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could laptop graphics cards handle that type of resolution back then?

• claudius 13y ago
  1600x1200 was commonplace as early as 2001 (in a Dell Inspiron 8000, I believe).
  • jl6 13y ago
    I feel obliged to mention that I have an i8k and it's still working beautifully.
• foley 13y ago
  Back then almost all UI rendering was software based. The graphics card just needed a large enough frame buffer. The lack of fancy compositing and animation effects gave these high resolutions devices comparable performance to their standard resolution counterparts.
• kalleboo 13y ago
  It was a lot easier back when all you cared about was the 2D performance of basic shapes (lines, circles, fills), and the animation for moving a window was just an outline.
• shalmanese 13y ago
  Back when there were CRTs, people were regularly running 2048x1536 on Windows 98 era hardware.