On 2009/02/26 21:12 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:08 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2009/02/26 19:15 (GMT-0600) Chris Cheney composed: >> >> On 26/02/09 14:31, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> Real-world DPI has been steadily increasing from release to >> >> release. >> > I don't see this to actually be the case. Even with laptops it seems >> > that ~ 130 dpi is the maximum that most manufacturers are doing. I had a >> It wasn't that long ago that they switched from 4:3 to widescreen. Before >> that point, it was mostly 15" on 1024x768 (85 DPI), 17" on 1280x1024 (96 DPI) >> & 19" on 1280x1024 (86 DPI) taking over from a lower average on CRTs. There's >> still a lot of those in use. They mostly aren't replaced or soon to be >> replaced yet. > The switch to widescreen in laptops happened over 5 years ago. Even back It may have begun that long ago, which I doubt, but it certainly did not "happen" in anything resembling an instant. > with 4:3 on laptops you could get 133 dpi screens (1600x1200 15" laptop) > 5+ years ago. Could get does not equate to affordable or high sales volume. Much more common than 1600x1200 regardless of size was 1024x768 on 14" and 1400x1050 on 16". > So I still don't see a continual increase in dpi. I see an > increase in dpi to about the maximal usable with the fact that Windows > doesn't scale properly to higher dpi and then stagnation in the field. > IBM had made 200 dpi screens around 5 years ago but they have been EOL'd > since Windows still isn't resolution independent. These may not be the best around, but even if they're off by 50%, the real world still hasn't been anywhere near constant for the past 5 years: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2004/February/res.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/February/res.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/February/res.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/February/res.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/February/res.php http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/February/res.php > Here are some interesting articles about High DPI from the Microsoft > perspective. > http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2006/08/07/690704.aspx > http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/09/13/follow-up-on-high-dpi-resolution.aspx > http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/09/16/more-follow-up-to-discussion-about-high-dpi.aspx Very good. Thanks! Visual perspective on the situation most experience now: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/bbcSS.html -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
