>> Assuming the supported resolution is changing proportionately, this 
is actually quadratic growth in terms of number of pixels.
 >
 >    The standard measurement for screen size is the length of the 
diagonal.

I think my statement is still true.



On 3/8/2012 1:10 AM, Warp wrote:
> Slime<pov### [at] slimelandcom>  wrote:
>>   >     Monitor screen sizes do not seem to follow this trend, however, and
>>   >  seem to grow a lot more linearly.
>
>> Assuming the supported resolution is changing proportionately, this is
>> actually quadratic growth in terms of number of pixels.
>
>    The standard measurement for screen size is the length of the diagonal.
>
>> This is probably limited by graphics hardware in some way (although I'm
>> not sure how fast that grows in "power"). It's also limited by the fact
>> that popular OSs such as Windows still use pixels as a unit of
>> measurement, so there's limited benefit to higher resolutions as it
>> shrinks the size of important objects on screen.
>
>    Resolution has little to do with screen size.
>

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