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Why do some schools/workplaces insist on using 1024x768 screen resolution?
indeedicus
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When I first started at my current job, the computer was set up by default to use the 1024x768 resolution, despite the provided monitor being a 17 inch model. I found this a slight bit irritating, and thankfully, there was no restrictions in place to stop me from going to Display Properties and changing the screen resolution to the monitor's native 1280x1024 resolution.
However, I have noticed at some schools and colleges I have been to, they have some of the computer rooms with shiny new computers and fancy widescreen displays to go with them, but the screen resolution is set to 1024x768! :rolleyes: It looks ridiculous having a 1024x768 resolution stretched out on a 22 inch widescreen monitor, Why waste money on such a fancy widescreen display when you are only going to use a 1024x768 resolution? :rolleyes:
Does your workplace or school or college do this?
Why do some places do this? :rolleyes:
However, I have noticed at some schools and colleges I have been to, they have some of the computer rooms with shiny new computers and fancy widescreen displays to go with them, but the screen resolution is set to 1024x768! :rolleyes: It looks ridiculous having a 1024x768 resolution stretched out on a 22 inch widescreen monitor, Why waste money on such a fancy widescreen display when you are only going to use a 1024x768 resolution? :rolleyes:
Does your workplace or school or college do this?
Why do some places do this? :rolleyes:
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Sloppiness or the graphics drivers are too old to support widescreen resolutions.
Now at 60Hz, I always had to change it, because the flickering in the corner of my eye drove me mad and I couldn't look at the screen for long periods of time.
Luckily that's a thing of the past now.
Probably this. I'd say the people who set up the computers have no idea how to set up everything on the screen properly. As long as the computer's working that's good enough for the schools. My nephew's told me in the past that the computers at his school are crap!
For standard workstations the same applies re text size as many genuinely struggle with higher display settings. I agree there is no need to run 4:3 resolution on widescreen though.
It depends what you use it for, I would not want a widescreen monitor. Actually one of my monitors is in portrait so widescreen might be useful there as long as it can pivot though I guess you'd call that "narrowscreen":).
For serious work widescreen is usually inferior though of course you should never generalise and that is not always the case.
I think most of the websites these days are made for widescreen monitors.
like to see the piece of legislation that enforces 1024x768 sounds more like a load of BS to me but hey perhaps using the wrong resolution is part of the computer misuse act
Although the general rule of thumb when it comes to this is that you immediately refer it to occupational health for formal recommendations cos it just isn't worth the storm you can get yourself into if a user claims their health is deteriorating because you didn't provide them with the right equipment.
Very true, this is the reason where I work most of the stations are set to the low resolutions until someone asks to have it changed (or can change it themselves). But once its been used, they have to be set back again. This is because some people cannot see so well, and the lower resolution allows them to see it much easier.
Now, why on earth all the computers have half decent GPUs (budget ones, but still not too bad) and yet none run anything that would require them. Dell continues to oversell stuff to my boss, has done the llast 4 times (like the space age monster god laser printer we have that continues to gather dust. Seemed like a good idea at the time)