1200 ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/8 "2008-09-30T14:32:24Z")
1280x800, and it’s annoyingly, horribly large. It’s at the max, and I wish I could make it bigger. ETA: I mean the windows and icons and such are horribly large, not the resolution. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/9 "2008-09-30T14:46:38Z")
Two 1600 x 1200 21" LCDs. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/10 "2008-09-30T15:12:38Z")
Dual monitor set up: Left: 1440x900 Right: 1280x1024 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/11 "2008-09-30T15:26:54Z")
1680 x 1050 + 1680 x 1050 + 1024 x 768 3 screens ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/12 "2008-09-30T15:48:38Z")
1280 x 768 which is the max for my display. I would use whatever is the max for the display. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/13 "2008-09-30T16:05:13Z")
1024x768, and I’m still rockin’ the CRT (they’re free!) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/14 "2008-09-30T16:09:52Z")
2960x1050, split across two LCDs. I’m intrigued at how many respondents have multiple monitor setups. Not all that long ago, two monitors was the almost exclusive domain of graphic artists or financial mavens. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/15 "2008-09-30T16:24:11Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I’m intrigued at how many respondents have multiple monitor setups. Not all that long ago, two monitors was the almost exclusive domain of graphic artists or financial mavens. Well, I do use mine for newspaper layout, but I’ve been a dual monitor fan forever. I always do it that way with my notebook computers. As a side note, I love the high resolutions for general work, but I hate it for Web browsing. My eyes aren’t as good as they used to be, and I prefer bigger text. Unfortunately, there are a lot of lazy Web designers that build fixed-width sites, using less than half the available width of the screen, and there are a lot of incompetent Web designers that build sites that break when you enlarge the text. Virtually everything I do on the computer will scale correctly to the monitor size, except for all those damned fixed-width Web sites. ---
**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/16 "2008-09-30T16:25:16Z")
Work - 1280x960 Home - 1600x1200 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/17 "2008-09-30T16:28:10Z")
1024x768 at home AND work! My socks match too. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/18 "2008-09-30T17:01:57Z")
Another 1280x1024, although once some cheap flatscreens roll around on Woot I’ll probably switch duel a duel-display of the same resolution. ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/19 "2008-09-30T17:15:53Z")
1920 x 1200 > [@gotpasswords](#): > > I’m intrigued at how many respondents have multiple monitor setups. Not all that long ago, two monitors was the almost exclusive domain of graphic artists or financial mavens. I used too but then i got [SLI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface) which doesn’t support it and didn’t want to turn it on and off all the time. Apparently the drivers for it will support multiple monitors in one of the upcoming versions though. So i’ll probably pick up a second monitor when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836/20 "2008-09-30T17:28:48Z")
176x184. You’ll never take my VIC-20. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-resolution-of-your-desktop/465836.md?page=2)