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Quality of your monitor

Written by Tauvic Ritter

Monday, 27 July 2009 15:52

What kind of monitor do we recommend

On this site we present our products with high quality images, we do this to enable you to verify the product quality. Therefore we recommend using a monitor with at least 1024x768 resolution. Personally I prefer using a 1440x900 monitor.

Some statistics (source http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp):

Display Resolution

The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels or more:

Date	Higher	1024x768	800x600	640x480	Unknown
January 2009	57%	36%	4%	0%	3%
January 2008	38%	48%	8%	0%	6%
January 2007	26%	54%	14%	0%	6%
January 2006	17%	57%	20%	0%	6%
January 2005	12%	53%	30%	0%	5%
January 2004	10%	47%	37%	1%	5%
January 2003	6%	40%	47%	2%	5%
January 2002	6%	34%	52%	3%	5%
January 2001	5%	29%	55%	6%	5%
January 2000	4%	25%	56%	11%	4%

Color Depth

The current trend is that most computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to display 16,777,216 different colors.

Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors.

Handheld computers (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors.

Date	16,777,216	65,536	256
January 2009	95%	4%	1%
January 2008	90%	8%	2%
January 2007	86%	11%	2%
January 2006	81%	16%	3%
January 2005	72%	25%	3%
January 2004	65%	31%	4%
January 2003	51%	44%	5%
January 2002	43%	50%	7%
January 2001	37%	55%	8%
January 2000	34%	54%	12%

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Virtual Map Fair

The 13th Virtual Map Fair is online. You are invited to have a look at some of the globes, atlases, maps and sea charts offered at http://www.antiquemaps-fair.com
I hope you find item(s) of interest among the offerings of the attending dealers.

The fair is open till the start of the 14th fair. New items are added continuously

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