Although it’s still far, far away from the mainstream, 4K displays do exist! Will they ever take off? It’s too soon to tell, but if so, don’t try to run XP with one – it’s like a UI-crushing black hole.
The ludicrous resolution (that’s 4096×3072, mind you) stretches the XP desktop to a scale that would require superhuman vision or perhaps some sort of machine telepathy to use. Icons look like tiny bugs. A list of folders reads like the entirety of War and Peace condensed into one vertical bar. And then things just simply start breaking.
Subjecting someone to a setup like this probably runs contrary to the Geneva Conventions – an operating system so distorted, anyone’s sanity would quickly snap. And if you tried using ME over 4K? It’d probably just cause an instant atomic explosion. [via Reddit]
EckyThump
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 11:38 AMHmmm,… Do we really need higher resolutions on a desktop monitor? Plus You’d need a serious GPU!! #]
Stewart Walker
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:08 PMYes we do.
unfortunately pcs have suffered the HDMI standard.
Current video cards can easily drive resolutions much higher (i’m running two HDMI res screens off my general spec work laptop).
I say Higher!
Robert (B-ob)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:23 PMI thought that’s what DisplayPort was for; driving higher resolutions on consumer PCs rather than using HDMI.
adrian
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 7:26 PMif you have a mac *eyeroll*
Alex
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 11:48 AMWhy would you deface a glorious display like that with Windows F***ing XP?! That software should have been banned a long time ago! ;-)
wsDK_II
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:47 PMbanned?
it fits a purpose.
although i do agree, win7 / win8 would be alot better :)
Sam
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:12 PMIsn’t this what using the “Large Fonts” setting is for?
Bruce Bradford
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:14 PMhahahahashsahgshgahgahahah
GDW
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:48 PMAt work we are runnng XP to drive a video wall. Screen resolution is 7680 x 2160. It is a bit of a strain trying to work out what you are selecting. It helps that the wall is almost 5 metres wide, you can just read what is in the start menu. Once things are running (videos and presentations) it looks great.
We are also currently trialling a 37″ LED display with a 4096 x 2160 resolution. Quality is absolutely brilliant. For this one we are NOT using XP (custom app on Linux).
villainsoft
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:56 PMwe still havent reached parity with what the human eye can perceive (and it’s NOT Apples famed “retina” display either), so YES…give me higher resolution!
4K is a good start though :p
Matt
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:29 PMWe are just finalising some video walls at work, the biggest resolution we are running is 11520 x 4320!
The smallest is 7680 x 3240 :)
Once we have finished the main one I will be taking detailed photos ;)
Nathan
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 12:28 PMLooks like when my Android tablet loads mobile websites.