Okay, I just rebooted, and discovered that now that the computer has the right monitor profile loaded, you can run this baby at 1600x1200 without noticeable flicker.
Of course then you have to deal with all the font-size problems that crop up when you are running at higher resolution than every coder in the world assumes you are. I think that fonts hard-coded to certain pixel sizes, more than any engineering limitation, are actually the main thing holding back high-quality displays. This monitor is a few years old and it's capable of far higher resolution than most people actually use; they've all been taught by hard experience to believe that high resolution = tiny fonts, and that this is somehow the way it will always be.
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Date: 2005-02-20 07:31 am (UTC)Of course then you have to deal with all the font-size problems that crop up when you are running at higher resolution than every coder in the world assumes you are. I think that fonts hard-coded to certain pixel sizes, more than any engineering limitation, are actually the main thing holding back high-quality displays. This monitor is a few years old and it's capable of far higher resolution than most people actually use; they've all been taught by hard experience to believe that high resolution = tiny fonts, and that this is somehow the way it will always be.