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[neye_eve]

blue - very cool stats!

Who in blazes is still trying to surf the web at 640x480???

well... If I were building a (windows) computer from scratch and the install got my network card (pretty much a given these days), but I knew that there were updated video drivers, I might install the OS, go to ATI.com or nvidia.com, maybe do a little other surfing while the driver was downloading, and then install the driver which would activate other resolutions.

or, what if I had a virus or problem which made me boot into safe mode, but I needed to download a patch? I could boot into "safe mode with networking", which would drop me to 640 x 480.

But, both of the above cases would probably be odd in that you're purposefully getting onto the web to download something so that you can fix a problem. Why would random surfers use it?

Well, a couple options:
1) the person is old or just has bad vision, where 640 x 480 gives them an ability to see clearly on their old 15" monitor (without having to know about increasing font sizes through browser options)

2) you're surfing via remote-desktop-type app in which the host computer gets set to 640x480 for speed of remote-transmition issues.

heh, I don't really believe any of these, but it's fun to speculate. thanks again for the stats,

neye