Polling and Graphics: Help Us Help You
by Derek Wilson on January 27, 2009 11:05 PM EST- Posted in
- Dell
Hello everyone. We often get asked questions like: what is the most popular x? how common is y? And sometimes we can guess from what we read on the forums or from general market trends. But nothing beats actually knowing what readers are thinking. So it's about time we asked.
We've brought back the ability to do polls. And polls we shall do.
This is more or less a test run to see how polling works out, but I'm hoping we can answer one really key question and also satisfy a curiosity today. The really important question has to do with display information, while the curiosity has to do with current opinions about graphics hardware.
By knowing what resolutions our reader's displays are capable of, we can help target our testing and articles to better accommodate the average reader. We can look more heavily at graphics solutions that satisfy the needs of more of our readers. We've been doing a lot of high end stuff lately (and we've got one more in the pipe), but we are ready to focus on the more mainstream and value segments and we would love to be able to taylor those articles a bit better.
Also, there are a lot of different monitor options with all the many widescreen and laptop panels. Just pick the one that's closest to yours out of this list. If you really want to be as accurate as possible, you could multiply out the resolutions and see which has the closest number of pixels. But just a close guess is fine too.
Well, there's really no sense in beating around the bush. It's a poll, it's not rocket science. Here it is:
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yyrkoon - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - link
err WS, or wide screen options. Sorry.wogzi - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - link
Agreed. I'm sure more than enough people have either a high-res 17" widescreen or a standard 19" widescreen.DerekWilson - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - link
So I know the poll isn't quite working yet ... we're still working some kinks out. It'll be up asap.JarredWalton - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - link
Is it working now? LOL - so far I'm the only 2560x1600 vote. :-Drbfowler9lfc - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - link
It is now, but how on earth there are (X) votes for VGA card and (X-1) votes for resolution?