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Hiya, I'm sitting on a 14-15" (I think) crt screen with a resolution of 1024x768. My eyes are pretty bad so I'm having a bit trouble reading. However I do need a better monitor! So I'm planning to buy a 22" monitor.

Higher resolution = Smaller text right?
If that's correct, I was aiming for a monitor with 1680x1050 instead of one of those 1920 ones.

But even so, I'm worried that once I get the monitor I won't be able to read at all since the font will be too small... :(

So basically what I am kind of wondering is:
(Just an example, no real measurements):

This letter here "H" is 2 cm wide and 2 cm high, on my 14" crt screen with 1024x768.
If I get this 22" monitor with 1680x1050, will I see an"H" as 2x2cm or will it be smaller? Because I'm not sure my eyes will survive if all font will be even smaller than they're on my monitor now.

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You can change font sizes on screen pretty easily so it shouldn't be a problem although perhaps you should look into new glasses, contacts, laser eye surgery?

------------------------------ I'm a git, deal with it.

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Reply to strangestranger

Press CTRL AND PLUS key at the same time.That will enlarge the text on the browser.

And even if you buy a 22" monitor it will also have lower resolution options...

Reply to shubham1401

Hiho, first of all thanks for your replies:
1) Then it's still a problem since this also involved fonts in games and you probably cannot change the size of them.
2) I'm not using any glasses at all right now but I'm actually going to test my eyes this week. Not sure about laser eye surgery though. Sounds scary, risky and expensive! :P
And at last, regarding shubham1401's comment about the lower resolution option: I've read that other resolutions other than the recommended might look weird?
I also seem to experience it myself, using 1280x1024 on my crt screen makes it looks really weird!

Reply to zirithil

Resolutions on the crt should not look weird, on an LCD it might look slightly distorted if used at a different ratio and will look blurry at best any lower resolutions.

Of course, if you know you have bad eye sight then why haven't you got something done about it till now?

------------------------------ I'm a git, deal with it.

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Reply to strangestranger

Laziness etc...I can still read, it's just that I feel like I need to concentrate a bit too much...

Reply to zirithil

Man for your own sake do something about your eyes.

Even I was lazy to get my eyes checked.
I had -0.25 spectacle power.I didn't wear it all the time.
Now it is -2.00.

Do something before its too late.

Reply to shubham1401

Isn't it possible fix it with laser eye surgery?

But yeah, I did mention that I was going this week. :)

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