My Screen resolution is now 1920x1200

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

OMFG. I bought a Lenovo W500 Notebook, doing some work with it. Native resolution is at incredible 1920x1200, on a 15.4" screen.

The good side: Fonts are very smooth. Displays at work now look very VGA like to me now.

The bad side: Because a lot of Applications and Web pages are done for lower resolutions, you have to Zoom. In WWW, images are often just small. 800x600 is nothing on the screen. Pretty often I have to use CTRL++ in Opera. Windows7 ist set to 125%, otherwise I'd need a magnifyer.

Anyway, with the more and more fat elements (e.g. the thicker Start Menu in Win7), Microsoft is stepping very slowly towards higher resolutions.

[DavidW]

That resolution might be over kill on such a small display.  I think that those programs and windows assumed that you would be using something like a 23 inch, like what I have.  Instead of using zoom which also magnifies pictures, you should globally change your font size and dpi, and on the browsers override website preference for a minimum font size.  Alot of browsing is a pain because the web designers on many pages are morons that never stopped to consider how their site looks on a widescreen hd monitor.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

That resolution might be over kill on such a small display.  I think that those programs and windows assumed that you would be using something like a 23 inch, like what I have.  Instead of using zoom which also magnifies pictures, you should globally change your font size and dpi

I did, but this doesn't apply on web pages fonts inside the Browsers. Firefox is able to zoom text only, Opera AFAIK is not. Anyway I'm using the "Minimum font size" feature in Opera.

re:Overkill: What I think high resolutions are good, generally spoken. In theory, we should achieve infinite pixels, that would display the analog reality. With higher resolutions, you do not need pixel hiding techniques like font smoothing any more.
In the digital reality, software simply is rather bound to specific resolution range.