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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary E who wrote (4616)	1/2/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

The experts are probably sleeping so I will give it a try. What about buying a 1024 x 768 monitor and loging into the site using the 640 x 480 resolution, Will this then fill only 640/1024 = 5/8 of the screen ? That is not the way it works. First..the same monitor can be used at different resolutions. For example a 17 in monitor capable of 1024 X 768 resolution can also be used at 640 X 480. Basically what you are saying is a bigger monitor will show you more than a smaller monitor. Generally the bigger the monitor the the higher resolution. In your example..assuming a 17 in monitor for the 1024 X 768 resolution you would have 1024768=786432 pixels. Assuming a 14 in monitor for the 640X480 resolution you would have 640480=307200 pixels. If one considers one pixel is one piece of information you would have 786432/307200 or 2.56 times more information with a resolution of 1024 X 768. I can shrink this image to 1/2 size ( a 20% reduction ) and get 4 different immages on the screen at the same time ? I do not know where you come up with the 20%. Basically what you are saying is correct. Given the same size monitor with a higher resolution the image will shrink. This is most apparent with graphics files. They will get smaller but will be better defined. The graphic image always has the same number of pixels so if you have more pixels per inch the image is smaller. If you consider one browser window would always use (for argument sake) the same amount of pixels..if you have twice the amount of pixels you will be able to open two browser windows where you had one before. Some components of what you see on the screen can be configured, for example text can be drawn with a larger font to counter act the shrinking. To get higher resolutions you need two things. 1. A monitor that supports the higher resolution and 2. A video card that supports the higher resolutions. The amount of RAM on the video card will determine the resolution the video card can support. Zeuspaul