2048x1536
(with is 4 1024x768 areas on the same glass) is what I use
on some of my 21"/22" monitors.
Ick. I don't do anything higher
than about 1280x1024 on a 20"
monitor, and I usually am sitting no more than 16" back from it. At
1600x1200, even on "good" monitors, I can't see things anymore. My
rule of thumb is you should be able to see the individual dots in a
grid of 1x1 pixel dots (but they shouldn't be too big).
!! I can't imagine why, unless you insist on using the same
size-in-pixels for things like font glyphs even on decent-resolution
displays where individual pixels are too small to see.
1600x1200
[...] is what I run on my 17" screens.
You must have 20-10 vision or
something, because no human should be
able to see 1x1 pixel dots on something with that high of DPI.
You seem to have jumped from "this is what I run" to "I can see
individual pixels on this". I see no basis whatever for such an
inference. If I had a 1000dpi display available, I certainly wouldn't
avoid it just because I couldn't make out individual pixels!
And aside from that...1600x1200 is 2000 pixel-widths diagonally; over
17 inches, that's about 118 dpi. What's your reference for believing
118dpi is something "no [normal] human should be able to see"? I have
no problem seeing detail that fine....
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