01-12-2008, 03:19 PM
Quote:1280x1024 is indeed the correct native resolution for your monitors, meaning they are 5:4 and not 4:3. That's common for LCD monitors though - in fact LCD widescreen monitors are generally 16:10 (1440x900, 1680x1050, etc) and not 16:9 like you would think when you hear "widescreen".
I got one of those 16:10 LCDs quite recently, but it was my 19" CRT that I was thinking about as I pondered this. Although there is no native resolution as such, it supposedly had an optimal resolution of 1280x1024. Meanwhile the max resolution was of course 1600x1200, and 4:3 was obviously standard for all the 2D games. Just one of those things that makes you wonder... what crack were they smoking? Not a big deal though.
... Too bad I don't have a digital camera to post pics of my current computer desk layout. It is a comedy of errors. The back of the desk is empty. In the middle of the desk is a 24" monitor. A little headphone amp is tucked under the right corner of monitor. Closely seated on either side of monitor are RP6 nearfield monitors, sitting on angled stacks of old textbooks, hanging over the sides of the desk quite a bit. A 61 key MIDI controller is in front of the speakers and monitor, with the front third of it hanging over the front of the desk onto the top rear of the 81 key digital piano in front of the desk. The front of the MIDI controller is supported by a couple 2 liter bottle caps under it's feet, sitting on the built in speakers of the DP. Behind the DP under the desk somewhere is buried an old metal full tower with an aging computer and a bunch of whirring fans. In front of the DP is my chair, and to the right of my chair are the two cardboard boxes that the nearfields came in, stacked to desk height, with the mouse pad on top. The computer keyboard... sits on the DP keyboard, supported by a plastic music stand. For piano playing, the mouse and keyboard have to be set aside. Hopefully I don't need to get stuff from the desk drawer very often.