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I use 24" 1920x1200 for work and I would really, really enjoy x1440 (220 pixels more on Y) with the same screen width.


I also use 16:10 only. The dominance of 16:9 is really getting annoying. It's harder and harder to get 16:10 monitors these days, especially anything with higher resolution than 1920x1200.


Dell is coming out with a 25" 2560x1440 monitor; model u2515h.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/32.htm#dell_u2515h


But it's in the opposite direction: it's even wider, not higher than 16:9

16 / 9 = 1.77

2560 / 1140 = 2.25

It's closer to today's CinemaScope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScope "today it generally refers to any 2.35:1, 2.39:1, or 2.40:1"


Like provemewrong pointed out, 2560x1440 is 16:9. I also much prefer 1920x1200 over 1920x1080, but I find it's not so much a preference for 16:10 over 16:9, but rather 1080 simply isn't enough vertical space. I think a 25" 2560x1440 might be pretty nice.

  resolution    size    width x height  ppi
   2560x1440     25"    21.8" x 12.3"   117
   1920x1200     24"    20.4" x 12.7"    94
   1920x1080     24"    20.9" x 11.8"    92


It's 1440 not 1140. So it's still 16:9.




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