"I think the word you're looking for is 4:3 aspect ratio."
No, I meant square pixels.
"On a 5:4 aspect ratio screen, a 1280 x 1024 resolution does indeed have square pixels."
Does such a beast even exist? I have never seen a PC with a monitor that has anything other than 4:3 or 16:9.
Even if such a display does exist, and the pixels are in fact, square, every 3D game you play is sure to assume that the screen is either 4:3 or 16:9 and so what is displayed in that case is likely to be out of whack, even though the 2D apps would display as desired.
So for all practical purpouses, 1280x1024 sucks.
Oh, and as an aide, I recently had a guy in a computer shop insist to that it's square pixel even on a regular monitor. :-) He refused to listen to reason even when I explained that it can't be square pixel because 640x480 is square, and if you double that, you get 1280x960.
No, I meant square pixels.
"On a 5:4 aspect ratio screen, a 1280 x 1024 resolution does indeed have square pixels."
Does such a beast even exist? I have never seen a PC with a monitor that has anything other than 4:3 or 16:9.
Even if such a display does exist, and the pixels are in fact, square, every 3D game you play is sure to assume that the screen is either 4:3 or 16:9 and so what is displayed in that case is likely to be out of whack, even though the 2D apps would display as desired.
So for all practical purpouses, 1280x1024 sucks.
Oh, and as an aide, I recently had a guy in a computer shop insist to that it's square pixel even on a regular monitor. :-) He refused to listen to reason even when I explained that it can't be square pixel because 640x480 is square, and if you double that, you get 1280x960.