Screen Resolution
From Mobile PC Wiki
Common Screen Resolutions
From the tables below, pick a size and resolution that you know and then compare it to other specifications that you might be considering. The two tables have the same data, just sorted differently. The first table is sorted by diagonal size in inches. The second, by pixel width. The dimensions for physical height and width are based on the pixels and published length of the diagonal[1]. These are estimates - and could be off by a bit with the expanded displays on the Ultra Mobile PCs. (rows 7 and c)
Examples:
- Rows 6 and f are like an HP TC1100 at 123 dots per inch.
- Rows 4 and b are like a Motion LS800 at 119 dots per inch
- Rows 11 and k are like a Gateway CX at 106 dots per inch
- Rows 9 and m are like a Toshiba M200 at 144 dots per inch
- Rows 12 and l are like a Toshiba M7 at 120 dots per inch
The items circled in red are above 144 dots per inch which is likely the highest resolution most of us could tolerate for extended periods of immersive work.
Here is a handy online calculator for determining Monitor DPI Monitor DPI (pixel density) calculator
Web Browsing
If you do a lot of browsing in portrait mode, you will really appreciate the screens where the narrower dimension is 800 pixels or more. There are still lots of sites that are reasonably workable at 800 pixels. That is, without requiring horizontal scrolling to read every line of an article. But for screens in portrait mode at 768 x 1024, browsing can be very tedious.
Related Reading
- Wide-Angle Tablet PCs (pdf)Pen Computing Article - December 2004 Issue
- Wide-Angle Tablet PCs (HTML) Pen Computing Article - December 2004 Issue
- ↑ There is no intentional difference between 12.1 and 12.0 or 14.1 and 14.0 inches on the diagonal. I will standardize the sizes in the next revision
